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!

a few holiday sessions

Unfortunately we don't have the time to blog every session. especially over the holidays. We did however do a number of sessions over the holidays and I thought I would at least put a few into a blog... I chose a few that kind of spanned life.

Isaac and Nicole came in for their maternity session. It was just suppose to be a half hour or so session but we spent a little more time with her and tried out some new background that we've been wanting to use!




Akash came to meet his parent this year and we had the opportunity to photograph mommy's maternity pictures and his newborns! I love his fab hair, and have decided he's a pretty good mix of both mom and dad!






We photographed David and Anita's wedding in 2006 they added to the family this year and called us to photograph the changes. Elijah was so serious the entire shoot, it made us laugh because I know we looked like idiots trying to make him laugh, and he was not having it!! Hey we tried and I love the way they turned out.










We have known the hicks family for a number of years. We have watched their kids grow, Desiree and I have even taught a few of their kids Sunday school. Desiree Just got involved in Cub Scouts and will have the opportunity to work with the kids again. This is actually one of my favorite images from 2008. We were just doing light checks and Desiree captured this Norman Rockwell-esque image.


Garilyn & Johnny met us for a location session in the bosque. Garilyn had told me they wanted to do something different, they had done the studio potrait thing and now they wanted to have some fun! Even Zero the gi-normous golden lab got to play. Thanks for letting us play!













Again, we wish we could blog about all the other folks we had the opportunity to work with. There just aren't enough hours in the day...

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!

Angelique & Robert

Angelique and Robert are one of the few couples we are able to photograph in June. June 2008 has been so busy that we have turned more than two dozen couples down that wanted us to photograph their weddings during June. We do have 5 weddings in June and are looking forward to each one. One of these weddings is that of Angelique and Robert. We were able to spend an hour or so with them downtown and in the studio shooting an engagement session for them. We really enjoyed our time with them and look forward to being a part of the wedding. Angelique has a great attitude and a cute little freckle on her toe which she adores!! Anyway, freckle and all we are looking forward to their wedding.

A family night out

In 2006 we had the great opportunity to be a part of Keith and Jade’s wedding. It was an intimate wedding with close friends and family on a winery in the Rio Grande Valley. A few weeks back we were able to have them back in the studio for a family session. They just wanted a simple little studio session while their family was in town.
They came to the studio and we just relaxed and had a good time, during that time we were able to catch the personalities of each of them. We were cry excited to have them come into the studio and are excited for the next time.

A mind of her own!

Sometimes as photographers we have ideas and a mental image of things that we would like to see happen with a shoot, we needed Alyssa to remind us that we are there to capture those things that make our clients unique! When we were photographing her this time, she wasn't feeling the tutu's and costumes, she had something else in store! When she climbed up on the chair and mischievously looked back at us, I knew we had the shot that screamed I'm an individual!

mysterious ways

There are many different kinds of families in this world, and sometimes we need others to make our families whole. The Snell's are good friends of ours and they received an early Christmas gift this year, Sophie was born December 6th and joined the Snell family shortly thereafter. Everyone knows that Sophie was meant to join their family, she was just meant to be born to another mother. I had the great opportunity to go visit with and photograph them shortly after sophie came home. She truly make a beautiful addition to a beautiful family.
We don't always know why things happen and when, the Lord really works in mysterious ways. We just have to put our trust him him and let his will be done!

Finally the Frushours!

We shot another family for our Legacy collection! We ran into the Frushours at the mall on crazy tax free weekend and they mentioned they haven't had pictures done of Hayden since he was born. We figured that since he's now two, it was time. We had a wonderful time shooting and playing, even though Hayden was more interested in eating cookies than doing pictures! It was a great opportunity for them to enjoy time together as a family and have great images to show for it. Thanks guys for coming in, and enjoy!

Senior portrait sessions

Our ( j ) senior sessions mailer went out this week. It's the first this school year. Because we only do custom work for our seniors, we have not been advertising and only work with a select few seniors on a referral basis only. Because of the demand among groups of kids who want that total personalization with their senior photos, we are dedicating more time to our senior sessions in order to accommodate a few more people. This has also allowed us to do a bit of advertising.
We are very lucky in that we are able to work with only a select group of kids. Not so lucky when we have to turn so many away. But it works out well for us and all those that we are able to work with.
We have the ability to give all of our seniors a completely personal session, shot on nearly any location that they can imagine, using anything they want in the picture to show their personality.
To give you an idea: We have shot in bedrooms, on the mesa, in the canyons, in the foothills, downtown, oldtown, bosque, backyard, in a tree, rock climbing, in clubs, in cars, on cars, in dance schools, building tops, back alleys, botanical garden and in the middle of the street between traffic. Yes, we also shoot in the studio. Those sessions are usually done when our senior has a very specific vision that can only be captured in the studio. We have also shot with all sorts of imaginable props: cars, camping equipment, motorcycles, umbrellas books, cellos, friends, couches, chairs, microphones, bubblegum.
One of the beauties of life is it's diversity. We are all individuals with our own needs, wants, personalities, and passions. There is no reason that we can't express those traits that make us who we are. We have great opportunity to work with people to do just that; express themselves and have it captured, to be enjoyed forever.
Please contact us to get your senior sessions scheduled. Or if you know of someone graduating this year and know that the standard/traditional yearbook picture and session just won't do them justice, please contact us.

