Had an amazing visitor

This was truly a treat on this Halloween day, my son Grey was watching out the window and wondering if the rain would stop when all of a sudden a Bald Eagle flew into the yard and landed on one of the post for the fort the children have out in the back yard. I was able to get a few photographs of the male but the female never came close enough to get a good image. It is the first Eagles we have spotted in the yard since we moved in 5 years ago I hope the hang around because they are beautiful birds.

Autumn Rocks for Portraits

Autumn is an amazing time of year to get your portrait taken. The amount of depth you can get out of a natural environment is just beautiful. This location is always hot spot among photographers in the area and it is rare to get the park to your self, everyone is usually respectful of others but this day was a real treat because we had the park to our self’s and it was a beautiful day.








I would encourage everybody to get out and enjoy the season. Have a great day.

I am trilled to have had the opportunity to work with Ron Dawson from Cinematic Studios this past Friday. I have contracted with Ron to shoot a promo video and am looking forward to the results he says he got some great footage and I am hoping that means an awesome video to come. We had a beautiful day here high clouds and deep blue sky. The Weatherman said we were to have 66% chance of rain in the area. Luckily they don’t know what there talking about.

During the shot I had the pleasure of working with Leslie and Travis who got married this past summer. They are such a treat to work with so fun loving and happy together. We took pictures in the evening with the lights around town and what a treat as you can see. I love night shoots.


The steps of the capitol at night were lit up beautifully and made for a great back drop

Ron's video light was a nice addition in this shot adding a touch of rim lighting

Family

The other day I was talking to a woman who needed to reschedule an appointment I had with her co worker because the co worker was sick and she was unable to fill in herself because her mother was in town and not feeling well.

As we were talking it came out that her mother was 91 years old and how she really enjoyed the visits with her and that she would come to visit and stay for a week every few months. To be honest I thought this was amazing that at 91 she was still moving and traveling. I had asked her when she was going home and she said she would be going home the next day. I asked her when was the last time she and her mother had a life portrait done. This idea was new to her but as we talked she told me it was such a great idea to capture time in pictures to have and to remember. We often think about photographing our children but it is rare to document our Grandparents or Parents.

As we approach this holiday season and if you have a family get together try to remember to take a picture of everyone attending. If you can hire a photographer to come and take a portrait of the whole family but if you can’t do that at least take some record of where your family is at in that moment. It does not need to be a production it just needs to be you with your family.

My Favorite image and why

The other day in a forum Christine Bentley of Christine Bentley Photography asked us to share a favorite image and why it was our favorite. I just thought I would share this with the people who read this as well. I like the story behind it as well as the image.

It simple is titled “Grandpa” this was a loving grandfather who was in his early 80’s when his first granddaughter got married. He was so incredibly proud of her and wanted to capture his own record of images of her wedding day. He is the kind of relative I adore they love photography as much as I do. I got to be very careful of my movements during a portrait session of the family because it seemed like he was always over my shoulder. The Bride even asked me to move him out of the way if I liked but he was no trouble this was back in 1993 and he was shooting a 110 film camera, I thought him sweet. I believe family had finally told him to back off because in the next location when I looked back to check for him he was now 10 feet behind me. I knew that with his camera it would never come out at that distance so I placed him closer and by doing so was able to create this image of him. It is one I cherish because of the memory reminder that it is. Hope you enjoy it.