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thanks so much for stopping by and glancing into our world as creatives, newlyweds and totally normal people. we're matt & kate altmix- a husband/wife wedding photography team based in the atl and we're doing what we love- shaking things up and cleverly capturing killer images!

please take a second to check out our work, read a few posts and leave some comments- we'd love to hear what you think! you'll quickly see how intertwined our lives are with our work so it is important you know how 'unique' we are upfront. that was your warning. enjoy!

    

toni & matt are married!

March 15, 2010 – 7:30 am

when matt & i decided- around this time last year- that we were going to take february 2010 totally off, we knew that it would be an awesome time to recharge and revamp our outlook on our work. we spent the month reevaluating our equipment, goals and workflow, but also, we found ourselves getting antsy. it was an exciting thing to realize that we were looking forward to charging back into our work- exciting and comforting!

so last saturday we dove back in with toni & matt’s beautiful wedding! really, they had no idea that they were going to get the brunt of our new ideas but when we showed up to start shooting it was clear that they trusted our style, thank goodness! when toni arrived at the stunning peachtree christian church she could not quit smiling- her face was full of joy and her laughter came easy. her bridesmaids were relaxed, encouraging and so excited by every detail of the day- really the perfect group of ladies to be surrounded by on her wedding day. every set of bridesmaids should be as in touch and sweet- i couldn’t help but smile while capturing it all! and to be completely honest, matt just looked over at me like i was crazy (debatable, it’s true), and i realized i have a huge grin stretched across my face- as i am writing this post! it was a good day.

just a few quick shots at the church & king plow before the reception:

we walked into the reception and were immediately greeted by steve bales and the bold american crew’s brilliance. sprays of yellow and warm light contrasted with modern black and white details, giving the reception a feeling of warm sunny joy that matched toni’s smile. the tip top’s were rocking out in the background and the air seemed alive with laughter and the delightful smells of their famous catering- just to give you an idea:

the reception flowed as easily as the rest of the day thanks to the detailed coordination of ashley baber whose calm, positive demeanor seemed effortless- the mark of a true professional. just after the late night snack of tater tots and grilled cheese disappeared it was time to depart, which toni & matt did in style!

***please click here to see toni & matt’s slideshow***

toni & matt, thank you so so much for including us in your wedding day! everything was beautiful, yes, but watching you two interact was the biggest joy to capture. i hope you are enjoying your rest in maldives; we wish you the very best!

By katealtmix | Posted in the wedding! | Tagged , , , , | 7 comments         ***Add a Comment***
  1. AmyPunky Photography   -  

    Beautiful wedding!! All this yellow is fabulous!!!

  2. Kathy   -  

    What a beautiful wedding! The yellow calla lilies are AMAZING, as are all your pics!

  3. Becca   -  

    Of course they trust your style – because it’s amazing :-) love these!

  4. Sarah Esther   -  

    beautiful!! i love the king plow arts center!!!

  5. Evie Perez   -  

    How fun, you and Matt definitely captured fantastic memories. Loves it!!!

  6. kyle   -  

    And it was alllllll yellow.

  7. Steve Bales   -  

    Thank you for the shout out! Your photographs are fabulous, and they totally capture our flowers and design so wonderfully. Like you, we loved being a part of Toni and Matt’s wedding…Toni is all joy and fun!
    -Steve

my girls…

March 9, 2010 – 10:38 am

… they are the best. and kate specifically is an amazing wife! we took some family time yesterday to relax in the park since it was so nice- we definitely don’t do that enough.

and now back to work!

By mattaltmix | Posted in matt&kate | Tagged , , , | 6 comments         ***Add a Comment***
  1. Brittany   -  

    These pictures are so so so sweet! :) I love to see your personal uploads too – Stella is so beautiful!!

  2. Kathy   -  

    Love this post and pics…and all three of you!

  3. lucy   -  

    beautiful as per usual. i love the crossed paws. georgia crosses her paws like a lady, too!!

  4. Christian   -  

    how sweet. precious girls!

  5. Sarah Esther   -  

    Stella is so gorgeous! I sat at the park for a good couple of hours, too. time WELL spent!

