My neighbor contacted me with a bit of a proposition. She does some great crochet work and has done a few pieces for me in the past. She offered to make a bunch of newborn hats and cocoons for me, if I would take some pictures of her hats that are currently for sale on her Etsy site. I knew that my friend Lexi would be a perfect model to show off these hats. It was a lot of fun and I’m excited to do some more.
If any of you own a boutique or have items you sell on Etsy or anywhere that would benefit from professional pictures, lets talk.
This shoot has been sitting in my to-do list for months now. So long, that I can already see an improvement in my pictures.
A while back I seized the opportunity to do a shoot with the designer Keith Bryce. His name might sound familiar, if you are a fan of Project Runway on Bravo. Julie Parker and Keith Bryce, organized seven photographers, including myself, four models, and three stylist to meet at an old sugar factory in North Ogden. We spent a few hours exploring the place, shooting, and just having fun. Out of no where, this dude in a truck pulls up, and starts screaming obscenities, and telling us to get off his property. Before we could even think he whipped out his rifle, from the passenger seat of his truck, and had it pointed at the obviously threatening models. As we cautiously approached this lunatic, he was screaming so hard, spit was spraying all over us. After a few minutes of trying to calm him down, and trying explain to him that we were given permission to be there, we gave up and decided to find a new location. Thankfully we were all able to get out of there unscathed.
When I got home and told my wife the whole story, I also discovered that in the whole confusion, I had also lost an entire 4gb card of pictures. I was more sick about losing those pictures, than I was having a crazy guy point a gun at my face.
Crazy story aside, I had a lot fun and learned a lot about what goes into a fashion shoot. I also think I got a few cool pictures to show from it.
I haven’t had a full week of vacation in years. San Diego was just what the doctor ordered. We didn’t have any plans other than Sea World, so we were able to just relax and go with the flow. I won’t bore you with the details but here are some pictures from the trip.
I think I miss the sunsets the most.
Dang it! I have some cute kids.
As far as church goes, I have always thought the earlier the better. This year our church has been at 1:00pm. So we are lazy all morning, go to church, and then it feels like the day is over. Last week we were all dressed and ready a little earlier than usual, so we went for a little drive, and found this cool place. I think this would be a great place to use for an engagement session or senior session. Its not a very colorful place so vibrant outfits would work well here. Like all parents I love every picture taken of my kids. I love seeing their personalities stand out in every shot. These are no exception.
If you want to use this place or somewhere similar Please contact me.
May is synonymous with flowers, spring, Mothers day, and all sorts of girly things. Although I can appreciate these things, I am trying to raise awareness of a the manly side of May, and what is more manly than a well groomed mustache. I have been walking around taking pictures of guys and their mustaches. I also have been asking them a few questions, like how long they have had it and what their wife or girlfriend thinks about it. Not surprisingly the women in their lives LOVE it, and who can blame them, really. Here is this weeks collection of awesomeness.
Yes that handsome devil in the bottom corners is me. (Taken with my laptop camera)
To be completely honest I have no Idea what the holiday celebrates. I’ll have to go check Wikipedia to find out, but what I do know is that it makes me want to go eat some yummy mexican food. It doesn’t get much more yummy or authentic than a spicy pork burrito from a taco cart downtown. Happy Cinco De Mayo everyone. Go eat a burrito. I just hope we don’t all celebrate Cinco De Mayo’s revenge tomorrow.
I have a very exciting workshop coming up, and for this workshop they asked that we send them a self portrait. I am generally the one behind the camera so my options were pretty poor. My wife and I were thinking about it and thought it would be fun to make some Batman t-shirts and play around with my son.
Self Portraits are harder than I thought, but I liked the results.
I’ve been asked if I am able to design some announcements and cards for people to send out along with the pictures I take. I tell them that I am not able to do that, but luckily my wife is pretty good at it. She has lots of great, creative ideas and has a real talent. She has created a bunch of stunning wedding announcements, shower invites, calendars and cards. Some of which I will try and post on here later for you to see. If you are interested in anything like that, be sure to let me know.
Here is just one example of a card she did recently.
While at the Julie Parker workshop we met this girl at The Pie restaurant. She let us borrow her for a few minutes, and we were able to get some great shots. Here are a couple of my favorites.
I guess this is my introductory post. I have a love for photography, so I have decided to take it to the next step. I needed a place to start posting pictures for others to enjoy and critique, so here is my blog. My posts may be a little sparse for the next little while, but I promise to be more consistent as time goes by. Be sure to click on the Travis link at the top for more
information about me.
I have heard its bad to post without a pic so here is a quick one of my son.
