Defining Moments

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I love new backdrops, and I love unique, hand-painted drops that no one else has. So I often paint my own. In addition to the ones I painted last year and this summer, I have also enlisted the help of Iowa City artist Bekah Ash, and I have several new drops that were done by her. These are funky-cool, and I will post some pics as soon as I shoot on them!

And yesterday, I got Jen and Katie to help me out with some. As you can see from the pics below, they didn’t necessarily keep all the paint on the canvas!

So…….who likes hot pink?

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Amber came in yesterday for a combo session.  During the studio shoot, we could see the clouds gathering, and pretty much knew it would be raining by the time we got outdoors.  Fortunately, rain doesn’t bother Amber!  She even kicked off her shoes and jumped in a few mud puddles.  Fun session!

Here’s a short video of some images:

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These are from last night.  A very nice couple, and quite relaxed in front of the camera, which makes my job easy! Being an ex-Harley guy, I was thrilled to get the classic Evo in some of the pics. We also managed to get a few shots with the setting sun providing perfect rim-light.  I’ll be shooting their wedding soon.

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Noah was in the studio at the end of last week.  He has been here several times, and always fun to shoot.  By which I mean, a goofball.  We got his brother in for a few shots, but not many.  As illustrated below, a primary goal of his seemed to be twisting Noah’s head off.

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Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here!  Yesterday for the first time since the flood we got out to the fossil gorge.  A lot of amazing fossils there.  I didn’t have my macro lens with me, but I will definitely go back soon and get some cool fossil images. For now, just a quick shot of one of the kids climbing the wall of the spillway.