St. George Utah Children Photographer - Mariah's St. Patty's modeling photo-shoot

Over the weekend I did a quick shoot with sweet Mariah. She is modeling a green St. Patrick's day bow. I'm excited about how these turned out. 

Southern Utah Winter Landscapes

It snowed overnight here in Southern Utah. I took the opportunity to get out and take some photographs of the beautiful red mountains and snow. I wouldn't categorize myself as a landscape photographer, so these are just for fun.

 I have a few more to upload but the coloring is being messed up when I upload so I'll have to try that later.

As I was driving up the road back towards town I thought the power lines looked so neat, so I grabbed my camera in the seat next to me and snapped this real quick :)

**updated

Since yesterday's photos wasn't uploading properly in Chrome, I'm doing it in Mozilla. If you are using Google Chrome web browser and these photos look purple and dull to you, please check them out in Mozilla instead. Sometimes I can't stand technology.

Happy Valentines Day

I'm not doing very well on my New Year's goal to consistently put content on this blog. I've made some goals for myself, one of which is two participate in the iheartfaces photo challenges. This week's theme was "hearts". I don't think I will be entering the challenge, but I still took the photos. I had this idea to draw with chalk a heart on the wood fence and cement wall in my backyard, and then take a portrait of my son with the heart blurred in the background. The first image is basically what I had in mind (except I didn't want to be in it). I had to have my husband take it because I couldn't focus by myself. My son didn't want to be cooperate so this was the best I could muster. 

This edit is slightly different than the first. I need more subjects to photograph other than myself! 

So there it is.. my attempt at "hearts" this week.

I hope you have a wonderful Valentines Day!

silhouette

This month for the SUPG meeting, we had a theme to bring a "silhouette" photo. I don't take many silhouettes. I don't love them. I searched for anything worthy to bring to the meeting and the only thing I liked was the photo posted below. I didn't get it printed to bring to the meeting..

This photo is special and has a memory for me. We were working on our house and it had began to rain and storm outside. Dayten (my son) was out of patience that day and so I sat him on the windowsill to watch the rain and listen for the thunder. He loved it. I loved that he loved it. Every time he would hear thunder he would gasp loudly and his eyes would get wide. 

Every photo has a memory.

Free Card Design/WPPI

I'm currently offering a few of my card designs: for free.

You can find them here at my design blog.

I'm excited to say that I am going to WPPI this year!! Holy moly I'm so stoked!

Last year, I remember reading my favorite photography blogs and seeing all of the fun pictures that everyone posted about the fun they had at WPPI. I remember this post in particular. 

Well now this year, that will be me! AH! I will be going with 4 other women in the Southern Utah Photography Guild and it's going to be a blast. I need some motivation and instruction on how to better myself as a photographer and get my business rolling!

And to end it off, a favorite photo of my son this past weekend. 

Bryce Canyon

Over the weekend, my family and I spend time near Bryce Canyon, Utah. 

Here are a few favorite photos of the canyon: