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Tomme, ever since I saw your work a few years ago I knew then that you would be the one to shoot my
wedding and all other details would fall into place (little did I know it would actually come true). When
the day finally came words cannot express how truly excited I was to work with both you and Erica.
From the first minutes you started shooting it was as though we had met for hours discussing every
detail of the day.

The pictures have captured a special day for my husband and I, and our families. Tomme and Erica
captured every fun detail that they saw possible and even those little moments in between that they
knew would mean the most. The moment when I first saw my soon to be husband, my grandpa and my
dad walking me down the aisle ( both crying), the look on my finances face as he was standing up front
and of course all the great family pictures that you can never seem to get enough of. All great examples
of memories they helped capture that will last a lifetime.

When Tomme said she was available for our date I had no idea how much fun we would have while
shooting but that night we both went to sleep with the saying “one-two-down jump” fresh in our minds
due to all the great action shots. Thanks again Tomme for being so great at what you do!!

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Thank you Brandi and Aaron for a sweet blog! We enjoyed our day with you!!

Take a look at Brandi and Aaron’s wedding day. It is hard to believe that we captured your magical day in just FOUR hours of shooting!!

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It’s ‘BEST CAPTION’ time again. These are some I’ve gone through that cry out for a TITLE.

To win:

1. Lend a caption that best fits the image and

2. The one with the most votes wins their favorite 5×7!

*Contest ends by 5/31 at midnight. Invite all your friends and family and Best of Luck!

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‘Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.’
- Rose Franken

If you would like to get wild and crazy with Tomme Hilton Gallery, please contact us at gallery.tommehilton@gmail.com

We would love to add you to our ‘FUN LIST’.

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xo.

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Today’s BEST OF is…. {Best Wedding Day DARE.}

I think we speak for everyone when we decided upon this photo.

Meet Jay and Kelly, one of our 2010 July Weddings. This is BY FAR one of the most fun action shots in a while!  I have not had a bride and groom take the risk of jumping into a pool (or any body of water)… EVER… in almost 6 years! We are always wanting the willing couples who know we have an itch for spunk, flares and especially DARES.  I must say, we got what we wanted here!! Kelly and Jay satisfied our itch!

We sure hope that you keep up that flare in your marriage!

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If you are a bride who is quite the Dare Devil, just send us an email at gallery.tommehilton@gmail.com and we would love to meet with you!

xo,

tomme and erica

RENATE & BRAIN

Married on June 5th! (wow, it’s been that long… eeekk!)

If you don’t remember Renate and Brian, check out their engagement photos… they were awesome! Despite the rain… We made it happen! AND, not to forget her bridals!! Sigh. Love, love, love them! She is the reason I can’t stand bridals! They turn out so great… yet ‘you’ cannot post them until AFTER the wedding! Ugh… the beauty of secrets right?

Renate and Brian’s wedding day started out with no parking at the hotel, wind that made your hair a whirlwind and humidity that that made you question if it was sweat or not. Ahem, It was a wonderful day to get married… ON THE BEACH! But let me just say… Renate and Brain… YOU ROCKED IT!  They were amazing. And let me drag them EVERYWHERE to get that extra shot… or as I call it, the ‘One more’ shot!

Take a look at their wedding photos. Let us know what you think!

But I’m facing dilemmas I want to try to change. I feel myself most drawn to the personal blogs where the writers speak candidly and freely about their lives.  So in the same ways those writers are able to pull me into their world and embody me with interest – I want to allow myself to be more personalized, which is hard for me. I’ve had to be the strong, silent stable figure for much of my life but this is something that needs to change. I just visited a shaman, of sorts who told me I needed to live an authentic life and this is where I intend to start. Letting some of my fearful walls down. Boy, aren’t you in for a treat?

These writers I love -their words flow freely without fear – for they are who they are, they know themselves — never flinching in the shadows.  They make no excuses – I find that is so refreshing in a world saturated with political correctness and those whom find power sitting behind their computers.  One of the biggest inspirations was a friend I had met on Flickr, Jessica Weiser (http://www.fideliophotography.com/). She used to post these really amazing photographs and then have amazing stories to coincide with them. Which for me, not being as great with the word ADORED the fact that she felt so at ease to write about her life and her hardships throughout her life. I instantly liked and connected with her.  I don’t even think I’ve ever even told her that, but this is a great example in life that you may not ever have any idea that you have an impact on someone – when in all actuality you do. Do you know that person who has inspired you or gave you insight? Do you have that person or one of many people that have shaped you or continue to mold you?  I have many people but Jessica is certainly one of them.  Which this in turn leads me to Ashley.

I will be shooting a wedding with an upcoming photographer, who had some really amazing friends that thought *SO* highly of her – they bought her ME. Ok, let me back that up a bit – that sounds ODD… Ashley loves photography and her friends love HER so much, they wanted to push her and have her learn. She was turned onto my work through a friend of a friend kind of thing and I think she found an affinity and kinship  in my work. They wrote me and hired me to mentor Ashley. When I first met Ashley, we spoke briefly at LaHacienda over a couple margaritas (I instantly liked a fellow margarita lover) and I decided that instead of being much of an instructor in life. I’m a do-er.  I tend to be the verb instead of the noun. So she had her own wedding coming up to shoot. Tomorrow actually that I will be helping with.

