Senior Portaits: Run, Stacie, Run!

Coming from a family of track stars (her dad, her brothers and sisters), it only makes sense that Stacie Carter is also an excellent runner.  We decided to have a little fun with her senior pictures and feature both the girly side of her as well as her runner side.

Fernanda Sonai

Brazilian top model Fernanda Sonai in studio.  Watch and see for yourself.



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Meet Ingrid Barros

I am so lucky. As a photographer I get to meet some of the prettiest and most talented girls around. And this week, I got to meet Ingrid Barros, in person, at my little studio.

Ingrid is a Brazilian beauty, living here in Utah to further her studies in Interior Design at the LDS Business College and she hopes to move into communications with an emphasis on advertising.

While Ingrid is not a professional model or actress, I firmly believe she could do either one with little effort coming up to speed.

Let me just come right out and say it: I'm in love with the range of expressions this girl has. Ingrid is not only beautiful, but she has a sense of style and a range of emotions and a comfort level in front of the camera that I have simply never encountered until now.

I know this is a photography blog, and I could show you a ton of pictures (literally, a ton), but I think this short video sums it up pretty quickly. Please take a look:



Here are a few gems which, if clicked on, will link back to my web site to allow you to view more pictures there.

Meet My Family

This is us... I don't get a chance to do much other than "candid shots" of my own family, but last Sunday the opportunity for Family Portraits arose and so we went for it.

This first shot was done by using a radio transmitter to fire my camera. I hopped in the back of the family and told everyone to look at the camera. AMAZINGLY... they did it. I have a hard enough time when I'm back behind the camera trying to get everyone to look at the camera at once. But here's the proof ... no head-swapping here, this is exactly how I shot the image:



After the big family group we decided to get a few pictures of each member of the family.

My wife, Marilyn, and I:


(yes, the wind is blowing ... we had a fan running to keep us cool - it's a small studio after all!)

Brandy and her kids:



Cassie and David:



Angie and Dan:



(they were having a lot of fun with that picture frame, click here to see more pictures)

And Devon:



And there you have us. Thanks for dropping by! :)

Rachel Marie McCash

I don't think I've ever met Miss Utah.

In fact, I'm not so sure I've ever even met someone who competed to become Miss Utah.

Well, that much has changed. Rachel Marie McCash, current Miss Cottonwood Heights, recently asked me to do a head shot for submission to the Miss Utah Pageant. We later found out that an "official photographer" will be doing all of the head shots. But Rachel and I still went ahead with the photo shoot. Freed from having to do just "head shots" we decided to have a little fun with the photo shoot. Below are some of the images I captured for her:

Best of Luck to you Rachel in your competition for Miss Utah, Miss USA, Miss Universe!
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