September 2006 – Page 4 – Otis & James Photography

Megan V, For Victory!

Our week past started off with a bang, as we welcomed none other than the lovely and talented Megan on down to the FunCenter for some supertotallyawesome Senior Snaps! We had the good great pleasure of working with her brough-ham this past year, so we knew that from a genetic viewpoint, she was going to be totally awesome. What we didn’t know was just how totally and completely awesome she was going to be…but we would soon learn.

Megan was what we in the photographic world refer to as being a ‘total and complete rockstar’. There is no way of sugarcoating this, y’all – she was awesome on many different planes of aweseomeosity. She came to the studio with an agenda, and she jumped from bullet point to bullet point with skill, ease and grace – she achieved victory with all things SeniorSnaps.

I don’t know what else to say about our time with Megan, other than it ended far too soon…perhaps there will be a time when we get to work with this gifted young lady again, but until that time – Enjoy!

Brent & Michelle

Our trip in the WayBack Machine (only we have one of these, and it’s still in the developmental stages with some bugs to be worked out – for instance, just the other day I was trying to get back to a portrait shoot that we did a few days previous, and I actually wound up at the meeting that Nixon had with Elvis – totally weird) continues, and this time it is to the time of Saturdays Saturdays Saturdays past, to a place and time that shall from this day forward, at least on ‘the blog’, be known as the wedding of Brent & Michelle!

Let me tell you what, we knew from the outset that this was going to be a superawesome day (and really, with Michelle involved how was it not?), but we didn’t know just how much fun it was going to be until we started rocking it up, and again, let me tell you (and this may be the best example of a run-on sentence that I have ever given you) rocking it up only does it a little bit of justice, for it was as if we were creating a new type of rock, simply called ‘super-rock’, which, coincidentaly, is also a complilation CD featuring hits from BTO, REO Speedwagon, and Journey (Don’t Stop Believin’, Y’all!) – but this is the only way to fully describe just how awesome it was to work with this wonderful couple and their fantastic wedding party!

Now is the time that we would like to get serious, kind of like that part of the concert where the acoustic guitars come out, and a hush falls over the arena, because you totally know that they are going to bust out ‘Every Rose, Has It’s Thorn’ – and give thanks to Brent & Michelle for including us in their wedding day, and to everyone involved with us for being so totally and completely awesome! Well, before I gush too much and all of you start to feel queasy (is that how this is spelled – editors?), I’m going to stop and get to the goods – Enjoy!

Levi & Kiley

Come with me, if you will, in the O&J WaybackMachine, as we venture all the way back to a space and time that was known as a Friday Friday Friday (I know, I know, it’s been a long time in the making, but rest assured we’ve been running at full terminal velocity and all the o&j worker bees have been producing at their highest output levels possible – so please don’t harsh me out too bad, or just harsh me out a little bit) past. And why are we traveling so far back in time, you ask? Well, we are making this trip so we can see the supersamplesnaps of the one and only Levi & Kiley!

Ahh, shucks man – we had a superawesome time working with this totally wonderful couple and their equally wonderful wedding party! They were a great bunch, and were all born to be photographed. Which is a good thing, seeing as how we are photographers, and it was kind of our job to photograph all of them for many hours. If, say, they had been born to hold their hands up in front of their faces whenever a camera came around, or perhaps even were born to turn their backs to the camera, this would not have been such a good thing. There would be much gnashing of teeth in the FunCenter if this had been the case, but I’m here as your trusty reporter telling you that there was none of that to be found, and they couldn’t have been any easier to work with!

We had a great time with one and all, all the way from the start of festivities all the way through to the end! We would like to thank Levi & Kiley for including us in their day, and would now like to stop all of my jibbering and jabbering about, and get to the reason that all of you are here, and (in case you’ve forgotten by now) that’s to see some sweetsweet sample snaps – Enjoy!

Scott & Lindsey!

