Photo Cards

I absolutely love to design. Just ask my husband. When I get involved in a project, I'm in the "zone" and can create for hours. Yesterday I got a call from a family member asking me if I could quickly design something for a baby shower she is throwing. Here is what I whipped up in about an hour:

She ended up choosing the second one. Which I like a little better. They are both turned out great. 

Here is the invitation I designed for my son's 3rd birthday party last month:

So ya! I just wanted to share and let you know that I can do custom photo card design for whatever occasion you can think of! I also have a high quality print lab that I work with that offers photo cards on high quality durable photo paper, so it's not just a print. 

I have taken graphic design courses the last year and I've learned a lot about printing and design. I use Adobe Illustrator to design these vector cards. 

Thanks for looking and contact me to make your next card!

Mini Session: Addie

I love this little girl. I've had the privilege of photographing her 3 times since she has been born! She is so cute and so full of curious energy. Plus her middle name is my first name, so we have a lot in common :) We had a fun and crazy photo shoot. Here are a few of my favorites:

This bottom image is something I did new. I used a green screen and digitally entered the background. I added the black and created a reflection of her image. Is it weird? I think it turned out pretty good!

Sunset Beauty

We had a beautiful sunset here in Southern Utah tonight. 

Sorry my logo is right in the way, its automatically put there when I export.

Pano's and Cutie

Yesterday I went on a hike with my brother. We went up above the old airport. The view was amazing. Here are a couple of panos I took: 

(click on the image to view larger)

I'm just about finished with Miss Addie's photographs! Here is one of my favorites so far:

more desert runner ups

I think I would have chosen to print these for the Heritage Days today if I would have known we had an entire room to work with.

These were taken October 2010 right after a huge cleansing storm. I sure do love weather photography.

Moon

A bunch of my fellow photogs from the Southern Utah Photograph Guild took photos of the moon the last couple of nights. I tried it out. Here is my shot of the moon. I did't get as zoomed in as I'd liked.. but still rad! I think I needed to take a picture of it when it was first coming up in the night. I waited until later in the night, which meant it was smaller because it was farther away. Thoughts?

Mini-Session Skylee and Jaston

So it wasn't quite a "mini-session". When the kids came over, I couldn't stop pushing down that shutter! During this session, I learned the power of reverse-psychology. 

For example Skylee and Jaston's mom had to say "Don't you dare smile!" and of course a huge, REAL grin appeared. Or she would say, "Don't stand right here! I do not want you to stand right here." Their immediate action was to go right to the spot they were told not to, and smile. It was awesome. I'm definitely going to be using those tactics in the future!

Here are the favs:

What I love most about the above photos? It shows the kids' true personalities. And that right there, is priceless.

Heritage Days - A Desert to a Dream photos

I am apart of the Southern Utah Photography Guild. We have monthly meetings and at each of those meetings we have a theme and are supposed to bring a printed image that is relative to that specific theme. I was able to go to my first meeting a few days ago. I didn't have even time to print but I was looking through my photos, I think I would have decided on this one for the theme of "Reflections":

Apart of the Southern Utah Photography Guild, I am participating in the Heritage Days Arts Festival. It will be help on Saturday January 14 at the Art Center. I'll be there from 10am-2pm so come by and say hi! Here are the images I am getting ready for the festival. 

and here are my runner-ups:

Happy New Year!

Happy New Years!!!

This year my goal/resolution is to grow and market Teria Photography so that I can get at least 2 photoshoots a month. I also want to blog 4 times a week. It's a lot for me to blog that much, but I think it will push me to take more photographs and expand my business. So here's to more blogging!

I'm doing mini-photoshoots for the month of January, like I've mentioned before, so that I can play and learn the studio side of photography. This morning I did my first mini-session with Skylee and Jaston. They are such adorable kids!

Google Chrome is being STUPID right now and when I post photos, they look horrible and dull, but look just fine in Mozilla Firefox. I don't know what's wrong so here is a sneak peak of Mr. Jaston on my facebook page. His pose reminds me a model for Abercrombie kids or Gap kids or something like that. More photos to come in a few days :)