Don't Mess With Texas

This wedding had a special place in my heart because it brought me back home, to Austin TX. I enjoy living other places, but I think Austin will always feel like home. Yes... I was the overly-excited freshman at BYU who had a TX flag in my dorm room. I also loved working with Jenn and Jared because they were amazing! Willing to do or try anything (including standing in the middle of So Congress Ave downtown around rush hour). The cars were honking and cheering... it was quite an experience.

These guys were so cute together. You just have to see their faces to know how happy they are to be together.

See Jenn and Jared's full gallery here.

California: Sandals and Satin

If a picture is worth a thousand words, I have an entire library headed your way from this beautiful wedding.

Confession: I believe palm trees automatically make a photo 117% better. It's science.

Anyone else reminded of Peter Pan and his shadow when you look at the above photo?

Cutest. "Cake" toppers. EVER.

Take a look at Jessica and Casey's entire wedding, beginning to end, here.

Allison and Darron: Pre-wedding day formals at Santa Monica Pier

I'm originally from Austin, Texas, which I once thought to be a fairly big city. I live now in Lehi, Utah, which is definitely NOT a big city. Neither location really educated me on what "bad traffic" can really mean. I was actually pretty naive when it came to such things, and didn't really understand how horrendous a traffic situation can really be. NO LONGER!

We met up with Allison and Darron at the Los Angeles LDS Temple to shoot some bride and groom photos the day before their wedding (bridals/groomals/pre-wedding-vanity-shoot, call it whatever you like :), and when we finished, we headed on over to the Santa Monica Pier to finish the rest of the evening. It's only a hair over 5 miles from the Temple to the Pier, and I figured even with "bad" traffic we'd get there in about 30 minutes. ...About an hour and a half later we pull into the parking garage a block away from the Pier, and I am ready to pull out my hair.

This was fairly representative of the traffic situation during our trip down there. We fought with "Jeeves" our friendly GPS unit the whole way about whether or not we dared get onto a freeway while we were down there. It seemed like "rush hour" was actually from about 8am-11:30am and then again from 12:00pm-8pm.

Anyways, once we got to the Pier everything was great. Allison was completely gorgeous in her dress (even after close to two hours in the car getting there), and we ended up getting some really fun images. There were THOUSANDS of people around the Pier and the beach, which made Allison and Darron feel a little out of place in their wedding clothes, but they were awesome! Seriously, if I were on the other side of the camera I would have died. We even had an audience that spontaneously started cheering when they did their first kiss for the camera. Darron was so cute about the process- once he realized that we were going to have an audience for the remainder of the evening, he made the joke that he would just tell people that they were models just doing their job. So the whole time, he just said over and over under his breath "It's ok, I'm a model." It made for a fun running joke, and anytime we needed a genuine smile I just had to remind him to give his model face. "Ok, now BLUE STEEL!"

^ Insert cheering here. Yaaaaay....

As I've mentioned before, I am addicted to color, and so I think this ferris wheel below is amazing.

This next one on the left is definitely where Darron the Model shines...

Take a look at the complete set of the formals at Santa Monica here.

Angela Palmer

Almost done with Christmas posts! Here's my little sis Angela, and the photos from her Christmas shoot in Spokane, Wa. Lots of fun playing with different ways of lighting her up- we even used the car headlights once or twice!






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Jasmine Palmer

I'm finally wrapping up the last few sessions that I did for family while we were up in Spokane for Christmas. Free shoots coming after paid ones in the editing priority and all.... so here's Jasmine. We headed across the Idaho border to this pretty lake for the photoshoot. I didn't really know what to expect, but I was pleased with the scenery. It's always fun to take photos in new and beautiful locations.






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Beauchamp Family

Here's a shoot I did for Christmas for my sister Chelsea and her family while we were up in Spokane. Their son Elijah is super adorable; I love getting a chance to shoot him! :)




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