  6. Chris G.   -  

    Stella is officially taller than Kate. Nice pics, Matt–glad ya’ll got out to enjoy the warm day. -cg

housekeeping

February 26, 2010 – 8:20 am

i LOVE a good before/after comparison- haircuts, furniture or a nose job- it’s just interesting! so i have totally let myself down in forgetting to take before shots for almost every single house project we’ve attempted. we’re usually about half way in when i pull out the phone to snap a few in progress shots- but thankfully we’ve at least done that a few times and i’m excited to have some documentation to share!

ok, let’s break from the house thing to talk about something- i know the issue is pretty split, and i don’t want to offend anyone, but really- i do subscribe to the theory that the best camera is the one that’s with you- so for us, that makes our best camera an iphone. we have it everywhere we go and we capture life and create art with it all the time. we play with our images with a few different apps and then we usually twitter to share them with all of you! we do love our schfancy dslrs but most of our day to day images happen with the phone and we are totally happy with that! we get asked a lot- do you make a picture every day? do you practice shooting? and i guess the best answer is yes- we practice, yes, we shoot daily- just with a phone! to quote the pioneer of it all, chase jarvis, ‘inherently, we all know that an image isn’t measured by its resolution, dynamic range, or anything technical about cameras or photos. An image is measured by the simple—sometimes profound, other times absurd or humorous or whimsical—effect that it can have upon us.’ thanks, chase, for justifying the iphone pics i’m about to put up. i agree with you and support your vision. ;)

when we moved into our house in july we found it completely empty and rather clean. we cheerfully began to move our furniture in and finally, to move the few little hand tools we had into our basement. we pushed the door open into the musty basement, flipped on the single bare bulb (much like a cartoon basement would have) and let our eyes adjust. seems when they moved out they didn’t bother to empty out the basement! it was among the old paint cans and broken windows that we found two pieces of ugly furniture covered in dirt, spiderwebs & something that looked like rat poo. i googled it. anyway, we just turned around and walked out- leaving our tools right by the door- the basement a project for another day. well, the day for basement renovation has not yet come but we did jump back in there a few weeks ago to pull out that old ugly furniture! we blasted it with a hose and stripped years of lacquer off to make it our own. free decor? i like it! now to figure out what to put in the empty spaces we created when we added the new bottoms!

and i leave you with a stressful image of our most recent project- the back yard- it has only begun!

and since that wasn’t such a happy ending- i will add this picture of our stella:

By katealtmix | Posted in matt&kate | Tagged , , , , | 19 comments         ***Add a Comment***
  1. Chris G.   -  

    Great pics, Kate! I’m muy impressed with the result on those furniture makeovers–they look great. Stella is looking very regal and beautiful as well. Hope ya’ll are well. -Chris

  2. mattaltmix   -  

    kate is pretty much awesome at 2 things:
    - furniture restoration
    - aaaand life.

  3. Candice {The Beautiful Mess}   -  

    the picture of stella looks like it belongs in a Martha Stewart Magazine.

    LOVE IT!

  4. Melanie   -  

    Oh my gosh, Stella is HUGE now! Yes, I just realized it. We need to have another puppy play date soon! & great job on the furniture…we are going through some pretty similar stuff and I know how time consuming it can be :)

  5. Heather Vreeland - Atlanta Occasions   -  

    Okay, that’s it. I MUST have you shoot my dogs. Stella is so cute and you always capture here in the best way!! Oh.. and great job on the furniture too! ;-)

  6. Becca   -  

    oh my word when did Stella get so giant?!! wow! :-) your house is soo cute!

  7. Erin Hill   -  

    LOVE this update and sad I’m not there to see it in person! Great job with the furniture and I love the new chair with the yellow pillow and green rug – looks awesome! Can you come decorate my apartment? And, Stella, wow! Wonder what Toby would think of her now?!

  8. Rebekah   -  

    It turned out great!

  9. amy cathy   -  

    #1 if you like before and after’s (especially with furniture) you should check this out: http://www.designspongeonline.com/category/before-and-after

    #2 we’re practically neighbors, we should hang out some time…i promise we’re not as cool as sean and erin, but we’re alright.

    #3 our dogs need to meet. i think it will be hilarious to see stella play with two weenie dogs!

  10. lauren c. - openField.   -  

    she’s SO cute! love the tables too : )

  11. lauren dunaway   -  

    love the before and after! nothing a little paint can’t fix. i love how you took out the class and made the tables functional in a modern way. and OF COURSE i love the picture of stella, can’t believe how grown up she is :)

  12. Karin   -  

    Wow that puppy has grown- gorgeous! And love the furniture. We’re on the hunt for some good yard sale pieces to redo as well. Fun stuff!

  13. Alyssa   -  

    I love the furniture and Stella is so cute :) She is bigger than both of you!

  14. Kyle   -  

    I think Stella is the best decoration your living room could have!

  15. angelyn vaughan   -  

    Which apps do you use to doctor your iphone photos? Mine are always dark and dreadful!

  16. mattaltmix   -  

    *angelyn- kate linked to them above in “few different apps”… we’ve also been meaning to check out ‘hipstamatic’ : http://hipstamaticapp.com/ . any other suggestions out there

  17. Katie   -  

    LOVE IT. Obsessed. Can’t wait to see the whole thing. And GOOD GOSH, where is the pitiful little puppy that crawled into my lap and snuggled up to me!? She could eat me.

