Photography Blog of Justin Acuff

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Hi, welcome to my photography blog! I love capturing emotions and creating memories through the lens of a camera. Even as a small child, I always asked for a camera for my birthday, for Christmas, whenever I did really good on my report card, etc. but didn't get my first camera until high school. Back then, everyone used film cameras. After high school, I went on to pursue a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering with an emphasis in Image Processing. Throughout college, I developed more of a passion for photography. I was always the person snapping pictures that would be used for our student organization's website or in the end of year slideshow. Also during college, I bought my first Canon 35mm Film SLR and the joy of photography really set in. As much as I enjoy taking photographs, I also enjoy teaching others about photography. Currently I serve as the faculty adviser for the Student Photography Club at UT. If you like my work and would like to talk to me about photographing something for you, please contact me.

Jul 27 2010

Lifestyle: The Watson Family

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The Watson’s are a fun family. Last year about this time they asked me to do family portraits of them. We did a session at the UT Gardens and then went back to their home to continue the session in their backyard. I captured some really great images that are framed all throughout their house.

The trick with shooting around this time of year is the almost daily evening thunderstorms. I can really make scheduling sessions fun.We decided to do all the session at their house. It’s always somewhat of a challenge to shoot in places you haven’t already scoped out ahead of time, but hey… I love a good challenge.

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Jul 20 2010

Lifestyle: Hagewood Family

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The Hagewoods are dear friends of mine. I first meet Hunter and Lori shortly after they were married and moved to Knoxville. Hunter had come to UT to get his MS degree in Computer Science. Their son Mathias was born during the time they lived at the Christian Student Center. It wasn’t long before they moved to Brazil to join Lori’s brothers doing mission work in João Pessoa.

If you know me pretty well, you know that I’ve been to Brazil several times over the past 6 years. The majority of that time has been spent in João Pessoa. The Hagewoods have always been welcoming and letting me stay with them. They had come up for a month or so to spend some time visiting friends and family. A couple of those weeks were going to be spent in Knoxville. So when Lori asked if I could do some family photos and some photos of the kids, I was more than willing to try to fit them into a pretty hectic schedule at the time.

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Tags: Brazil, Children, Family, family photography, family portraits, knoxville children photographer, knoxville family photographer, knoxville family portraits, knoxville lifestyle photographer, Lifestyle, lifestyle photography

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Jul 18 2010

Engaged (err.. Married): Whitney and David

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If you follow me on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/japhotography) you’ve already seen these. I finally fixed the problems with the blog (I hope) and so I’m catching up on posting. Well it’s been about a month since I did this session with some good friends of mine. They wanted to do the session at Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountains. We met up at the gate on Saturday morning and drove the loop, stopping at select locations. One of their first photos together was by the river on the trail to Abrams Falls. Shortly after we did this session they were married down in the Florida Keys.

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Tags: Cades Cove, engagement photos, Great Smoky Mountains, knoxville engagement photographer

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Jun 14 2010

Wedding: Stephanie and Wade

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Friends and family can order prints here: http://store.justinacuff.com/g/vanhoecke_wedding

Last weekend, the big day for Stephanie and Wade arrived. I met them through a referral from another photographer friend whose wife was due with their first baby right around the time of their wedding. The wedding was at First Baptist Concord- Westlake Campus and the reception was held at Rothchild.

I had posted a sneak peek gallery over on my Facebook page and meant to post here, but I’ve stayed quite busy. I’ll update this post soon with a link to all the photos for the friends and extended family interested in purchasing prints.

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Tags: knoxville wedding photographer, Wedding, wedding photography

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Jun 05 2010

Bridals: Stephanie H.

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Last Sunday evening I did a bridal session with Stephanie out at Concord Park and in the town of Concord, TN. The town of Concord is not an area I normally hear about when people discuss photo locations, so I might have just let out a big secret. I was really hoping to get some spectacular sunset shots when I planned this session, but the weather doesn’t always cooperate.The rain did hold off until like 10 minutes after we finished up. Now that the wedding is over with, it is safe to post these for all to see. Stephanie was a beautiful bride! Stay tuned to this blog as I’ll be posting some images from her wedding on June 5th.