Tasha Poulsen Photographer

Teton, ID: R Family

2012-01-13T16:25:00.000-07:00

I know this family very well, and I love them dearly. This is my sister-in-law and her family. It was their little boy's first birthday. It was a beautiful, but slightly windy day. You're going to laugh, but this was by a highway off-ramp. It was very fall feeling, and I loved it

I love this nephew's facial expressions. He goes from frustrated...

...to "What you lookin' at?"

... to, "Now I'm happy!"

This lil' guy doesn't cuddle much either, so I was very fortunate that he felt like doing so in front of the camera.

Mommy obviously loves his cuddles :)

Daddy and son's relationship is definitely a playful one.

I think that son was leaning a little to far, and Daddy played along with to act like he was tipping over, and Mommy made a funny face. It was a definitely a playful moment.

And of course we have to end with another awesome family picture.

Love you guys! Thanks for inviting us to share S's big day and letting me take your pictures.

Bone, ID: S Family Portraits

2012-01-02T20:44:00.000-07:00

I have so much to catch up on now that the holidays are over, sorry it has taken me so long to get back. I hope everyone had an awesome and safe holiday season.

I took this family's pictures in a sunflower field. The funny thing was the sunflowers didn't finish following the sun. If you didn't know, the reason for the name sunflowers, is that these flowers follow the sun. The heads go from East to West, and start over at dawn. Well these didn't go all the way, which I found interesting. We had a ton of fun though.

This is D4. She is adorable, and I couldn't pick my favorites. I even had another that I wanted to put up, but I couldn't get it to upload for some reason.

This is D2. She's an absolute ham. And an awesome poser when she wants to be.

I love this picture of her. Can you tell the she's saying "Hey!" Her Dad said something and she totally reacted.

This is D3, she's very quiet and sweet. She was easy to shoot.

This is D1. I think she is beautiful, not just on the inside, but on the outside too. I hope she will see that in her pictures.

The posed shot....

And the not so posed shot being goofy and having fun.

The entire family in the beautiful sunflower field.

I love this family, they're awesome. You know parents seem to make a difference.

Another favorite, because the girls are having fun and being themselves.

Thanks S family! I had so much fun and hope that you won't wait seven years before you get your next family pictures! :)

Ashlie Senior Portaits: Rigby, ID

2011-12-10T21:54:00.001-07:00

I realize I haven't posted in a while. Trust me, I've been trying to get to it. I have tons of images for the weekly challenge, but I just haven't gotten them up. So here is what is going to happen. I'm going to start the weekly pictures back up again, but I'm only going to do between one and three images. It will make my life less complicated. Until then though, I have lots of portrait sessions to post, so here goes.

This lovely young woman was actually part of my final Portfolio for college. I was so excited to shoot her pictures and we had a lot of fun. She had lots of different outfits which was fun for me to work with.

Gorgeous!

I loved that she had this casual polo and jeans. I definitely think this shows her fun loving side.

She had an awesome eye for color. I showed her the pictures of this rusty ol' pickup and she brings this out fit that totally matches, LOVE IT!

This is one of my favorite images of the entire photo session.

I tried something a little different with these last two images, and I love how they turned out. I just added a little bit of texture and and some grunge.

Thanks for letting me shoot your Senior pics Ashlie I had a lot of fun and hope that it was as enjoyable for you as it was for me.

December Wedding

2011-07-30T16:19:00.000-07:00

How does that song go? "Slipping through my fingers all the time." And boy howdy does time seem to keep doing that. I hadn't realized it but I never posted this beautiful wedding from back in December. They are such an awesome couple. You can tell how much he loves her just by the way he treats her and listening to him speak to her. I love these two for many reasons, my favorite reason is because my little boy (Thing 1) adores the groom (he loves the bride too don't worry) but it's just fun to watch them play together.

Anyhow, here's what you've been waiting for. Thankfully, they were willing to do their wedding pictures the day before and it was great because the next day it was even colder and snowing and the clouds were heavier so naturally it was darker. I'm sooooo glad we did it the day previous. Plus, they felt so less rushed and short on time. I'm not lying it's the truth! First look, can't you tell excited they are to see each other?

