Matt and Mindy follow-up family portrait

Here are some of the less formal images which I think capture Matt and Mindy's family. MOst of these were captured while the subjects were unaware..... Thanks again Mindy for the knid words. (see post below)

Thanks for clients like these

I've got to tell you - sometimes my clients make me cry too! I try to get them crying tears of emotion and joy all the time but sometimes it happens the other way. I did this family portrait in Houston and received a beautiful note which I'll share here with you. Here's their formal image but I think the "non-camera aware" ones I captured were the ones that got Mindy so excited. I'll tryr to share some of those after I do some work on them for printing..... Anyway let's hear from Mindy -
Good Morning Bob,
 First I will start out saying you did it again, made me cry. The family portraits were breath taking, I saw my little family in a whole new light. it was beautiful to actually get to see how much love I have for my children and my husband. Sometimes we are just so busy in our little world we don't take enough time to stop and enjoy that. And you sir helped me see that all in just a few photos. What a joy it must be for you to capture the beauty in life itself. ( we love you ) oh and you know you are part of the family now right?? Thank you very much!
 Love,
Mindy Reynolds
There's nothing else for me to say.....

The Baguley's Family Portrait

I've been Lisa's family portrait photographer for many years. I photographed her wedding to Sean a few years ago. We were out photographing another family portrait in the red rocks of Sedona and Lisa paid me a wonderful compliment. We had just come back from the wedding in Houston (see below) (They are friends of the family) and Lisa said, "I just want you to know that when my girls get married you WILL be photographing them! Even if you are retired you'll be coming out of retirement to capture their wedding memories." Will do Lisa. I look forward to photographing Jessica and Marisa's weddings too!

Cirque du Soleil "0"

This was an absolutely amazing experience! I saw the "0" show at the Bellagio in Las Vegas twice and was enthralled both times and decided I wanted to try and capture all the excitement of the show. It would be an incredible challange because it moves very fast ans there is such a huge ratio of light to dark I knew that special techniques would be needed to record the various scenes. And boy was there ever. They have a photographer that does a lot of coverage for their shows so that wasn't a way to get to photograph it. I managed to get a magazine assignment (coming out in January). My thought was to represent the entire show in one image. The image you see here is as far as I could get without getting too crowded and I had to put together 2 other montages because there is so much going on throughout the show. There are probably 25 different moments blended together in this shot. If you ever get the chance to see this "0" do it! It is incredible. When the story gets published I'll show you the rest of the images.

Successful Photographer Business and Marketing newsletter

If you are a photographer or are interested in the photography business you can check out my new web site devoted to helping photographers become better at their business and marketing skills. Most photographers get into the business because people have told them they make great images. (I was one of them) The difference was, I came to photography as a business later in life. (didn't start until I was 28 and then practiced and played with it for 13 years before turning pro) I managed other people's businesses and had a solid marketing background because of my work in radio as an announcer which let me understand what it takes to run a business. Check it out - http://www.successful-photographer.com Along with the web site I'm editing the monthly newsletter Successful Photographer. Even had inquiries from non-photographers about subscribing. I thought that was odd until I thought more about it....Marketing is marketing is marketing - no matter what job you might be applying it to.

Marty, Leslie and Jadyn

This is one of those stories that are bittersweet. My associate photographers Dave and Neal photographed Marty and Leslie's wedding in 2005. We were getting ready to produce the album and they had a beautiful baby Jadyn. Unfortunately, Jadyn was born missing a peice of her 16th chromosome. This is so rare that doctors have no idea what to expect. Jayden can't sit up by herself or chew food so everything has to be prepared special for her. Needless to say with doctor visits and the extra work to take care of Jayden the wedding album got put on the back burner. Enter an Angel who called and said, "Marty and Leslie need something extra to smile about and I know they would really like to get their wedding album and please may I help make that happen while remaining annonymous?" Inspired by the Angel's gift and knowing how much it would mean to Marty and Leslie I got to work and the album is in production in Italy as I type this message to you. Here are a couple of pages from their wedding album. I started the album off with some images from the pre-wedding shoot. There also is a picture of Jadyn sent to me from Marty. We haven't been able to schedule a portrait session for her yet but I look forward to doing that in the future...

Houston destination wedding Part 3

There's a tendency to gloss over the groom in some of the wedding coverage but they are a very important part of the wedding. (It does take two to tango after all) I really liked Andreas and wish I got to get to know him a little better but you can't be in two places at one time. That's why I always work with a second photographer. Dave Weingarten was with me at this wedding and while I was with the bride before the wedding Dave was capturing the groom and groomsmen. They were keeping up with the football (soccer to us in america) match. Here's a note from Lori toplease update the info....
" If you get a chance, will you make a tiny edit to your blog. Apparently, a few of the gentlemen have commented that it wasn't a soccer game that they were watching. It was the Rugby World Cup semi-finals. The South African Springboks were playing Argentina and won that day! The next week, they won the whole Rugby World Cup! yeah Springboks ; )" Consider it updated Lori!