Melanie & Michele

Freshmen year of college. I was walking down the long hallway in front of my dorm room fighting tears. I looked up to see my RA coming towards me. So I plastered on a smile to match the one she gave me. We barely knew each others names but without thinking a thing of it we stopped and hugged and within a few seconds we both burst into tears. So we stood there in the dorm room hallway for who knows how long, crying and holding onto each other for dear life. From that moment on during my Freshman year Michele and I were nearly inseparable. To this day, we both laugh about that day as it was pretty much out of character for us both, but we figure the Lord just knew we needed each other. So if it took bursting into tears to bring us together, so be it! ;-)

To this day I count her as family, and one of my dearest and best friends. We have seen each other through the absolute worst and the best of times... I love, love, LOVE this girl and seriously praise the Lord for bringing her into my life. He knew I needed a deep thinking, transparent, big hug giving, gentle warrior to challenge me, laugh with me, and just live life with me.

A few months back Michele and her identical twin sister Melanie, and their sweet Mom, hired me to do a shoot of the two of them as a present for their Dad. The lovely and talented photographers Sarah and Christi Sidwell came along with us to help out as we traipsed around downtown Nashville, laid in the middle of streets, climbed on the side of buildings, anything to get the perfect shot! Here are the images we got - hope you like them! =)






These two laughed the ENTIRE shoot pretty much. I have more images of them laughing than I do smiling. It made for one of the funnest shoots I've ever had. They had me in stitches most of the shoot....







Michele


Melanie










Christi took this shot and I just LOVE it! Great job girlie!!














This was shot at high noon pretty much where the sun was directly overhead so there was no getting this shot and completely blocking the harsh light overhead. So instead of trying, we used the diffuser and reflector for a different purpose (see below)...


Christi and Sarah fanning the two girls to help give that windblown look- you two rock!! =)


I love this shot because it captures them so well and because I wasn't even looking through the viewfinder when I shot it. I was holding the camera out in front of me and just shooting away as I moved the camera around at all kinds of odd angles. Just wanted to see what I could capture when I wasn't looking... ;-)