Lunch with Friends

Stephanie and I had to go to Atlanta to run an errand for the studio, so I called my friends up from LaCour, an awesome photography studio based in Atlanta, and we all got together for lunch while we were there.

LaCour is made up of some of the finest photographers I know. In fact, they were voted one of the top ten wedding photography studios in the world this year. I've known Andrew Neisen and his wife Rachel for years and I've even shot a wedding with them. Mark Adams is one of the finest photojournalists I know, and Rachel's brother Jonathan is the "Code Poet" behind some awesome software they wrote called ShootQ. We all met at the Flying Biscuit Cafe and hung out together.

We passed photos around, talked about weddings and challenges in photography, but the best part for me was when we weren't talking shop. Mark has been getting up at 5:00am and working out like crazy lately. He showed me his sweet custom motorcycle built after his grandfather's WWII bomber. In fact, Mark still has his grandfather's leather flight jacket. How awesome is that? Rachel was cracking me up constantly as Andrew and Stephanie bantered about how many television sets each had, or didn't have. I joked with Jonathan about how coders always call software bugs features. "It's not a bug - it's a feature!"

We talked about all kinds of crazy stuff. It was really good to just hang out with some good friends.

We've been getting a lot of things done at the studio lately, but it was good to have the chance to have lunch with friends. There's an old Nigerian Proverb that says, "Hold a true friend with both your hands." I couldn't agree more.