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admin - January 23, 2012 - 2:04 pm

Nicole, we had a lot of fun with your girls and being able to hang out with you as well . Megan, thanks for being so nice!! We feel like we’ve won a jackpot when anyone allows us the opportunity to photograph them!

Nicole Mechem - January 20, 2012 - 10:25 pm

Aaron and Meg — These photos are wonderful! You did a great job.
I had so much fun watching and being part of it. Thanks again – Nicole

PS The first time I looked at the photos there was music with it that I really liked. It appeared like you did a photo shoot of the musicians. Who were they and what happened to the music?

Megan Muse Schutt - January 18, 2012 - 8:59 pm

Wow! Seriously? A sister Hawaii session? You won the lotto on that one! And so did they; your photos are LOVELY!!

melisa draper - January 17, 2012 - 6:07 pm

Love it! How fun!!!! As you know maui is our favorite place to vacation and Ka’anapali Shore is our favorite hotel too!

Jan 14 2012

Grants, Golf Lessons and Maui’s Finest!!

On our recent trip to Maui (above). We happened to be there at the same time as the PGA’s kick off tournament, The Tournament of Champions. Well we weren’t comfortable taking Grant to the official event but we decided to trek up the Kapalua’s Plantation course for the Pro-Am event. We saw a couple of golfers and a little bit of the event, but that wasn’t the highlight. The highlight was meeting David Havens. David is one of the pros at Ka’anapali Kai and more importantly he started a cool program called ‘Spare for Change‘. In the fan zone at the event, there were a couple different little area’s where all three of us could try out our golf swings, putting and even get a photo taken with a trophy. Golf Pro David was manning the area where you could try out your chipping prowess. We rolled up with Grant and he looked a little disappointed that he didn’t have any toddler size clubs. So he gave him a quick little lesson with the smallest club he had and then after asking if Grant had his own clubs offered this, ‘hey if you swing by the Ka’anapali, I can set you up with a couple of his very own clubs’. How cool is that? So when we arrived, David set him up with a toddler sized putter and some balls and sent us up to the practice green while he made another club for him. He met up with us handed Grant his own ‘grant sized’ Callaway Big Bertha and sent us off to the driving range to hit a bucket of balls on him. David was so generous and really made a memorable impact on Grant. Thanks David and all the best in your venture to put clubs and the game of golf in the hands of those that can’t otherwise have access to the game. You are awesome!!

Grant getting some pointers from David.

Grant giving it a whirl!

Us at the first, what a view, eh?

Grant giving his new driver a swing! One of my most treasured gifts from my late grandpa is a Big Bertha golf club and I thought it was pretty neat that one of Grants first golf clubs was a Big Bertha as well!

I am seriously one proud papa!!

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admin - January 27, 2012 - 11:52 am

Both Grant and Hawaii, you are correct and I totally agree. We really want to be back there right now, actually:-).

Kiah - January 24, 2012 - 9:45 am

Warm fuzzy feelings. I guess Hawaii and Grant does that to a person.

Jan 13 2012

Dana Little | Live at the Evantide Gallery

Meg and I had the privilege of hosting the amazingly talented Dana Little and a couple of her equally talented friends. Dana and I had been chatting for months about the possibility of her being able to share her music at our gallery. It was a couple weeks before Christmas so she shared some Christmas music mixed with songs from her album ‘Patterns’. Thanks Dana for joining us and for those that came, we hope you enjoyed and thanks for coming. If you weren’t able to make it, we may be in the works for another show to happen soon:-). Enjoy the images from the evening.

Thanks mom for coming and being Grants date for the weekend!

You can leave comments below:-).

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Jan 12 2012

The Importance of Photos | A Photographers Plea

I want to start by saying this isn’t a plea to hire us or any other photographer. Both as a professional and a friend consider these three things -

1. Take photos or get photos taken. Life happens (good and bad) and it’s great to have documentation of it for yourself and for future generations.

2. Create some redundancy in your digital files. What’s this mean? Put the files in more than one place. On your computer is great, but maybe buy an external hard drive (prices are dropping like crazy at places like Costco and online). If you want to be really safe, maybe even keep some in a location away from your home (offsite).

3. Print some photos from time to time. Computers are going to crash, hard drives are going to fail and discs are going to have issues sooner or later. Not only are prints nice to hold onto, touch and look at; they are also just one more way to have access to these memories and times in your life.

To be honest, this is something that I do well for our clients but I can do a lot better at for our family. In 2011, I made a specific effort to shoot, back up and even print some our families photos. Grant is a really amazing kiddo and we are absolutely loving this time with him (and I want that documented:-). When he’s 13 and loving to push back? Well maybe he’ll be perfect, but… nah, he’ll push back. It’ll be fun to look back on this time. It will also be fun when he is 50 to show him what things were like when he was a kid:-).

Part of what started this reflection was hearing that my Grandma is going to be placed in the care of Hospice in the coming days. Grant may not have known his Great Grandma Ilene but we have images of what was a symbolic meeting they had when he was an infant. Here is an excerpt from a blog post I did about their meeting:-).

Alright, so get out there and Shoot, Save, Print… Repeat!

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Dec 28 2011

Meg, Aaron and Grant | The Nelsons Year in Photos

Ultimately this will be a whole lot of cuteness from our kiddo Grant!! But it’s been our shenanigans over the year, enjoy!!

We had and will continue to have Seattle Sounders season tix with Airika and Gerald in the coming year! Yay!

Happy Gilmore?

Grant actually took this next photo. I think I’ll just retire:-).

Yep, that’s my brother Pat! He’s the one just below the guys in Sounders jackets, ha!

Together…

… and out.

13?

It’s true. Bald is Beautiful!

Seahawks Sunday’s at the Medcalfs.

Oh, good times!!

One of my faves of 2011!!

Ahh, that was fun!! Hope you enjoyed.

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