I love how happy they are. I just get all gooey :).

We went inside to warm up, and there was some nice window lighting.

This is THE SHOT. I love the lighting, the pose everything. This was my favorite shot of the lovely bride.

I love that he just radiates happiness.

A simple, elegant cake that the groom's mother made. It was beautiful and tasty.

I thought this was going to be completely posed. Nope, I was wrong. It sure doesn't look like the bride is going to win her new husband does it? She's playing tug 'o war with her new sister-in-law.

Love you two! I'm going to miss you while you're on your internship, but have fun!

My Surroundings: Week 6

2011-06-26T15:39:00.000-07:00

For this particular week, I was able to go and visit my parents and some of my siblings in central Washington state. My favorite part about the trip? It was so much warmer than my home in Idaho. It was very exciting. This is my childhood home, so you get to see my surroundings I grew up with. cool huh? There's not any pictures really of my family because it's a very busy time of year and they are constantly in equipment or running to different places where we're not. So hopefully one of these times soon I'll get pictures of them.

Who doesn't love posting pictures of their sweet little ones? I know I love too, especially with an irresistible face like this.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/42 - ISO 100)

This is a crop duster. The pilot for in this particular crop duster's name is Jock. I've known him for as long as I can remember. Or should I say know of him, I think I have only ever met him once. Crop duster's fly really really low to the ground to spray chemicals on fields (i.e. fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides). During the summer Jock would fly over our house at least once a week. I swear sometimes that my Mom would call him to come and dust a field near our home just to get us out of bed in the morning. And it was usually around 6 am, when you're a farmer, work starts early. That's not early either early was 3:30 am.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/800 - f/5 - ISO 100)

This is the "Homeplace", or in other words the field right next to my parents home. My Dad runs a family operated custom swathing, baling, stacking operation. All six of my siblings and I worked in and on the equipment. My second to youngest brother is in the tractor below pulling a baler behind him.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/800 - f/5.6 - ISO 100)

I love the yellow crop duster against the beautiful blue sky. Another thing we used to do is wave at the pilot and he would almost always tilt his plane side-to-side to "wave" back.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/800 - f/5.6 - ISO 100)

This is the South side of my parents home. They have an amazing view from all sides. You can barely see it, but there is a a white mountain above the green field in the back, that's actually Mt. Rainier.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/800 - f/5.6 - ISO 100)

This is my maternal grandpa's grave. He passed away in a farming accident while my mom was in High School. My Grandma grows beautiful peonies and they were ready to be trimmed and set at the headstone and I was there at the right time to set them. She grows beautiful flowers.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/800 - f/5 - ISO 100)

The baler at a closer range.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/640 - f/5.3 - ISO 100)

Thing 1 loves the tractors, and is an awesome driver! :)

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/640 - f/4.5 - ISO 100)

This is the view from the South side of my parents home. I would love to have the view of the valley where I currently live the the view they have.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/160 - f/14 - ISO 100)

While we were visiting last summer, Mom planted a few rose bushes and this is one of the results she got this year. Being a farmer's wife, she's constantly in the field, equipment, or trucks helping to run things, so she was very excited to see this.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/500 - f/5.6 - ISO 100)

What does it look like where you grew up?

My Surroundings: Week 5

2011-06-22T16:49:00.000-07:00

MCHope has some beautiful pictures of her Holland. I love seeing them because I've never been, but I hope to go someday (Far, distant future, but someday nonetheless)

Sorry, I wasn't able to get this up before I left on a trip to visit my family. I love my garden and it's a sight I see everyday, so this is after some of our garden was planted and during the planting process.

I'll be really disappointed if you can't tell what this seed is. Any guesses? Hopefully we will see growth soon.

This is one of my best looking raspberry plants. I wanted to get some of it's newest growth, and it seems to be doing so well. The rest of them don't look to good. After I've weeded I'll show what the not so well doing ones look like.

My dear husband installed these sprinklers so that while I was gone visiting family I wouldn't have to bother the neighbors about watering my garden while I was gone. I am so grateful and so excited!!!

Hoping to have Week 6 pictures up by the end of the week. Wish me luck! What do your surroundings look like?