Four generations of strong women

I had the opportunity today to photograph four generations of Moody women. I had a wonderful time watching Rebe and Ally play with their great grandma. We were told before hand that Grammy wasn't "photogenic" but it's amazing when you concentrate on the feelings that one generation has for another, it doesn't matter. Grammy was beautiful, all smiles and love for her great grand daughters. Thank you for sharing your legacy with us!
We are so privileged to be able to be a part of the lives of so many people. To see and know a family like this and be able to provide them with images of the family legacy is a great blessing.
There is always time in our lives that we can take away from the daily grind and spend with our families. Take some time with them and have it captured, to be remembered for generations - a testament of your family's love.
Thanks again for letting us be a part of your families.
Desiree

A "Legacy" series

We are releasing our legacy series in the close future and have been shooting some families, in the mean time, to use for our promo material. Today we were able to shoot the Fausett family. I have been looking forward to this shoot because I have not had a chance to spend much time with the youngest, Willy. He was a perfect model for the shoot this morning. Everything that we asked him to do, he did. He was easy to communicate with and in a great mood. --which can be, as most of us parents know, a real hit-n-miss at that age.
Anyway we had a great time look forward to looking through the rest of the images.


Thanks again you guys for coming over for our shoot this morning. I really enjoyed it! don't let it be so long before the next time we do your pictures!! Trisdan, we are going to be starting our photo classes soon, let me know if you want some information.
Your kids are truly beautiful, you are pretty blessed parents!
Take care!

On the river bank

It has been a while since we shot in this particular spot on the river. It was really overgrown with trees and weeds since we were there last, which made things a bit more challenging. Anyway we were able to meet up with the Gale family before sunset and take advantage of the light to get some really nice images of the family. Aside from the grumpy older brother, everything went well. The twins are way cute, each with such different personalities. It is really nice to shoot such a cute family! (next time we'll have to shoot your family in the morning before any of the kids run off to the pool and stay all day without telling you) Take care you guys!! We look forward to getting the rest of your images ready and out to you!

MOM-E-2-B

OK Stephanie, here is your sneak preview of your images. I just randomly went through the session and pulled out three that popped out at me. I know going into the session you weren't quite sure what direction you wanted to take it so hopefully we were able to capture something that you will love.
I look forward to looking at the rest of the images and getting them ready for you. I am also looking forward to September when we can welcome Daddy's little boy, and photograph his first few days with you two. Keep resting, keep your skinny ankles! You look great. Derek, you should be proud that you have such a hot pregnant wife!!
Thanks again you two, we had a great time.

Long delayed post

We had a visit today from one of our favorite clients ( we have many favorite clients). We have had the great pleasure of working with her family for a while now and have been able to photograph them a few times. They have been blessed to two very cute girls and one devil. (most almost two year olds are devils though) Anyway, our last shoot was at the park where we were able to capture the kids just playing together.
We look forward to working with you guy again Mika. (sorry for the delay)!!!

Easton 6 Months

Yesterday we had another opportunity to photograph a baby from a couple whose wedding we had the honor to capture. Chad and Marissa are the lucky parents of little Easton, a six month old who is all boy. We shot in his bedroom which made the shoot very easy. Babies are most comfortable at home in a familiar setting. Instead of looking around at all of the unfamiliar things, Easton was completely relaxed, letting his personality show like nothing else. I know I say this of a lot of babies but Easton was a real pleasure to work with. He is a very hansom young man and Chad and Marissa are very lucky.
We are looking forward to our next shoot!

A honeymoon baby?

Today was a great day. Lance and Megan, a beautiful couple we had the great pleasure to photograph came in today with their beautiful little boy Jackson. Born 9 months and 15 days after their wedding. Jackson is one of the best babies that we have been blessed to be able to work with. He was very good and we took a ton of pictures of him. I pulled this image out of the many just randomly. He had so many great images that I would have been proud to show any. A baby like this makes my job easy!!
Megan and Lance, you are two very lucky new parents. Congratulations!!

Snowy May Afternoon

Liz & Coleman are gettin' hitched in a couple of weeks. (very very short weeks, if you ask Liz) Anyway, we had a chance to shoot a session of their entire (soon to be) family. We did this at the top of Sandia Crest. It was cold and snowy but we had a great time. I had had oral surgery just an hour before the shoot and was afraid that the pain and/or numbness would alter the outcome of the shoot. Well, with all the hiking my blood started to flow and the numbness quickly went away. the cold also kept the pain down. All in all it was a great shoot. Liz and Coleman make quite a couple and Desiree and I are really looking forward to shooting their wedding.
You can't tell from the images but it really did snow and it was very cold!!