Casie + James are such a sweet sweet couple!! This was my first time shooting at the Ramsey House here in Knoxville and I must say it’s now one of top 3 places to shoot! Not only way the location awesome awesome but casie kept pulling out of her car the cutest of cute props to create such a fun shoot. Cute couple, awesome location, perfect time of day + adorable props chosen by the bride.. perfection!! Here’s just a little taste..

Looking forward to your wedding Casie + James! Only 5 more months!

I love when couples bring personality + elements of their personal story to a shoot.. that’s exactly what Allison + Tom made happen! We shot downtown to showcase their first date at the moocho-yummy Coffee + Chocolate and once we arrived at a more relaxed location.. they threw on their Toms! Get it? His name is Tom.. she is now [or soon will be] “Tom’s”.. So cute!!! Congrats Allison + Tom!!

See.. told ya.. March was awesome. Here’s another awesome awesome couple I had the chance to shoot last month! Can’t wait to shoot their wedding in a few months! Yay!

Meet my Ohio friends Courtney + Brad! These two love Tennessee so much their planning their wedding in the heart of it The Great Smokey Mountains. So, when they asked for a place to shoot that just screams Tennessee.. what better place to take them than Cades Cove. Take this outdoorsy girl into the woods + I come alive. The product, is one awesome shoot. boom.

Meet my friends Katherine + Matt! These two are about as happy + in love at two people can get. They worked together long ago at a daycare and didn’t really notice one another until one summer with a church retreat.. she realized he had actually been noticing her for a long time. There, at the retreat was the “meet cute” as they say in the movie biz. The rest is history!

The day we shot their engagements was one of those perfect days in Knoxville. The weather as of late has been insane! 65 degree weather is unheard-of in February around these parts. During the entire shoot I had to just pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming and I am ACTUALLY doing what I love to do for a career. I really don’t deserve any of the blessings I’m surrounded with every day. This is the kind of day that reminds me of this.

The weather was perfect, the light was so warm and perfect. I kept ooing and awing over the light and how perfect it was. I kept expecting them to say “enough already about the light, it’s the sun, this is what it does!” Needless to say I was one happy photographer.

I’m so excited to share all this goodness.

2012 is wrapping up to be a jam-packed year for this biz + the Hensley house.. weddings, weddings + more weddings, taking on newborn sessions + birth stories.. travel plans, family plans, lots and lots of house flipping + if you’re down with the Mayan calendar, maybe an apocalypse. Who knows… what I do know is I’m pumped to display this last post of images before it all goes down. My photography has taken such a turn this year and I’m really excited with the direction it’s heading. I’m craving to create something that’s all mine, something different and this is such a challenge. I’m been in constant search over the last few weeks for inspiration and honestly the best place for me to get it, other than Pinterest, is The New York Times.. the photography in those pages is amazing. I love the way they look in print. I’m also LOVING the look of film + newsprint these days [without a real desire to actually SHOOT in film] and am excited to be moving the look in that direction. I’ve been trying it out with the last few sessions… and again in this one.

Meet Abby + Kenneth.. such a great couple with great talent + big dreams. I love big dreamers and watching them being achieved. It encourages me to reach for mine. One reason to follow your dreams and reach for higher goals in your life is that you will inspire others to do the same.. so true… so dream, achieve and encourage those around you to do the same.. it’s contagious!

I’ve said it before.. and it still holds true.. Chattanooga is my very favorite place to shoot.. and one of my favorite places to just.. be. There is so much going on + so much for the eye to take in. It’s candy for a visual creative like me.
You can imagine my excitement when I got a call from Jeremy, a Chattanooga native, last spring. He + Courtney are such a fun couple who met in the cutest way possible… in the allergy shot office… there was a needle poke + a flirt + some facebooking.. and boom.. the outcome was the dynamic duo you see here. Jeremy is a rock star and is a part of the band Jordan Hallquist & The Outfit + plays for Rock Point Community Church. And Courtney gives allergy shots among other things. Love it love it!

We bounced around downtown Chatt and then headed to a lakefront property where Courtney grew up. It was neat seeing her light up as the nostalgia set in.. memory after memory came rushing in while walking around the property and I felt like I was there. It’s neat to experience that with someone.. so I took a few pictures of the home and of things she loved because, unfortunately, the new owner will be tearing it down soon. I love to shoot at locations that mean something to the couple.. I feel that the point of an engagement session is to capture who a couple is right at this moment in time.. personalities, flirtation, the sweet stuff.. I want the couple to be able to look back when they are 80 and memories to rush in like they did for Courtney. This was a super cool day and I’m thankful I was able to experience it. Thanks Jeremy + Courtney for making my trip to Chattanooga, once again, amazing.

Yay for Chelsea + Toby.. and for being back on the blogging track!

I met Toby through serving with the Young Life ministry last year. I was totally and completely blessed by the folks I met that semester and Toby was one of them. I could NOT have been more excited when he and Chelsea [his drop dead gorgeous fiance] contacted me about shooting their engagements! I just LOVED their proposal story.. Toby knocked it out of the park and set the bar pretty high for all dudes to follow. Chelsea is very successful in the pageant world here in Tennessee and was giving a speech with crown, sash and all.. when Toby walked down the isle of the auditorium.. jumped up on stage in front of EVERYONE and asked Chelsea to be his bride. It was so neat he chose a moment that was so very special to her and wasn’t afraid to share it with everyone there! Oh gosh.. I just love what I do! These two are so perfect and so much fun to photograph.. here.. see for yourself!!

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