Week 4

2011-06-09T08:29:00.000-07:00

Week 4

It started off as a really cold week and then warmed up beautifully, we even had two days without wind and 80 degree weather. However, our well pump went out and so we were left pulling a pump and replacing it. Unfortunately due to the nature of being do-ourselves people and knowing how, I was busily running around helping my husband and not carrying my camera. I'm sad that I wasn't able to get any shots, but I will definitely not forget the rusty red water that came out when we purged it after replacing our new pump. It would have been awesome, but hopefully these will do.

Our area has had a very high snow pack this year and so out of concern for flooding I've been prepared just in case we had to suddenly leave. To relieve my worries about the local dam breaking and sweeping our home away my husband took us up to Palisades Dam for a Sunday drive. The flow was high coming out of the dam and my husband took us to the reservoir instead of the flow.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/400 - f/5.6 - ISO 100)

Thing 1 found an awesome blue looking rock. Okay, it was more blue than the rest of the gray rocks. He was going to keep it, and decided to throw it in the reservoir. Ooops, that's okay.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/400 - f/5.6 - ISO 100)

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/14 - ISO 100)

A lot of cool driftwood(?). I not sure if that's the right term because it's not an ocean. Anyhow, the mountains were beautiful in the background.

(Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/1000 - f/3.5 - ISO 100)

Late Week 2: Outside lately

2011-05-25T13:20:00.000-07:00

Thank goodness for a husband who is familiar with a camera. I've been trenching lately, I never thought that I would be A. trenching, or B. picking rocks any time soon. Thing 2 fell asleep on my back even with the violent jerks of digging. Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/250 - f/5 - ISO 100 - Husband handheld

We've been able to get outside for just a few short days and unfortunately I've had a cold that Thing 2 decided he wanted to share with me. So I pushed myself to go outside and play (work). We have been prepping our garden for planting and this seems to be the only time to get outside and take pictures as well.

Thing 1 is a fantastic helper and loves digging in the dirt. He's also a good hand shoveler thrower. He can throw a shovel and make the handle stick out of the ground. How many 3 and 1/2 year olds do you know that can do that? Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/320 - f/5.6 - ISO 100

After two days of hard work, we decided to relax and fly a kite. The following two images have the same settings. Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/250 - f/5.6 - ISO 100 - handheld

Thing 1 was so close to falling asleep in Daddy's arms. It was really cute.

Thing 2 has a nasty cold, so he stayed inside except for about the hour or so he was on my back in the first picture. So he got his own photo shoot, and I have to say I love that little boy. Hopefully, if it ever gets warm, I will do just a post of him and his beautiful blue eyes. Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/4.5 - ISO 100 - handheld

Surroundings: Week 1

2011-05-14T08:51:00.000-07:00

I see this building quite frequently when I leave home to go somewhere and I love it. It's a very unique building if you can't tell. It was an old sugar beet processing mill, but that industry went down the drain locally several years ago. Ownership has changed hands many times. One of the most recent changes was to someone trying to turn it into the Old Sugar Mill Market. It was painted, but not quite finished in one spot that you'll see. I love coming here for portraits with the colored walls, fun "backgrounds".

The clouds had created some diffused lighting so it was really nice at times and harsh at other times, which you have to learn how to work with one way or another.

I love the contrast of the beautiful blue sky and the stormy looking clouds. The following four images are used in these settings. Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/13 - ISO 100 - First two are tripod - third and fourth are handheld

I think the artist did a beautiful job on the details of this building.

This painted door is my favorite! It has so many details of a real door.

Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/14 - ISO 100 -Handheld

The columns and archway look awesome.

Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/7.1 - ISO 100 - Handheld

This is the wrought iron detail on the doors you see above.

Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/4.8 - ISO 200 - Handheld

The next two images are of the following Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/10 - ISO 100 - Handheld

A random tree on property but I couldn't resist the sun glare. It was beautiful.