  18. daniel   -  

    awesome pictures of your house! i wanna come down soon and see it for myself. and see my big neice!

  19. lucy   -  

    great danes take the best pics. love stella in this one. xoxo

alyssa & charles are engaged!

February 17, 2010 – 1:26 pm

matt & i are often contacted by couples who’d just like a day shoot and sadly, we are rarely able to find the time between weddings and engagement sessions to make it happen. it’s always hard to turn anyone down but when they respond asking if we’ll have any time over the next TEN months- we always mention february! there are a hardcore few who are totally cool with that and alyssa & charles are at the top of the list!

so two weeks ago, matt & i found ourselves grabbing some coffee (for hand-warming and drinking purposes) and scouting around downtown greenville for some locations to shoot alyssa & charles- they’d given us a few adjectives to define their shoot but in the end they left it up to us. we started at a location suggested by a friend and from there ended up just prowling around behind buildings and picking our way through empty lots. it’s really amazing to work with other artists- both alyssa & charles are artists, themselves- because we all come into a shoot ready to make art. they trusted our direction and sweetly and consistently ROCKED every location! it’s always a little intimidating to create images for creative people but also so rewarding! without further ado:

who’d have thought we’d find some green in the middle of february!? yeay! and even more exciting? alyssa & charles were happy as clams to climb up the hill and make this shot happen. i tried to climb up to get some closer shots and it, well, didn’t go so well. three cheers for clients with good balance, haha!

guys- the SUN was out!

we had a blast shooting with the fabulous light and capturing the dark clouds that threatened us. then as the sun sank lower the golden light was even more of a beautiful contrast with the clouds- even though we were technically done with their shoot and had plenty of images to deliver, there was no way we were going to miss these last shots!

my fave:

***please click here to see alyssa & charles’s slideshow***

alyssa & charles, you guys are awesome for braving the february chill to make some pretty pictures with us! thank you so much for trusting us to capture these- we wish you guys the best!

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  1. Evie Perez   -  

    These are so impeccable. It’s was so nice to meet you!!!! I am so happy that you two have found your passion.

  2. Charles   -  

    Hey Guys! These pictures are terrific! It was so nice to finally meet and work with you guys!

  3. Becca   -  

    Ok could these be any prettier? I LOVE them all – I cannot get over how fabulously talented y’all are . . .

  4. mattaltmix   -  

    oh girl, HOLD ON, is that the sunlight that i see?! looove that beautiful golden light.

amy & eric are engaged!

February 11, 2010 – 10:31 pm

when we drove into athens for amy & eric’s engagement pics we were already smiling. it wasn’t raining (!!), we were in one of our favorite cities on the planet and just as we were talking about these things amy skipped to the edge of the sidewalk waving our direction- sealing the deal on this being the perfect shoot! we parked quickly and met the happy couple in front of an old athens staple, the grit. amy & eric are both into photography themselves so they were ready for anything and (despite what they said!) they were comfortable in front of the camera, totally awesome! the shoot flowed naturally- i WISH it had worked out for us to shoot their wedding too! i love these first few images we made while they still had on their hoodies, so perfectly cuddly on this chilly winter day:

we made our way deeper into downtown and were happy to find we were a little early for the evening rush- plenty of empty corners and walls to explore! the sun peeked out for what may have been a full 60 seconds but we took full advantage of the warm light while we had it- i am pretty in love with the sun-kissed look of these next few!

we finished up at an old warehouse we’d always wondered about but never really checked out. it was the perfect location for some more dramatic shots and i was happy to end the shoot with such a well-rounded set of images. it’s so inspiring to have clients who trust what we’re seeing in a shot and work it! makes us feel like we can try anything! so stepping off my soapbox now- the warehouse:

***please click here to see amy & eric’s slideshow***

amy & eric, thank you guys SO MUCH for being up for a february shoot (on your birthday no less- awesome!) and making the cold look so so good! we wish you guys the best wedding ever- no doubt it will be an awesome celebration!

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  1. Becca   -  

    Gorgeous as usual! :-) LOVE them all!

  2. Kyle   -  

    First thing I noticed was their hoodies, SO fun to rock in a photo shoot and different from the trying too hard sort of look that I see in some photo shoots. My fave is the second to last one, it’s really cool and I like that you guys rocked the grain!

  3. beth   -  

    i love these pics! especially the black and white close-ups! great job guys! :)

  4. Lena   -  

    gosh, just going through your blog and dreaming that you guys had been at my wedding. Love all of the pictures! hope all is well.

  5. mattaltmix   -  

    thanks guys!… *lena- we can totally do it all over again, so this august, wanna get married?

    amy & eric are pretty much the raddest couple ever, you can quote me.