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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I’ve been shooting sports almost exclusively this year, so it was a nice change of pace to do some engagement photos for Stephanie and Wade.  I will be shooting their wedding here in Knoxville in June. Stephanie was referred to me through another photographer friend who will becoming a dad right around the time of their wedding.  This was the first chance I had to meet Wade. We started out at the UT Gardens and then proceeded to World’s Fair Park and Downtown Knoxville.  I had one very special request for a photo.  Both of Stephanie’s grandparents have recently passed away.  After 55 years of marriage, it only took 20 days for them to be reunited. I still have a bit of editing to do, but here’s a few that I wanted to get up as a sneak peek.