It started over chicken salad sandwiches at The Good Earth. Breanna and I chatted about giving my website a facelift – making it feel more like, well, me. A few months have passed since that fateful lunch, and I’m super giddy and ridiculously excited to finally announce the new face of Athena Pelton Photography. Okay, it’s still my face, but my web home is new. It’s chic. It’s dotted with glitter and floral. It’s a little modern while still feeling warm and inviting. It’s exactly what I was hoping for and I couldn’t be more proud of what Bre was able to design for me. From choosing the font for my logo (thanks to all who voted and helped curtail my indecisiveness!), to deciding on colors, and narrowing down the perfect typeface, the branding process is exhausting and time consuming and not for the indecisive or weak of heart. It takes courage to decide who...
four boys, two girls, three families, one incredible studio mini session.
Last weekend three incredible families braved downtown St. Paul traffic (on a busy Farmer’s Market morning) to come to my first ever studio mini sessions. The outcome (and the experience) was absolutely wonderful. I cannot wait to do it again. Here are a few of my favorites from that beautiful morning:...
happiness is a river town, a pizza farm, and a dear friend
We had talked in the spring, when summer was still a distant promise and there was a touch of chill still left in the evening air, of meeting at the Pizza Farm. It took an entire summer to plan, to finally put down on paper (or rather on the shiny screen of an iPhone calendar), but finally on a warm September evening, as summer waned and a chill descended on a dusky sunset river town, my dear friend Anda met me for dinner. But more than that, she met me for a lovely evening of simply being. Of friendship. Of walking and talking and laughing until my insides hurt. Of Spotted Cow and farm fresh pizza and strangers-turned-into-helpful-camera-men. Of wind and dew and the smell of pie on the late summer breeze. We watched a train speed past, and walked along the shore of the river, and we talked about...
charolette + chuck’s incredible door county wedding | the day they promised to never give up.
Charolette sent me an email in May, and in it she told me about her fiancé Chuck. She told me about their first date and how, instead of going to a baseball game as planned, Chuck sat with her as she recovered from appendicitis. Un-showered and post-sugery swollen and grumpy, Charolette was certain Chuck was seeing her at her worst. As he kissed her goodnight she knew that he was her forever. In that instant, Charolette knew that Chuck would never give up. That same day I got an email from Chuck telling me about Charolette. He described his love for her and he told me about how, even after seven years of ups and downs and in-betweens, her smile still gives him knots. And he told me how he would be blissfully happy spending the rest of his life doing anything he could to make this beautiful girl smile....
