Emily Bregger

I met Emily Bregger a couple of months ago for a very quick shoot out by the Great Salt Lake with her friend Kyla and her two horses.

I learned at that photo shoot that Emily is a ballerina and later discovered that she has been involved in ballet for 15 years and was recently the Snow Queen in the Nutcracker this past Christmas season.

I love working with ballerinas.  What better way to incorporate grace and beauty into a photograph than to work with one who has trained for years to be graceful and beautiful?  So we got to talking and decided to do a photo shoot at the Salt Lake City Library where we could take advantage of the amazing architecture to show off her grace and beauty.  I had previously worked with a pair of ballroom dancers at the same location and just love the architecture.

Below are some of my favorite images from our photo shoot:

Ballroom Dancers

Every time I pick up my camera I'm having fun. But often I am shooting for someone else (a wedding, a family portrait, senior photos, etc). Every now and then I get to just go out and have some fun. And that's what this was. FUN!

Morgan Leigh Newey and I had been talking about doing pictures for a little while and came up with the idea of doing some kind of ballroom dance type of photo shoot. And I love taking pictures of dancers! If you ever want to make a picture look good, try putting a dancer in it. It's like an automatic upgrade! :)

We got to talking about shooting at the Salt Lake City Library. I had shot some architectural pictures of the library almost 6 years ago and have been intrigued with it every since.

Morgan contacted Mike Hansen and asked if he would join us for the photo shoot. Mike is very experienced and was a wonderful addition to the photo session.

Below are a few of my favorite images from the session. Click any image to jump onto my web site to see the rest of the images.











And my favorite head shots of Morgan and Mike: