i heart faces - the beach

One of my fabulous photographer friends reminded me that this is beach week over at i heart faces (a photography community I belong to) and it just so happens that I made a goal for myself to start entering photography competitions and challenges to push myself creatively and keep expanding my skills (and because I am *kind of* addicted to photography classes).

So, I finally decided on this lovely picture - which just pretty much sums up fun

at the beach all in her darling little expression!

Family Fun at the Great Salt Lake

This is one beautful family! We go way back to our days in college sororities and fraternities

(and our husbands go back even further than that)

 and, while I think I am not nearly as fun as I was then - these two are still as much fun as ever!

They have the 2 most adoreably happy kids

And I *think* they all have fun together...

Thanks for a fun time at the beach guys can't wait until you get to see the whole gallery!!

Class of 2011 - having a blast!

I had such a great time taking Lara's pictures!

She is drop dead gorgeous and as sweet and fun as can be!

I had the hardedst time picking my favorites, so this post is going to be a little picture-heavy.

And her adoreable friend, Taeler, came along to make her laugh

(and I put her to work holding my reflector), so we got a couple of them together too.

We got some pictures of her by herself too, so watch for that on the blog.

And we even got a little silly...and laughed a lot!

I love doing senior sessions!

Grandpas are Fun

Before I started smileabunch photography, I did some practice sessions with friends and family to improve my photography skills for my everyday photography and for what, at the time, was only a dream of someday doing photography professionally. One of these sessions was capturing the relationship between Little Miss A and her Grandma.

It was such a sweet session, but we didn't convince Grandpa to come in and be a part of the shoot. So, since then, we have been trying to coordinate a time to do the same thing with Grandpa.

Well, this experience was just as sweet as the last! Grandpa wasn't sure he wanted to be photographed, but by the end I think we convinced him that it wasn't so bad after all! It was so fun to see him interact with his grandkids and to see how much they adore him!













Watch for more pictures of these kids with their mom and dad coming soon!

Rockin the Wheat Fields!

This session was just plain fun!

It helps that I got to hang out in some random fields with my awesome sister-in-law,

but we had such a great time capturing her spunky and fun personality

that we ran out of sunlight and had to call it a night!

Thanks for the fun times Shanae!

Want an Awesome Christmas Card this Year?

Yeah...I know it is August, but if you want your Christmas card to not be the same design as everyone else who orders their card from Costco this year, then you need to book a Fall Mini-session right now!

I have had quite a few requests for these sessions and I am so excited to offer them! They will include a custom Christmas card design (or a gift print, if you are all about designing your own). I will be posting some of my original designs over the next week or so, just to entice you! :)

Here are all the details:

Custom card designs are available with all sessions (those coming up and those that have passed), so don't be sad if your session is already booked!