Here's the unfinished painting, the bed of the truck wasn't finished. I love the blue sky! Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/100 - f/10 - ISO 200 - Handheld (The sun went behind a dark cloud, that's the reason for the 200 ISO)

I got home from shooting and couldn't resist the opportunity for this B&W. The house is in my neighbor one house over. Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/100 - f/25 - ISO 100 -Tripod

Challenge Rules

2011-05-13T15:26:00.000-07:00

Well, here is the information about the rules and the challenge that MCHope from the Netherlands has issued. She has started her end of the challenge and I feel a little bit behind. My computer was gone for two days and I wasn't to upload pictures to get things going. So here are the guidelines:

1. You need to take the photo that week. So no using archives.
2. And no putting yourself down or excusing yourself ;)
3. It needs be a typical you picture: showing your surroundings, atmosphere where you are, or something typical American. I do the same here.
4. Why not show the settings we've used too. That'll teach us (and others) a lot too.
5. Lets dare to comment on each other's photos both the positive and learning points!

I'm so excited to do this! It means I actually have an excuse to carry my camera around with me! With two rambunctious little boys though, this could be interesting. I hope to post this week's surroundings by tomorrow.

As an example, I took these of the Mother's Day hanging basket my boys gave me. It was beautiful and I love plants and flowers, so they can't ever go wrong.

Nikon D7000 - Nikkor 18-135mm 5.6 - Manual - 1/125 - f/5 - ISO 400 - Handheld

What are some of your surroundings?

Typical Surroundings

2011-05-03T16:17:00.000-07:00

Because my friend in the Netherlands has decided to put rules on our little challenge ;), I guess this post doesn't count. Besides, this was supposed to be last week's post as part of the challenge. I'll post the details as to what our challenge is about shortly.

On Easter Sunday we gathered with my husband's and had a dinner to commemorate the wonderful yet horrible event that took place over 2000 years ago. We took some family pictures, and my brother-in-law's wife, L, brought this awesome kite. The kite is two meters long and is meant to be a trainer kite. "A trainer kite?" you may ask. There are kites that are 6 m., and I think she said 9 m. as well that come with harnesses so that you may be pulled by the wind on skis or some other sort of transportation. This is to help train you for the bigger ones. I don't know a whole lot, but I thought it to be really cool.

This is my Mother-in-Law and my oldest son (Thing 1 as he will be referred to). They enjoyed watching this enormous kite for about 20 minutes.

This is my handsome husband. I know you can't see him but that's okay, trust me, he's handsome. L let him have a try with the kite and it was definitely not as easy as she made it look. She made it look absolutely effortless.

Do you know how difficult it can be to get a shot you want of an individual flying a kite? Especially when all of the sudden the kite swoops in and out of the frame? Gaaaah! It was fun and a challenge. These were my two favorites of L flying her kite.

My husband didn't grow up very far away from the Grand Tetons. It is definitely a gorgeous view if it's a clear day.

*Note: If the pictures look out of focus, don't worry they're not. I'm not sure why that is. Click on the image and you'll see that they're not.

Challenge Accepted

2011-04-22T20:45:00.000-07:00

I have a friend that I have met online. I'm not sure if they want me to identify them, so unless they say otherwise, they will go by M. M is from Europe. I think we have developed a good friendship through pictures and a mutual friend. I had asked for help with finding a challenge sometime ago, and M has challenged me to take pictures of the everyday here in the U.S. and post them once a week. So, here we go.

Unfortunately due to weather, I wasn't able to take pictures of the things I wanted to, so I'll start with this. This picture was taken with a point and shoot (my apologies for the blur, the lens was fogged and it's not mine) in December and describes the area about 20 minutes to the East of my home. I love the mountains, they're gorgeous and the air is refreshing. I love living so close to them especially because it means lots of skiing.

My only complaint about living close to them (or should I say at a higher elevation) is this....

Today is April 22 and we had 3/4" of snow on the ground. These are the tulips and grape hyacinths I planted about a year and a half ago. I'm very proud of them because honestly, I'm very new to flower gardening. (You'll see more when there are actual blossoms)

I know I should be used to this by now after living here for seven years, but a slightly warmer climate just can't seem to leave my head. Someday, I will be in a place where I can plant my garden before the end of May, but until then I will enjoy the cold because it brings snow, and having snow means sledding, hot chocolate, and my all-time winter favorite, downhill skiing.

