Blog: Weddings, Portraits and Events

Meet Roman | Newborn

One year and eight days ago I photographed the wedding of Dee and Iulia. Yesterday I took some pictures of their brand new baby boy Roman. He literally slept the entire time. More to come.

Pearson Christmas Party | Event

There is nothing more fun than a Christmas party with a sweet venue, a bar, great food and fun people. Oh yeah, and blackjack..roulette…craps…pool tables. Awesome. Last week was the big holiday event for the Phoenix branch of Pearson School Systems. I shot last year’s party for them and was honored when they asked me back a second time. They are a fun group of people and I always enjoy hanging out with them for a few hours. I mean, right when I walked in the door, my main contact Michelle dropped four drink coupons in my hand and said [...]

Rob and Anna | Wedding

Back in October I helped my good friend and photog extraordinaire Trevor Dayley shoot Rob and Anna’s wedding. I was so blessed to be a part of this event, not only because it was fantastic to hang out with Trevor for a few hours, but also the wedding itself was absolutely beautiful. I always want to tell a story with my wedding posts, but since I was only helping Trevor for this one, I didn’t get to find out too much about Rob and Anna. I do know they constantly get asked how old they are since they both look [...]

The Carusone family

I love, love, love referrals and so I want to thank my friends Joel and Kim for passing my name on to the Carusone family! We met up Sunday in Tempe to get some updated family photos. Although…we were supposed to have met up a few weeks prior, but suddenly there was a massive triathalon going on that day, so we had to reschedule. Dena loves this area around the Tempe Center for the Arts and really wanted to have their photos taken with it as the backdrop. Had a blast with these guys. The three brothers, Erik, Logan and [...]

The Ross family

I went to high school with Melanie…which was…yeah, a long time ago. We didn’t run in the same circles really, but she has always been one of my favorite people that I remember from high school. She and her friend Lori were short, cute and the nicest people that you’d ever meet. They were almost like twins. They were always together.  And they had a unique way about them…like standing out in front of the school just waving at people as they drove up. Not just a normal wave, but like they were in a beauty pageant  or something. I [...]

The Kruckenberg family

Photographing the Kruckenberg fam is always a treat because…well, look at ‘em. Nothing but cuteness everywhere. Yeah, even Brian, whatever, I said it. We’ve known this family for a long time now. Brian is the pastor at the church we attend called New City in downtown Phoenix. In fact, a large part of the reason we live downtown in the first place was to help that church get going. It’s been awesome to watch what is happening with it and how it’s growing. They’ve been huge in our lives and we love them to pieces. Tuesday evening we hooked up [...]

Rachel + Scott | Engaged

I met Rachel over a year ago at a showing she did at our New City Studio gallery for First Friday. She had some killer images of children from Uganda, taken when she was volunteering with Food for the Hungry. We’ve stayed in touch as she continues to learn more and more about photography and hopes to eventually start her own business. Along the way she mentioned something about this boy Scott and the fact they might get married. I was like…that’s awesome! So when is the wedding? She said they weren’t engaged yet, she’d let me know. So I [...]

The Sanchez family

Brandy and her cute family have been doing big store studio photo sessions ever since they had kid number one.  But last time out it didn’t go so well, so she wanted to try something different. She asked me to shoot her little boy’s 1-year photos, plus just general family pictures of her other two girls, Jayden and Lili. I am obviously a huge fan of outdoor, lifestyle photography, so I couldn’t have been more excited to show this family how much fun you can have just walking around taking pictures. We ventured down to one of the Rio Salado [...]

The Servin family

The day after Thanksgiving is usually the day everyone goes shopping. For me though, it’s the day I take pictures of the Servin family. I turn 37 in February, which means I’ve been friends with Sam and his family for over 20 years now. Definitely my oldest friend that I still get to see here and there. He was the best man at my wedding and now here we both are married with young kids growing up right before our eyes. I’m so proud of him and his little clan. But that’s not everyone who showed up for picture day. [...]

One shot – Rachel + Scott | Engagement

A single frame from Rachel and Scott’s engagement shoot down in Tucson at the Pima Air and Space Museum. There were a lot of planes there. And this cute couple. Posted another sneak over on my Facebook fan page, check it out, become a fan. More to come.