Julia & Dylan’s wedding at The Paseo
From spring 2020, a few weeks before everything shut down. The desert flowers surrounding The Paseo were stunning!
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San Simon Supercell
After nine days of no storms, I struggled with motivation, but somehow still dragged myself out of bed last Thursday at 5am to get to the AZ/NM border in time for late morning development. It seemed like a lock for a supercell to form between 10-12 near San Simon and move east into New Mexico. Arrived early, took a cat nap, enjoyed a weaker storm waking me up with rain drops, but I knew the real show was the tail end one rapidly intensifying over the Chiricahua Mountains. Lightning showed up on radar finally and I knew I was in business. I sat back and watched it arrive in San Simon mostly a blob of rain, but then the bolts starting hitting around me and some structure began to show. I headed east on 10 to get out of the precip and avoid the widow maker bolts, but after a few miles I pulled over to a nice high view overlooking this valley. And that’s when this thing rapidly turned into the most incredibly structured supercell I’ve ever personally witnessed here in Arizona. The wall cloud, the vertical updraft, the incredible rain/hail falling to the right and then NUTSO towering lightning bolts landing everywhere. There is actually another faint one on the left. Thankful I pushed myself to chase this and feel lucky to have been on this guy for the 20 minutes it was awesome. The time-lapse is great, look for it in Monsoon 6!
Bill & Jonathon’s wedding at Cochise Geronimo Clubhouse
There’s nothing about this wedding I didn’t love.
Kelsey & Brian’s maternity session
Been on a maternity kick lately…this was this past spring and wow, the light in this location was just stunning! Another sweet couple who’s wedding I shot awhile back!
Reverent: A 8K time-lapse film
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A couple years ago I made a black and white time-lapse film just for fun, and now here we are with the third installment in the series. It’s a way to play around in the winter months with something new and different, get creative and also help pass the time until spring returns!
I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with this one, and couldn’t even find the perfect song for it, until the duo Bullet & Cass emailed me about wanting to use my footage for their upcoming debut single. I get a lot of those kinds of emails, so I didn’t think much of it…until I clicked on the preview links for their two tracks…and wow, I was blown away by how much I loved “The Way You Do.” A few seconds into the song, I was immediately laying down tracks to it in my head. I listened all the way to the end and knew I had found my song. We did a straight up trade…footage for the track, and the editing began in earnest.
After I finished editing back in November, I needed a title. It took me weeks. The song has a sort of folksy haunting old west vibe to it (at least to me) and I needed the perfect name to go along with it. I finally pulled up a list of old west terms and when I stumbled across Reverent…I knew it was the one. Not only did it sound and feel right, but it actually is how I feel standing out there a lot. These storms are powerful and deadly, and sometimes you are just staring out at them with this deep respect and admiration for what you are witnesses. Or perhaps, in my case, for the one who created it.
I hope you enjoy this film as much as I do. All footage in it is from 2019, with some unseen monsoon clips in there as well. Definitely felt like it was taking a risk on the song choice itself, especially as lyrics aren’t my normal deal. But I love it, love it, love it and I hope you do too! And if you do, please visit the links up top and buy the single and check out their website!
Technical Details:
Everything shot with two Canon 5DSRs and various Canon lenses. A couple lightning sequences with the Sony A7R3
All clips available in 8K Resolution
Processed in Lightroom, LR Timelapse, After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Andrea & Brad’s engagement at Gate’s Pass
These two. They brought me whiskey and a diet coke. Forever in my heart 🙂
Elle & Bryan’s wedding in Cave Creek
A fun wedding from earlier this year up at Cave Creek Regional Park and then the reception at the Cirvana. Loved all the moments in this one, especially the blindfold first look! We went out to a random road in the desert to do some photos and got lucky with overcast skies to help keep the brightness down!
Hope you enjoy!
The Van Brunt Family
A favorite family session from 2018 that never got shared! Love the Papago area and this wonderful family!
Brittany & Jim’s wedding at The Paseo
Not gonna lie, this was one of my favorite weddings of the spring! Love The Paseo venue, such great desert scenery around it for photos at sunset! Brittany and Jim were wonderful to work with, such great, kind people…and their wedding was a blast. Lots of tears, especially between Brittany and her two dads…love all of those images! Hope you enjoy these!
