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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Wanna help out AND win a photography session????.....

Well then,.. you need to come to the benifit dinner and dance this Saturday night! 
A few weeks ago, my uncle Joel was diagnosed with cancer. He has started Chemo this week and we are praying to fight this and win. He is with out insurance and we know the medical bills will be high. So our family and friends have put together a dinner/dance for him. We will be auctioning off LOTS of great things, one bieng a photography session from yours truly with a full copyright of your favorite 30-40 images. It is a $600 value people! 
I know they have many donated items, that I am so excited about!! Lots of cool stuff!
If you would like to join in or even donate anything please let me know.

Here are the details...
This Saturday July 31st 
Held at the Goshen Ball Park (the south end of town)
$10.00 donation (dinner and dancing)
Dinner starts at 5:30
Live Music and dancing at 7:30
Raffle tickets will be sold to be put in for items you would like to win.
Tickets are 6 for $5  or $1 each

Come out and support a great cause! I hope to see everyone there!!


Morgan.. and OCF.

So.. i must say that in the years that I have been shooting I have NOT been a fan of off camera flash. The words HATE might have escaped my mouth from time to time about it. I just really didn't like the look of it. A big part is #1- I was shooting with the flash ON TOP of my camera and #2- I wasn't using it right. (not really knowing what I was doing, lets be honest here)  So.. that being said I decided to really try off camera flash. I took it OFF of my camera! I REALLY liked the look of these. I wanted to use the flash and not look at them and not go "WHOA! a flash was used there!" Sudle and just to give a little pop and fill. So here is Morgan the awesome senior rep of Photography by Jess. (who is somewhat crazy AMAZING!) check her out! We had fun on this shoot together just messing around. :)
 And be sure to check Morgan out on jess's blog as well.












ok so this one OBVIOUSLY has some serious flash going on.. LOVE it!





Monday, July 26, 2010

Happy Monday!

Can I just say I am so excited to go to this! Are you comming? I have said it before but I LOVE learning! I cant get enough! So when something comes up like this where I could learn something new I am all over it! I encourage all of you out there if you have a camera and want to get better, be a part of something and keep learning! get out there and set yourself apart from everyone else out there that has a nice camera.  I am all about learning new things online and reading but there is just something more that needs to be said about going and learning how to do something hands on! That is why i LOVE IPPA so much. If I have a question about anything I can ask any other photograher and guess what?? They TEACH you! It is awesome. Now days it seems some photographers are so hush hush. ( you know what I am talking about...) So going to quarterlies like this is great!
So here is the skinny...
It is a IPPA summer Quartly. It only costs $59 for the WHOLE day! yeah thats right the WHOLE Day!
August 2nd! One week from today. So get that babysitter lined up!
It starts at 2 p.m. and ends at 8:30
Jaron Horrocks from Graphic Athority (yes you have heard of Graphic Athority with all the awesome photoshop templates and cool album designs!) will speak first from 2-4:30.
Then The HIGHLY talented Michael and Leslie Artis-Gan will teach from 6-8:30.
Wanna come? Go to 

Friday, July 23, 2010

Family specials!!

I am just sending out some family special cards to anyone who wants one. Here is what I am offering this year. I am only scheduling a certain amount of sessions a month and I am filling up fast so call to schedule ASAP! My next opening is the middle of September.

Spanish Fork baby Contest...

So,.. This year I was asked to shoot the Spanish Fork baby contest. I must say this was ALOT of work! 
In case any of you didn't see me there, it was hot and sweaty and babies crying and a line a mile long! ( I was told that is normal for these type of things, this only being my second baby contest shooting experiences. :) ) But, I met so many great people in the process and seem some uber cute babies!! I was it worth the craziness? Well, I will let you be the judge. Just look at some of these adorable babes! I think so!
Here is just 18 of the 112 entries!


If you have a baby that was entered this year, be sure to pick up your pictures at the rec office. Or contact me (801)787-7644 or Abby (801)310-4788 Thanks!

Anderson....

3 cousins....
what a fun laid back session! these kids were so well behaved and so cute. LOVED IT!!!
















Thursday, July 15, 2010

Broadbent fam...

So check this family out.. so styling! Jami is my good friend who is also a photographer. Check her out HERE. She is awesome! She had this whole shoot styled and they all looked fab. From the little boys knickers to her pin curled hair to the vintage thunderbird. LOVE! 
Here are a few of my favorites....