Lifestyle
The Bartons & Entire Family- Lifestyle Session
I’m sure you remember The Barton’s. We had the pleasure of getting to know them while Liz was still pregnant with Ethan. We did their maternity session as well as a newborn session once little Ethan arrived. Liz and Josh were hoping that Ethan’s delivery would time perfectly with when both of their families would [...]
The Vierkoetters – Lifestyle Session
We have been really wanting to incorporate this great location into one of our sessions. I’m referring to the Arizona Railway Museum.
Never heard of it?
Neither had I. And had driven right past it no less than 4,213,879 times. The church we used to serve at, Cornerstone, met at a high school in their earlier days, [...]
The Specks and Family- Lifestyle Session
You might remember that we did a photo shoot with our dear friends, The Lindbergs, a little over a month ago. We love these fun friends and we were thrilled when Jami told us that her sister Bre and her husband Kyle wanted to have their pictures taken as well! They are from Washington State [...]
The Butlers – Lifestyle Session
You know that whole “it’s a small world” deal? Well, it turns out that it just may be true.
No, I’m not talking about the maniacal ride at Disneyland. I mean this sort of inter-connectivity that Jess and I continue to experience when we have the opportunity to hang with new friends doing what we love [...]
The Budingers- Lifestyle Session
We did this photo shoot with this great family right before Christmas. It was fun to be in Downtown Chandler with them- decorations were up, there was a small chill in the air, everyone was in great spirits. We have loved using Downtown Chandler as a backdrop for photo shoots. There’s such a unique blend [...]
The Tans- Lifestyle Session
Photography is fundamentally the art of using light. Whether or not you are creating the light yourself, artificially, or using natural available light, lighting is everything to a photog. And if you can expose or “paint” with the light just right…well, then you have yourself a pretty fantastic image.
Contrary to popular opinion, having blue skies [...]
The Anglemyers- Lifestyle Session
Well if you keep up to date with most of our sessions and posts, you just may have seen me (Jason) hint to the “Railroad Nazi” in the Ibachs post. If you’ve been pondering what in the world I must have been referring to, let me enlighten you with the story tale legend of….the Railroad [...]
The Merrills- Lifestyle Session
Zack and Deb Merrill have been great friends to us, ever since Jess and I met them while serving at The Rock Eternal church. They are those types of people you notice in a crowd. You know. The outgoing, smiles always beaming, loud and fast, fun people you want to hang out with. Zack and [...]
The Longs- Lifestyle Session
We were so glad we met The Longs. They had scheduled with us weeks prior to their photo shoot, but we all woke up to cloudy skies and lots of rain on the actual day we had planned. Anticipating that the rain would let up we attempted to keep our meeting time, but once 4:00 [...]
The Berrys- Lifestyle Session
What does a gorgeous young married duo, an awesome painted “direction” sign, and three crazy rowdy dogs equal? One of the craziest shoots we’ve done so far and some ridiculously fun pictures!
Jeff and Eryn Berry contacted us about capturing them a couple months back, and Eryn told us that she really wanted to have their [...]
The Ibachs- Lifestyle Session
Well Jess and I are finally beginning to see the light at the end of this crazy busy holiday season! It’s been a fantastic time of growing for us as artists and we’ve gotten to meet some terrific new friends at our shoots. We’re super excited already for 2010 and what the year holds in [...]
The Andrews- Lifestyle Session
This is one very special family. We knew it from the very first email that was sent to us. Jolyn is the proud mamma of two incredible boys, Carter and Joel. When Jolyn first started talking with us about setting up a photo shoot, she informed us that this would be a special photo shoot [...]
The Rasts- Lifestyle Session
We love meeting people who are up for anything. And The Rasts were those people! We met The Rasts through The Rasts- yes, they are of course, family. Carey is the brother of Woody, who we photographed with his wife and daughter back in October 2009. It’s so amazing to meet people who are referred [...]
The Swifts- Lifestyle Session
Lions, Tigers and Bears- oh my!
That’s right! We headed to the infamous Phoenix Zoo for our photo shoot with The Swifts. We have been wanting to shoot at The Phoenix Zoo for some time now, but Jason and I agree that The Swifts were the perfect family to have photographed there. It was such a [...]
The Everlings- Lifestyle Session
I’m sure The Everlings were wondering what we had up our sleeves for their shoot- especially once they arrived at the location that we had picked out. We told them to meet us at the abandoned houses behind the Goodwill. Yikes. And when we arrive at a location like that, we never know exactly what [...]
The Gunkels
Finding inspiration while photographing The Gunkels wasn’t hard to do. They are beautiful (inside and out), amazingly loving and generous people and we get the sense that they make everyone they come into contact with feel right at home. One of my (Jessica) favorite things to do while on a shoot, aside from photographing, is [...]
The Valles’s
It’s not a surprise that the sun is bright and strong in the desert of Arizona. And we all hope for a little cool down once November hits, but rarely does it cool down until almost December. We photographed this fantastic family towards the middle of November and it was still pretty warm out! The [...]
The Alexanders
This family is just bursting at the seams with personality! Each and every one of them is so different and so unique- it made photographing them a lot of fun. We have known Paul and Lisa over the past couple years and met them while we were on staff at Cornerstone. When they asked us [...]
The Lindbergs
Look at the faces on these fun friends. Slap-happiness and excitement oozing all over the place. Literally!
What a joyful bunch of troopers the Lindbergs were on an absolutely glorious November day. Overcast skies lent Jess and I soft natural light and every so often the clouds would part to give us just a short-lived glimpse [...]
The Smiths
It’s beginning to look a lot like…well you know the rest.
Christmas! The glorious season that we all cherish is here once again. Full of light and a certain magic and family and hope, this is definitely our favorite time of year. We kicked the season off right with a little session with some great friends [...]
The Krulls
Check out this sweet, sweet family!
We picked out an orange tree grove as one of the locations for this incredible family, but we had no idea exactly how perfect it would be. It fit their personalities perfectly! The Krull’s were such a joy to photograph. We quickly learned that Michaela and Gary both have huge [...]
The Petillos
Grilled cheese sandwiches with a side of genuineness.
That’s what our evening with the Petillo family provided for us. Brett and Nichole are the real deal. The type of great people that stand for truth and care for others whether they know you or not. And their two awesome kids Brett Jr and Coral are little [...]
The Haaks
This lovely family was visiting from Washington state, and we were so excited when we heard that they wanted us to take their family pictures! They were here visiting The Gokees for a bit, and so we headed out to Maricopa one morning to meet, get to know and photograph them. Anna and Matt were [...]
The Blocks
Not only is this family adorable with incredible style, these people are some of the most giving, huge hearted people you’ll ever meet. We met The Blocks a few years ago and we immediately became great friends. Casey and Katelyn are the kind of people that you definitely want to be around when you are [...]
