Bob and Glenda were both left with broken hearts after their spouses died from long battles with cancer. Since both shared the same family physician, a "cure" was suggested by Dr. Jones, to mend their hurt and heartache. The doctor wrote Glenda's name and phone number on a prescription pad and told Bob to call her. This resulted in days of hesitation, but after much prayer, Bob decided to follow the doctor's advice and take his "medicine"--- he called Glenda.

After several weeks of phone conversations, they decided to meet for the very first time for Sunday lunch after church.  The doctor's remedy seemed to have a positive effect on both. Five months later on June 11, at the Hope Center where Glenda worked, in the lobby in front of the fireplace under the wagon wheel with a large antler chandelier overhead, on one knee Bob asked Glenda to become his wife.

Later that same evening, while celebrating their engagement by the Legacy Town Center Fountain, they came across two bored photographers, waiting for a client who had stood them up, US!  We took a second to capture their happy moment in pictures. After the unexpected and unplanned timing of a photographer just showing up, they decided the wedding would be small, simple and soon!

Five weeks later, on July 17th, with the blessing of over 200 friends and family members, they are going to celebrate the joining of their families and lives to become one. 

Congratulations guys, and what a wonderful story!  We are super excited to be there to photograph your nuptials.  See you soon!

Tyler R. Brown Photography was honored to donate our photographic services this evening for the Carrollton American Cancer Society Relay For Life.  This is typically an outdoor event, but due to the weather, we were forced indoors to the RL Turner High School gymnasium, no matter, we ran the relay and had a great time helping to raise both money and awareness for this great cause.  This cause touches close to home for both Stacia and I who have several family members who have survived, and one currently fighting this dreadful disease.  It was a touching event, and one of the hardest things we have ever photographed.  It’s hard to focus on, well, focus, and composition, lighting and all of the other things that go into a great photograph when you are fighting back the tears.  Celebrating life, and remembering those that are no longer with us was the theme, and celebrate we did, with dancing, and face painting, Guitar Hero, an auction and lots of food!  It was a wonderful experience, and we highly recommend it to anyone who’s life has been altered by cancer.

A special thank you to Team Yes We Can for making the arrangements to have us there.  We were truly honored to help out.

All of the pictures can be viewed from our website Tyler R. Brown Photography, and all proceeds from any print or product purchases will be donated to the American Cancer Society.  Thank you for your support!

We met up with Logan at The Shops at Legacy for his senior session on Tuesday.  We love on-location photography, and this is such a great location!  We didn’t have to fight any “traffic” this time either, well except for the shot with the Mustang where we had to pull it into the middle of the road, that was fun, but you have to do what you have to do when it comes to getting THE shot, right!?!?

We had a great time with Logan.  I really like the one with him texting, and of course the “James Dean” one too.

We met up with Sarah and family at The Shops at Legacy in Plano for some senior portraits.  Sarah is a beautiful Plano West High School senior and her family is about to move up to Frisco, right down the street from us in fact.  We had a great time walking around the park, and shooting up in the parking garage as the sunset. We had to maneuver around several other senior photographers and even a wedding photographer during her shoot, but it worked out nicely.  Her senior session was awesome, one of the best, we really enjoyed Sarah, her BFF and her mom was a big help too.  The images are beautiful!  Thanks guys, we had a great time.

Tim and Alyssa tied the knot at The Hall of State in Fair Park and we were honored to be there to photograph their nuptials.  It’s not the first time we’ve been to Fair Park, but it was the first wedding we have shot down there. 

Alyssa looked absolutely stunning as she walked down the aisle.  The smile on Tim’s face told that story.  As soon as Alyssa turned the corner, and saw her husband to be, it brought tears to her eyes, so cute!  It was a beautiful evening and simply a joy for a wedding photographer.  They are an amazing couple and so much fun to photograph.  The wedding was flawless and I know that’s due to the hard work and planning of their wedding coordinator, DJ, and the caters. 

Congratulations Tim and Alyssa, and we are so glad you love your pictures, you are the best!

Introducing one of the most beautiful seniors we have ever had the pleasure of meeting, Molly.  Stacia and I met with Molly and her mom in downtown McKinney and wandered the streets until the sun went down.  We had an amazing time while capturing her senior photographs and we enjoyed perfect weather in the process (no rain!).  She was an absolute dream for a senior photographer to photograph, just gorgeous! 

We met up with Cesaley just outside of McKinney at Towne Lake Park, with camera equipment in one hand, and umbrellas in the other.  Stacia kept asking to see my iPhone so she could check the weather radar and sure enough, a storm was headed straight for us!  We stayed back in the forest, to keep as much of the weather off of us as we could, but for the most part it missed us.

