Thanks to a photography instructor at The Art Institute of Dallas, Mike & Aleah Perry would meet in 2014. Mike and Aleah first officially met at what was referred to as “The Cage” next to the photography studio at school. It was at that point the two quickly realized that each other was the other person their instructor was telling them about. Mike and Aleah realized very early on they worked extremely well together. This is how their friendship began. At school inside of a photography studio. A year later, in June of 2015, Aleah graduated with her Associates of Applied Science in Photography. Later that same year, Mike would graduate in December with his Associates of Applied Science in Photography.

After graduating in 2015, Mike and Aleah kept in touch as friends. However, the two had different paths until April of 2017. Mike and Aleah got back in touch again in April of 2017. They finally got a chance to sit down and catch up over a cup of coffee at Starbucks. It was at this point Mike and Aleah began to wonder what they could do to together to make money as a couple. In July of 2017, Aleah went to Mike with the idea of becoming an over the road truck driver. This is when the real journey began.

In August of 2017, Mike and Aleah decided to give themselves the shock of their lives. They started truck driving school together. They spent the next month going through trucking driving school in Texas and Indiana, taking the CDL A test, passing the maneuvers course, and finally obtaining their Class A drivers license. After they obtained their license, Mike and Aleah spent all of September and October of 2017 over the road confined in a truck with a driver-trainer. As a result, the two have spent the last six years driving tractor-trailers together as a team.

During their time as over the road truck drivers, Mike and Aleah have seen every state in the lower 48 except for Maine. They have managed to take over 20,000 photographs all over the country. This includes cell phone, digital camera, and drone photographs. On a historical note, and although most of it has been neglected, Mike and Aleah have had the opportunity to travel a good portion of Route 66.

After five years of dating, six plut years of working together and traveling the United States, Mike and Aleah finally got married on January 1, 2021 in Canton, Texas. You might see this "Husband and Wife Photography Team" in Canton, Texas capturing photographs with their drone, under a dark cloth with the 4x5 Gundalch, or even working with a Client.

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