Aida's newborn photos

Maternity photos- Lindsay and Trapper

Dandelion

Senior portraits

This week I photographed beautiful Addi who is graduating this spring. I've known Addi for about 8 years as I'm close friends with her mother and it's been a joy to watch Addi grow into the great young woman she is today. We had such a fun day together photographing despite rainclouds, wind and unexpected cold weather with her mother acting as my "assistant" and being a pro with those reflectors (even the one that broke in the wind;).

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation Addi!

I go down to the shore...

I Go Down To The Shore

"I go down to the shore in the morning

and depending on the hour the waves

are rolling in or moving out,

and I say, oh, I am miserable,

what shall-

what shall I do? And the sea says

in its lovely voice:

Excuse me, I have work to do."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings 

"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. You are not here long." -Walker Evans

I miss summer...

After two weeks of 0 temperatures here in Utah, I miss warmth and I miss summer. I know, I know...I do love my snow and winter but seriously, it's too cold to ski right now (I'm a wimp and I have had too many frostbite in my days that in these temps, my toesies freeze).

So I'm sitting here going through summer shots and thought I'd post something that can warm us all up...at least in spirit:).

Abstract Landscape Photography

 

Happy Halloween!

My kids love Halloween. They start discussing what to dress up as pretty much the day after Halloween and spend the whole year going through all their options. This year, something spooky was on the agenda. Emma considered her choices for months. A vampire? Nah! A werewolf? Too hard to paint and lame to wear a mask.

After all that thought, she finally settled on the same as last year: a zombie. :)

Same clothes, crazy hair and the ability to do her own make up. Totally up Emma's alley...she was in!

Grace still has one foot left in the years of when Halloween was a chance to dress up as less scary options such as cowgirls, princesses and such. She wanted scary AND fun and after much consideration found a good compromise in being a zombie cheerleader. 

One borrowed cheer outfit later we were ready to go. 

This is where I come in. Being a Swede with little experience of proper Halloween decorations, my kids always look a little disappointed when I put up a spider web and a spider on the porch and call it good. They'd much prefer me to go all out with skeletons and black lights, fog and dry ice. 

BUT...I do enjoy a proper face paint and Grace still lets me help with make up and hair and we had a blast getting her ready. 

Neighbor Olivia showed up before dusk dressed in a homemade mummy outfit that was simply fantastic. I was able to get the three of them to stand still for 30 seconds before erupting in complete pre trick-or-treat mayhem. Without any direction from me, they got into character and played undead for the few frames I was able to capture. 

Hope everyone else had a spooky Halloween as well!

In a New York state of mind...

Visited New York City last week and shot some black and white hipstamatic prints with my Iphone 5 as I made my way around the city.
Oh the joy of a new toy coupled with the endless possibilities of a place like manhattan.

Wild horses...

well...not exactly wild but I wanted to photograph them as if they were.  Aimed for a surreal, almost

dream-like mood of motion, texture and light. The sun had just set over the ranch up at Bear Lake and the only light source was the sliver of light to the west.