Bentley and Sean

Ok so here are some of the highlights from Bentley and Sean's session. I won't say much more than I did in the last post. Other than- we really love these two, they are such great people! other than that,... just enjoy the next few minutes!

Nua Music

We visited my family in the Phoenix area recently. While we were there we photographed our brother Telepeti "Bet" Fanua. He writes and records and produces music. He is always writing and producing but most of the recording has been for other people. We convinced him to start recording so he whipped out this song in the course of a day or two and sent it to us. Take a listen! We are trying to get him to write and record more so if you like it please leave a comment and let us know. Also since this his his freshman attempt recording in this genre, any comments or suggestions on making it better would be greatly appreciated!!
Bet and my mom Cindy-Rae own and operate Nua Music Design. If you need some music for your website, film, or video projects, slide shows, TV spots, or you just need some custom music for any reason, get in touch with them. They can talk with you about what you need and get you set up!!
listen to bets song here:



Here are some images we did of Bet out at Tempe town lake near ASU. Enjoy!!

I'm no professional but... oh yes, in fact I AM a professional and this is some pretty sweet lighting. First person to tell me how I did this image below, what type of light i used and where, I will send them a crisp clean one dolla bill!

This image below also had some magic light, any guesses?

last but not least, under the tracks. This lighting was pretty obvious! and no I didn't use my super wonderful speed lights.

Normally Desiree is shooting with me but for this, I dragged her out of bed to come be my mobile light stand! Bravo Desiree not only is she one of my all time favorite photographers, she is my new favorite light stand!

Bentley & Sean; a walk through time

OK, so there are a few event planners that Desiree and I really like to work with. One of whom is planning her own wedding and another great coordinator is doing the day of coordinating for that wedding. Bentley with Savoir-Faire Event is gittin' hitched to the beau of her dreams- Sean.
Karen with Celebrations will be helping Bentley with all of the 'day of' coordinating.

After the crazy winds from the first week in March forced us to postpone our shoot, we were able to meet up with Sean and Bentley on an absolutely beautiful day the next week in an absolutely beautiful place! I could have spent the entire day there shooting it was amazing. I have yet to look through all of the images from the shoot but here are a few that I pulled up while I was transferring the images to the computer. I was looking through a few of them this morning and there are a ton of great images. The wedding is going to be an intimate event with the closest friends and family there. We have the honor of being able to be there to see Sean and Bentley join together!
Keep up! -to see more engagement images and images from the wedding!
We love you Bentley! I hope a few of the images is just enough to arouse your appetite without beddin' her back down!
Here are 4 teasers for ya!

We started to session with some pretty straight forward modern images.


About an hour into the session we pulled out some props changed clothes and did things up how we like 'em, nice and different!


OK, No this is not on original idea, that is pretty obvious, but come on. have you seen a photo like this lately?


we try to pull in some environmental aspect into each shoot. The silo with the name and date on it is as bout as good as it gets to show where we were.

Just for fun

Just a quick post. We had an Intimate session the other day. At the end of the session I remembered about this mask that we had for a bridal show a number of years ago. I pulled it out and asked if we could get a few pics with the mask. I shot 6 or 7 images and here are two of them, I dig 'em hope you do too!
Yes, these were shot in our studio.

Legacy Sessions

Our Limited Edition Session for March is our:
Legacy Sessions

Who: Anyone sharing a relationship; mother & daughter, father & son, husband & wife, grandmother & granddaughter.
What: a 30 minute black and white studio session that focuses on the relationship that you share.
When: Though this is offered year round, we are having a special between April 6th and 10th.
Where: Jones Photo Art boutique studio
303 Rio Grande Blvd NW
Why: Read Desiree's Story
What do I get: The session and a Beautiful Fine Art Silk Folio with two 5x7 images.
What does it cost: $139., a savings of $50.00
When can I book: Now! Space is very limited!
Call us at 890.7707 or email to reserve your session now.
To see a couple of image from a recent Legacy session, click here!

09 Baby and Child Photo Contest $5000.00 Cash Award!!

It's time again. Every year our professional lab holds a competition for it's studios.
We enjoy being a part of this each year and it's a great excuse to bring your kids in and do the pictures of them that you keep pushing off. Now not only will you get some great images of the kids, you will have a chance to win some foldin' money! Who couldn't use a little of that now-a-days?
This contest ends on June 21st. Since times are already booking up you should schedule your session ASAP. If you schedule your session before the end of April, you can take advantage of our
Baby and Child Contest special; a 30 minute session and an 8x10 mounted print for only $99.99!
When you call to book your session just mention it's for the Baby and Child Contest!

A special request

We had a special request from one of our cutest baby girls this year - baby Avery. She really wanted to see her images on the blog and as I am such an accommodating person, I am gladly posting a few images from her 4 month session!

Motley Family

A few weeks ago we had another opportunity to work with some great people and good friends. The Motley family met us out at the petroglyph park and we took the evening to photograph their family before Terrance left on a church mission. He will be gone for two years in Italy teaching about the birth, teachings, atonement, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ. It's an amazing thing to see a 19 year old young man have such a dedication and love for the gospel that he will dedicate two years of his life to it. We wish him all the best and hope that his family doesn't miss him too much!
We look forward to when Terrance comes home so we can do another session with the entire family.

Legacy

The wrinkles in Flora's hands were more evident against the young skin of baby Olivia. Though they are separated by 97 years, they are connected through the blood that runs through their veins. Four generations of women, four lives, though each different, are tied together as family.
We had an amazing honor of photographing a four generation family as part of our Legacy session.

We are re-introducing our Legacy Limited Edition Session this month. This is an amazing opportunity for us to capture the relationship we share with one another before it becomes too late.
Desiree will be sharing, in an upcoming post and email, her story of why we are so passionate about these sessions. Her story comes from her regret in not taking the time to bring her grandmother into the studio to get pictures with our grandsons before it was too late.
The Medina family took advantage of the time they still had and we were able to capture their relationship and preserve that for their family forever!

Love Stories Winner

Miranda and Enrico were the winners of this years Love Stories. We had them into the studio last week and really enjoyed talking with them. They are a great couple and their story is so much more involved than the short story represented. They are both dedicated and caring people. After working out the details of their wedding and getting to know them, I took a second in the ally way at our studio to photograph them so that we could place faces to the names and the story!

Amanda and Greg... what would their ad say?

The 21st of February was a pretty good day. We just returned from our largest wedding workshop of the year. I had just checked off my 34th birthday! on the calendar and we were at a wedding doing what we love!
Greg and Amanda both work for Advertising agencies in NYC. They are both wonderful people with great families, which we really enjoyed the spending the day with!
Here are some of the images from the day these two beautiful people started their new family together!

Back to Bloggin'

Finally,
we are back in the saddle, or back in the office chair in front of the computer. With a dark chocolate/chili bar next to me and a Dr. Pepper chillin' in the fridge, I am ready to pick up with the blog and... wow I can really taste the chili in this chocolate.
Anyway, I want everyone who reads this to be my friend on face book! I need all the cyber friends i can get since I don't get out much! you can find my personal page under seth jones in ABQ or visit our studio page at here.
We will also be posting some of our slideshows on YouTube as soon as I figure the HD out.
Anyway, thanks for readin' the blog!