Six days before I was due

2011-02-17T08:27:00.000-07:00

So as you can see, six days before I was due with little boy number two, I had a Senior session. We had tried to do it about two weeks earlier, but the weather was being uncooperative. Considering I was nine months pregnant, I am/was pretty pleased with how these turned out. No, it didn't take me this long to get them done, just been busy and neglectful.

Loved, the lighting that day. This shot was practically SOOC (other than a few blemish removals).

We had fun! Thanks S for letting me do your Senior pics!

Contest Winner

2010-12-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

Last year I had a contest go on the blog Make It and Love It the winner had contacted me and wanted to wait to take pictures because she had just had a baby. Having been in that scenario, I was more than willing to comply with her request. She contacted me during early fall and we finally set up a shoot. Here they are. I had so much fun with this being my first family urban shoot. Urban shoots are always fun, but different when they're not a Senior, so here we go.

Such a beautiful family!

Mom wanted this shot and since I hadn't done one before it was fun to try. I loved how the kids were just being themselves.

Mr. GQ/Senior. He was a toughie to get to smile, but I like his...attitude? shots, they reminded me very much of a guy Senior.

This was my favorite shot of this little guys. He was so happy, quite the opposite of his older brother.

She was a doll, and a trooper. It was so cold out, but she was doing so well. Her brothers ran in front of the camera a few times trying to help, and accidentally got into this shot. Regardless, I love it.

Love this steel door as a backdrop, I want to use it again. Thanks for discovering it and wanting images in front of it.

Every Mommy needs a picture with her little girl.

I like the contrast of the family and how they stand out in this image.

This is my favorite of Mom and Dad, because you can definitely tell after eight years of marriage they are very much in love.

Thanks guys for being such great models, I hope you enjoy the images as much as I enjoyed taking them!

I need a challenge

2010-12-21T00:13:00.000-07:00

I said I was back one other time, and I haven't done so well, so we're going to try this again. I want to put up a post at least once a month. With two busy little boys, I may need help keeping that commitment. So I'm asking for a little bit of pressure and suggestions. What do you want to see? Portraits of people, or images of where I live, or what goes on in my life? I need a challenge, and if I think if I had one, I would blog more. What do you think?

Oh, and here's an image of the newest little man in my life. Ethan, also referred to as Thing Two.

The B Family

2010-10-23T22:39:00.000-07:00

Yes, I realize it has been a while. It hasn't been because I haven't been taking pictures, but because I have been busy getting ready for our second little boy. Now that he's here I have been able to somewhat get back to blogging. It's really late and I'm trying to get him to sleep, so I have a few minutes and am posting pictures that I took two weeks before he was born. (Pictures of him and Big Brother to come soon.)

This family I actually created the wedding announcements for one of the children. I had a lot of fun taking their pictures, they were a very fun and entertaining family.

I love that they were fine shooting around a haystack. I grew up on a farm where my dad cut, baled, and stacked hay. My siblings and I were his crew.

Grandma and Grandpa with their sweet little granddaughter.

Engagementish? That's okay, they still in the honeymoon period, just over a year of marriage. Sigh, those days were so much fun, but now the responsibilities of being a Mom. I wouldn't change them for the world!

Thanks for having me as your photographer, I had a blast, hope you enjoyed your images.

K's Graduation Announcements

2010-06-14T17:03:00.000-07:00

I've changed K's name and location of his high school, so those of you who know him, know otherwise.

Front

Back

This was an option that K was debating on because he loves playing the piano. He thought that it would work better for his Senior Recital if he decided to do announcements for it.

K's Senior Portraits

2010-05-28T08:58:00.000-07:00

It's kind of funny the way young men (especially Senior guys) are chill about pictures. K wanted to take some Senior portraits in some fun places. He called me two weeks prior to his graduation, which happened on Wednesday night. That was the fastest turnaround time I've ever had. Pictures were taken on Thursday and then we then designed his announcement on Monday. Thankfully everything went smoothly.

K was an easy model to get to pose and seemed a little quiet at first. He is my sister's brother-in-law, so I've seen his true character a decent amount, so to see him quiet and almost shy was a bit of a change for me. But he finally was able to come out of his shell I think after our first setting, which was in a huge auditorium with a grand piano.

