After picking out a bunch of personal favorites from Justin & Melanie’s beautiful wedding for the sneak peek, I decided to do something very bold (for me at least) and go almost exclusively to black & white on all the images.

I’m really happy with what that did as a whole and it seems as though black & white is becoming a habit of mine. Almost anytime I try something in black & white, I fall in love with it and decide to leave it that way. Some of my shoots are even designed to only be presented in black & white, though these are usually model shoots (doing one later this afternoon! Woohooo!!)

Maybe my body is preparing itself for something I don’t know is coming… Like going color blind…

I’m going to start with my personal favorite from the whole wedding and possibly one of my all-time favorites:








Here’s most of August that I’ve been depriving you of.

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From Dustin & Cassie’s wedding. This was at the golf course in the morning before the wedding. We got kicked out of there… The place even called the cops on us!! I tell ya, it’s gonna be hard for any couple to beat the excitement of getting the cops called on us on the wedding day!

In fact, I’d like to ask that you please don’t make your wedding more exciting than that.

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Then, true story, I went to the Great Clips to shoot pictures of the bride getting her hair done and got kicked out of there too!

Then I fell in a river in the amazon forest and a bunch of pirhanas ate my foot and half my chest. I look really interesting now.

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A headshot for a terrific actress and a personal friend of mine, Joylynne.

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Day 210/365

Megan bridal shoot

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Marianne actually thinks showing THIS picture of her will hurt my wedding portfolio…

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My promos before they went out. (iPhone photo)

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The piano is in my basement now! Seems like I’m gradually moving all of my house down in my basement… Why don’t I live in an apartment? (iPhone photo)

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The uhh… The bride had a bigger piece of cake… Wouldn’t you agree?

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Although the groom looks deeply concerned for his new wife, they actually had a lot of fun on that trampoline.

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I LOOOOOOVE this picture!!!! I’m fascinated with celloists and violinists at weddings. I’m seriously considering hanging it up somewhere.

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Day 217/365

Swinging (iPhone photo)

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The neighborhood on my way to the mailbox… I was really lazy with that shot… (iPhone photo)

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Day 219/365

Utah Business Magazine shoot

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Amanda’s bridal shoot

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Amy gets a few extra words from me.

I loved working with Amy. Her optimism and enthusiasm was unstoppable, contageous and inspiring.

All weddings experience hiccups. All of them. If you’re reading this and you’re getting married soon and thinking “Not mine!”, then my answer is, “Yes, yours too.” It’s just how it is. So since hiccups are inevitable, the question becomes about how you respond to those hiccups.

Amy’s wedding was no different. Her wedding day was almost moved to 9/11. Not exactly a bride’s first choice. Then on the wedding day, the best man couldn’t make it.

Amy responded to every hiccup throughout the day, big or small, with grace, patience, endless optimism and a smile on her face.

So yeah, I loved working with Amy. That second shot of her will tell you everything you need to know about her vibrant and endlessly optimistic personality.

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After a long-ish stretch of work, I decided to treat myself to Lewis Black’s excellent comedy in Wendover. The show was hilarious. I always wished I could have seen Carlin in Vegas before he died earlier this year. I didn’t want to repeat the same mistake with Lewis Black. (iPhone photo)

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Robby & Jessica

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I have a fascination with wires and skies (iPhone photo)

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I printed this 11×14 of a shot that I’d taken with my iPhone (iPhone photo – yes, that means it’s an iPhone photo of an iPhone photo)

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Day 226/365

I took a very long walk that night (iPhone photo)

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Day 227/365

For giving me the green card after such a long and difficult struggle, I gave back to my immigration attorney by doing a free model-style shoot of his beautiful daughter.

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It’s hard to keep up on the blog on a daily basis when a single event gives me just under 2000 pictures to work on.

If I were just looking for that one perfect shot, like a model shoot, it wouldn’t be so hard. But weddings don’t have the same dynamic as model shoots. Not for me anyway.

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Here are the best 17 shots of the wedding. I picked 51 shots to build a new sample album (12×12), but these are the 17 I felt were the strongest while still telling the story of the wedding day.

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Day 70/365

My son’s 3rd birthday was the day I shot the wedding, so we celebrated with cake and ice-cream the day after.

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I’m posting an awesome female model shoot tomorrow along with a few more of my daily shots, so stay tuned for that!

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