my friend and fellow photographer, Rebecca Mudrick came out to UT with her family this past month. I felt pretty honored that they asked me to shoot their family. She, her husband and her four boys were up for anything (literally – we met at 6.45am) so we hit Utah Lake with a picnic breakfast and some Krispy Kremes and had lots of fun.

this one was Reb’s fabulous idea…

my friend liz’s little lovely…more to come later…

Here’s the second batch of pictures from our shoot with Rosie.

i’ve been shooting seniors lately and i LOVE it.

next couple of posts will be shots from recent sessions…

this pic is probably one of my top favorites…i just love it. it was completely serendipitous. there was this little tiny front yard on the backside of one of our main street buildings.

and more…

I adore Megan of the Sweet Tooth Fairy and recently she contacted me to commission some photos for the walls of her new store in Draper. Of course there would be Megan there and STF Cupcakes so I drove pretty fast to get there.

Anyway – I wanted to do something that was a bit dreamy and Meg wanted something a big vintage-y and I wanted them to look sweet too.

we have chicks again this year.

a black star (named Halley), a white orpington (Snowball) and a amerucana (Mabel).

they’ve been loads of fun so far. loads of fun and loads of poop.

anyway – developed by me in caffenol.

This was one of those “carpe lux” moments – the light outside the kitchen window was too glorious to pass up. Dinner had to wait.

I figure I can here. It’s my place right?

I’m tired.

I’m so tired.

I’m tired of this crowded market of amazing photographers. Utah has so many incredible photographers, but from a business standpoint it’s a little exhausting.

If you want me to take your pictures, I’ll be happy to. But I’m no businesswoman. And I’m sure not a competitor. I just really love taking pictures.

and I really just want to take pictures that I love. And explore things that I can do with my camera.

So i’m announcing a resolution today. I’ve always done this, but I’m going to try to be brave and do it more — from now on I post what I like. Not just posting things that make me look cool as a photographer. Not just things that make me look like you might want to hire me or something.

Things like this –

things that are straight out of the camera and virgin and untouched in photoshop. Naked, if you will.

That’s my confession for today.

Now off to go try to wrangle a kid and clear one little spot where I can sit in this house.

ETA – I ran upstairs and told David of my new resolution and he looked at me and I realized that I go through this exact process about every 6 months. Maybe it’s like a snake shedding its skin…

i keep a moleskine notebook of all my polaroids – and i try to take polaroids of important events and times. and many not – so – important events.

i like my ’scrapbooks’ to stay really simple and minimal.

here are a few pictures.

this is the notebook made for me by Denki Ai on etsy

and here are some pages. as you know by now, i don’t like writing all that much – so it’s a picture book more than anything.

this was my own family – my uncle and aunt and my cousins.

my favorite of the whole session —

we were cramming a bit cause my cousin, kelsie left two days later to serve a mission for the LDS church in Kirtland OH.

Did I mention it was freeeeeezing outside?? So freezing.