He's an impressive pianist, and playing is something that he truly enjoys.

After we were in the auditorium, he wanted to have the urban feeling in his portraits, not so much nature and such, so we headed into some of the local alleyways.

This is my favorite shot from the entire session.

I had a lot of fun with this one primarily because he definitely looks like a Senior. "I'm ready to be done" at least that's what I see and hear in this one. Yes, I have voices that talk to me while I'm looking at pictures, do you? ;)

He really wanted pictures in front of a red wall, and I knew of just the place. Yes, it's a barn with weeds and stuff, but it's right in the middle of town. Funny how there are buildings you thought you might have to travel forever for, but are four blocks from your current location.

K also wanted railroad tracks as part of his shoot, and the tracks were less than a block from the barn! How did we get so lucky? I dunno, but we had fun.

At last but not least, we saw some graffiti right by the railroad tracks, and thought we might try it out.

Fall Family Shots

2010-05-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

This mom is a friend of mine from high school, and I said that I was going home to visit for a little while and asked if anyone wanted portraits done while I was visiting in a Facebook post. She replied and we finally were able to get together in October when I did those Senior portraits as well.
Here are pictures of her beautiful family. Maybe I should say handsome as there are more guys than girls.

We took all of these pictures on her parents property, they had all of these neat props/backgrounds so that it worked out great with the colors they were wearing as well. I love fall colors, they are definitely my favorite!

Occasionally it's nice to just a get a picture of Mom and Dad. Because if you think about it, how often do you get just a picture of Mom and Dad other than on the wedding day?

This was their handsome little boy who was also quite the ham. He was good at cheesing it up when we first started just doing pictures of him. Towards the end though we're able to get pictures that his family loves.

My Little Man

2010-05-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

Spring is sort of here in Southeast Idaho and we took advantage of the cool but sunshiny day. This is the other man in my life, he's 2.5 yrs old, and I love him dearly. As you can tell by these pictures he's a fantastic model, and we shot for no more than 25 minutes. I'm not trying to be biased, but I think I did pretty well. Okay, okay, maybe I'm just a little bias (Okay, a lot!).

This is my favorite shot by far!

I'm not sure why he decided to do this particular little pout, but I thought it was cute and just fun in to capture a toddler.

This is one of my favorite faces that he makes, it's a combination of when he's heard something and just figured something out. Or sometimes the mischievous look of, "It wasn't me!"

Like I said, a fantastic little model without even trying. He's been trained very well ;). I would ask him to do one thing and as he was attempting to do it or he would do it and I would just grab the shot. It's not always easy though because he's definitely a mover and sometimes I couldn't always get him in focus when I saw something I liked.

This is my second favorite shot of him.

Before we went into town to take pictures, I made a deal with him and said "We'll go to the park and have a picnic and play on the toys, but first we're going to take pictures." He got all excited so we packed a lunch, shot pictures in urbanized settings and then went to the park where we just had fun with pictures. And then the wind started to blow from the North, so you guessed it, it got really cold. We ate our lunch in the car, and played on the toys for about 20 min then went home. I have such a wonderful little boy!

He does have teeth I swear, he just doesn't always show them when we're taking pictures.

You can kind of see them here.

Last but not least, here's one I hope that leaves you smiling.

It's finally here!

2010-04-26T14:35:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I've talked about this particular subject, but it's finally here. Thanks to my brother-in-law and his help, he helped to redesign it, so here it is, my website! It's nothing gloriously fancy, but simple and gets the job done. Click here or type in www.tashapoulsen.com into your web browser. Let me know what you think!

I'm back, I hope...

2010-04-16T10:39:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, I realize it has been some time since I posted and I apologize for the length of time. I will tell you right now, since my last post I haven't exactly felt the best. I am currently pregnant with our second son, and my first trimester was nauseating and not feeling well period. So because I didn't feel well, I really wasn't feeling up to communicating with anyone, so I apologize. It has finally warmed up a little here in Southeastern Idaho and I'm feeling better due to being at a later time in the pregnancy. I just reached my halfway point and am due September 5th, 2010. My camera's battery was dead, so I had to take a picture of this ultrasound picture with my computer, once again you have my apologies. Here's one of our little boy's feet.

