julie dreelin

Owner: [Kitty Hawk, NC]

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Artists I love: Tiepollo, Herb Ritts

When I’m not working: Participating in all sports, especially surfing.

My first love: My husband.

I like: anything pasta or chocolate, learning techy stuff, collecting vintage cameras, playing with my puppy on the beach, challenges, smiles, inspiring people around me and being inspired, having fun, wine, people, getting up early, sweatpants

I don’t like: people whom have too much time on their hands and don’t do anything with it, bad hair days, disrespect

The Resume: After winning the cover of Outer Banks Wedding Guide Magazine 2008 and published featured weddings or articles in years past in the Bride’s Book 2007, 2008 and 2009, Carolina Bride 2008 and Outer Banks Bride 2006, 2007, 2008, she has had some momentum. She has now been published in Modern Bride and The Knot numerous times, the latest being a featured wedding in The Knot Spring/Summer 2010 issue. Her yearly requests for portrait sessions and weddings have continued to grow with her popularity. Since 2007 she has become obsessed with her photography blog – the Blog for all brides beachy and stylish – and now has a popular following of brides that are getting married and have already been married. She’s found that every lady is looking to be inspired on a daily process. Updating the blog with beautiful photographs is one thing, inspiring woman by showing them fashionable ways to portray their loves of life and redefine themselves. . . through photographs of party after party, she knew she was onto something.

When Julie first started working at weddings in 2000, we were treated to what passes for a controversy in contemporary photography. A woman with a background of artistic, journalistic videography refocuses her studio exhibits to a multimedia presentation. Julie says, “Since the photography industry has moved to digital, I have found myself at the forefront of the game. With the knowledge and experience of a Business Degree in Arts and Science, television and a hundred wedding documentaries behind me, right away I found myself teaching film photographers how to use digital from scratch. I taught them how to integrate their photographs to video and how to use digital media and software. My knowledge base of shooting and editing techniques grew tremendously through the process.” A once dueling rivalry, photography and videography were combined into one. Julie travels yearly to a different foreign country for two months to develop her skills through seminars and experience ending in a yearly photography exhibit at the Beach Productions studios.

• • Featured wedding in The Knot North Carolina magazine – Polka Dot Wedding, June 2010
• • Feature political vintage wedding in May 2010 BRIDES MAGAZINE: pages 242-247
• • Chosen by THE KNOT magazine as a best-of-the-best wedding photographer 2010
• • Featured wedding 2009 The Brides Book magazine
• • cover of Outer Banks Bride Magazine and Outer Banks Wedding Guide Magazine
• • Featured wedding photographer and videographer in the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Outer Banks Bride Magazine

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