Our Wedding - Smith-Trahern Mansion

We are very excited to finally be able to present some of the pictures from our wedding. All of these photos were taken by Shea Halliburton. Shea took great pictures and was a lot of fun to work with. We had the pleasure of editing all of them, but it is a much easier process when the photographer gives you so much to work with. You can see more of her work at byshea.com.

Here is the first in a series of slideshows.

Snow Day! and more from January..

So this is a little behind... We had had a lot going on in January. Here is some stuff from our big snow day and two from the Chattanooga Aquarium. We'll make up for it with a nauseating number of wedding pictures and a whole fiesta of stuff from Mexico.





Penguins ahead.

Rock City - Fairyland Caverns

As part of our Chattanooga honeymoon / flu-a-thon, we decided to brave the cold and visit Rock City. Favorite part? Fairyland Caverns. Ok, that's the only part that's not out in the cold, but you can't find this stuff just anywhere either. For those unfamiliar with this land of fairy magic, Fairyland Caverns is a series of caves filled with blacklights and painted statues depicting childhood stories. Sounds nice? Judge for yourself.







As photography goes, this was tricky. To get anything at all, I had to go ISO 1600 and use my 50mm prime at f-1.4. That gave me the minimal depth of field I was looking for, and enough light to capture the scene. It was challenging to nail the focus on the intended subject while framing it the way I wanted. For example, I wanted to focus on the Farmer's Wife, with the Three Blind Mice out of focus in the foreground. Luckily, it is a very magical place, which I think helped a lot.

PS: The last image is of the dinner table at the home of Jack Sprat. You're welcome for that one.