Addison Mears Photography

09/28/2023

Check out this project that Veronica from Pumped Party Co. and Erin from The Happy Brand Studio graciously asked me to be a part of!! It was SO fun to work with them on the photography portion of Pumped’s new branding! I told Veronica that this was definitely my most colorful shoot and I LOVE that!!! 🤍

09/04/2023

Love helping businesses (and especially this one 😉 with the cute owner) capture and celebrate milestones!

09/13/2022

loving how Crafted is putting these pics to WORK! 😍

We have a ✨really✨ fun + exciting first workshop in the new space coming in a few weeks…any guesses on who it is?!

09/01/2022

Some of my favorites from a recent branding shoot this summer! Home making, motherhood, clean living and community. All things that Leah values not just in her own life but it in her business as a Crunchi advocate and clean living educator!

Leah has been SUCH a sweet and fun friend to work with. Photographing her business, Girl Gone Green, was a blast! Her home is beautiful, her heart is gold AND we were able to capture her values and her vision so well.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do😍 I can’t wait to see how she uses them for her business!

08/29/2022

speaking of the Made Market recently.... this is a product that I picked up when I was there the last go round. I took a bunch of shots of their product with my sweet friend Abbey because one... this garlic oil is FIRE 🤤and two... Abbey has a killer kitchen.

I did some research prior to taking these photos and found out that Pickle Creek Herbs makes their own dressings, creates and shares a lot of recipes using their products and even has a whole blog post dedicated to how to make the perfect salad dressing! I wanted to tell a bit of that heart and that story in these images!

can't wait to share more of them with ya'll!

08/21/2022

08/17/2022

Welp, after about two months of being off of Instagram traveling and finishing up galleries, I am hopeful that this next season brings more time to share with you my work.

I have a whole section of my business that focuses on branding and I get that it can be hard to trust someone about branding when they don't even post. I've always said this and I will forever - that is literally why I started photographing for businesses.

It can be really hard to show up online consistently. Even when our websites are killer and our work is excellent, this whole side of the biz is hard. So, what better than a library of options on those days when you're like, "I don't know what to share today!".

All our images are specific to your brand, your values, your vision. I care about knowing you and I care about you sharing honestly and confidently with your audience.

This image is from a shoot with a business focused on clean living/clean beauty, motherhood, and community. When I saw this beauty sitting on the window bench, I had to make sure she was in the final gallery!

08/17/2022

Sittin' here on my porch thinking about the Made Market happening in ONE WEEK! That's where I got this little bo**er from. Not sure if they'll be there again this year but I hope so! I've already used up this whole can.​​​​​​​​
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Oh and fun fact... I'll be there shopping around *of course* but even more exciting.. I'll be shooting the event! I can't wait to see you and can't wait to see all ya meanderers there supporting local!

05/03/2022

I found these pictures today, I honestly forgot we took these. I’m not even sure when this was. I remember taking them though, I was trying to get self portraits done and I was really not having fun with it. I know we have different outfits on but I’m pretty sure they were all taken the same day, too. I only ever wear that shirt for photos.

Most of these photos are super blurry and grainy and I remember not thinking I looked good in them after we took them… so to the hard drive they went.

Today’s our anniversary - three years! The golden anniversary. I was scouring my hard drives searching for an entirely different photo to update a page on my website and I found these.

So, what the hell, I slapped a grainy edit on them and here I am. This isn’t my usual work and I feel weird posting it but today’s our anniversary and finding these today was such a sweet gift.

Plus, my husband’s too hot not to share these.

Enjoy the stupid one of us jumping, too.

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I love you, Sean. Being your wife is a gift and a joy. Our first year sucked and we’ll always be honest about that, but these past two years have been I don’t know.. transformative? Hopeful. Good. They’ve been unifying. I love learning about you and getting to know you better every day. I love seeing the ways Jesus molds you and grows you and crafts you more and more into His image. I’m honestly in awe of His goodness over our marriage. I delight in you, for a million different reasons.

You’re the Johnny to my June. Loving you for a lifetime, babe.

04/29/2022

I care about small businesses thriving. No, really, I do. I have a heart for local flourishing and the flourishing of our communities. ​​​​​​​​
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People sometimes ask me why I enjoy the branding side. Sometimes the word feels like a new Instagram trend. But, that's not my heart. My heart is to see small businesses thrive.​​​​​​​​
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We live in a world where our online presence matters and can very often either lead to thriving or a lack of accurate representation can lead to the opposite. I want to offer simplicity to small business owners. An experience that helps take their vision and translate it into images that make sense and add up. An experience that leaves them feeling known and imagery that helps their audience know them.

04/26/2022

Another one of my favorites from this shoot. Look at all those kiddos eyeballing mom and dad. Families are so cute.​​​​​​​​
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S/O to QCA for having green spaces, history, cool architecture, parks, and lots of college campuses.