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About > Families
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Family portraits are one of the oldest subjects in the art of photography, as well as one of the most precious. The visual history of a family is priceless: imagine sitting down with your grandparents and paging through that old picture album, black and white prints on yellowed pages, each one held in with photo corners. Looking back through family albums, I can almost feel the crinoline on my favorite fancy black dress I wore for pictures at age 13 and I can almost smell my grandmother’s kitchen at Easter before we all went outside for pictures and egg-hunting.
Family pictures should be more than department store mug shots before the holidays or cookie-cutter school pictures. They should express a great deal about whom you and your family are, they should be personal. And family pictures don’t have to be just about children. Why not a picture with multi-generations, a beautiful portrait of your parents or with siblings, or a romantic shot with your significant other?
Time moves quickly and it is easy to let moments pass into memory. Quality pictures are the ideal way to document your family and friends from year to year as children get older and families grow. |
About the Photographers...
Balance is the combination of Rissa and Nathaniel’s talents and creative passion. Photography at its core is the recording of light – be it natural or studio light. Light is what shows us where a picture is or is not. Small details and gestures become prominent through light. These are the strokes that fill in the larger canvas and they are what make up the vision of a photographer. The way a photographer sees light is what defines their style, makes them special. Rissa and Nathaniel join forces on nearly every project in some way. Balance is where their vision comes together and they create beautiful, meaningful images.
Rissa and Nathaniel are a married photography team. They met in college at Western Kentucky University in 1998 where they both studied photojournalism. On October 2, 2004 a dream came true for both when they were married at a huge wedding on Nathaniel’s family farm in Tennessee. |
Rissa Miller
Rissa has worked for two magazines and four newspapers in her career. Mostly recently she spent several years a picture editor for the Baltimore Sun, where she was part of an award-winning picture editing team. Prior to that she won contests sponsored by various professional journalism groups and Canon cameras.
Education credits include a degree in photojournalism and art history with study at Western Kentucky University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Virginia. In her youth in Pennsylvania, Rissa was a model and state champion horseback rider. She also sold a few one-act plays. Her first camera was a Kodak disc – she got it from a Girl Scout cookie sale in second grade.
In addition to photography, she is also a professional bellydancer and has worked as a print reporter and a vegetarian chef. When she’s not behind her camera, Rissa reads all the time and loves yoga, dance, cooking and making cheesecakes.
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Nathaniel Corn
Nathaniel was born to be a professional photographer in a family of professional photographers. From his earliest days, he was taking pictures and learning the skills of this art form. He got his first camera, a Polaroid, at age 6. Before college, he already made a living making portraits and had worked in the studio of a fine art printer. Nathaniel studied photojournalism and multi-media at Western Kentucky University with a minor in History. He also studied abroad in Ireland.
In combination with photography, Nathaniel’s other great passion is travel. He has been to nearly every state and on three continents. Originally from Tennessee, Nathaniel loves camping and spending time in nature. He is also an Eagle Scout.
When he’s not traveling or making photos, Nathaniel is an avid gardener and enjoys painting, soccer, collecting wines and making jewelry.
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