Our Friday came to a loverly ending with a visit from new friends of Otis & James, Scott & Lindsey – and they did not come to the FunCenter to get a VCR, or for a loaf of bread, or to get a new battery for their riding lawnmower, or even to vote in a school board election. Oh no, they came down for some sweet.sweet.e.pics (and, my friends, those that are in the know, know them as e.pics – and you want to be in the know, now, don’t you?), and in case you were wondering, we indeed got ourselves a digital basket full of sweet.sweet.e.pics!

But this was not made possible because of the lens, or the CF card, or the CMOS sensor, or because of us, or even because of viewers like you. Oh no, this was made possible because Scott & Lindsey were absolutely wÃ¼nderbar to work with (that’s German for ‘most excellent’ or ‘dang sweet’), and our time with them couldn’t have been any better! It was a beautiful evening, a beautiful couple, and…again…wait for it…we got some beautiful snaps!

If you wanted to read a book, you would have gone down to the library and rented one. Instead, you find yourself at the blog wondering how many more words will your eyes have to stumble through until you can finally get to the snaps??!! So, with much thanks to Scott & Lindsey for being awesome, and much thanks to the people of the blog for just being you – Enjoy!

TGI Friday/TGI Colton!

What better way to start out the best day of the week than with a visit from new friend to Otis & James, none other than our main man Colton!

He made a quick stop down to the FunCenter for some supwerawesomefantastical snaps, and I’m pretty sure, in fact I’m positive that he was 100% successful in his endeavor! Let me break that sentence down for you a little bit, he straight up rocked. Straight up. Rocked. Straigt up. Rocked. Straight up. Think. I. Am. Stuck. Must. Escape.

We’d like to thank our man Colton for stopping by and brightening up our day, and for giving us a change of pace from the Senior/Wedding/Senior/Wedding/Senior/Am/Stuck/Again loop that we find ourselves in this time of year.

OK. Got it? Are you really here to read? Are you? No. You’re here for the sample snaps. So – Enjoy!

Megan. Straight Up. Megan. Dig?

Our Thursday came to a thrilling (again, I’m not sure if this is the best adjective that could be used, but I’m gonna go crazy and just go with it) conclusion with a visit from the lovely, the stunning, the vivacious, the sublime, the interstellarly wonderful, the the one and only Megan!

Do you think that she came down to the FunCenter to find out the mysteries of life, or to listen to Otis talk and talk and talk about things that nobody cares about, or maybe you’re even thinking that she came down to the FunCenter to partake in the Kinzey & Ben Dance Party – hosted by DJ James. If you think any of these things, then you are sadly confused (which, coincidentally is the title of the third revision of my autobiography.) Because she came down here to rock the world that is Senior Portraits.

I know, you’re all gonna be all waiting for me to tell you something like, ‘…and guess what, she did!’, but you know what – I don’t even think that there is a need for me to tell all you all out there with your ethernet cables and your modems and your monitors and all of these other devices with their blinking lights and chirps and whistles and static and ether, all of you people out there don’t need to be told when somebody like Megan is totally awesome. It’s like, if I show you a picture of a smiley 🙂 – do you need to be told that it is a smiley? If you look at the sky, will you need me to tell you that it is what it is? No. And likewise, if you look at these snaps that are just mere words away, do you need me to tell you that they are awesome?

Do you really need me for these things? No, my fellow bloggers, I am just the facilitator of your enjoyment, I just push one of those blinking lights and put some data in a cord and send it off into the space that exists between me and you, and I have every bit of faith that you will know righteous snaps when you see them. These words that I type just offer up distraction from the straight up goodness that is Megan. Dig?

Alright. I think we’re all receiving the same ones and zeroes through our cords. Much thanks to Megan for being so great to work with – and to my faithful out there in the land of blog – Enjoy!

Wyatt & Ann!

Is there, my friends, any better way to start the day (and yeah, I do qualify 11:00 AM to be the start of the day) that with a visit from new friends of O&J, none other than Wyatt & Ann??!! NO! Wow, I kind of shouted that no back there, but I mean it – it truly was a great way to start the day!

