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Outdoor Portrait Season is Here

Portrait session locations are chosen and scheduled based on the clients wishes, of course, except for those occasions when we’re asked to make suggestions or create specific looks. With the temps rising a bit, and the rain making everything so lush and gorgeous, we’re getting calls from families with reunions planned, newly engaged couples, parents with new babies and even best friends who meet annually to celebrate their friendship.

There are so many perfect spots in North and South Carolina from which to choose that we are excited for this season of outdoor portraits on location and with people – AND PETS – you love.

Arnold family maternity photos

Our Son’s Orchard Portraits

Maddie Roberts Senior Portrait Photos

Outdoor Wedding Crowd

Hon family outdoor portraits in Dobson NC

Tibbett Engagement Photo

Outdoor photos in Chapel Hill

It’s amazing what a place you love – like your alma mater, your favorite park, a tourist area downtown or in the woods – adds to photos that will someday be more than memories: they will be cherished markers of history.


We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddingsbrides, and special events and portraits  of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.

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Our Merlefest 2018 – Part 2

So much of being event photographers and particularly musical event photographers means being flexible, running around like a crazy person, knowing when stop, drop and roll and when to snap…. not like a maniac, but when to snap a moment. Sometimes it’s random and lucky, sometimes it’s absolute precision and experience and sometimes it’s a function of the reverie of music, memory and fun.

Ryan and I happen to be big time music fans which comes in handy when asked to return as Official photographers for Merlefest and asked to spend a long weekend capturing singer-songwriters, trios or bands we love. We can find the right moment to capture their instruments, collaboration or groove. We’re aware of our jobs, but transported by the music too, you know? As a job, it doesn’t suck. We love the lighting, the venues, the crowds and all the angles that allow us to bring these portraits to you.

Here are more of our favorites from 2018 Merlefest. See 2018 Merlefest Part 1 here.

We Banjo 3

We Banjo 3

Mandolin Orange

Town Mountain

Robert Earl Keen

The Mavericks

The Barefoot Movement

Jamey Johnson

Cliff Ritchey

This year’s Merlefest was not only a blast of great tunes, it allowed us to watch some favorites, see some new faces and capture dynamic moments and crowd-pleasers.

Doolin’

Misty McGuire Case’s photo of Rhianon Giddons performance on Saturday at MerleFest is featured on the Wilkes Journal Patriot.

Ryan Case’s photo of the band Doolin’ caught in mid air at MerleFest is featured on Wilkes Journal Patriot.

The Barefoot Movement on the Watson Stage


We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddingsbrides, and special events and portraits  of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.

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Our Merlefest 2018 – Part 1

You know there is a through line – a connective line that runs through your story – when you can link times of the year and events as if looking back at a journal from childhood or college or even a few years ago. Like the seasons bring the exciting and inevitable, Spring for us brings Merlefest. It is an example of that through line for us. We have been official photographers for Merlefest since 2015, making this our 4th year and since our first venture, we’ve had so much other life, including the addition of a child.

For 2018, it was a reclamation and revisiting and – poetry aside – a crap-ton of work – and this time, Finley was with us. We found ourselves again, remembering what we love as event photographers and serious music-lovers. Below is just a selection of some of our favorites!! Stand by for more in a couple of days!

We Banjo 3

Elephant Revival

Cane Mill Road

Kruger Brothers

Lindsay Lou

The Barefoot Movement

Piper Jones

Midatlantic Band

Nu-Blu

Rhiannon Giddens

Scythian

The Mavericks


We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddingsbrides, and special events and portraits  of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.

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Are You Taking Advantage of our Referral Program? YOU SHOULD!!

Dear Ones,

It’s summer – officially. Memorial Day weekend is in the rearview and you may now wear white and avoid the eye-rolling of old school Southerners who believe in such rules. It’s also time for helpful reminders: sunscreen is important; make a list before car trips (I mean it); wear a hat if you’re in the garden; clean your grill, buy new fly swatters and lanterns, etc, etc, etc. We would also like to remind you that we have a referral program at Pixels and if you aren’t taking advantage of it – do! And if you didn’t know about it, here’s the deal:

Any existing client of Pixels (you’ve hired us for a wedding or portrait session of one type or another) who refers us to someone who then books us for a wedding, will receive their own FREE portrait session PLUS $250 in print credits from us.

Any existing client of Pixels who refers us to someone who then books us for a portrait session, will receive their own FREE portrait session that year PLUS $50 in print credits from us. For every additional referral they send us, they will receive yet another $50 print credit. The more you send others who book with us, the more rewards we’re happy to lavish on you. What constitutes a portrait? Pretty much anything. Have a look!

KEY NOTES: We want our existing clients to make sure to tell the folks they are referring to us to MENTION THE REFERRING CLIENT’S NAME, so that they get the rewards they deserve. If someone books a wedding or portrait and doesn’t mention that they heard about us from you, how will we be able to shower you with some love? Speak up! We love making these connections and new relationships!

This program offer EXCLUDES limited edition and promo session referrals. Contact us if you have questions!

We love being able to give a lift to our existing clients and those they know! Keep this in mind this summer, ya’ll!

 


We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddingsbrides, and special events and portraits  of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.

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Leo Orozco newborn photos

“Babies smile in their sleep because they’re listening to the whispering of angels.” – Author unknown

This little angel is Leo Orozco and we had the pleasure of not only photographing his parents – Ashley and Oscar – for their engagement and wedding portraits – but his first portraits just about a week after he was born in April.
And yes, he is feeling his developing bicep.
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Leo loves to keep his hands near his face at all times – it’s like he knows to pose or he’s preparing for the Peek-a-Boo chapter that is on his horizon. And while he appears to be much older in these photos than he is actually, he also loves to snuggle. I thoroughly enjoyed having him in my arms, cuddling him into props or holding him to give his parents a break. He is Ashley and Oscar’s first child and they are exhausted. Just IMAGINE THAT…. hee. We could relate for sure. This dapper little charmer was so easy during the portrait session – he was a dream.
“When my baby is asleep, that’s when I think, ‘WOW, I made that!'” – Maria Jose Ovalle

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I love creating these little videos for families, because this early time in their lives really does pass so quickly. A friend of mine with older kids reminded me recently that the days may seem long but the years are short.


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his little feet ran away with it.” – Joshua RileyPixels On Paper Wilkesboro NC Photographers Orozco Family Newborn Portrait PhotoPixels On Paper Wilkesboro NC Photographers Orozco Family Newborn Portrait PhotoPixels On Paper Wilkesboro NC Photographers Orozco Family Newborn Portrait Photo

It’s going to be so much fun watching this multi-cultural little man grow up surrounded by his loving family and the strong community within their church. 

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We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddingsbrides, and special events and portraits  of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.

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All photos are ©2018 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.