Baby Charlie

Without question I’m biased on this shoot.  Being Charlie is mine, but I had to post these newborn pictures I took of him.  It’s HARD shooting your own kid!  Not enough hands, that makes things… stressful.

Ty & Maggie’s Wedding

Ty and Maggie’s wedding was the end of November.  It was cold, but in many ways they were in luck, it wasn’t nearly as cold as it could have been, and we didn’t drag through almost any snow.  Course, they may have been hoping for a ‘white wedding’…. I didn’t ask!

Maggie’s Bridals

I hate how difficult it is to find decent venues inside to shoot.  Either it’s ‘not allowed’ or it’s only allowed if you have an event booked in their facility, etc.  For Maggie the challenge was to go inside, because she didn’t want to take chances on poor weather… which at the end of November, are pretty darn high!  So this is what we came up with:

Trevon & Jenny’s Wedding

When getting this ready for posting, it’s the first time I’ve ever had to google the name of the temple to make sure I spelled it right!  Jenny & Trevon had the fun experience of being married in the brand spankin’ new Oquirrh Mountain temple which the spelling of always throws me off.  But don’t worry, that should be right!  I had never shot there, and it’s a main reason I took the job even though it is a bit of a drive.  I just really wanted to opportunity to check it out and shoot there.

Jenny and her mom I knew (see last post) but I still had yet to meet Trevon or the rest of the family.  The day was beautifully blue skied and fairly warm, however, the wind was relentless!!!  You will see from the pictures that we have lots of dramatic veil and hair blowing… I think it was just driving Jenny plan crazy since she had hair in her eyes all morning!  Good thing when she looks back all she’ll really think about is how great it is they got married.

I loved Jenny’s flowers and the flowers at her reception were beautiful also.  It was a great job of making a beautiful reception with warm lighting and beautiful flowers.  Congrats Jenny & Trevon!  May you have your most amazing experiences to come.

Jenny’s Bridals

I met Jenny for the first time the day of the bridals.  She lives down South, so therefore we’d only talked on the phone.  Jenny is a photographer herself and it’s always a compliment when someone who enjoys photography, enjoys YOUR photography.  I also kind of enjoy knowledgeable opinions on occasion like, ‘I really don’t like soft focus effects’.  Helps me know a little more how to tailor the prints!  I actually got the editing done on these awhile back as we rushed them to get some prints for her wedding just a few days later, however, I still wanted to put them up and hadn’t yet.

We took all these pictures on a golf course, and Jenny, myself, and her mom and sister-in-law are all still just greatful we didn’t get hit with a golf ball, although or friendly attendant from the golf course kept making us feel like perhaps that was an imminent thing! Ha!  He was a funny old man and he drove Jenny around the golf course as her personal escort and the rest of us drove behind.  It was a new experience for me!  I decided I do like driving from location to location in golf carts, I don’t like feeling like I’m going to be hit.  Guess it’s a trade off!

The Swainstons

No coincidence these guys came to me.  One happens to be my cousin.  So I’m very glad that she thought enough of my photography to bring her business to me, even though she’s not conveniently located near me.  It’s fun to do a relaxed, casual family pictures.  It’s just a very different experience than a wedding or the like, and it is nice variety, since due to the time of year I’d just been doing a lot of weddings!  It’s no secret that kids can be a challenge, but they also can add to a picture some fun that only they can, funny expressions, laughs, etc.  Sometimes my favorite pictures of kids are when they’re not doing as their parents would prefer, haha.  These little guys were pretty great though.  The older boy had down his child modeling poses, and only needed to be redirected a little over time to get focused.  The younger one wasn’t pleased with the picture situation entirely, and got tired of the pictures before too long, but overall was behaving quite well.  Where kids are concerned, I call that very successful.

Chad & Whitney’s Wedding

Chad & Whitney are another couple who went the full package with me, and another couple I’m really sad to see the whole thing end with!  On a side note, have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE chocolate covered strawberries?  I don’t think they could ever get old, I don’t care how many weddings I eat them at.  In fact, I should probably offer a discount to couples who will serve me a whole plate at their reception.  :)

Whitney was very good to make sure we got our ‘photo time’ and we even left the festivities for some really beautiful pictures I know they’ll be so glad to have.  I put them through the wringer a little bit I think when we go out to do photos, but this time I didn’t feel bad as they were catching a plane to Jamaica shortly.  These two also have great, wonderful, supportive families.  You two are fantastic and fun and I hope you have a fantastic married life together.  Somehow I know you will!

(His sisters, no worries!)

Jen & Derek’s Wedding

When I shoot the engagements, then shoot the bridals, then shoot the wedding.  I end up feeling like I’m friends with the couple.  It’s actually kinda sad when their wedding finishes and I know I won’t see them again real soon!  Jen and Derek were a very gracious bride and groom with a darling little daughter.  I mean, check out those eyes three pictures down!  I wish them all the best and hope they have a lifetime full of laughs and love.

It’s interesting I find for certain situations or events the pictures seem to draw me into one particular style or another while editing.  The last one I felt very vintagey, this one, I was very drawn to black and white.  I’m not always sure why! I also realized a bit ago I forgot to post Jen’s bridals! So look for that post to come.

Billy & Melinda’s Wedding

I had only spoken to Melinda on the phone and through email when I showed up on the evening of her wedding.  I always wonder what it’s going to be like when I have that type of contact.  What will the bride and groom look like, and what will the wedding be like?

Well, I can answer that now:  Beautiful and Beautiful.

The evening was pretty warm but gorgeous and the couple could not have been more friendly, warm and happy.  You could clearly see that they loved each other very much.

We took just a few pictures with the couple after the ceremony, and I focused mainly on documenting their day.

AJ & Tine’s Wedding

I wasn’t at this wedding very long.  Wanna know why?  They compressed all the festivities into a two hour period so that they could all jump in boats and spend the rest of the day on Bear Lake.  Fun, no?!  It was a gorgeous day for them, they couldn’t have been more pleased I’m sure with the weather.  And the beautiful skies… well you’ll see.  My only challenge, those pesky, mid-day shadows, but that’s life, right!?