Andrew Niesen

Photographers love great love stories.

Our dear friends Drew & Kathryn just got home from France and shared their beautiful engagement story with us! Drew's words are more eloquent than mine, so I'll let him tell the story:

"The first village we visited was Rousillon. Rousillon is notable for being on a hill of ochre — bright orange red, and all the buildings in the town are bright ochre color. It has to be the most colorful and cute hill town possible.

We went into town to get some lunch. We climbed to the top of the town, past the 11th century pre-Norman church and looked down onto the old town below and saw a terrace on top of a 3-story building with red canopies. Lets go there! So, we went down to the square and realized the restaurant is actually at the top of a 3 story bookstore. Yes, a bookstore.

We go upstairs and the waiter tells us they are behind in the kitchen, and are we sure we want to stay and we say YES! He proceeds to turn away clients and the other tables empty out until its just US.

The ring is in my bag and its starting to glow. Anyway, the weather turns windy and so they move us into a 2nd floor dining room inside the bookstore, which is set up with a big country table, beautiful old white candelabras and dried flowers with books all around us. The waiter even lights the candles "pour faire plus romantique." And mysteriously, they leave us all alone.

I am trying to play it cool but the anticipation is killing me inside!

They clear the plates and ask if we want tea or coffee and we say yes and I ask them to leave us for 5 min and then bring the coffee. It was perfect.

I took Kathryn's hands in mine, told her life with her has been so expansive, so joyful, that I wanted to spend my life with her and for us to be by each other's side. She said she could not imagine it any other way.

I got out the ring, put it on and frankly neither of us remember much of what happened next! But we have some awfully cute photos and the owners of the bookstore were ecstatic and gave us a cute book on Le Bonheur du Mariage and are going to put us on their website because they have never had anyone propose in their bookstore.

Drew and Kathryn are among the most creative, generous people in our lives. We are thrilled for them to start a new journey together.

We love you guys...and you have the coolest glasses on earth!

Our friend Emilie Sommer posted this hilarious video of her dog, Dakota, gnawing on a ShootQ "Sport Flyer" (can't use "Frisbee" b/c it's a registered trademark!) I think we should hire Dakota for our next promo!
CLICK HERE to see the video — but I warn you...there's lots of slurping!

The Atlanta ShootQ Party was a hit! People drove from Birmingham and North Carolina to hear about ShootQ. Thanks so much to everyone who joined the party. It was fun to meet you all!

After the ShootQ Set-Up Party tomorrow (Tuesday), the LaCour crew will be relaxing at Loca Luna. Come hang out with us at Loca Luna around 5:30pm. We'll be there for a few hours, so even if you aren't coming to the ShootQ party, stop by Loca Luna and order a margarita to celebrate summer! We'd love to see everyone!

Click HERE for directions to Loca Luna.

For those of you who haven't come across the Strobist.com blog, go check it out. It's a great resource for lighting tips and tricks. They also just put a blog post about our image that we made of a night beach ceremony which was featured on www.flashflavor.com last week.

*Click Here to check out Strobist!