View fullsize This could be you! Dear future intern, Please let me know if you would be interested in joining my team. The position would require about 8 hours a week, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.  You don’t need to have photography experience, but a desire to be around photography (and a […]

Most people work during the week… so when it comes to getting married they usually (about 95% of the time) do it on the weekend. As a full time wedding photographer, Monday is the closest thing to a weekend that I get. I usually spent my Monday physically recovering from the weekend, catching up on […]

John and Shannon are getting married today. Luckily, they are no strangers to the fog and finicky weather that comes with living in Florida. On the day we met to do their engagement session the fog was so thick we couldn’t see more than 20 or 30 feet… but sure enough, the weather cleared and […]

Every now and then someone will ask “how did you do that?”. Usually, that answer starts with “WHY did I do that”. More and more I do not get to pick my locations, subjects, wardrobe or the time of day that I am working. I am presented with this canvas, half filled in with other […]

A year ago one of my best friends and designated travel buddy Joe Moxie flew into Jacksonville from Nebraska to surprise one of our friends for his birthday… at the party, I notice him chatting up another one of my best friends and my copywriter – Jess. A few months later Jess was packing up […]

Paul and Mandee are yogis by profession and also by practice. They have perfected the art of living in the moment and enjoying what life brings them… so when they moved out to Texas last year to help run a yoga studio I was pretty bummed. That is, until they promised to come back in […]

A cool trend on twitter is the concept called #FF (known as Follow Friday). Every Friday you spread some love to your co-workers, friends or organizations that you might not have heard of… today, I would like to share one with you. I will never forget the morning that I met Victoria Hardina on Vilano beach. […]

Here are a few of my favorite images. I was blessed to witness and be a part of so much love this year… 

I have been blessed with a ton of work this Holiday season so the blog has fallen a wee bit behind… until I can get caught up, enjoy my holiday card from last year.   View fullsize The 2012 Futrell Holiday card. 

Yesterday I had the great pleasure and honor to be invited on the local Morning Show over at WJXT to share some tips for making creative family portraits. The hosts of the Morning Show, Nikki Preede Kimbleton and Tarik Minor, are amazing; I had no idea the complicated job television anchors have!  On air with Nikki and […]