Over the weekend, we were at the Arizona Bridal Show at Phoenix Convention Center. Here’s our booth! Thanks all of you who stopped by with compliments on the booth or interest in our photography!
Getting ready for these things is a monumental undertaking. We grabbed an old wood pallet, 8′ by 4′, some old rusty corrugated steel, a bunch of two-by-fours and a couple of 4×4 posts and dressed it up with our logo, some prints of some of my most favorite recent work, and a string of Edison bulbs – et viola. It sounds easier than it was!
Anyway, we met a lot of beautiful brides who are tying the knot soon, and had some great conversations about their weddings. Arizona weddings are awesome! So many great venues, indoor and outdoor, and so many amazing people in the process of putting together their special day!
I spent the day with Hannah, whose wedding I photographed a couple of months ago. She was amazing! I think it really helped the brides-to-be to meet her. Hannah’s new husband Chris was also at the show, along with our colleague Josh in a dapper bow-tie and of course John, who drove a lot of screws and hammered a lot of nails! Thanks to all of them, I couldn’t have been at the show without them!
If you are just checking out my site after being at the show, be sure to visit my Facebook page HERE, and if you’d like to chat about your wedding or check availability for your date, use the contact link HERE or call me at (928) 846-7444. Thanks!
Oh and I almost forgot!!! We will be announcing the winner of the FREE engagement session giveaway tomorrow here on my blog and also on my Facebook page. It’s so exciting! I can wait to see who the lucky winner is!
Here are some extra, hastily-shot pics of our booth setup. 🙂
Such an adorable family! This portrait session was so much fun, chasing these little guys around. You’ll notice a running theme of typical boy uncooperativeness but we just rolled with it! It adds character to the photos and such fun memories. These family portraits were taken at the Campbell Ranch in Lake Havasu City, which I didn’t even know existed until this session. Believe me… I will be back. Such a cool place!
For the 37th year in a row, thousands of fun-loving, sun-loving people flocked to my hometown – Parker, Arizona – to turn the beautiful Colorado River into a giant floating party!
We never know exactly how many people pack the river for the Parker Tube Float each year, but it’s probably around eight to eleven thousand. It’s really a sight to behold. I grew up on this river south of Lake Havasu watching the float slowly pass the docks in front of my house, hearing the hum of the crowd, feeling the sun at the start of summer, breathing in the scent of sunscreen and grill cooking.
On just about every other summer weekend, the river is full of fast boats, waverunners and jetskis, people water-skiing and wakeboarding, surfing behind boats and paddleboarding. But everything slows down for this one Saturday in June, when everything moves at the speed of the current and people tie together and have fun!
This year, I was home for the event so I couldn’t resist photographing some of it! These were some of the ones I liked.
Get the general idea? Now who’s joining us for next year’s float?! 🙂
I love where I live so much.
We had such a great time the other evening out on the lake with Leah! She was a great model and didn’t mind a bit of a hike to get to the location, which was on the south end of Lake Havasu, not far from Parker Dam and the mouth of the Bill Williams River.
The evening at sunset was perfect and we had just the right amount of wind to make her hair nice and messy. We did brave swarms of bugs though and I was NOT amused! Haha! You could hear them all around and I ended up with more than a few bites. I even have one right on my elbow which makes it look oddly pointed. (?) It was all worth it though! I’m a little in love with these closer shots.
That is NOT a beautiful cloud of glowing glitter, those are bugs, nicely lit by my flash.
Thanks Leah for being an awesome model and being so photogenic! Modelling comes so naturally to some. Let’s all be jealous of her together.