I'm going to try and post pictures hopefully (crossing my fingers) once a week, whether it be of people or otherwise. At least I'm setting a goal for it until this little boy is born, and we'll have to see how that goes. Here some pictures that I took of some of the Seniors from my Washington trip in October.

I did their shoots together and they were all good friends, so we did some shots together.

Who wouldn't want a picture with their best friend?

B: Senior Portraits

2010-01-12T17:00:00.001-07:00

B was also with the two most previous Seniors. She is such a sweetheart, and so quiet! I'm so glad that R was there, otherwise I wouldn't have heard her. Her normal voice is the equivalent to my whisper. She was so fun to shoot though.

The first thing she asked was if she could have her guitar in some of her pictures. I was happy to oblige because it gave us a fun little prop to use.

She was worried that the shirt she was wearing wouldn't work with the first set up, it was perfect! Gotta love a little breeze blowing across the face.

I was trying to get B to come out of her shell, and I was successful. With reassurance from her friends, she finally became comfortable.

I loved having the contrast in outfits amongst my three models that day. She wore a white sweater and the other two work black colored tops. It was fun to have the color to play with.

I really like this B&W it's very soft and she looks so comfortable.

THAT SHOT! I think the reason why I love this one so much is that she is genuinely smiling, and it's a candid shot. I love the hair light going on, and sparkle in her eyes.

Another THAT SHOT, she was giggling because she thought she might look silly and we got teeth out of the smile. I love how her hand is in her hair, it just kind of adds for something different.

A: Senior Portraits

2009-12-17T17:15:00.000-07:00

This is another handsome Senior from the same high school in central Washington. I had so much fun with this second senior. There were two cute girls who were getting their portraits taken as well, and they did a wonderful job making him laugh, sometimes too good of a job.

I really love this shot in B&W. It just seems classic to me of a country boy in a white t-shirt leaning up against his truck.

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I really enjoy the warm earthy colors that appear in some of these later shots, because not only was it fall in Washington, but I love those colors in the first place. Okay, maybe I'm a little biased...
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However, I love the vibrancy and intensity of the cool colors. The green and blues make him stand out so much too with his dark hair and skin. Such a good looking guy!
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And now, for his close up!
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Once again, here's the railroad bridge, but a different angle. A suggested he would like a shot with the architecture of the bridge in the background, so I really enjoy this shot. It's geometrical (I think that's the right word) and precise, but with a natural feel at the same time.
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Thanks A for working with me and not feeling completely awkward with three ladies around! You were an awesome reflector holder too! Hehe!

R: Senior Portraits

2009-12-08T15:53:00.001-07:00

Some of you may thing this young woman looks familiar, well this is my brother's sister-in-law. She was the Maid of Honor at the wedding. I went to visit Washington to do a few portraits and invited her to come along. She is very fun loving, happy, and maybe a tad sassy (love ya R), so I think I captured her pretty well.
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She really wanted pictures on this old truck and we had a lot of fun with it with her and another Senior. It was quite hilarious, because she can't hold a serious face for very long if it all, despite our trials with the serious shots, I think they turned out quite well.

Do you see the fun loving gal I'm talking about?
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This particular railroad crossing sign is in the backyard of her family's home, I thought it was awesome and used it as a prop. I think it added character, and I loved it.
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So after the sign, we went to an actual railroad bridge. We shot at the top of the bridge as well as the bottom. The shots at the bottom of the bridge, you will see shortly.
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By the way, I love the B&W above, it's one of my favorites. The rest of the shots were actually taken at the bottom of the bridge.
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I had so much fun with you when we were shooting. Thanks so much for keeping all of us laughing! All of the squeal while we were on the bridge were the best! ;)

C: Senior Portraits

2009-11-25T16:03:00.001-07:00

This handsome young man was actually a contact through my younger sister in central Washington state. I was going for portrait sessions anyway, and had my sister contact old friends who were still in high school and C just happened to be one of them. I had a good time with C. Unfortunately it rained on us for about 45 min, but it eventually stopped. Can you believe the beautiful colors from mid-late October? Definitely not like that here in good ol' Idaho.

