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Welcome to Nathan Russell Photography, the blog. I am a lifestyle portrait photographer who specializes in toddlers, children, and family photography, as well as couples, engagements and event photography in Austin, San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. Here you can keep up with my most recent photo adventures.

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Kendi Everyday

Okay, so these are just for the pure fun of it.

If you’ve followed my blog with any regularity, You already know Kendi and Bryan. I shot a bridal for Kendi last summer and did a couple shoot for them as well. they are some of our favorite people in the entire world, and last year they moved to the Texas Hill country, not too far from Austin so since then we’ve seen a lot of each other. Weekends for them in Austin. Weekends for us in Kerrville. Funny thing about them is that after we’ve spent a few days with them, and everyone heads home, and we’ve all group hugged and said our sappy goodbyes, it takes about an hour and a half before Amy and I start wishing that we were all still together. This is what we have come to call the post-Skeen slump, which can last several days and four or five bottles of wine.

We were in Kerrville in January, and while we weren’t there specifically to see Bryan and Kendi, we did have dinner with them. Before dinner though, they had to go out and do their nightly photo shoot for Kendi’s fashion blog, Kendi Everyday. Kendi’s blog is absolutely amazing and all you fashionistas out there who don’t already know about it should go visit it right now (er…right after you finish this post). Bryan, who himself is an incredible photographer, does all the photography for her, and she posts almost daily. We were happy to go along for the shoot and I brought my camera, snapped a few shots, and then promptly forgot all about them.

Yesterday I was cleaning off some memory cards, and I found a wonderful little surprise. These behind-the-scenes shots of Bryan and Kendi at work.

Lizzie + Evan

Here are some of the finished shots of the shoot I did last week with Lizzie and Evan. Love them.

balloons

lady by the lake

lizzie

field

lizzie and evan

good one.

kissing cousins

waiting for the train

why so serious?

i see you

stairs

there's the smile

little man

chase

my favorite

running

Lizzie & Evan Flip Book

Oh Man. The weather. Sometimes it just doesn’t cooperate.

I’d planned a shoot with Lizzie and her mom Seanna for this morning about a month ago. But it’s been so cold and rainy and stormy, and for a week the forecast was promising that Sunday was going to be cold and wet. When Tuesday got here and there was no change, I called Seanna and we bumped the shoot up to Saturday morning. Turns out that was going to work better for everybody, and as luck would have it, Lizzie’s cousin, and one of my favorite little heartbreakers, Evan was going to be in town on Saturday too.

So we met up saturday morning and guess what? Cold and rainy. By the time we met up, the rain was starting to really come down, and there was no way things were going to end well. Soooooooo, I checked the forecast. Which was promising a nice overcast day for Sunday. We all agreed to meet up in the late morning, since it was going to be overcast, we wouldn’t need to worry about dealing with the ugly mid-day sun.

Well guess what? Today we had a warm, clear, sunny, day. Natch. Sometimes the weather just doesn’t cooperate. I don’t love shooting in the middle of the day, but Lizzie and Evan are both so cute, I don’t think it matters much. Can’t wait to show you guys the finished shots, but in the meantime, here’s a flip book of the raw shots. The last flip book I did was pretty popular, so I thought I’d give it another go. Maybe it’ll become a thing…

Kathryn + Rami, engaged

I posted a little musical flip book about my shoot with Kathryn and Rami last weekend, and we got so many comments and emails. Thanks everyone for all your support. The flip book was indeed cute, and I’d like to take credit for it, but it’s mostly just reflective of Kathryn and Rami, and how infectious their fun-loving spirits are.

I finally found some time late last week to finish up their photos.

Blue Door

Italiany

Kathryn + Rami

steps

old Hollywood

ring

bench

cheek

Asti

Dinner

Toy Joy

Lubbock St.

Kiss

first date

Hut's

Hamburgers

Rami + Kathryn in 60 Seconds

A couple of Friday nights ago, I got a call from a good friend of mine Kathryn. The conversation went something like

-Hey Kathryn
-Hey Nathan how are you?
-I’m good
-Good, well I’m just calling to let you know that Rami took me to dinner at Asti tonight, and then he proposed and I said yes!

And that was it, she was gone to make a few more calls. I talked to her again on Sunday, and I’m pretty sure by noon she had the entire wedding completely planned. We’ve known Kathryn and Rami for a couple of years, and I don’t think I know of any two people more perfect for each other. We are so happy for them, and I’m deeply honored, and probably annoyingly excited, that they’ve asked me to photograph their wedding and the (many) festivities surrounding the occasion.

This morning, we did an engagement shoot, and we had so much fun. They were the perfect clients, because they wanted to shoot in places that were really meaningful to them, instead of a pretty field. Don’t get me wrong, I like a good pretty field, but for me there’s nothing quite like getting to photograph people in places that they love, and that’s what we did all morning, including the UT Campus, where they met when they were both students, Hut’s Hamburgers, the site of their first date, and Asti, where Rami proposed (and incidentally my favorite restaurant in Austin). Oh, we also stopped into Toy Joy, one of the places they love to hang out. It was a total blast. I’ll be back with some amazing edited photos from the session soon, but in the meantime, please enjoy some of the raw shots from the day…Kathryn and Rami’s engagement shoot in 60 seconds.