the five mile grace – a matthew miller photography joint

ok so maybe its not a fetish, but she has a tradition that in every vacation photo she does a jump shot next to all of the popular landmarks. and since then she has incorporated the jump style into almost every photo she takes. so i figured, why not pull that card with some family portraits by the Chattahoochee river. anyhow, Julia is the younger sister of my friend Ken of whom i started my first hardcore band with. she is also married to the uber talented painter JEFF GUY. at 30 she has got her shit together, has a rad family, is an amazing teacher, and still looks like shes 17. also let it be known that she almost accidentally drop kicked her mother off a muddy shore into the river during this photo shoot. her mom got back by making her stand in a bush full of stinging nettle!

tony & jill & i have been homies since high school. i could write for hours about all the crazy stuff we have done in the years that we have known each other. ill save you the details but just know that we have been through a lot and remain super close until this day. i was honored when tony asked me to be one of his groomsmen for his wedding to jill over 5 years ago. and now for the birth of their first child, i was so taken back when jill & tony asked me to be the one to capture this time for them in photos. it gets emotional when you think that when their kid is 20 something and his parents break out the shoebox (iphoto?) of old pictures of when “mom and dad were cool” and they come across these images that i took for them, he will smile and think that, man, these ARE some cool people… and wow, thats me inside there… i can only hope that they look back on these and think that they made the right choice in having me be responsible for those memories…. ok enough of that. heres the photos. enjoy!

so last night we realized that we had never taken photos for the upcoming only you you tattoo website that will be right HERE. so we headed out across the street from the shop and had some fun as the sun was setting. soon after we took the party inside the shop and busted out the grey seamless backdrop and got wacky. the website should be live soon so check it out and look for some more images from this shoot!