New Wedding Photography Blog!

So I've finally updated my website and blog. As such l will no longer be posting to this blog. To view my new blog go to http://www.brilliantimagery.net/blog/ 

With all these new visual changes I'm also making some content changes. We will be discussing wedding photography from more of a planning angle. So be prepared for more DIY tutorials, What to Wear ideas and unique wedding vendors. And as always feel free to join in the discuss with comments. 

See you on the other side!

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Portraits in the Trees

My good friend let me borrow her beautiful little girl, Stori, for a little portrait session in a small grove of trees near my home. Just a fun project for me but I thought I'd share since I haven't posted in so long. I've been working on my new website/blog, that's why I have been away for so long. I promise to have more information about all that soon.

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Summer on Film

I promise this is the last of bringing up my summer family road trip. But with 3 weeks on the road I took so many pictures! And as an avid film shooter I shot a ton of it and I just got it back, scanned and edited.

These are just a few of my favorites.

 Wyoming 

Grand Teton National Park

 Traveling through Montana

Lake McDonald at Glacier National Park Montana

 Seattle, Washington and the ferry over the bay

 Northwest Washington

  

Beach near Forks, Washington

Columbia River Gorge, Washington 

 Twin Falls, Idaho

Nevada Desert Sky

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Red Rock Red Springs in Calico Basin Las Vegas: Talin & Bethany

I've been faced with a terrible dilemma. My sister is engaged and wants me to shoot her wedding. While I am over joyed about Bethany getting married and being part of her and Talin's wedding, I am torn between wanting to relax and enjoy the day and my obsession with photography to take pictures of everything. To shoot or not to shoot, that is the question. 

After pondering that for awhile I decided that even if someone else was the main photographer I'd still be photographing everything. So I told my sister, Bethany, that I would be the main photographer. (And I've asked my photographer friend, Gretchen, to be my second shooter.)

But, of course, first things first: Engagement Session!

We planned a little summer picnic out at one of my favorite places, Red Springs in Calico Basin just outside of Red Rock Canyon.

 This is a compass necklace that Talin had given Bethany as a gift.

Bethany is also wonderful artist so we had her draw a portrait of Talin. It's pretty good, huh?

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Las Vegas Neon Boneyard Museum: Wayne & Edyta

I feel so honored when fellow photographers ask me to photograph them! My friend Edyta, who is wonderful photographer, has been married almost a year and they wanted to finally got some 'trash the dress' style images. We went to the Las Vegas Neon Boneyard Museum which is where they have all the old neon signs on display. It's such a great place to shoot but it can get repetitive shooting at the same location over and over again. So I always try to challenge myself to think in new ways, this time I brought along a few summer carnival type treats: Popcorn! Candy Apples! (with a wedding twist) and Orange Soda!

Of course, the Neon Boneyard Museum is so awesome and Wayne & Edyta are so beautiful that I hardly need to add anything to get amazing pictures.

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Montana Glamping Inspiration

Our family road trip that we have recently returned from took us in a large circle: from the desert up through Utah, Wyoming, Montana, than over to Washington,  and down again through Oregon, Idaho and down to Nevada again.

Teton National Park in Wyoming

Forest in Forks, WA near Olympic National Park

McDonald Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana

While in Montana we stayed in Glacier National Park. This has to be one of the most wonderful places I've ever been to. The perfect mountains and serene lakes, so lush and full of greenery. And of course how could I not visit such a wonderful places without doing a shoot! (I simply can't stop myself.)

I adore Glamping. Go look it up if you don't know what it is. It has to be THE best idea of all time. Seriously. Now, our shoot was more inspiration glamping then real glamping since it's it's not really a sleeping tent. Still- a wonderful little tent, if I do say so myself.

My super cute models are Lukas and Eva from the Czech Republic. Lukas was an exchanging student who lived with my family for a year in high school over 6 years ago. Lukas came back to visit us this summer with his awesome Eva, so of course they joined us for our road trip. And they were good enough to lend me their good looking faces for the glamping shoot.

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