A dust storm (or haboob, if you prefer) rolled in & around 7:40 it had turned the sky a magical dusty yellow color. I went outiside to take pictures of my sunflowers. The giant sunflowers have gotten so tall, 12 to 13 feet at least, but now their sunflower crowns are getting pretty droopy.
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Just a couple here for Loraine and Tim! I can't wait for you guys to see more soon, but here are a few to see before you go on your honeymoon. :)
They got married at the Boojum Tree Hidden Gardens, which is such a unique and beautiful place. It made me think of a tropical island and had so many gorgeous spots for photographs.
Boojum Tree Hidden Gardens is located at:
16026 North 36th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85032
(602) 867-8975
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Here in Arizona, the valley, where I live, Summer has been ridiculously beautiful and mild and sweet. At least the first three weeks of June were more clement than I can ever remember. The cover of the Arizona Republic said it was the mildest June since 1913.
June 21st, the real first day of Summer, it seemed like it started getting warmer and I know today and last night were pretty suffocating, but tonight there was a dust storm around my house and the air has cooled off a bit. I'm hoping that we get an amazing Monsoon. Ten mile high clouds rising over the Superstitions and rain on the desert with that amazing rain-in-the desert-smell---creosote and ozone. For the cooler air it brings and for the amazing light + skies that rain + clouds make for photographs.
I went and took about a thousand sunflower photos early one (chilly) morning in early June. Here are a couple.
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Kelly and Bill underneath the trees, just as it was getting dark, not long after this the sun completely set, so I was getting dreamy-end-of-the-day light, which I love. I love how they are looking at each other in that second one---ahhh!
I was taking these photos of them, while Becky and their beautiful curly-haired baby boy were in the grass running around, playing and getting more photos of just him.
More photos of Kelly + Bill to come!
((Side note story: Years and years ago we went to Hume Lake with Kelly and a bunch of other people from our college group. Bill might have been there (I'm not sure, sorry Bill!) One story I remember from that trip is that Becky and Kelly and some other girls got up in the middle of the night and TP'ed the building the guys were sleeping in and later on Becky would talk about how much fun Kelly was. Do you remember that Kelly?! It was kinda a long time ago!))
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Just a few here from Jessica and Stan's Engagement---way more to come! We met in Scottsdale at the LOVE sculpture and had so much to talk about immediately because Jessica's brother had just gotten married that weekend! Jessica, I can totally picture you with that feather pen you were talking about, it sounds like your brother's wedding was a blast and it was so cool getting to see Stan's photos of it.
We've got a lot of LOVE photos, but I'm posting this one right now because of the bird flying over. (Start noticing the bird theme in the photos to come!)
Jessica's colors for her wedding? Red. Which made me want to get some red backgrounds for her and Stan. The walls on this elevator were really red!
I love her eyes. I love her hair. (I love the dreamy way my camera and lens can make pictures.)
Becky was taking photos and I was stepping back to look at my images and adjust settings, while all these birds started flying through.
Jessica makes hair adornments (is that what they are called?) and I really really really want to buy some from her. I'll find out the link to her store and you can get some made too! I love this one that she is wearing---with two tiny little Love Birds.
Oooh, I still have so many to post, but here is one I love. Sparkly night lights over the Salt River Bridge, an airplane on its way to Sky Harbor, an extremely beautiful couple (inside and out!) in love....we had such a wonderful day and evening with you Jessica and Stan! :)
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I was driving east on the 60, to meet up with the Truong sisters and my sister for dinner when I suddenly saw the moon this evening. It was so gigantic, gorgeous, otherworldly, magical and unexpected, that I nearly crashed the car. Well not really, but I did start taking pictures and then pulled into the Mesa Community College parking lot to take more pictures.
Finally I made it to Dragonfly in Mesa near Dobson and Southern for dinner. That place is seriously good and I thought it was a pretty restaurant. I had never been there before, but I will definitely be going back.
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Amber and Isaac are getting married next month! We had so much fun taking their pictures. We met up with them at Olive and Ivy in Scottsdale and then walked around there getting pictures and after that we went to Arizona Falls. Amber's cousin Christine, who we've known since we were in high school, came with us.
It was around 110 degrees that whole weekend, which kinda freaked me out when I saw on the weather station that it was going to be that hot. The weekend before we had had a storm, so it was much more comfortable, in the lower 90s. Even when it's hot, when I start taking pictures, I am having so much fun and I am so focused on the job that I can kinda forget how hot it is. But when you are standing there modeling and just having your picture taken over and over, I can imagine it gets really hot and you feel it a lot more than I would. Amber and Isaac, wow, you guys were amazing! I'm so glad you put up with the heat. I love the pictures we got and I had so much fun!
So glad Isaac was up for jumping, I really like this pic Becky got.
Amber's eyes are so gorgeous. I think this is definitely one of my favorites.
I like how it seems like they are kind of playing hide and seek with each other. ;-)
So glad they were up for trying this polaroid idea. I've seen this done on other blogs and thought it was so cute, so of course I was looking forward to trying it and I love how Amber's eye is visible in this one....also it was kinda fun to give them polaroids to take home with them.
Sexy girl!
I've seen this done on other photographer's blogs and I thought it was so romantic. I'm glad Amber and Isaac were willing to try it and then it worked just how I hoped it would!
Thanks, Amber and Isaac, for having us take your engagement pictures. We can't wait for your wedding! :-)
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Amber and Isaac, you two are so gorgeous, inside and out, and we had so much fun taking pictures of you. :-) I really want to post more of you guys, but here is one for now; it's my favorite.
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A couple weeks ago we went with our Phoenix College photography class to the Desert Botanical Garden. I've been there a few times before, for an evening wedding and for the super-magical Noches de Luminarias they have around Christmas time. I never realized how enchanting and gorgeous the place is during the day, so I had to go back. I rented a macro lens from Tempe Camera and by the time I got there it was getting kinda late in the day. The butterfly garden was about to close but I got in (after a little pleading and begging!) In the evening, the butterflies go to bed, so I mostly got pictures of slumbering butterflies, but there were a couple little night-owls who were ready for their close-ups!
The cactus looked as tasty as cupcakes! So pretty I wanted to eat them, but I'll stick to photographing them. The icing on these cactus cupcakes would be a little photoshop to make them pop. I'll have to get around to doing that.
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