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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Adorn It | Utah Fashion Photography

You may remember me mentioning earlier in the summer that my makeup artist Ashley (or "The Amazing Ashley" as I like to call her) are doing a project where every other week we get together and practice doing our craft.  We sort of pick a theme, find models, and just go out and have fun.  These are images from one of these shoots.  Ashley put so much work in getting this all together!  She met with a stylist at Adorn It to borrow clothing from their store.  She them recruited two of her friends to be models for the evening and let me tell you, those girls rocked it!  Adorn It was so awesome to let us use their merchandise, they have the cutest clothes there!  They are also great advocates for helping other local business out any way they can.

For this shoot, we headed up to the campus of USU.  It was a really hot evening but the models were such great sports.  I also invited my friend Cindee along for the evening.  She and I went to the WPPI conference in Vegas together this spring and we had been wanting to shoot together ever since, we finally got our chance!  It worked out well with the two models because we each got to take one and go have fun, then we'd just switch and create more beautiful images.  We both just about died from dehydration (and I might have almost passed out a little, but who's counting), so remember your water bottles fellow photographers!

Here's some advice I have for you if you are getting Senior Portraits done, and even family pictures; Adding a makeup artist to a photo shoot makes such an amazing difference.  Please considering hiring one, even if you aren't doing a shoot with me.  Most know what looks good for the camera.  Of course, I mostly only trust Ashley with my clients, so I highly recommend using her.  I would be more than happy to pass along her telephone number to you.




Monday, July 28, 2014

C Family | Northern Utah Family Portrait Photographer

This is a very special family portrait session for me.  I have known this family since their very beginnings, and I have known the mom since middle school.  They are working their way through a very tough time right now and when she asked me to do their  pictures,  I was more than honored.  The day of the shoot (which sooooooo luckily did NOT rain) she started to tell me a bit about why this family portrait session meant so much to her.  I stopped her, probably mid-sentence because that's how I roll, and asked her if she wouldn't mind writing the blog post for her pictures for me.  She very graciously agreed.  Here's what she had to say:

Our family has been living a roller coaster of tumult for several years.  With four children, two of which are teenagers, life is bound to get bumpy.  We had sent our oldest daughter off to college last fall and we knew that our job of "raising her" was relatively over but our 16 year old son was another story.  His life was so horrible, depressed, suicidal, dark, and unmanageable we struggled with knowing what to do or how to help him.  Avoiding him became the only method of coping.  Each night I would go to bed wondering if he would be alive the next morning and who might be the one to find him if he wasn't.  I lived with this fear for almost 4 years.  January came and our family hit rock bottom as we were forced to put our son in a psychiatric hospital and then moved to a long-term residential facility.  The days were cold, long, and dark both emotionally and physically.  Life was truly at it's lowest.  The younger girls longed for a happy fun brother.  Our daughter at college was angry at her brother for the burden and stress he had created for the rest of the family all while preparing to serve an LDS mission to Hong Kong, China.    As the months of treatment passed, we saw our son improve and our daughter's anger subside.  A very small sliver of opportunity presented itself to get our family photos taken.  Aimee is a very old friend and I knew she was the only person I trusted with the monumental task of preserving this one perfect moment in time for my family.  The weeks of rain were relentless but with lots of prayers, we managed to have the most incredible perfect evening for photos (with an ADHD dog included).  I know that Aimee was concerned about capturing those "picture perfect" moments but it was those less than perfect moments I was hoping to capture even more.  As the photos came back to me and Aimee expressed concern that the dog didn't always look the right way or my 8 year old had a goofy face, I was so filled with amazement and awe as I was able to see joy, true joy, on the faces of every member of my family.  I knew I needed to see every single candid photo she took because they showed pure love and happiness on all 6 of our faces at the same time for the very first time in 4+ years.  For one small moment, we were all genuinely happy.  How thankful I am for those wonderful photos Aimee took, both the beautifully posed ones but more importantly, the candids of read happiness and laughter.  When your family has lived in such sadness and turmoil for so long, it is truly such a priceless treasure.  I know everyone wants that one "perfect" frame-able photo to post on social media and hang in their home but I look at my photos and my most "perfect" frame-able photos are not what the photographer would consider as perfect.  The perfect photos are the ones that show true happiness.  These photos are all over my home and are a constant reminder of where we have been and where we are now.  I am so thankful for each and every single photo as they are tender sweet reminders of what heaven will be like with my family someday.


