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DESTINATION WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER | MICHIGAN WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER bio picture

harrison studio | the blog.

We are Ben and Laura Harrison, a husband/wife team of professional photographers. Our specialties include Wedding Photography, Destination Wedding Photography, Senior, Baby, and Child Portrait Photography ... and our creative, unique approach has made our studio one of the most sought after in the Midwest. We have truly been blessed by the Lord to do what we love and find joy in our work, day in and day out. We absolutely love working together and believe that our strong teamwork and creativity benefits our clients greatly.

This blog serves as our journal of our professional work as well as our personal goings-on ... so feel free poke around and get to know us better!

We will be updating this blog frequently so check back often ... and don't forget to leave comments ... we love comments:)

Oh, and one more thing ... did we mention that we love comments!

harrison studio photo blog.

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Thank you :)

Just wanted to write and say a quick thank you to everyone who stopped by the H2O CREATIVE booth at WPPI last week!  It was so great meeting so many awesome photographers! Also, a special thank goes out to the photographers that took time out of their crazy schedules to come hang with us at the booth … so thank you to each of these folks …

michael norwood photography

sloan photographers

gabriel ryan photographers

open field photography

the image is found

amelia lyon photography

mark brooke photographers

andrew bryant photography

studio 6-23

We really appreciate it so thank you guys!  We have so many exciting things in the works for H2O CREATIVE and we can’t wait to share everything with you so stay tuned!

Here’s a quick shot of the Las Vegas strip … we had the wonderful opportunity to hang out in the JuneBug Weddings suite at the MGM one evening and this shot was taken on our I Phone … don’t hate!

HEADED TO WPPI – OUT OF THE OFFICE

Just wanted to let you all know that we will be out of the office starting Thursday, March 4th and will return Monday, March 15th. So please be patient during this time as we will have limited email & phone access.

We are excited to be attending the  WPPI Conference in Las Vegas! Last year was a blast and we expect this year to be even better!

If you are a photographer attending the conference be sure to stop by the H2O | CREATIVE booth … number 1101 :) We’ll be offering some great trade show discounts for both our InDesign Album Templates as well as our SEO tutorials! WooHoo!!!

We will have some AWESOME photographers hanging at our booth so stop by and say hello!!  Here’s the line-up:

MON
12-1 – michael norwood of michael norwood photography
1-2 – matt and angie sloan of  sloan photographers
2:30-3:30  – gabriel ryan of gabriel ryan photographers

TUES
11-12 – lauren and robbie of open field photography
12-1 – nate and jaclyn kaiser of the image is found
1-2 – justin and amelia lyon of amelia lyon photography and justin is one of the co-producers of the AMAZING yo gabba gabba
2-3 – mark and candice brooke of
mark brooke photographers
3-4 – andrew bryant of
andrew bryant photography

WED
12-2 – ben and mindy of studio 6-23

Also … we will be part of a presentation for the Thirst Relief & Grace Ormonde Tanzania Benefit shoot with Mike Colon!!!  It will be on Tuesday, March 9 at 9:00 p.m.  … PLEASE COME SUPPORT IT!!

Here’s a little video trailer for the presentation:

Thirst Relief Promo Video for WPPI from ben harrison on Vimeo.


thirst relief & grace ormonde

As many of you already know, in July 2009 Ben traveled with group of other professional photographers to Tanzania to work with Thirst Relief International.  If you need a little refresher you can check out this post that Ben did once he was home and had time to reflect on this experience.  The main focus of the trip was to provide clean water to locals that do not have access to clean drinking water.  While in Tanzania the group also put on a benefit shoot for Grace Ormonde which was recently featured in a recent publication that came out in early 2010.   Such an amazing experience for each individual on the trip … I know that it truly impacted our lives.

associate program

To all you brides out there that are getting married … make sure to check out our associate photographer, Kyle! He’s accepting weddings for 2010 and 2011 so please contact us for more information if you are interested in booking with him!  Make sure to head on over to our website to see Kyle’s portfolio (Associate under the Portfolio section). Below is a little info on Kyle and a few of his wonderful images!!

joel + anna

Joel and Anna are from Tennessee and were in MI visiting friends and it just happened to work with our schedule that we were able to do a session for them!  Anna also is a photographer down in TN so check out her website! Here’s a few of our favorites! Enjoy :)

H2O | CREATIVE : SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION TUTORIALS + INDESIGN ALBUM TEMPLATES

After many long hours, we are SUPER pumped to announce the launch of our new business called H2O | CREATIVE.  As many of you already know, for the last 2 years we’ve had a side business of selling InDesign Album Templates to other photographers in the industry and it has been incredible for us to see the positive response. We’ve been brainstorming for quite some time now a new brand for the template business as well as a brand that will allow us to add on additional products in the future.  And because of this … H2O | CREATIVE was born :)

Along with the new brand, we are also releasing a new product … drum roll please … Search Engine Optimization tutorials + videos!!! woohoo!!!! Over the last few years, we’ve received quite a few questions about how we’ve been able to stay at the top of some worldwide & as well as local Google searches (one of those being a search with 11.8 million results) … and instead of keeping these “secrets” to ourselves, we are now making this information available to other business owners  who want to land their website on the first page of a Google searching their target market. (please note: this SEO info is not only limited to professional photographers)

Also, one other quick thing … if you are a photographer attending WPPI Tradeshow in Las Vegas in March make sure to check out H2O | CREATIVE at booth 1101 … come say HI :)

So without further ado … we introduce H2O | CREATIVE … GET EXCITED!!!!!

Bliss Weddings & Events

To all of you brides out there … do you have a wedding planner for the big day? If not, we HIGHLY recommend you invest in a planner that will help you in more ways than you can imagine.  Bliss Weddings and Events out of the Detroit area is offering a 25% discount for new clients that book before March 1, 2010 so take advantage of this AMAZING deal! So make sure to check out Bliss Weddings and Events!!!!

Exciting news to come …

We have been working like crazy cats this off-season in getting ready to roll out some fun stuff :) More to come VERY soon!

featured on wedding chicks!!!!

We are so excited that Josh & Laura Grace’s Texas wedding has been featured on Wedding Chicks … woohoo!!! As we have said in previous posts, we are big fans of inspiration blogs and one of our FAVORITES is Wedding Chicks!

Ben and I loved so many things about this wedding and are so pleased with the images that we captured.  Josh and Laura Grace are two of the most amazing people we have met and we were so blessed to get the chance to document their day.  So make sure to check out the post and please leave a wonderful comment!!

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featured in the knot michigan

We were recently featured in a 4 page spread in the spring/summer 2010 issue of the knot Michigan!  The beautiful wedding of Eric & Kerri was selected and we couldn’t have been happier!  The issue is on newsstands now if you are interested in picking yourself up a copy!