Cesaley was great fun and a riot to shoot!  The images turned out awesome!  Have fun at college next year, C!

Stacia and I met up with Martha and Josh this weekend to take a few engagement photographs. We started out at the dog park on White Rock Lake of all places.  My bad, I just saw a parking lot from space on Google Maps and thought, that’ll work!  I had no idea how much barking and yipping there would be.   Turns out it’s an excellent place to shoot, and you can borrow cute dogs too, if you are so inclined.

Fun was had by all, and we were really lucky with the weather being perfect, and what a gorgeous sunset!  We tootled around the lake a bit and found a great little dock to watch the sun hide behind the earth yet another time… was, well… perfect!

Can’t wait for the wedding guys, it’s going to be fun!

Hannah will be graduating from Temple Christian Academy in may 2010, and is about to leave on her mission trip to Africa.  She had just received all of the shots necessary to prepare her for the trip when we met up with her, but you can’t tell that from her perfect smile!  We took half of the shots in the park near The Shops at Legacy in Plano, TX and the other half in old downtown Lewisville, Texas.  My favorite spot that day was a little garage parking lot with a bunch of tires, rusty wheels and car parts laying around.  We had a great time, and except for the wind, it was a perfect day for shooting!

Thanks Hannah for being one of the best seniors we have ever photographed, you were a ton of fun to hang out with!  Good luck on your mission trip, be sure to take lots of pictures!

We met up with Jake (1) and family at The Frisco Commons Park to shoot a few senior portraits.  Jake kicked the family to the curb (nicely) while we took off shooting.  What a great guy, one of the best we have ever photographed.  He could hold that smile grin for days, I swear.  Quite impressive, I must say.  It was great fun had by all.  Jake has much in common with another Dallas football player we all know (and love), Jason Witten (82), being a tight end, and a good one, check out this reception and the yards after catch too!!! WOW!

Congratulations Jake!

Some of our closest friends invited us to The North Texas Irish Festival this past weekend. We had never been before, so we thought we’d grab the new camera and see if we could make an evening out of it.  We drove down from Frisco, and met up with them half way then had a great time and captured some very interesting images.   It was a nice change from the typical wedding or senior photography shoot.  You don’t usually get to have quite as many pints of Guinness or bowls of Irish stew when shooting a wedding, although we rarely turn down an on-the-job pint.  :)

Well, before I get into too much trouble here, let’s take a look at the photos.  This is one of the big Fair Park fountains, a really cute kid with a green mohawk and one of the musicians (Lucy McNeil) playing her bodhrán, very cool!

We wandered around shooting people’s dogs (admittance fee per dog, $1) they came in all shapes and sizes and the various vendors selling everything from t-shirts to broadswords.  Looks like we might have a bright future in pet photography!

Mmmm patty melts and curly fries, is that Irish? Check out the ladies of Fair Park!

Then, as the night wore on, we found ourselves following the sound of some really good tunes.  It was Great Big Sea and they were so good.  We loved the traditional Irish songs, and the audience assisted rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, just awesome. I have a fantastic video of the whole thing, taken on our new Canon EOS-1D Mark IV but Stacia refuses to let me put it on the Internet. boooo.  Lean on her everyone, maybe we can get it out there!  She says if we get 100 comments on this post, she’ll let me put it out there.  Come one everyone, it’s hilarious, so comment!!!!

Check out the band’s bio, they are a very interesting group.

The night was great fun, and we made some new friends, just an awesome time had by all.  I can’t wait to get out there and do it again on St. Patrick’s day!  The whole thing makes me want to go back to Ireland for another long visit, someday, someday soon.

The Covenant Church of McKinney had a Valentine’s Dance and Banquet just before the big day, and they invited us to come along and capture the event.  I had to fly solo on this one since Stacia had just been discharged from the hospital.  It was really a great time had by all.  They had a comedian, played a hilarious game of “which is my wife” where all you had to go on was the touch of their hands.  The dude in the line up was not once mistaken for someone’s wife, to everyone’s relief I think.  They danced and stayed right through till the end, and I stayed with them shooting the fun.  When the DJ spun M.J.’s Thriller the dance floor came alive (and stayed that way all night).

It was great fun.  I wish I had received the our new Canon EOS-1D Mark IV before this gig, but alas it was still on backorder.  We have it now, and I’m loving it.  More on that in a later post.  Maybe even a review, we’ll see.

Anyhow, big thanks to the crew that put this excellent event on.  It was a ton of fun.  I put together a website for the guests to view their photographs.  You can check out the fun here on The Covenant Church Valentine's Day Dance website.

More photographs like these can be found in the Dallas Wedding Photographer galleries.