"The Smokie Mountains"

Last week we were on vacation in the Smokie Mountains and I just wanted to share this story with everyone. Bill always loves to photograph all of the old settlements, and cabins as well as the beautiful mountain streams so that is what we were doing. Along our drive that day I had noticed a particular van parked here & there with writing in the windows like you would normally see at a wedding reception, but this one caught my eye. It read something like "JUST MARRIED AGAIN, 50 YEARS"!!! At the next place we stopped Bill got out of the van to set up his tripod to begin photographing this log cabin & mountain stream. Lo and behold there was a couple stopped at the same location just walking around. I said, Oh Bill I would just love it if you could get some photographs with that couple in some of them. So he approached them and asked if we could photograph them, and explained to them that he was a professional photographer. Also he reassured them that he wasn't trying to sell them anything by no means. We were just on vacation our selves and wanted to do this merely for our pleasure. Well, they were the sweetest couple and we found out that they were the ones driving the van we had seen with the writing in the windows. They were so kind to pose for us and let us "PLAY" and photograph them for at least 30 minutes or longer. Bill didn't have all of his standard equipment with us that we normally use when photographing people outside, we thought he'd mainly be doing landscape photography. While talking with them we learned that they were from around Chattanooga TN & that they were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. I hope that both of them & all of their family enjoy the images that we were able to capture. In some small way I hope we've added some memories of this truly special time in their lives. We want to wish Mr. & Mrs. Bice a HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY!!! Most people go on vacation to get away from their work, but not when you are in a profession like ours.............this is what makes our work so enjoyable and rewarding. We absolutely love what we do!