Monthly Archives: January 2010

Love’s First Year – My New Photography Project for the brides of 2010

I’m very excited to announce a photography project for the brides of 2010. If you’re getting married, or you know someone who is, may I have your attention, please? I have an announcement. It’s called Love’s First Year, my latest photography project. I love to photograph weddings. I love recording authentic moments as they unfold. [...]
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Bride and Groom – Provo

I photographed Lizzie and Spencer one week after they got married. (The session was given to them as a gift from a friend). They were on their way to their wedding party. Thanks for coming, lovebirds.
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Some people are so nice

I love it when strangers (or anyone, really) take time from their busy day to write me. Here’s an email I received today from someone I’ve never met or spoken to. Comments: I live in Québec Canada and I think your photography is so inspiring, I would actually travel to UT for a sitting with [...]
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Photography Books

Here are the photography books I got for my birthday. I’m so excited!
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Utah Portrait Photography – Olson Family

Get this. After we sat down for a few minutes to talk so I could get to know the Olson’s, we went in the studio to make some portraits and I turned on the music. I selected Mates of State, the Re-Arrange Us album. The parents stared at me like I was from another planet. [...]
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CJane

Good things happen when you hang around Courtney. Are you like me? Do you like people that laugh easily and can make you laugh and that when you are around them, there’s an overall sense of joy and that everything is going to be ok? If you like people like that then you’d love Courtney [...]
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Photographer Karen Walrond and Alt Design

Last year when the 30 Strangers project was announced, we had far more requests to participate than we had spaces. Emails came, mostly from Utah, but from other places as well. One email was from Texas. The email said she wanted to be a part of the project. But in the end, it didn’t work [...]
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Love Your Neighbor: Haiti

It’s disturbing to see the news from Haiti. I think, how can another bad thing happen to Haiti. Although poverty-stricken, it’s a vibrant county with a rich and lively culture. I’ve been to Haiti twice and have loved my time spent there and fallen in love with the people I’ve met. And now, an earthquake. [...]
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Utah portraits

Photographed in Provo, Utah.
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Provo portraits

Photographed in Provo, Utah
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How to be a photographer

You cannot be a photographer by aspiring to be one, or by learning everything there is to be known about photography. Photographers produce photographs. And many of them. Like every other skill, photography is learned by continuous and dedicated practice. Bill Jay, Occam’s Razor
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Rexburg Family Portraits

The Jones family, photographed in Rexburg, Idaho. For extra fun, look here to see how things turned out last year for their family photographs.
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Provo Portrait Photography

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Rexburg Family Pictures

The Griffin family, photographed in Rexburg, Idaho.
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Stephanie

Stephanie, photographed in her home, a couple weeks before Christmas
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A Photographer’s Style

Young photographers are often pressured into an emphasis on individual style, a search for distinction, a quest for newness and differentness. Yet the truth of the matter is that a unique style is a by-product of visual exploration, not its goal. Personal vision only comes from not aiming for it. In dim light, objects emerge [...]
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Alt Design Summit

January 21 – 23 in Salt Lake City are the dates for the Altitude Design Summit. It’s a conference for design and lifestyle bloggers. Love great design? Then you should go. Get this: Keynote speakers include Panelists Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, founder of Apartment Therapy; Grace Bonney, founder of Design*Sponge; Jean Aw, founder of NotCot, and Heather [...]
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