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I had never been to Tennessee/Mississippi until December of 2009! Justin and I were hired to fly to mid-USA to photograph the ever talented husband and wife team that make up Allison Rodgers Photography. I was very excited to meet both Allison + Jeff after hearing the fun stories from Justin when he met them at Imaging USA last year in Arizona.

The Rodgers needed their photos taken because they will soon be going on tour with PPA around the country, teaching and inspiring hundreds of other photographers along their way. I'm not going to lie, I was VERY surprised that they wanted us to photograph them and I was that much more intimidated once we got into town and toured their amazing studio. These people really know what they are doing, and it was great to see how a different studio across the country runs their photography biz. Despite my nerves, Justin and I were glad and excited to do them the honors!

Of course we had to take advantage of the the twiggy trees...I have a slight obsession with this sort of setting (maybe it's because we don't get to see much of this here in SoCal).
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rodgers_002.jpgrodgers_003.jpgrodgers_004.jpgrodgers_005.jpgrodgers_006.jpgrodgers_007.jpgOne of Jeff + Allison's daughters came along for the first half of the shoot, she crept up behind me while I was shooting and was giggling because she had found a fun little key chain in their car...I thought it was pretty funny!
rodgers_008.jpgrodgers_009.jpgThis is my favorite shot of the day!
rodgers_010.jpgOh, the many sides of Allison...

rodgers_011.jpg...& Jeff!
rodgers_012.jpgrodgers_013.jpgrodgers_014.jpgWe finished the first half of our shoot with Jeff & Allison then we picked up the Rodgers' two ADORABLE daughters for a quick family sesh. PS. This would be the Rodgers 1ST family session together! Isn't that always how it goes? The photographer never gets to have their photo taken because they are always too busy shooting everyone else! I'm pretty sure I know that story well.
rodgers_015.jpgThis image makes me smile from ear to ear:)
rodgers_016.jpgrodgers_017.jpgrodgers_018.jpgThis is my second favorite shot of the day with the whole family!
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Thank you to Allison & Jeff for having us out! I had a great time visiting Tennessee/Mississippi, even though it was only for a day and a half. PLUS, I got to try fried pickles for the first time and I have to say that they are delish!

We're also very excited to be new members of the highly recognized photography organization known as PPA!

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Comments
Beth Morgan said:
Oh...I adore these! The Rogers are such precious people! AMAZING job capturing them!
(01.08.10 12:01 AM)
Micah Cordes said:
wow the first pic on this is EPIC. The set is awesome!!!
(01.08.10 12:04 AM)
Wendy Hwang (Lee) said:
wow! Just wow! Beautiful! I love the lighting :) sooo talented you are
(01.08.10 02:03 AM)
Antonina Mamzenko said:
Adore these! Stunning work! I might steal a couple of ideas off you! :)
(01.08.10 05:36 AM)
Allison Rodgers said:
You guys are so awesome and we had so much fun that day!!! We were so honored that you said "yes" to flying south for this event! I have to say it feels amazing to have a family portrait finally... THANK YOU for that. We LOVE all of our images and are so excited about them being used for the tour and plastered all over our house. Thank you thank you thank you - you guys rock :)
(01.08.10 05:53 AM)
Briony said:
i love love love the hammock one....these are amazing!
(01.08.10 06:05 AM)
Kyle Vaughn said:
You Lyons are the best. The family has got to be excited about all of these!
(01.08.10 07:04 AM)
David said:
Amazing! And really nice to see some photos without a lot of sun. Brilliant.
(01.08.10 07:10 AM)
Tonya Peterson said:
Great pictures Amelia and Justin! That is always how it goes! Photographers never have family pictures taken for themselves! The ones you took of us were the first and ONLY ones we have!
(01.08.10 07:47 AM)
Kat Speyer said:
Aaaah! I love your off-camera lighting. I need to learn how to do that. Then I can die happy. :)
(01.08.10 09:41 AM)
Mel said:
Twiggy trees are the BEST! Love this shoot, everything looks effortlessly flawless as usual...
(01.08.10 10:38 AM)
Josh Rigsby said:
the last image is phenomenal! Great work.
(01.08.10 12:30 PM)
Julie said:
Wow. Those are fabulous images. Great job!
(01.08.10 12:34 PM)
eric langlois said:
holy radness!!!! i'm not worthy, i'm not worthy!
(01.08.10 05:53 PM)
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(01.09.10 06:51 AM)
Alexandra said:
Oooh I love these :) So beautiful.
(01.09.10 07:02 AM)
Josh Souder said:
Love this one! great job again...
(01.09.10 07:36 AM)
Susan Hydzik said:
Wow, these are so stunning! I love the lighting in the darker photographs! The family photos are so adorable and yet trendy... the ones in front of the fence are some of my favs ever! Beautiful, beautiful work!
(01.09.10 11:28 AM)
AmyPunky Photography said:
Gorgeous family!!
(01.10.10 02:29 AM)
Julie Parker said:
Fabulous. FABULOUS!
(01.11.10 07:30 AM)
Leah Simmers said:
These are awesome in more ways than I can say.
(01.18.10 07:35 PM)