Bridals and Groomals!

Just a few of my favorite photos of Mike and Brenda... I'm looking forward to the wedding day... what a great couple!

Living Planet Aquarium

At the beginning of this month I started an internship at The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. So far it has been pretty slow in regards to getting everything we need ordered in and set up so we can start the green screen photo booth, but in the mean time I have been in charge of taking pictures of all the Animals at the Aquarium which has been pretty fun. So far my favorite animals to take pics of are the Jelly fish and the Blue Poison dart frogs. I've also been behind the scenes watching them feed the Octopus,standing over the shark tank, and playing with the Sting Rays. Hopefully by the end of the month I will be able to go into the penguin tank! Its been fun so far and I'm learning a lot. The cockroaches, spiders, and snakes still creep me out a little bit but that didn't stop me from holding the Green Anaconda, Peaches, she is 10' 7" long and weighs over 57 pound of pure muscle. It was pretty gross I'm not going to lie but it was a neat experience. Honestly, who can say that they have held an Anaconda!


Me holding the anaconda! she is so long at least three people have to hold her at once.



One of the Gentoo Penguins, They are the fastest species of penguins, the third largest species, can hold their breath for 7 minutes, and dive up to 700 hundred feet!

The Jelly Fish! They are so Awesome! I could take pictures of them all day!

Mike and Brenda's Engagements!

Mike and Brenda are are two of the greatest people I know! I am so lucky to have them as friends. They are the cutest couple in the world and in my opinion quite perfect for each other. I'm going to go a head and say "way to go Taisa and Deborah for setting these two amazing people up!" Enjoy the pics!

I love to see the Temple!!

So this past month i've been super busy taking Bridals, wedding, and family photos for some friends (images to come) But this post is mainly about a great idea that Andrew and I had. We decided to go "Temple Hopping" if you will, and walk around the grounds and take pictures of the Temples. We have only hit three of the Utah Temples so far, but one day I would like to have a collection of as many Temples as possible. Below are some of my favorite images that I have taken. I think they turned out awesome!


This is obviously the Salt Lake Temple. I wanted to try antiquing it a bit so I messed around in photoshop and I think the end result turned out really cool!


This is the Draper Temple and I actually LOVE how this picture turned out. This is a straight photograph, and for those of you who may not know what that means, it means that this image came directly from my camera to my computer, no post-production or alterations were made. It turned out awesome! It was actually a funny sight to see me taking this picture because I neglected to take my tripod so I was balancing my camera on a light with Andrew's ipod, phone, a piece of paper, my point and shoot camera and my lens cap under the lens to stabilize it and to get it to the right height. But who needs a tripod when you can mcgyver something like that!


This is the Jordan River Temple. Again, another straight photograph, only this time I was smart enough to bring my tripod. I also loved how this one turned out! Not to shabby in my opinion. I would love to be able to just travel the world taking photographs of all the Temples! Maybe one day when I become a rich and famous photographer I will be able to, but for now the Utah temples will have to suffice.

Andrea and Russell Engagements

A few of the engagements that I took for my friends Andrea and Russell! Some of them turned out pretty good. Again, a few of my favorites.

Fall 2009 Photo Final

It has taken me forever to get these pictures up here but here is a few of my favorites from my photo final.