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{Romans 1:4-5 “And Jesus Christ our Lord was shown to be the Son of God when God powerfully raised him from the dead by means of the Holy Spirit. Through Christ, God has given us the privilege and authority to tell people everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.”}

{Philippians 3:10-12 “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.”}

Our church, Cathedral of Praise, put on an amazing Easter service this year & we were more than happy to take some photographs for them. We are SO thankful & blessed to be a part of this awesome church & the people in it! Many thanks to everyone @ Cathedral who worked extremely hard to put on this fantastic service; it is such a delight to see God’s people working for & loving Him w/ their talents!

{Romans 6:8-11 “Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.”}

{John 11:25-26 “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.”}

Today is March 14, 2010 which means… Billy is 30 years old today!!! Over the last few months we’ve been talking about how he feels about turning 30… he likes to convince himself that it is just another birthday, but I choose to see it as a day to look back and celebrate the 30 blessed years that God has given him! He doesn’t know that I am doing this blog post, BUT what better way to recap his life other than through photos?! Whether you are a family member, friend, acquaintance, or stranger – please stroll through these photos and take the time to recognize this wonderful man that the Lord has made! Billy is my loving husband, my best friend, the reason for my laughter, and the man who give’s me indescribable love everyday. My sweet William – Happy 30th Birthday, you are a life worth celebrating!

Isn’t he the sweetest baby!? You can tell those baby pics are him, can’t you!?

I love this age of Billy’s life. One fact about Billy is that he LOVES dressing up and playing different roles ever since he was just a wee little kid!  One of his favorite pictures is shown below of him and brother Andrew playing cowboys. The first image below is one of my favorite, his eyes are captivating at such a young age and still are to this very day.

Some of the photos below show Billy’s interest in sports at a young age. I’ve heard that he was awesome in competition and he proved it when he recently kicked my behind in soccer!

Also, there are a few pictures with his family traveling in Europe. Billy is well traveled and well cultured. He spent years of his life abroad in the mission field withYwam & studying music at Hillsong in Australia. He has beautiful stories of his experiences, and the fact of the matter is those experiences cultivated and formed him into the man he is today.

Another thing about Billy that I LOVE is that he is a family man! He loves his family to the core and had a wonderful upbringing with great values instilled in his heart. His family is awesome, I feel so blessed to now call them my family!

The photos below bring me back to our experience where we met, Hallmark Institute of Photography. Billy always likes to gloat that he got a degree and a wife God defiantly led both of us at the right time to pack up our life and head to Massachusetts to pursue our passion in photography. Only weeks within the start of our education, I picked Billy’s bald head out of the crowd and knew that I NEEDED to meet him! After only a few days of plotting and scheming with mutual friends, we conjured up a plan for us to meet. Once we got together, we never separated – we grew as individuals and as a couple; we created everlasting friendships with some fabulous people & we got our first baby – Jackson! He was the best dog anyone could have ever asked for and was SO loyal to Billy! B likes to say that Jackson was the glue between us & I would have to agree. We had him almost since day 1 and sadly, he passed away just 2 weeks before we married. Regardless, he was a great gift from God for the short time we had him.

Now it’s time to appreciate his good looks!

After attending photography school, Billy took the plunge and moved to Wisconsin for over a year to get to know my family. What a guy! I am so thankful for that time that he sacrificed to endure the blundering cold to know and love me, my family, and friends. Everyone quickly fell in love with Billy and he was accepted with open arms! He continually tells me how thankful he is for that time.

Did I mention how great he is with kids?! Here he is with our niece Elena. I love these two photos so much because at the time, Elena wasn’t into anyone but her mom and dad, BUT she went right to Billy with a big smile! Kids are a great judge of character.

Another notable and respectable quality about Billy is his loyalty. He has always expressed that his number #1 quality he looks for in friendship is that loyalty. He loves his friends and appreciates all the different friendships he has with them. His friends showed their loyalty and support for Billy by flying to Wisconsin from all over the United States for our wedding last September.

We look back in gratitude and love at our wedding day. Our family and friends were always a great support system and they all made this beautiful day possible!

Another wonderful thing about Billy – he is romantic!!! He planned a surprise 10 day honeymoon in Paris for us! Words can’t even describe how awesome this trip was!!

Billy is a goofball, and for that I thank him! He always is finding ways to make our life fun and enjoy everyday.

This next image is one of my favorite photos taken of Billy.

Billy, today I celebrate you! I thank God for the man he has made you to be. You are a wonderful person and I couldn’t imagine spending the rest of my life without you by my side! I love you from the bottom of my heart. Happy Birthday love!

OKAY EVERYBODY :  Now it’s your turn!! Leave a comment below wishing Billy a happy birthday, telling a story, or just let him know how awesome he truly is!!!

Photo credits : Engagement Photos – Blue Dandelion Photography & Mat and Ash Photography Wedding Photos – Chaz Cruz & Mary Frances

After moving to Charleston in November, I wasn’t sure how long it would take to make friends here. Coincidently, I met Kerri literally 3 hours after moving into our apartment. Ever since that night, Kerri has been a ray of sunshine in my life! She is a down to earth, beautiful, wonderful woman and I am so honored to call her my friend. Yesterday I took Kerri to the beach & took some photos of her. She was amazing in front of the camera, and I feel like I captured an essence of her beauty. I could ramble for a long time about how cool this chick is, but I’ll let the photos do the talking – here she is, my new friend Kerri…

We did a quick photo shoot of Luke and Blakely for the prestigious Pointe Magazine. They needed a photograph for one of their spreads and we were happy to oblige. Little Blakely is adorable and absolutely smitten with her dad, Luke!  They were so much fun to watch interact, we could tell immediately that Luke is great father! Here’s some of our favorite images…

We met Phillip at church a few weeks back and got rolling in conversation about life, music, and photography. He is an aspiring, talented, musician and full of life in Jesus. He wanted some photos of himself and his guitar for some future promo shots. We brought him to a few locations around Charleston to test out some more lighting techniques.

In this blog post, we are going to show you how our editing skills can take a good photo and make it a great one. Why are we showing you this? Because… we want our clients to have the knowledge of everything they are paying for. The work a client hires us for, goes beyond just the session time, it is the editing process we spend most of our time (we work about 5 hours editing for every 1 hour we photograph). Of course, a good photograph beings with good composition and exposure, but it is most often the quality of editing that brings a photograph alive. Here at Hyer Images, we believe our photography skills combined with our editing is what sets us uniquely apart, so take the time to look through the photos below and see what we created!

Greetings! We are Billy and Rachel Hyer, the owners & photographers of Hyer Images! We recently moved here to Charleston and are SO excited about it! We are portraiture and wedding based photographers, but are excited to expand our horizons for anything that comes our way! We LOVE people, and LOVE capturing the essence of them in a photograph.

Over the next few weeks and months, we will be going back into our archives to show y’all some work we have done over the past year in the Midwest. Think of it as a way to get to know us better. We will be also posting some current work ! So pull up a chair, grab a sweet tea, and enjoy the visual stimulations to come!

Here are some photos of us that we took last night. We tried out some external flash techniques for the first time and it was a BLAST! We brought some of our old cameras for a little unique flair, enjoy!