My Anna

Decatur, Alabama Portrait Photographer

I was looking through some archives and (as always) ran across lots of photos of my lovely wife Anna.  For those of you who don’t know the story I met Anna when I was a photographer at The Decatur Daily.  She was an 18 year old Junior Miss contestant and I was a 21 year old photographer.  I was sent to her house to make a portrait of her as part of a story about local area Junior Miss representatives.  I waited a year until she was in college before I asked her out…I didn’t want to be that creepy photographer who asks out high school girls.  So Anna has been in front of my camera since day one.  She doesn’t always want to be….but she poses for me when I need her to.  Sometimes I’m doing some sort of light test….other times I just want portraits of my wife.

Anna tells everybody….and I mean EVERYBODY that the reason she looks so good in my photos is because I do a ton of touch up work.  That is not true.  Not to call the wife a liar….but she will exaggerate.  I do subtle touch ups to her images just like I do any other portrait…but simply put…she is beautiful.

So tonight’s post is for Anna.  She is an incredible wife and she supports me in all I do…except my attempts at humor.

Here are a few of my favorites from over the years.

This image was shot in the living room at my first house.

This next image may be my favorite photo of her.  She has to argue with a lot of people to convince them that this is her…I’m not sure why.

This next image was one of those times she wasn’t crazy about me shooting pictures of her.  But I wanted to play around with some odd lighting and I also wanted some photos of her with her hair curly.  Anna has curly hair…I mean…wow…crazy curly.  This is what her hair does naturally.  Also if Phi Mu had bouncers…this is what they would look like.

I just realized that she isn’t smiling in any of these.  Well that’s because Anna lost all of her teeth 9 years ago and she is a bit sensitive about her gum heavy grin.

Ok…that’s a lie.  Her childhood orthodontist would hunt me down if I didn’t show off her grill.  Here you go.

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