The New Dunn Photography + Design Blog

I decided to make the move and separate my personal blog and my Photography blog. I wanted to design something that branded my photography in a clean and beautiful way. After purchasing a beautiful template, I set to work tweaking and coding it to my liking. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out and I'm happy to share it with everyone. It's a bit more than your average blog. It's more of a mini website. Until I finish my website, I'm pretty happy with this blog being my virtual "front door" to the world wide web. I've added a few informative pages under the Details tab in the menu. These should help to answer a few questions. If you want to have a look around and leave a comment I would greatly appreciate it. I'll probably still post some photography stuff here, but not all.

Now that I have an awesome new blog, I have an urge to totally redesign this one as well. Now if I could just clone myself about 5 times, I'd have enough time to get everything done that I want to!

Kallie & Cael

This was my first "real" photo shoot that wasn't a wedding. I had the great pleasure of photographing cute and funny little Cael and his wonderful mama Kallie. Here are a few of my favorites from our session.

I Know I Sounds Like A...

. So guess what, I've been slacking in the blogging department. I've been so busy it's ridiculous. Good ridiculous.

I shot my first wedding last weekend! I've put in a lot of late nights this past week, but I think it's paid off a bit. I've been thinking more and more about it lately and have decided I need to do something to get my "business" straightened out. More and more people are asking me to take photos for them. I never in one million years dreamed of myself as a photographer. It is a hobby that I love, but never thought I was any better than a hobbiest (is that even a word?). Other people seem to think otherwise. Thanks for the flattery and compliments everyone!

I fancy myself a designer, not really a photographer. Just reading about setting up a small business is making my head spin and I have a business degree! I'm not setting out in this endeavor to make a ton of money. I'm not even really looking to make much of a profit at all, but I know Uncle Sam will want to get his slice of whatever meager pie I get. All I want to do is be legitimate. If anyone reading has any expertise in this area, feel free to sound off!

New Business?

I'm thinking of starting up a very small home business doing:

- photo retouching
- announcement and card design
- album design
- marketing materials
- photography (I'm still an amateur and know I can't run with the big dogs on this, but I love it, and practice makes better (I never say perfect with things like this, haha.)
- web design
- pretty much anything you can design on a computer and give to someone, I'm willing to make. I already have my first wedding to photograph this summer and I'm super excited for that. I like to think my style is a lot different than others around the area and since I've never shot a wedding, I'm excited to see how my style pans out in this category.

I'd also like to start selling little things here and there on www.etsy.com. You can buy/sell just about anything handmade on that site!

This will probably be a few months away at least. I want to spend as much time with my little Singer as possible. He’s already growing so fast!