The Mahaffey's

We are crazy behind with our blog, and this post should have gone up forever ago, but I hope all our blog stalkers out there still enjoy! We photographed the fabulous Mahaffey family last month with their beautiful 5 month old twins! The Babes were a bit on the sick side, they puked up everything, poor things had their outfits changed several times each, and thank goodness for washable Ikea chair covers!!! My favorite shot is of the munchkins in the chair, they couldn't wait to be done with the ridulousness of having their pictures made! Thanks guys!

2009 Calendar release party

The 2009 94-rock 66 Casino is coming out Friday the 14th. The release party will be held at Kixx nightclub in the Route 66 Casino from @ 7:00. Desiree and I, with the hugely appreciated assistance of Desiree's mom Rori, photographed the calendar a few months ago and are excited to see the outcome. We will most likely not be able to make it to the release party so if any of you do make it out, let me know how the calendar looks! I read on the 94 rock site that the girls will be out there to sign the calendars and take some pictures! Have fun and remeber don't drink and drive. If you go out there to party, just get a room and stay the night!
Have fun

NILMDTS

Desiree is out of the office Friday doing presentations for a couple of groups of Doctors on behalf of now i lay me down to sleep. She has done these in the past and in truly honored to be asked to come and help Doctors and nurses understand what NILMDTS provides to families who are experiencing loss. If you would like more information about this organization, please visit them at www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org.

set your DVR tuesday 11/18/2008 10:00 PM

Please set your DVR, TiVo, Windows Media Center, or yes even the old school VCR (yes some people still rock the video tape!!)
Anyway, Channel 13 news 10:00 PM Tuesday the 18th. Kim Holland will be doing a report on Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.
It will feature two photographers here in Albuquerque that do a huge amount for this charity. The first is Vickie, with Blue sky images. The other is our very own Desiree. Many of you know about the work that she does for NILMTDS. She sees many of you at the hospital when she is there with a family.
This is such an amazing organization and does such a great service to so many families. It is a very personal, intimate, and emotionally involved thing to be a part of. Desiree has been given a great gift to be able to work with families that are experiencing loss.
Because the need/desire for this service is growing so is the need for willing, capable photographers to help. If you know of anyone, or you yourself would be interested, contact NILMDTS or one of the affiliated photographers here in town.

Kickin' it ol' school

We had a session set up for one of our secret locations. Just a couple of hours b4 the shoot our couple contacted us and said they really wanted to change the location and do it downtown in some retro styling that they are pretty fond of. I am so glad they did call. Even though it was freeeeekin' cold, we had a great time. The hat, the mink, the TLR, Classic...
We look forward to Kay and Charles' wedding especially the hot chocolate!!!

secret location 'II'

This is one of our favorite locations. We have been shooting here for a number of years and it changes every year. There used to be a tree with a rope swing that went out into the river. That tree is now just some more fallen logs on the river bank. We like this spot so much so that we have shot out there several times over the past few weeks and will be going out there again this week. It is a great place to show the fall colors.
The first set of images is from a session we had with a great family. We have known the Christiansen family for many years. We enjoy every time we are able to work with them.
Cole is going to be turning 8 and getting baptized, we took some photos of him along the river bank and then the rest of the family joined us. I plan on doing a separate post for his baptism images!

The second group of images is from an engagement session for Angela and David. We are photographing their wedding in a couple of weeks and put off their engagement session as long as we could in order to get some fall colors!

We got out to the river and I had a ton of equipment from ladders to boom arms to light stands and reflectors. We wanted to get some cool images of them in the river setting as well as some images of them having a good time. I think we all had a pretty good time. Desiree was the only one of us that didn't get into the water. In fact, Angela and David spent probably 20 minutes in the water while we took photographed them. They were great sports and it really worked out well!!
Look for their wedding images coming soon...