Menlo Group Commercial Real Estate Headshots | Tempe, AZ

I've just realized I never posted this shoot, and I was just rehired by the MenloCRE team to shoot a new member of their team.  Well here's the original 9 members of the Menlo Group based in Tempe, AZ. First we have Tanner Milne!

Next we've got Grafton Milne!

Following Grafton is Rich Andrus!

Then we have Stuart Milne!

Then Lisa Royal!

And Robbie Thomson!

Skylar Bennet!

My main man Kevin Shoemaker!

Then there's Tiffanie Prince!

And the newest member of the team, and my most recent subject, Matt Porter!

The MenloCRE team is a great group of guys and gals.  They even gave me a cookie the last time I was in the office to photograph Matt. :D

You can find them at their website www.menlocre.com

Here's a little team collage I threw together for them as well, just for fun.

The Seth Family | Scottsdale, AZ

I recently had the pleasure of photographing Sneha and Heemesh Seth's amazing family.  Our shoot started out with just Sneha, Heemesh, and their 2 young daughters.  What made this shoot extra special is as we progressed, more family members were able to show up, and soon we had multiple generations of their family taking part.  It was great to get to see the young girls interact with their grandparents, and them taking so much joy in the experience.  Here are a few photos from the shoot.  Enjoy!

I would also like to thank Sneha especially, because she has referred more friends to me than anyone I have ever photographed!

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Cherie Maternity Shoot - Creating Something Different

When it comes to maternity photos I'm not the expert.  I'll start off with saying that much.  Maybe because I'm a guy and have never been pregnant...(not possible I know, unless you've seen that movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes pregnant, which is very improbable.  Maybe a side effect of steroids.)  Ok lets start over.  That was an awkward introduction to this post. I enjoy doing maternity shoots because there is a real connection between the mother to be and her unborn child, a connection so strong you can feel the emotion through a photograph.  So, when Cherie contacted me about doing her maternity shoot and told me the location she wanted I knew I needed to do something different. Of course the Scottsdale Civic Center park is one of the hot spots for local photographers around town, it's so overdone that I needed to do something different here.  Especially since the LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana is the most over photographed thing in the park.  Here's what I came up with.

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Lucky for me that day the fountains were turned off due to maintenance allowing for a clean reflection in the foreground water!

When Cherie requested this location I knew she would also request a photo with the LOVE statue by Robert Indiana.  The two go hand in hand. But, I wasn't just going to plop her right in front, I needed the focus to be on her, after all that's why we were there!  So we walked around a little bit and I decided to put her on the opposite side of the fountains from me in hopes i could get a nice reflection of her and the statue in the water.  The stars aligned and I came out with a totally unique photo from a non unique location!

Here are a few more photos from the session, by the time of me writing this Cherie will have had her baby.  Best wishes to both of them!

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Emily + Shawn Engagement Shoot in the Mountains!

Emily Vincent & Shawn Cohen's Engagement Shoot

Emily and Shawn have been dating for over 3 years now, and little did she know her life would only get better on their family trip to Hawaii.  For that is where Shawn proposed to her, on top of a mountain!  So it was only fitting when Emily contacted me about shooting their engagement photos that we returned to the mountains for the location of their shoot. Below you can find a collection of different photos from the day.

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Emily was very dedicated to getting some amazing photos, so dedicated that it didn't slow her down when she climbed up a bolder getting a few unseen cactus spines in her hand and butt! The image below shows them taking in the true beauty from the base of Tom's Thumb where you can see out over the entire Indian Preserve! It really is breathtaking.

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Overall we had an amazing time on our shoot, walked away with only a few scrapes from the location, but with some amazing photographs they will remember forever! Good luck to Emily and Shawn in their upcoming wedding and marriage!

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Mike Ryan Photo Shoot - Behind the Scenes Video & Stills

I was fortunate enough to be hosting Benjamin Wong otherwise known as just Von Wong in the photography community during the week of my photo shoot with Mike Ryan and his lovely girlfriend and her daughter.  Ben's an accomplished photographer already, but to keep his skill set growing he plans to move into video.  So with a generous amount of gear lent from Sony he opted to follow me around on my shoot with Mike, and shoot some awesome behind the scenes footage.  Here's the epic finished product of my first ever behind the scenes video! ***EXCITING!!!**

Luckily Triple Scoop Music has some amazing royalty free music I was able to use, which really added to the awesomeness of the video.

On top of the great video, I also came out of this shoot with some awesome stills. -->

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Boots in the Fall - Photo Shoot with Chloe and her Best Friends

Chloe my girlfriend, and her friends asked me to follow them around this past weekend photographing them having a great time since it is all of our's senior year in college and most of us will be moving in separate ways after we graduate.  During the day we decided to get creative and got the girls up in a tree and took a picture of the groups boots.

The Brand New Alpha Phi House! Iota Nu University of Kentucky Chapter!

Welcome to the brand new Alpha Phi Sorority House!  Iota Nu Chapter at the University of Kentucky!  Move in day was yesterday and tomorrow August 5th is the ribbon cutting ceremony!