Happy Ending/Beginning

This is just a quicky! I just wanted to post a quick photo from our latest session. There are a bunch of things that I need to post, but I wanted to get this one up real quick because I really dig it!!!
Anyway, I will post more in a few weeks, when I can get them edited! until then, enjoy this preview!

two mormons, a jew, and a catholic walk into a ghost town...

two mormons and jew and a catholic walk into a ghost town... though it does sound like it could be funny, no, this is not the beginning of a religious joke. We did however laugh, a lot, during a recent shoot in a little town outside of ABQ, NM.

Macall and Brandon are a SUPER cute couple. Macall, full of light and life- Brandon full of patience and humility! (don't worry brandon, I gotchur back). We have been wanting to shoot here for a long time and when we talked with these two we knew that they were going to be a good match for the location! We did not expect the freakin, cold breeze, wait scratch that, WIND, to be as bad as it was.
Ok so the central New Mexico plains are notoriously windy, hence the big ol ugly windfarms that contour the landscape. Anyway, that is a rant for another time!
We started in a old house, that gave us some shelter from the wind. We figured by all the bird nests and piles of birdy-doo, that it gave a lot of critters a haven from the weather. anyway we had plans to kinda shoot all over the town but realized quickly we didn't have to everything we needed was right there.
We did hop across the street to the local motel, still sporting the green shag carpet. (awesome!!!)
The hotel sign was two sided, one side was perfectly normal, the other side... not so much... Instead on New Management it said, new menagement. right next to the "MENAGE"-ment was Lo low rates... HMMMM... I wonder what went on in that hotel!!! Especially in that jungle room with the shag carpet!!
So we continued on and found the old car we were looking for, we closed the night on top of the old car and I would say all in all, not too dang bad!

Connection Sessions slide show.

Love is a beautiful thing Desiree and I live for one another and live for life's love. In our children, in our couples, everywhere. Check out our updated connection session slideshow.

Paul & Letisha

There are places in the world where love comes in very small amounts. There are places in the world where you feel it wherever you are.Love comes in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. Desiree and I have such a huge blessing to be able to see more of that love than most people. We see the love in the cycle of life.
We see the love of parents when they see their newborn for the first time. we see the love of a young child for her parents as she snuggles in close to them. We see two young people fall in love and devote their lives to one another.
We show that love between couples through our connection sessions. We love being able to walk with our couples, talk with our couples, laugh with our couples. We get to know them on a level that few people get to see. We get to see how their love touches the other. It's such an amazing thing. I think a lot of photographers do e-sessions and focus just on getting pretty pictures. I see so many e-sessions that are so empty and soulless. I would trade in a pretty picture of my self, my wife, my kids, for a real picture anytime!

So that said, here are some real and some pretty pictures of a beautiful couple, we had the pleasure of spending an evening with. We walked the streets of Nob Hill where they often went out on dates and actually were engaged. Then we came down close to the studio and spent some time in old town and then by the river.