Skippin’ Town

We leave tonight at 3am for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where we’ll be shooting a destination wedding! Woo hoo! We’re so excited….sorta sad to leave our kiddos (but they’ll be staying at our house with grandma, so we know they’ll be taken care of!)
We’ll be home on August 1st, so if we’re hard to reach, you now know why! We’ll do our best to keep up on voicemails and emails while we’re gone but we’re not sure of what type of access we’ll have, so you can rest assure that we’ll get back to you when we return home!
Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Stephen & Sam

So little time…

I have so many photo shoots to tell you about and so little time to do it before we leave for our destination wedding in Mexico…my posts might be brief but I’ve gotta show you these great photos…let’s think quality, not quantity! 🙂
Here’s Dani, she’s one of our senior spokesmodels and this is her 2nd shoot…you might remember her from some photos this past Spring:

Here’s Jenae and Will, the wedding we photographed this past weekend. Isn’t Jenae gorgeous?! I swear she could be a model. We got creative inside the church basement with some funky chairs since Jenae’s eyes are super sensitive to sunlight. The shots came out pretty sweet!

Here’s Aaron, a high school senior and our neighbor! It was fun taking his photos, he’s a super nice kid!

Here’s Brian, another high school senior. I absolutely love this second shot – I think it just fits his personality really well, and it shows off his favorite green shirt!

Finally, here’s the Hartzler family. They’re relatives of ours and wanted to take a family photo before Jon heads out of town again (he’s in the army.) I just love this first photo – they’re such a cute family!

Lanee

How time flies! I can’t believe it was a year ago that I was taking Lanee’s newborn photos! She has grown up so quickly! Her mom brought Lanee and her siblings to us for her one year photos – aren’t they all just adorable!?!? Check out some of my favorite shots:

Derek

We did Derek’s senior photos last week and had some fun! Derek has big plans for his future…with hopes for dentistry school so he can be a dentist just like his big brother! I wish you the best of luck, Derek!

Marcus & Lyndsie

Marcus & Lyndsie had such a fun wedding! Gorgeous dresses, vibrant flowers, a trolley, a ton of football players and a beautiful couple, completely in love, are a few highlights from the day!
Thank goodness Lyndsie’s sister, Katie, introduced the two of them – because they are perfect for each other!
It was hard for me to pick just a few to show here – because I have so many favorites! But, here’s a little inside scoop, you’ll see a ton of their wedding pics on our NEW website which will debut in a few weeks! Hooray!

Elizabeth

Sweet little Elizabeth came to us for her 6 month photos – she was so cute! We went outside for some fun shots – check out some of my favorites!

Jenae & Josh

Jenae and Josh had such a beautiful wedding! The colors were vibrant, the dress was stunning and the rings were amazing! They both surprised each other with brand new rings that neither of them were expecting during the ceremony – it was fantastic. Check out some of my favorite shots below…it was hard to narrow them down! I just had to put all three of the first three photos on here – don’t they make a great series?

Anna

Sweet little Anna came to us for photos last week and we had a ton of fun! First we explored the park and then we came back to the studio for a snack and some more fun shots! This little girl loves puppies and we happen to have a 4 pound Yorkie that loves to make little girls smile! Check out some of her cute giggle faces:

Goodale Family

Tiffany and Willy have such a beautiful family! With four kiddos under the age of six, I imagine they’re busy – and all those cute little kiddos were just adorable to take photos of! Check out some of my favorite shots:

THROUGH THEIR EYES AFRICA

It’s a blogathan, baby! A fantastic photographer, David Hessemer is doing a blogathon TODAY for his “Through Their Eyes” Africa project. He is going to be taking a team including two FANTASTIC photographers (Jessica Claire and David Jay) to Africa next year to areas where all the adults have died and the children are on their own with little help. The team will be helping these kids and teaching them to take photographs, in the hope of giving them a skill as well as to be able to see the world the way they see it. The photographs they take will be formed into a traveling exhibit all over the country.

It’s really a fantastic project, however, it needs funding to make it happen! Today and tomorrow there’s a blogathon happening. The link where you go to donate and learn more about the project is:

www.throughtheireyesafrica.typepad.com