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!

One of the best parts of being a photographer is that I get to work with a lot of kids… I LOVE kids. They don’t mind when I act like a 5 year old, they think it’s funny. One of my favorite challenges is to get a shy or stubborn child to be my buddy. This is no easy feat!

Dear parents,
Your children will sense your stress, if you are stressed out or pressure them to be good you will NOT get portraits that capture their natural innocence and personality. Don’t worry if everything doesn’t work out exactly as planned… they’re kids, does anything ever work out as planned? The best thing to do before and during their session is relax and let them be kids. In order to reduce some of the pressure don’t make plans to be anywhere before or after their session… unless it’s to take them to get ice cream in which case you can invite me too.

If you or your spouse are one of those people who are always stressed then the best thing you can do is to find a place where your child won’t see you and let me work with them one on one. I promise that you will be much happier with the final portraits if they can have fun during their session and not be rushed or pushed into doing something they don’t want to do. My experience tells me that kids want to help and want to have fun and that is what I let them do when I photograph them.

Remember:

• NO Stress!!
• Be prepared, set cloths out the night before.
• Don’t make plans to be anywhere before or after your child’s session.
• If you have multiple kids bring something to keep them busy during their down time.
• Trust your photographer.
• Relax!
• Have FUN!

I have neglected the blog long enough so it’s about time that I gave it a make over.  Seriously, this is something I should have done two years ago but I have been so busy I kept putting it off.  No more excuses… here it is.  Please leave me a comment and let me know what you like and what you don’t like about the new blog.  I have been debating on whether or not to import all of the posts from my old blog, let me know what you think about that also… should I do it or not?  Maybe I’ll just publish some of them in the new blog.

If any of you watch American Idol you may recognize Megan Joy in one of my upcoming posts. I recently photographed her and her son… what a cool kid!

Within the next week or two I am also going to be announcing a major contest/giveaway for a lucky bride and groom so if you are getting married or you know someone who is you’re going to want to see this!

Here are a couple of images that I can post!  I hope you enjoy them!

Ireland getting ready to crawl… they grow up way to fast!

Bentley decided it would be cool to put on her brothers cloths and throw down some attitude.

Ayden working his skateboard.

I will probably end up working for him someday. He is talking about shaving his head so you may see some more new photos of him soon.