You clicked on the About Me button. You are officially a stalker. Since you want to be all creepy and learn more about me here you go…

The most important part of my life is my family, so I’ll start there: I’m a husband to a woman who is entirely too good for me. Somehow I’ve tricked her in to staying with me for the last 8 years and I’m hoping she doesn’t get wise anytime soon. She has given me the two funniest little human children I have ever met. When my son Ryan says something inappropriate I put on a scolding face while my stomach hurts from the inside laughs. My little girl Lily has wild hair, speaks in broken 2 word sentences and screams when she doesn’t get her way. I think she’ll grow out of most of that.  I love them them all more than I could put sentences to.

The rest of my non-business, non-family life is probably a lot like most of you…it revolves mostly around Apple products, good food and good music. I liked iPods, sushi & documentaries before it was cool. And I really like living in an more urban area. When Edie and I first got married we lived in the suburbs for 4 years before I realized that it made me question my reason for being everyday. So I convinced my wife that we should move closer to the city and now I feel like getting up in the morning.  Something about the city inspires me and gives me energy…maybe it’s the car break-ins and weird smells.

My life has recently been defined by taking risks. Before 3 years ago, I lived a life that was full of safe. Then I started a business called Fyrefly Photography and safe went out the window. I tried to take pictures and create a business model that people hadn’t seen before. I wanted to be laid back, offer great service and take some of the stuffiness out of portrait & wedding photography.  It seemed to have resonated with a few people because I got really busy. I realized that if I ever wanted to see those people I talked about in paragraph 1, I would need to create a second business that allowed me to focus on only a few clients a year.  Fyrefly still exists, now it’s some of my friends/colleagues that I have trained and they help pick up the insane amount of work that Fyrefly generates.

So Nathan Peel Photography was born. NPP is about being myself. I know that I am not for every couple and every couple is not for me. And that’s ok. NPP is about saying, “This is me. If you like who I am and what I do, then let’s work together. If you don’t then there are 7 billion other photographers out there (that estimate may be a little high) and I am sure you will find what you are looking for.”

To sum it up, I am trying to do what I love and letting the rest work itself out.  One important thing I would want you to know is that life is less about what you are and more about who you are. Somedays I live like I believe that and somedays I don’t.

So, creepy stalker person, that’s me.

*If you want to really know who I am I often post meaningless things about my day on a social networking site called Twitter, maybe you’ve heard of it?  My Twitter name is@nathan_peel.