And this past Thursday, the FunCenter got off to a great start with this wonderful couple, and the results were – how do you say – fantastical! Loverly! Incrediablelyular! I’m not from these parts, you will have to forigive if my language is a little bit rusty, but will any of those words work? Well, basically, they were awesome, and the proof lies not in my lame-oh words, but instead in their lovely sample snaps!

So, much thanks to this wonderful coule for taking the time to come down and see us, and for all you all of you all out there in blogland – Enjoy!

Levi & Emily!

Listen, for I tell you a story (is that biblical, or am I going into the intro to the Beverly Hillbillies?? Oh well…), and it’s about a totally awesomely wonderfully sweet couple that just happens to go by the name of Levi & Emily (these are actually two different names, they are not an Ã¼berperson that is a single entity, we clear on this?), and about how we had a wonderful time this past Tuesday Tuesday past (that’s one of those things that’s the same going forwards and backwords, like 1991…crazy) working with them on an absolutely gorgeous evening!

This story continues with me telling all you all (again, that thing) about how lucky we are to have such great couples to work with, and about how we can’t wait until their wedding day (which, never fails, will be here sooner than we expect!), because if our time together today was any indication, the wedding is going to be totally sweetly sweets! But, I can tell that you out there in the land of blog are tiring from my story, and I think that we should get to the best part of any story, and that’s the snaps. So – Enjoy!

At Long Last, Megan!

Keep Keep Keep Keepin’ On, next up in the extravaganza (what kind of a word is that?) of summer fun that we call Senior Snaps moved on over to a totally righteous Senior that just happens to go by the name of…wait for it…Megan!

The first time we met her was a long, long time ago. It was in a land with yellow walls, and in a time when she was more of a Junior than the glorious Senior she is now. But those days have passed us all behind. The walls are black, and instead of being the friend along for the shoot, she was the main event! But back in those days, we knew that when our time would come for her photo-graphs, it was gonna be good. And good, my friends, is an understatement. Let’s try great, or fantastic, or superb, or how about just plain crazy good.

For she was these, and probably quite a few more! The ladies of O&J with Special Guest Megan ventured here and there, to and fro, and do you know what they were looking for? They were looking for killer snaps (which sounds painful, but really…it’s not), and guess what…wait for it…they found ’em! But it was not the lovely ladies of O&J (again, we we be accepting orders in the coming year for the calendar) that made the day so great, it was Megan that rocked it up, and for this, we offer up a big plate of O&J thanks, served with some fresh baked bread.

But did you come here for a crusty bread, or did you come here to see some snaps??!! So, without any further delay, it’s Megan – Enjoy!

Ahh Shucks, Man…It’s Nikki!

And then on Tuesday (this train just keeps on a rollin’ through, one post begat the next, y’all) none other than Nikki herself joined up with us for some totally awesome-like Senior Snaps! You know what, they weren’t awesome-like, they was straight dope (now, for all of you out there over the age of 30, my writing has changed to ‘hip’. For example, where you would see ‘straight dope’, to make this sentence understandable you could substitue the word ‘groovy’, if you are a child of the seventies, or ‘totally tubular’, for the eighties, and ‘rad’, for all of you nineties kidz out there. It’s just that simple!), no doubt about it!

The ladies of O&J (calendar to come soon) totally rocked the shoot up hard core style, and from all reports fun & jocularity & awesome snaps were, ideed, had by all! I had to wait patiently back at the FunCenter to see what had transpired during the shoot, and when the goods were laid out, I too saw that the camera was, indeed, set to ‘Rock it Up’. But it was not the camera that did all of this awesome work, it was Nikki that made our time with her so totally and completely wonderful!

We’d like to send a little love her way for being so great to work with, and to all of you – the faithful of blog – out there reading this, as usual we send much love, and – Enjoy!