Mika and Francois

Now, if you follow my posts y'all know I am from Austin, Texas.  Winter for us included about two snow days a year growing up, and any time it got below 32 degrees the entire city pretty much shut down. Our standard daytime low was about 40 or 45 degrees.  So coming to Utah makes it a little depressing one third of the year.  I don't really do well with single digit weather!  However, Mika and Francois were just so cute with their outfits and did so well braving the bitter cold the day of their engagements that it started to change my mind.  I mean, cold weather can be a great romance booster!  You can go get some delicious hot chocolate from the bakery, you get to wear colorful scarves, it's a great excuse to cuddle up and get close to someone.... it can be a lot of fun!
So thanks guys, for opening my eyes a bit more to the better side of these winter days.

Megan at Gardner Village

Well I'm back! After a week and a half in California shooting two weddings and spending our first real vacation with Thomas, I am back and headfirst into the backlog of editing and blog posts. Sorry if you've checked the blog recently hoping for updates- I promise more will be coming....
Here are a few photos from Megan's bridal session- we set up camp in Gardner Village and wandered around to see what we could find. It still surprises me every spring that sometimes you can get trees so colorful that you would swear it was fall.

Springer Family

As the winter progresses, it becomes more and more of a routine to consciously plan and schedule winter family photo sessions with breaks interspersed to be able to escape the cold and warm up. Poor little Cali probably had the cutest little winter outfit I've seen yet this year; she was dressed for it, but we still made sure to take it easy with the cold weather. Part of the fun of shooting on location is that you never know exactly what will happen. It could be a clear sky, or snowing heavily. It could be 40 degrees or 4. It requires a lot of flexibility, but also affords the opportunity for some photographs you never would have planned otherwise. We got one photo in particular while warming up in this little yarn store in Gardner Village that we probably never would have taken if it hadn't been so cold. The uncertainty of the situation leads to enforced creativity and adaptation.







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