Utah Wedding Photographers and Senior Photographers

All you American Idol fans out there will want to check out this post. Earlier this month I had the privilege of photographing Megan Joy from season 8 of American Idol. If you watched the show at all, you know that Megan has an amazing voice… I didn’t ask her to sing during her session but maybe I will next time!

Since it was cold outside Megan and her son met me at my studio in Salt Lake for a quick photo shoot. Here are some images from their session… leave some comment love and let me know what you think.

Megan, thanks for giving me the opportunity to capture these moments of you and your AWESOME son!

Thank you all for your love and support over the past year. I am so blessed to be surrounded by so many amazing people! My family and I thank each one of you for your loyalty and support, it’s great having clients or shall I say friends like you!

There are going to be a lot of great things happening at innovative photography in the coming months and throughout 2010. I am making some changes and adding some new products that I hope you will like so please visit the blog often for the latest news and chances to win FREE stuff.

I pray that God blesses each of you and your families with many wonderful blessings this coming year. Have a merry christmas and a slammin new year!!!

much love!
ryan, becca and family!

I’m trying to get caught up on posting past shoots so here are some images I shot during a stock shoot I did at a local airport this past fall.

My friend and fellow photographer Brooke Kinsey from Blush Photography helped me out on this shoot and I even made her jump in for a couple of quick shots. Thanks for helping out and being such a good sport Brooke!

Here is a shot with most of the crew from the shoot. Thanks everyone for bringing your A game!

If you are one of my facebook friends or are a fan of the innovative photography page on facebook then you may have noticed the contest I announced when I launched the new blog which was basically if you were one of the first 20 people to leave me a comment on the new blog (under any post) you were automatically entered to win one of five $10 amazon.com gift cards. Well it’s time to announce the winners.

Matt Hardy
Nikki Harris
Leah Simmers
Amanda Mendenhall
Tiffany Rushforth

If you are one of the winners watch your inbox, you should be receiving your gift card via email sometime in the next couple of days. If you didn’t win, keep checking back for more chances.

This time of year I start thinking about and planning the epic trips and adventures for the following year. I’m not sure yet where next year will take me but I was going through some old images recently and found this snap of me on a backpacking trip from a few years back. I’m one of those crazy photographers who can’t go on a 12 mile backpacking trip without carrying 30lbs. in camera gear. It always sounds like a good idea when I’m in the planning stage so that I can capture those amazing images as the sun sets across the back country. It never fails however that I ALWAYS end up regretting the extra weight in my pack from my much needed (yeah right) camera equipment. I did this when I climbed to the top of Mt. Timpanogos (18 miles round trip gaining over 4800 ft in elevation in the first 9 miles), my pack in the image below is overloaded with unnecessary camera gear and I did this when I drug my two eldest kids (ages 5 & 7) on a 7 mile round trip over nighter in the beautiful high Uinta’s this past summer… what a blast that was! I have the most AMAZING kids in the world!

I thought it would be fun to see if anyone could guess where this photo was taken. The first person to leave a comment at the bottom of this post with the correct answer will win a $10 amazon.com gift card. Be sure to leave your email address so that I can send it to you.

hint: it’s somewhere in the US.

Good luck!