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May 1, 2012 by Anya Elise

second shooting || Denver wedding photography

Second shooting. The act of shooting second. Being next in line to the throne. Yeah, OK, that has absolutely no relevance to this at all. It’s early, forgive me. Second shooting is another way to describe the act of assisting a lead photographer at a shoot. The nice thing about what Dan and I have […]
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April 3, 2012 by Anya Elise

staying, doing || tiny Tuesday thoughts

“The staying and doing it, in spite of everything.” from Wild by Cheryl Strayed This sums up my journey with starting a photography business thus far, almost perfectly, though Ms. Strayed isn’t speaking about business at all. If you’ve ever tried to do something large, and unknowable, and full of muchness, then you know this […]
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March 29, 2012 by Anya Elise

struggles and theFIX || the business of photography

He was outnumbered 20 to 1. The joke was, if you came here as a single man – the odds were absolutely in your favor! (No, that wasn’t a subtle nod to The Hunger Games, but if it had been now would be the time for me to tell you to go see the movie […]
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March 8, 2012 by Anya Elise

drawing with light || the business of photography

Photography is all about light. If you were to look at the Greek roots of the word (oh no, this is the nerd speaking – watch out!) you get phos (light) and graphis (drawing). So: drawing with light (roughly…I never actually took Greek. I know, I know, I call myself a college graduate). The point is, taking […]
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February 27, 2012 by Anya Elise

about us || A&D Photography

It was incredibly windy. And not in the good, this will be great for the “model hair effect” sort of way. And there was mud. Really sticky – cannot be avoided – mud. Throw in some equally slippery snow and you’ve got our Friday afternoon. But, we forged ahead. We were in the process of  […]
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