Over Thanksgiving we trekked to Virginia to visit Cat's brother and his family, and of course we brought our cameras along.    Having teenagers, we decided to work on our "Senior Session" offerings by taking the kids out for an urban grunge session.  

I had am amazing weekend helping with Tricia Lee Whitmer and Mike Moreland's N-Sight Workshop. I was the all-purpose helper and documented the workshop for them. We had 'amazing' weather in Atlanta on Saturday and were able to shoot in Cloudy/Overcast Skies, Puddles, Wind, Window Light, Indoors, Rain, Hail Storms, Sunshine, Twilight, Dark and in the Headlights. Talk about 'going with the flow'!!!


Tricia and Mike gave us lots of tips on photographing Brides, Seniors and Couples and helped the 8 photographers that were attending with everything from posing and lighting to composition and interacting with your clients.


Our first shoot of the day was at Villa Christina in Dunwoody, where we photographed a beautiful bride in both inside and outside settings. We had beautiful overcast skies, a bit of sun and some wind (where I ended up wrapped in the bride's veil, I'm not sure any of them got a picture of that!)


Here are some shots of the group and a few of my favorite images of the bride.



















After lunch we had a session with a cute teenager and learned about shooting seniors and using ordinary objects and the areas around us to create unique images. We started out in a industrial area outside an auto body shop, and used one of the guy's convertible as a prop.


Then we headed to Roswell Mill where she wore her prom dress and we shot in a falling apart building with these huge rusty gears. During this session it started to sprinkle then thunder and the skies opened up (scampering uphill in the mud trying to keep camera gear dry is FUN!) and then came quarter sized Hail.


Now that we were all soaking wet the sun came out and we headed to Mike & Tricia's studio to shoot a few more pictures in the field and at a cool run-down garage.









This image is one of my favorites. It was taken against a trash dumpster!











We had dinner at Mellow Mushroom and got a chance to get to know each other better while waiting for that magic evening hour to shoot our couple in historic Roswell. It was fun getting their personality to come out while we shot them in an alleyway, in front of stores and then in the dark in front of a brick wall lit with headlights from Mike's car.

Happy New Year to All of You! We would like to thank all of our clients, friends, and family for supporting our efforts with an outstanding 2007! We feel really blessed by all the awesome people we met and all the new friendships we made this past year! And on top of it all, we really had a blast doing what we love - capturing your moments for you to enjoy for a lifetime!

With the start of 2008, we are unveiling our new website! We were experiencing some issues with our old website with the different internet browsers, so we have decided to unleash all new flash sites from our web partners at http://www.portfoliositez.com/ and man do they rock! We have split our wedding and portraits into two separate sites, either of which can be accessed from our splash page at http://www.inthemomentphotographs.com/ (our old site is now down, so http://www.mcwarrenphoto.com/ now links to the new site as well).

We are still in the process of adding new images to our galleries, but all information is current, so check them out!



We have restructured our wedding pricing and package offerings to bring you all day wedding coverage so that we can best cover your event. Our new pricing allows us to offer high quality hand made albums from Leather Craftsman, KISS, and Willowbook at reasonable prices. We are continuing to offer our a'la carte pricing so that you can build your own wedding package. All album packages include your hi-resolution digital files for your own personal use! We are also offering canvas gallery wraps in a number of sizes as well as other fine products. Contact us for details!



We have also made some changes to the portrait packages that we offer. Now all of our portrait sessions include a custom designed coffee table book featuring 25 of your favorite images from the session in addition to the on-line slideshow and proofing gallery. All of our special multi-session packages now include a custom designed storybook album!

Once again, thank you all for your support and friendships! None of this would be possible without those!

Mike & Cat

It was a great Saturday morning, good light, the woods, 4 beautiful girls & a fabulous makeup artist, what more could we have asked for but more time! I joined Ricki Chester and her daughter Ericka for the morning shoot while Mike played chauffer to our oldest son.

Tiara the makeup artist was amazing, she airbrushed the makeup on the girls quickly and the results speak for themselves. We'll definately want to have her back again. (We hope you stay in Atlanta, girl!) Here she is at work on two of the girls...

Sisters Nelya and Christine.


Christine is a friend of Ericka's and this dress just worked with her! I love these of her sitting on the wall. She reminds me of a fairy tale... all she needs is a frog to kiss.







Nelya (Christine's sister) was also one of our models and she looked fabulous in the dress. I wish I had gotten more time with her!

I missed the early morning bridal shoot with Courtney and Alissa, but I did get to shoot them later in the afternoon in their casual outfits. We had fun at Dunwoody Nature Center taking some fashion shots.

Courtney was amazing and even helped with the reflector making shooting even easier. These are just a few of my favorites of her.

Alissa was also fun. I loved her outfit and the boots (I need some girl shoes like these!) Here are my favorites...





Stay tuned for Saturday Night and Sunday's shoots. (I have MANY more images to sort through!)

>^..^<
~Cat~