Ryan Estes Photography Blog

Andrea & Ryan were the first couple to book me for a 2008 wedding, and so they managed to get the ever-popular 6-7-8 date! There were a number of challenges (let’s call them “opportunities to shine,” shall we?) that day - nearly 100 degree weather, a car window that wouldn’t go up (this on...

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One of the nice things about becoming a parent is that suddenly the gifts start pouring in. Even if you were the kid to whose birthday party no one showed up*, let alone buy you presents, all you have to do is have a child and you become gift central. It’s great.
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Matt & Sarah were married last May and it was a fantastic wedding. Sarah had said she wanted to do a Trash the Dress session (which basically means taking all the photos we’d LIKE to do on the wedding day but can’t because don’t want to get the dress dirty/wet/whatever) but because she &...

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Wow, has it really been 10 days since Elicia & Matt’s wedding? I gotta step it up a notch…
So you might have guessed from the post title that these two were married on May 31… and what a great day they had. We were nervous about the weather, but because their wedding was...

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Kelly and I don’t get out to see live music as much as we used to, every so often a band comes around that we simply feel compelled to see. That band is Over the Rhine, and it was at one of their shows a number of years ago that we first started dating.
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