Utah Family Portraits

Utah Family Pictures

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Utah Family Pictures

Utah Family Pictures

Utah Family Portraits


Utah Family Pictures

Enjoy this Family  Portrait session photographed by Aimee Campbell Photography.  I am a Utah Photographer based in Logan, UT specializing in custom Senior Portrait Photography and  Family Portraits. I am available for Family and Senior  photography sessions in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan, Northern Utah and Southeast Idaho.  

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Senior Model 2015 | Logan Utah Senior Portrait Photographer

I've got a to-do list that I pretty much start new everyday.  At the top each day is blogging (with 3 exclamation points!) and each day it's the one thing that doesn't get done.  Slowly I'm trying to catch up and I continue to have faith that I will.  I've been very fortunate though that my photography business has continued to be busy, which keeps me too busy to blog somedays.  It has been one crazy summer and continues to be so, but I wouldn't have it any other way.  

This is another one of my gorgeous models for the 2014-2015 school year.  She is a Senior at Logan High School. She brought along two of her sisters on the shoot and we all had so much fun!  I was lucky enough to get my amazing makeup artist Ashley (I use the term "amazing" a lot when it comes to Ashley because it's TRUE) to do her makeup for this shoot.  It just adds so much!  Please girls, when considering doing your Senior portraits, budget for a makeup artist!  It enhances the images so much and you will love them just a bit more than if you hadn't :)

If you are looking for a discount on your Senior Portrait session, check with Madison, she has a discount card for you!


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Senior Photographer Utah

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Senior Pictures Utah

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Utah Senior Portraits

Utah Senior Portraits

Utah Senior Portraits

Utah Senior Portraits

Enjoy this Portrait session photographed by Aimee Campbell Photography.  I am a Utah Photographer based in Logan, UT specializing in custom Senior Portrait Photography and  Family Portraits. I am available for Family and Senior  photography sessions in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan, Northern Utah and Southeast Idaho.  

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Miss S | Utah Senior Portrait Photographer

As I was going through my files on my computer looking to see what still needed to be posted, I came across this Senior from Salt Lake that I got to photograph and realized I haven't even blogged her cute images!  What is wrong with me?  It was so much fun and her family was so cute, how could I forget these?!  I need a better to-do list.......

Senior Pictures Utah

Senior Portrait Photographer

Senior Pictures Utah

Senior Portrait Photographer Utah

Utah Senior Pictures

Utah Senior Pictures

Utah Senior Pictures

Utah Senior Pictures

Utah Senior Photographer

Utah Senior Pictures

Enjoy this Portrait session photographed by Aimee Campbell Photography.  I am a Utah Photographer based in Logan, UT specializing in custom Senior Portrait Photography and  Family Portraits. I am available for Family and Senior  photography sessions in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan, Northern Utah and Southeast Idaho.  

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Senior Model Class of 2015 | Logan Utah Senior Photographer

I've been having one of the best problems there can be.  I've been so busy out photographing people that by blog has been ignored.  I like to come on here and proclaim that I'm going to do so much better at blogging, but every time I end up right back where I started and I let the blog fall to the wayside.  So I'm not promising anything anymore haha!  But I am trying to get caught up before next week, when my life gets super busy again.

This cute girl is another one of my Senior Models for the 2014-2015 school year. She is from Logan High School and is on the track team.  This poor girl had to sit and wait through my makeup artist (the freaking awesome Ashley Palmer of Perfection by Ashley) teaching this old woman how to do her makeup.  It was really kinda funny so I hope she didn't mind too much.  Ashley did a really nice light makeup application on her, she's the best! After that, of course, I dragged her all over town.  I tend to do that.  So if you book me, be sure to be up for an adventure.  She is such a girl after my own heart!  She hates wearing shoes and so do I.  I need to be in a warmer climate where I don't have to make my feet suffocate for half of the year.  If you are looking for a deal on your Senior portraits, find Carie, she has a discount card for you!

There are still two more models I hope to get on the blog soon.  One more from Logan High and one more from Mountain Crest.  So check back soon, I'll have lots more cute pics to share!

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Logan Utah Senior Pictures

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Senior Pictures Utah

Utah Senior Portraits

Utah Senior Photographer

Utah Senior Photographer

Utah Senior Pictures
Enjoy this Portrait session photographed by Aimee Campbell Photography.  I am a Utah Photographer based in Logan, UT specializing in custom Senior Portrait Photography and  Family Portraits. I am available for Family and Senior  photography sessions in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan, Northern Utah and Southeast Idaho.