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I look forward to the days that I get to spend with my family. You know, those days when you have nowhere to be and no plans. Kids running in and out of the house each trip ends with the door left wide open because their hands are full of the sugar snacks they just pillaged from the pantry. Yeah, those are the days that I love the most. Today just happened to be one of those days and it was AWESOME!!! I got to spend some much needed time with my super sexy wife Becca and our amazing offspring We just hung out all day, took two walks… oh yeah and did a quick photoshoot.

Becca is not only the sexiest woman on the planet, she is also my muse! I keep trying to talk her into shooting with me, hopefully one of these days she will!!!

Peek-a-boo, I see me.

UPDATE: I’ve added a second workshop date. Take a look here to find out more info.

I hope you had a happy Easter! I love this time of year… as everything around starts to come back to life. Summer is just around the corner!!!!

I wanted to let all of my photographer friends know that the deadline to receive the early bird pricing for the lighting workshop is two weeks from today, Monday April 19th so if you are interested in signing up please do so soon. You will still be able to register after the 19th if there are any spots left but the price will increase to $500.

You won’t want to miss this workshop; it is going to be jam packed with great information on lighting tips and techniques. I strongly believe that the best way to learn something is by doing it so as you learn these techniques you will have the opportunity to put them to use during the workshop. You will be doing everything you learn in hopes that it will sink in before you leave.

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If you have questions about the workshop please feel free to email me by clicking on the “contact” link in the menu above.

Here are some images from our Easter. Have a Happy Monday!!!

One year ago Becca and I sat in the delivery room at the hospital waiting to find out if our new baby was a boy or a girl. With our first two children we decided to find out their gender at their ultrasounds. With Ireland we decided that since we had one boy and one girl we figured we would wait for the 9 months and be surprised. It drove Becca crazy to wait because she wanted to know so bad. Up until she was delivered I thought for sure she was a boy… we had a boy name already picked out. When she was delivered and the doctor asked me to announce her as a girl I couldn’t speak. I kept looking for the boy part but I couldn’t see it. It wasn’t that I was disappointed… it’s just that I was so convinced that she was going to be a boy. Once I finally got the words out of my mouth… “It’s a girl”… we could hear the cheers from our family. It took us four days to pick out a name for her but we finally did. I am so thankful that I was wrong… and I am eternally grateful for this little bundle of joy and the blessing that she is in my life.

I love you so much princess!

These were taken last night through the glass at the ice rink with available light.
ISO 1250, 1/125, f/2.8

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!

Ayden decided he wanted his hair cut like his dads. I tried to talk him out of it but he had already made up his mind. We had a lot of fun with it as you’ll see in the second to last image.

I tried to talk him into keeping his hair like this.

What else are you going to do with 6 inches of hair? This one was Becca’s idea and we were cracking ourselves up! I like Ayden’s the most.

Taking it down a little more.