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Where have I been!? I know, I've been gone so long with out a blog post! Shame on me. I've been on a family vacation road trip for almost 3 weeks. We traveled the Northwest USA. Almost 4,000 miles total! But more on that later. For today I wanted to share a few wedding blogs that my images have been featured in lately.

Project Bride

Hindsight Bride

The Charity Wedding

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Manti, Utah Bed and Breakfast

I stayed at a little Bed and Breakfast in Manti, Utah last weekend. It was so cute I found myself taking pictures of everything. In fact, the whole town was terribly cute. I declare Manti the cutest Utah town; never seen one better. Our Bed and Breakfast was called the Yardley Inn. There are actually a surprising amount of sweet little B&B's in the area. The Yardley Inn house, I was told, is over a hundred years old.

We stayed in the English Ivy room. Which I loved. When I was a girl my mother decorated my room just the same. (Well, similar anyways.)

The purpose of driving up to Manti was to see the Mormon Miracle Pageant. Which was wonderful. And in the morning we visited the beautiful LDS temple and the perfect little cemetery next to it.

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Zion Slot Canyon

Last weekend I went camping in Zion with my family and some friends. We did a shoot in this slot canyon called Pine Creek. We gave our model, Ashley (my muse), a sort of 1920's inspired look.

 I love mixing the glamour of a bride with the gritty beauty of nature.

I think this one is my favorite from the whole shoot. I love how her eyes are so piercing.

 

As Ashley is a violinist how could we not bring some violins along and incorporate that into the shoot.

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Fellow Photographer Portraits

Photographer's need portraits too. And taking your own portraits can proof challenging. So photographs usually get another photographer who's work they admire and take each other's portraits. Thus I did with my photographer friend, Lorraine Lee. These are the portraits I shot of her earlier this week. Isn't she the cutest?! I think these really show off her personality. And I can't wait to see the pictures Lorraine did of me!

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Senior Portraits at the Old Cement Factory

I've been teaching a monthly photography class with my church group for several months now. Last week we went out to the old cement factory near my home. We had a teaching shoot for senior portraits. 

Erica was kind enough to model for us, she graduates this year!

I really love this old cement plant. From what I hear it hasn't been in use since the 1950's and it's had two fires since then. I think the fire damage only adds to it's charm. 

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Trash the Dress at Nelson, NV: Jeremy & Rachael

I love shooting Trash the Dress sessions! And Jeremy and Rachael were a dream to photograph!
The day after their wedding we were out driving to the middle of nowhere; also know as Nelson, Nevada. Jeremy and Rachael had a late night, of course, and they were sleeping in the backseat both there and back. :) (It was so cute I was wishing I had my camera gear in the front seat with me instead of in the trunk.)

Before we even got to Nelson, we pulled over just to play in the street.

Once I had Rachael on the floor and I wanted to add Jeremy, I immediately thought of that picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken by Annie Leibovitz. This image is kind of a nod to that image.

This barn is so fantastic and full of the weirdest, random, vintage crap. I could have spend the whole shoot just in the barn. Hell!, I could have spend the whole day there! Jeremy and Rachael totally worked it too. This one of Rachael sitting on the T.V. looks like it is straight from a Twilight Zone episode.

Someone else pointed out this cellar full of old bottle to us. I've been to Nelson quite a few times and I had no idea this was there. Super awesome find!

Love how creepy Jeremy looks in the background here. Reminds me of the old film "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn. (Go watch if you haven't seen it!)

HOT! (That's all I have to say.)

I know I'm posting a lot more images than usual, but I just can't help myself. Jeremy and Rachael so rocked my world! Love you guys!

For these last two images we used the headlights of the car as the light source, a first for me. But I really like the look. 

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