It’s always fun to second shoot a wedding and get to tap into your creative self when you find yourself getting stale. I try to get as creative as possible in most situations, but when you get 15 minutes to do photos at a wedding,  you end up pulling out the traditional gotta- haves. That’s not inspiring, but actually stifling to a creative mind wanting to expand and <CREATE>.  So while second shooting, you get to do NOTHING but be CREATIVE. AAaaaah, music to my ears. I do tend to get many brides that will factor in lots of photo time, but there are some weddings that photos get rushed and it makes a world of difference. I will be posting some of these wedding images on here soon.

In trying to figure out what images to blog, I thought I might choose the prom images I did recently. They are fun, and fresh and youthful and it’s that season so here is Vince and Ally’s prom shoot.

In my efforts of tearing down the walls that defined me, I hope not to bore you to tears about my uneventful life. I am pretty sure I had such a traumatic childhood that God & the Angels decided my adulthood should be very mundane. And depending on who you are, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t.

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XO

It was a really icky day here in Charleston and luckily everyone else thought so too. We basically had the USS Yorktown to ourselves to complete the feel for the shoot.

Next time your couple session seems humdrum or if your fiancee is dreading it, let him have fun planning the shoot to his liking. This will get him involved and actually look forward to it.

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We’ll see more of Melissa and Davey in October for the BIG DAY!

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Had a whole lotta love the past few weeks, so much love I’m having trouble keeping up with it all. But I’m gonna start with Morgan and Michael.   Here’s their facebook image. I met Morgan when I met Brice and Kim one evening {{ Everyone know Kim and Brice? May 2 yrs ago they tied the knot! }}. She was introduced to me as the ‘artist sister’ of Brice. My ears perked up right away. An artiste? EXCITING! Her artwork is fabulous! And if I had her link I would include it.. but for now, I’m just going to tell you… she’s fantabulous good!

Flowy dress + Windy = YUMMY

I love her skirt.. she wore flowy, feminine clothes… and that seemed to photograph VERY well. It fit her eclectic, romantic whimsical nature. She has the fashion sense I always wished I could adopt.

That’s a GREAT looking couple. Magazine worthy.

One of my newest ventures is lighting. I couldn’t get enough of that skyline and how warm it was. This was prob about 830 in the evening and I picked up just the slightest warm light on the horizon and thought it looked so beautiful. I love how Morgan is just illuminated with some backlighting. SEXY.

Sigh. There it is again. I love these shots. Can’t deny.

Good night — please don’t forget to do a nice thing for one of our couples and lend them your vote!

Until next time

xoxoxo

The secret is thisclose to being fully released.

Here is a sample album of the secret.

*boudoirs* shhhhh, it’s our secret… people get really uptight about these sometimes (there is always a church lady that never really got over her inhibitions– that will always make some stink about it, and not so much because she thinks it’s scandalous, but because she don’t have the courage to do it herself!)  so I gotta keep this under somewhat wraps and have more info shortly to be announced. We don’t need her chasing you around town with the revelations. 

 I have to admit. I find boudoirs the MOST gratifying of all the work I do.  Women deal with issues consistently on how to be beautiful, maintain beautiful and compete with models on the covers of magazines and in videos. I love when a woman comes to me….. Instantly. They ARE that model. They ARE beautiful. There are no boundaries. That is liberating. There is no better time than right now to be that woman you think is beautiful. That he finds so sexy and beautiful.  There is no reason to worry about that extra 5 lbs. There is always going to be an excuse – before you know it, time has passed you by. Don’t be one of those that procrastinated your thoughts away!

Because of my intro and getting my new space. I need to pay rent. That means a deal for you! 

Half off my session rates until March 31st.  Lock in the rate and pay now to book after March 31st.  That means 250 for 3 changes and 2.5 hours in the studio.  That! Is an AMAZING rate!! Since I’ve put the word out on Facebook,  all my weekends are booked until August. I still have weekday slots available.  [You can do them after work on a weekday as well!] No sweat.

You take care of yourself. You take vitamins. You go to the gym. You eat right and spend money on beauty treatments, hair and spa. You spend time doing your hair and make up. You buy the clothes that make you feel beautiful.  You should be the beauty you intended to be. Capture you in your essence.  You already spend money on yourself as you are that independent woman that doesn’t need to have an excuse to do something for yourself. He will love it. You will feel amazing about yourself and about the results. The letters I’ve received from the women that have modeled sessions have brought me to tears. Giving them that freeing gift of being beautiful and over the fearfulness of flaws and weight- no longer restricting them.. is an amazing experience for us both. As women.

 Forever. Beautiful. That is highly gratifying as an artist and rewarding to you, the client for eternally being beautiful. 

I am putting together a sample album for you to view. All of my package sessions include an album. This is an example of some of the pages.  Put yourself in the place of Miss S. She’s classy. She’s beautiful. She’s now timeless.  She’s You!                   Enjoy