Alex the Photo Blog

Just a fun little reminder that when you have a portrait session with Alex the Photo Guy, you get a nifty online gallery of your photos to share with family and friends.  Along with that gallery you get access to all kinds of exciting gifts, prints, canvas prints, and cards.  The cards are super easy to make online with hundreds of customizable templates.  Here are a few from recent portrait sessions. 

Click on the cards for a larger view.

Happy Holidays from Alex the Photo Guy!

A few days before Thanksgiving this year I had the pleasure of photographing baby Braxton.  He was born last month to a couple of good friends from my day job.   This shoot was a lot of fun, but also helped me remember the top two rules of easy baby photography:

#1:  Make sure the baby is asleep.
#2:  Babies hate being nekkid. 

I really think the saying should be changed to “let sleeping babies lie.”  Sleeping babies are just as cute as awake babies, but don’t fuss or cry.  As far as rule #2 goes, I think it’s pretty easy to understand.  If you were nekkid and had someone taking pictures, I’m sure you’d cry too.  If you must have nekkid baby photos, save them for the end of the shoot so the babies can get at least some time to be happy and comfy.

The fall leaves outside were an awesome spot for a backdrop (though they sometimes made the photo look like “hey, someone left a baby over there in those leaves!”).   Believe it or not, daddy claims he raked the entire yard last weekend and filled 15 yard bags.  I guess it’s the price you pay for nice foliage.

See rule #2 above.

And the unintentional last photo that ended up being mommy’s favorite.

Had a busy couple of lunch breaks last week full of newborn photos.  Here are a few shots from Monday’s shoot of Isabella McKinney.  She’s just a few weeks old and already has more facial expressions than a teenager.

I’ve owned the domain since college.  Three years ago I re-upped it’s registration and I contracted my good friend Greg Vilines at Webnormous to begin work on the site.   Then a combination of producing an album, playing in a band, get married, and having his house burn down slowed Greg’s progress on the site a bit.  A combination of helping with the album, buying a house, running a photo business, general laziness, and getting engaged slowed me down too.  I know my excuses aren’t as valid as a house fire, but regardless of the timing, it is finally LIVE!

Greg built the whole thing from scratch and he did a damn good job on it.  I know I was a difficult client at times but in the end we got it all worked out.  There will be a few tweaks made in the coming months, but since it’s 99% done, we figured why not launch it?  This will be a soft opening for my six blog readers and facebook friends until I get it 100% finished.

Keep in mind the new site isn’t going to be a replacement for the blog- just think of it as a “best of Alex the Photo Guy.”  I’ll still keep you up to date with my crazy photo antics here on the blog, so don’t stop reading!

Let me know what you think!  Many thanks again to Greg who did all the hard work.  All I did was take a few photos.  If you need a website, let me know and I’ll get you in contact with Webnormous.

Spencer and I were buddies in college at Vanderbilt.  As luck would have it, he married a beautiful Columbian woman, moved to Atlanta, and had two adorable little boys.  We’ve kept in touch over the years and Catalina also works with me at the Wells, so it all just fell in place that I’d be photographing their kids.   We had a great Sunday afternoon taking photos at Berkeley Lake park and later topped it off at the Merrell household sharing lawn maintenance tips over a beer in their backyard.  All in all a really fun shoot.

Baby Lucas was so excited to play with his big brother. 

The weather last weekend was amazing here in Atlanta.  Though fall is my official favorite season, Spring is a close second…

And starting off this spring was Natalie Perry’s baptism on Sunday.  You may remember this beautiful baby from this post last fall.  These photos were taken from the second row at the Clairmont Presbyterian Church as we were considered “VIPs” for the occasion.  Though we didn’t get backstage passes, Natalie was definitely a rock star (if you can say that about someone in church). 

Apparently Natalie loves bath time and was intruigued by the holy water. 

Later in the day Keri and I went to her niece’s birthday party.   I think it would be an awesome goal in life to have someone name their baby after me- and my girlfriend already has that.  Keri’s niece is Keri (“baby Keri” as she is referred to, though I can’t imagine she’ll like that nickname in her teenage years).  She turned 6 on Sunday and had a massive cake that looked like it was straight out of Fern Gully:

mmmmm cupcakes….

Sidewalk chalk is always a messy, dirty, pant ruining  fun bday present.

The birthday girl:

Bianca:

We were able to get this shoot done in an hour on my lunch break last week.   She was such a beautiful model!     Here is baby Natalie.  Enjoy!

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