Anecdotally Yours Blog

It’s official! Today is the day we’re announcing our new-and-improved mission statement, brand name, website, and blog. For quite some time, it seemed as though this day would never actually arrive. We worked for months and months dreaming about what we wanted our combined business to be about (for those of you who are new to us, we’re a husband-and-wife pair who have been operating two separate businesses for photography and cinematography). We wanted it to express everything that we love most about our jobs, and the one thing that we always want to direct how we shoot photos or films: a commitment to telling stories.

We wrote a “brand story” at the beginning stages of the process, with the help of the talented team at Brought To You By, who walked us through the entire process to help us create something that was intentional and meaningful. The story we wrote about our brand affected everything else during the brainstorming and designing process — the name of our business, the logo and colors, and the look and feel of our website presence. It also unexpectedly dictated how we transformed a former coffee shop into our new studio space, located just around the corner from our house (we’ll share more about that soon). It’s a story about what we do, what we love, and where we’re going.

We created a little video to share a little more about why our names have changed into one shared business, and why we’re excited about it. As you’ll see, we’re not really great at being in front of the camera. Ha ha!

Okay, okay… let’s be honest… we are WAY more dorky in front of the camera than that video made it seem. To keep it real and keep our own story authentic, we created a fun little blooper reel from just a few of the outtakes of us trying to shoot a video of ourselves. This is the video you really want to see.

Thank you for visiting our new website and blog. We hope you’ll stick around for all sorts of fun things, shared stories, compelling short films and beautiful photos of real people. Save our URL to your Google Reader or RSS feed! We can’t wait to share all of this with you!