Posts Tagged ‘knoxville photographer meetup’

guess what’s coming to Knoxville!?

Monday, May 10th, 2010

At the start of the year I would never have thought in May that this is where I would be.

or we would be. becky and i.

It started with a simple idea of getting a senior I know, Morgan, to model for me on some ideas that I had.

and it grew.

So luckily Morgan was up for it being bigger than just me and her and we ended up with 3 awesome models and 17 photographers.

Photographers that I am proud to know and have community with.

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and now today.

Today we had a meetup with some of our local photographers to network, have fun, and announce some awesomeness.

What is the awesomeness?

The amazing nationwide company, Smugmug, has seen what we are doing and is getting behind us and I am so honored to be the appointed leader along with my co-leader Becky.

You guessed it! SMUG’s are coming to KNOXVILLE!!!

photographer’s rejoice!

Smug’s are groups of photographers getting together to learn, grow, connect, and have fun!

What does this mean? Well, we keep on keeping on with meetup’s and supporting our community but now we have the support and resources of an amazing nationwide company so we can grow and continue to reach out to our local photographers!

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I am so HONORED.  and super excited for our Knoxville photographer community!

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etsy? designer?

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

So for our next Knoxville Photog Meetup we are lining up an awesome children’s shoot. Our goal with these shoots is to give back and make it a win win for everyone. We have the photographers that get portfolio building and fun opportunities they may not have otherwise, we have the models that get the pictures and then we try to have the location or some other way that we are building up the community of small businesses.

So this month we are having designers, people who have Etsy shops, small business owners that need good professional pictures of their product. I have tons of models lined up and a few designers. We need more designers and would love to work with those that can really benefit from this! Thought I would post this on here in case someone knew of a children’s clothing etsy shop or a designer that this could benefit:)

If you can just email me if you know someone or are that someone:) shann@shannonkelleyphotography.com

And if you are near the Knoxville area, we’d love to have you join us!

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honored.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

It started out as a simple idea.

and grew.

knoxville photographers getting together to support, learn, have community.

through shootouts and meetups. through friendship and support.

and I’m so excited about where its going. and I’m honored.

honored to be part of it.

here is part of the email I sent after the day was done:

I’m finally sitting in my jammies watching Kimora:Life in the fab lane (don’t hate:) ) and thinking about today the only word that comes to mind is honor.  I am honored to be part of an industry where we can do fun shootouts and support each other in this journey, I am honored to have met all of you today and see some of the raw amazing talen we have here in Knoxville, and I’m honored to be part of it all, even in the tiniest way.  Thank you for being awesome, thank you for making today wonderful, thank you for being all in and so supportive of everyone today.

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Sunday I met 17 or so of my Knoxville photographer colleagues.

We had models, rain, and an old bank building thanks to the awesome Tony Cappiello.

And we had a great time at the first Knoxville Photog Meetup.

here are some of my pictures.  A HUGE thanks to the amazing models!





See, told you the models were rocking it! Thanks again to all who came out, it was amazing to meet such great local Knoxville photographers!
If you are a Knoxville photographer, go join our facebook group, we’d love for you to join our next one!

If you are a model or want to be one and just want the practice and some portfolio pictures, I’d love to chat with you, call me at 414.4674 or email me at shann@shannonkelleyphotography.com

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Posted in lifestyle portraits | seniors, families, and kids | 7 Comments »