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Fine Art Prints Now For Sale Online

Matt Brodie — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:49:51 +0000

Hey everyone, well based on the great response I've had from people wanting to purchase prints of my work, I've created the ability to order prints directly from the online galleries. Below are a few slideshows showcasing some of my work, but to see all the prints for sale you can follow this link it will take you to my Africa, Columbia, USC Flag and Panoramic Galleries.

Amanda & Blake's Engagement Portraits

Matt Brodie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:25:56 +0000

Here are a few high lights from Amanda and Blakes engagement portrait photography session at the USC Horseshoe. I had a great time meeting them and photographing them.

Kristen & Ricky's Wedding - Hilton Head Island

Matt Brodie — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:18:44 +0000

I've know Kristen (the Beautiful Bride) for a while. We went to highschool together and when she found me to photograph her wedding, I was really excited to be able to do this for her. The wedding was at Honey Horn Plantation on Hilton Head Island. It was a lot of fun to see some old classmates and be a part of Kristen's wedding day celebrations. I can't think of a better way to share in an old friends wedding than to share some of the wedding photography with everyone.

USC Flag over the SC State House

Matt Brodie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:22:08 +0000

Well it's no secret that the South Carolina Gamecocks won the College World Series the other day. As part of the celebration the USC Flag was flown over the state house for ONE day. I stopped by and took a few pictures of this One time event. Here are a few of my favorites.

Phil & Kristen's Engagement Session

Matt Brodie — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:12:57 +0000

It's always cool when you get to shoot with friends. In this case I was surrounded by them. Phil has been a friend of mine for a while and while I guess technically he started out as a friend of friend, I really do like him and his fiance. They are awesome people with great personality and they just like to have a lot of fun. I also brought along m friend and fellow photog Rhett to help with lighting and holding reflectors, bags, gear and just about anything else I could shove in his hands. (Thanks for being my pack animal!)

Anyways, enough about all of that, I wanted to share some of my favorite images from Phil and Kristen's Engagement portrait session. The session was at the Water Front Park in Columbia, SC. I can't wait to shoot Kristen's Bridal Portraits and there wedding later this year!

Jenna & Ray's Wedding - Corley Mill House, Lexington SC

Matt Brodie — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:32:05 +0000

Jenna and Ray were married at the Corley Mill House in Lexington, SC. It was a beautiful wedding and I had a great time being able to photograph it for them. We were a little concerned over the high chance of rain, but the weather held out and it turned out to be a beautiful day for their wedding. Here are a few images I quickly pulled to show everyone.

Jenna was really a beautiful bride.

Jenna and her father walking down the isle.

The new couple.

Dana and Andrew's Wedding - Columbia, SC

Matt Brodie — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:11:09 +0000

Dana and Andrew got married at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Columbia, SC. I've known Dana and her family for a while and it was lot of fun to be apart of her wedding. Dana has a really cute little girl that I just couldn't help but take lots of pictures of. The wedding was fairly small and intimate with mostly just family, but it was still very beautiful and a lot of fun to shoot. Here are a few of my favorite wedding photographs from their wedding.

I told you the daughter was really cute!
She had a beautiful dress that reminded me a lot of a Roman or Greek Goddess.

Andrew is a really nice guy. He is in the Air Force and probably getting shipped over to the Middle East before the end of the year.

Flower Girls are just so darn CUTE!

Andrew and his best man.

The beautiful bride! Dana really did look great didn't she!

Dana and her Daughter.

The Flower girl in action. I used some selective coloring here to bring out the flower pedals.

I do, you do. Awesome!

I really loved this shot of their rings.

Rebekah & Joel's Wedding - Lake Lure, NC

Matt Brodie — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:30:49 +0000

This weekend I had the awesome pleasure of doing the wedding photography for an amazing couple. Rebekah and Joel are really just an unbelievably nice and beautiful couple. Their wedding was at Lake Lure Inn and Spa in North Carolina. It was a perfect day filled with fun, laughter, love and a lot of pictures. I had a great time spending the day with Rebekah, Joel and their families.

Rebekah is probably one of the most beautiful brides I’ve had the honor of photographing. She has such a classic beauty and look to her that at times I kept getting reminded of fairy tale princess or a classic beauty from the 1920s (Hints the soft sepia tones you'll see later). Take that and add in a beautiful day, a lake, mountains and a horse drawn carriage and you really do have a fairy tale wedding.

The hardest part of the whole wedding was getting back to my office and going through the pictures and finding “just a few” to post here as a teaser. To be honest I could have posted at least 100 that I think are just amazing. However, here are a few of my absolute favorite pictures from the day. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them!

See I told you she looked like a classic beauty!

She has a pretty big family so all the Bridesmaids where also sisters.

Fairy Tale wedding, complete with horses!

South Africa

Matt Brodie — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:54:24 +0000

Well I'm sure it's no surprise, but while I was in South Africa I took a ton of amazing pictures. I realize that I'm blogging my adventure in a random order, but hey, it's my blog and I can do what I want. The order should be Zimbabwe, Africa Wedding, South Africa, but to be honest I haven't gotten through all the pictures from Zimbabwe yet, because I was so focused on these pictures from Simon's town (Capetown) South Africa.

The images below were all taken at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town, which is just outside of Cape Town South Africa. We stayed there for 3 days and had a great time. There is a colony of Penguins that lives on the beach and between them, the rocks, mountains, and sunset, it was next to impossible to take a bad picture.

African Wedding

Matt Brodie — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:51:04 +0000

I just returned home from two weeks in Africa. I went as part of a mission team to Zimbabwe. I'll post more on that soon, but while I was there, I had the chance to attend a wedding and take some pictures. The wedding was in Mutare, Zimbabwe in a little Methodist Church.

The Church had no lights, electricity, or air flow. It was designed to hold about 100 people, but almost 400 crammed in for this little wedding.

The couple was a really cute older couple that desided to get married after having lived together for a long long time. I think everyone in the community attended the wedding, because in a small rural town like this, there isn't much else to do. The wedding itself lasted almost 4 hours.

The church couldn't hold everyone. In fact at least another 100 people were outside the church. Many were very courious and watched through the open windows.

The reception was held down the road under an open tent in a field.

The main meal was sadza, which a corn based meal kind of like our grits only thicker

All in all it was a beautiful day (even if it was crazy hot). The couple even got blessed with a rainbow at the end of the day.