look for it

I decided to put together a post of some fun places you can look for my work in the next little while. Of course I love sharing my sessions on this blog, but it’s even cooler when someone else shares my work. SO here we go:

1. I just picked up a copy of this year’s Utah Bride & Groom Magazine. I’m a definite fan of this magazing for many reasons. This issue is, I hope, only the beginning to my wedding photography in print. But for now, Tia & Michael get props for making it into the “Album”.

I’ve actually been featured in this album before, but I was the bride that time…

2. I received a phone call the other day from my canvas lab, Simply Canvas, asking if I would mind if they made a duplicate copy of my 36×54 studio gallery wrap canvas of Andressa to take around with them to all the tradeshows this year. Ummmmm…let me check. YES. I’m so hoping this will be one of the canvases they hang in their WPPI tradeshow booth this year because my husband and I will be in attendance at this conference.

I attended the tradeshow last year for the first time and loved it! Not just because of all the great speakers and vendors, but because I got to see one of my albums at the Finao booth.

And this year,

3. Finao will be trecking around to all their tradeshows with not one, but THREE of my albums. I can’t WAIT to see how they make them up. They changed my album cover last year to feature one of their newer fabrics and I’m guessing they may do the same this year. SO if you’re headed to WPPI this year and are a fan of Finao, or would like to be (they have the most diverse and fun offerings by FAR), look for these three albums among their collection.

Here’s some of my favorite spreads from this one.

I’m hoping they keep this one as is because I love this canvas cover. And I loved this shoot.

You’ve seen this one before, way back when… It’s from Analeis’s maternity session. Ya, she’s hot especially when prenant.

4. Here’s a clue to what’s up this (hopefully) this Friday…can you guess which bride they’ll feature?

And now for a little background about me you may not have known.

I am actually a writer.

And a hand model…lol

Okay, so I have a degree in journalism, and was all set to conquer the magazine world by filling it with text, rather than pictures. The summer after I graduated (2006) from the University of Utah I got an internship at Utah Bride and Groom Magazine. I absolutely LOVED writing for them. And the fun things was, they loved me. So I got to write “extra” stuff that not all their interns get to write. In fact, I even had my own full length feature on…guess what…wedding photography.

Now at the time I wasn’t a photographer. But I was interested in it. So the editor let me come along on many of the magazine photo shoots and I loved it. I joked about being a hand model because I was at the “proposal” shoot and had the only free pair of hands there. So they shot me putting together the place card project. At the very least, it made writing that “to do” pretty easy. For the most part, my writing was just short little descriptions of this or that, plus many, many captions. I will never take all those info jam packed captions for granted again. They’re so time consuming and not at all interesting. But I’m sure as a bride, you do appreciate knowing where to get that dress or this trinket, etc.

The other task I had as intern was to put together the “album” section of the magazine. This meant I had to search the internet for the best wedding photography Utah had to offer. I do believe this is where my wedding photography career began. I had no idea the variety and level of wonderfulness so many photographers were shooting at. I picked my favorites and have been following their blogs ever since. And now I get to be in that album, hopefully as someone else’s favorite. And so it all comes full circle.

I do miss writing and hope that one day I’ll find a place for that in my life again. Right now, I’ve got more than enough on my plate. But I thought for fun I’d share a little something I wrote in college. It’s a humorous piece about the day I bought my wedding dress. Those of you who’ve been supporting me for quite some time now have probably already read this. But I know there are some of you who didn’t even know I could write. So, please take a minute and enjoy how silly I used to be:

The morning I went shopping for my dress, I first stopped in to visit my boyfriend in the hospital. Only problem was, he wasn’t my only boyfriend. I had one on a mission too. I wasn’t engaged to either, but figured I’d be with one by the end of the year. And I couldn’t pass up a good sale… and so the story starts…

Click HERE to read “Cascading Roses”

(Ella was feeling left out when I was taking all the pictures of the albums on this little side table… she wanted to “cheese”)