My name is Melissa Squires and a girl in love photography is my passion. There is to much of me to not have a space to share, my life and my photos. I've had a blog longer then I care to remember. a girl in love was my first blog name and I decided to call it "a girl in love" because that was what I was, a girl in love with my husband and with life I think in all it's infinite being. I'm still a girl in love with the same man, with life and all it's infinite being. Photography is how I express myself, how I see, how I celebrate who we are today.
My son is my breath and my husband is my life. I will be quite satisfied when I am 80 if I have loved them well and taken some amazing photographs along the way.
I have a select few late Summer and Fall dates avaliable, if you are planning an intimate affair, throwing a unique DIY or rock and roll wedding, if you are covered in tattoos and going traditional or if you throwing traditional to the wind for something vintage, different and amazing please email me we can talk about special rates.
Booking now for 2010
Portrait sessions are limited and booking up to two - three months in advance thank you for contacting and booking a head of time to guarentee your session
There is a contact form here just a few links over, there is my portfolio site with more images more information and another contact form. You can comment on any of the photos here (it makes me feel really good when people do) you can email me at melissa{at}agirlinlove.com. You can call me 517-902-3905.
So beautiful. Penny, her dress, the day, their love and passion for life and Penny and Matt’s lovely wedding. An intimate ceremony and then a gorgeous dinner reception held at the Gandi Dancer with close friends and family. Penny’s dress was Spanish and they went to Spain for their honeymoon. Thank you for letting us be there to celebrate you.
It’s the busiest time of the year and this year is twice as busy as last year, and next year is looking to be twice as busy as this year and I’m sorting and processing and yes even getting to shoot in between but oh there is a lot of stuff going on and then I open a folder from Penny and Matt’s wedding and everything stops and there is Sean and I and we were waiting for everyone to arrive and here we are and well, you know, everything I do I do because for me, cliche and simple though it may be I love it.
The photo was taken on fathers day.. I decided that I’d stay mostly off line this weekend and celebrate with the men in my life. Taken on fathers day is what counts.
It seems an embarrassment of riches really.
It was an honor and a pleasure to photograph the wedding of Faiza and Kash. Faiza even with a broken foot was amazing and the kindest person. Kash is wonderful and so many friends and the most lovely family. Thank you both for letting us help to celebrate your union.
We got to see Danielle and Pat as well! They are amazing people and it made me very happy to see them so happy and well.
All the photos up there are taken and processed on my iphone… I’ve been attempting an iphone photo of the day for a few months and only recently started getting into the groove of it. The biggest thing that was holding me back has been I’m scared to take a bad photo… seriously, I don’t pull out my iphone to snap something because um yea I think it might not be good, I might make a “mistake”, I may not be snapping something that could grace the walls of MoMa… um, what an ego huh? I’m slowly snapping out of it, taking more and more and I may get a mini blog that features them.. I’d LOVE to do a photo a day project with my “real” camera but right now there isn’t time and so I’m using the iphone frame a day to work on getting over being scared of well, trying new stuff.. It’s working :)
The photo in the lower left corner of my sister with flower eyes is something I saw my friend Hailey do.. I’ve been dying to try it, she brings a whimsy to her work that always makes me smile and makes my heart skip. I’m letting my inspiration take me a bit and it’s a good thing, we all feed each other and that is just as it should be.
I used to be scared to take pictures of the clouds, I wanted to but I thought they were too ordinary, I got over it by taking cloud photos, a lot of them, one day I just shot and shot and shot the sky. Whenever I feel like I shouldn’t or couldn’t do something, I try to make myself jump off the ledge a bit… taking photos of clouds is silly to be scared of but our fears aren’t rational..
What have you have always wanted to try, taking pictures of flowers, taking photos that are “dark” not “happy”, taking nudes. Do it, start in your back yard, let your imagination go wild, take a photo of your naked foot :) it’s a start.
I got to visit Neverland yesterday, the lost boys didn’t quite trust me but I assured them that while I looked like an adult, I was very much dedicated to having thrilling adventures, winning bloody battles and never ever truely growing up.
I was allowed to take a few frames of the bravest and sweetest of the bunch, but was told I could only stay for a short while as I was much to tall to be a proper child and I was a girl to boot.
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