I wanted to get this pictures up so that his family visiting for the holiday could see them, so I didn't have time to take rain spots out. My apologies. And because I'm behind for the holidays, comments will be kept minimally for a little bit.

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S and R Wedding

2009-11-23T15:09:00.001-07:00

I know how my brother is about pictures, so I went as fast as I could. I think I shot at least 100 people from the entire group to bridal party in 30 minutes. I still had to deal with my brother being irritated about taking pictures, but you know what? That's okay, I'm used to it.

These are both sets of parents watching as their children kiss their spouse, I thought it to be a cute moment.

As the parents were walking away I caught a moment that I thought was ideal of the newlywed couple. This may sound corny, but it was a kind of moment frozen in time.

Aww, the handsome groomsmen. The first on the left is obviously the groom, and my big brother. I know groomsmen Number One was the best man as well as best friend. I've known him my entire life, and an "adopted" big brother. We all grew up together, and he is happily married to a sweetheart of a girl. Groomsmen #2 I've known longer than my sister-in-law (the bride). It's funny because he is the bride's older brother. I met him a long time go, but merely as an acquaintance. Groomsmen #3 I don't know much about other than he has a pretty good sense of humor as you see in a little bit.

The lovely bridesmaids I know are all good friends of the bride. The one giving us the funny look on her face is the Maid of Honor and the bride's younger sister. It definitely wasn't her idea to kiss her older sister on the cheek!

As I said Groomsmen #3 has a good sense of humor. When the lovely ladies were trying to figure out how to lift the groom off the ground, #3 just stepped in and picked him up...

set him in the ladies arms and ran

We weren't sure what to do with Groomsmen #2 at the beginning of this shot, and when he went to this pose, it was irresistible to get this image.

We are finally onto just the happy couple, although at the time they could be considered the irritated couple. These pictures didn't take very long, regardless of what anyone says.

Another intimate moment that I absolutely love. This is actually That Shot. It's so nice to see them so happy.

Love you guys too! ;)

I had asked them to kiss and it turned into more than that. When she finally broke the kiss off she was laughing and he had a hard time believing she broke it off. I love this water fountain and wanted to incorporate it a little bit differently, so I tried a lower angle shot. Don't worry, no one go too wet. :)

Our finally shots of the day. This is another That Shot for me.

I love you two, I hope you enjoy the images that you receive and find them worth your time.

R and S: Bridals

2009-10-30T11:32:00.000-07:00

My lovely new sister-in-law was a lot of fun to shoot, we had I think at least four of her family members with us and had a lot of fun. I hope that she likes her images as much as I did. Her colors were lime green, hot pink, and black. Such fun colors and her shoes her the pink and white and I added the color to her shoelaces to try and make the rings stand out some more.

There was a pretty water fountain in Moses Lake so we started there and went to a few other places throughout town.

This shot is near the water fountain location. I love the light coming through her veil.

I tried a few different things with angles and facial expressions, because my new little sister is sassy, and it was so much fun.

Can you believe that this wheat was in town near the water fountain? It was part of some sort of park.

We went to the Moses Lake Japanese Gardens and took shots inside and outside to give different feels and shots. The red bridge was in the gardens and the rest were in an empty lot, which was a lot of fun to play with and make it a combo black and white/color.

These two shots were in the lot outside of the gardens giving it more of a natural and rustic feel at the same time, I love the hair light I caught on the kickin' her heels up shot.

She had three different pairs of shoes for the bridals, I'm not sure the reasoning, but they were all cute and I took images of three sets. Although her tennis shoes were her actual wedding shoes.

You know I have to color the eyes once in a while with the black and whites, I just can't help it, especially when the bride's eyes are absolutely gorgeous.

Teaser: S and R

2009-10-20T14:27:00.003-07:00

I'm so excited to start showing pictures from this particular wedding, because this is my brother and gorgeous new sister-n-law. They were married in September in Washington state, which gave me an opportunity to get new locations and break out of some old things and try out the new. So here's a teaser from her bridals and the wedding day.

Poor guys, they always get stuck bustling the trains back up and it's no fun for them.

(For the protection and privacy of clients and others on different posts, I will be now using false names or initials.)

Out and About Family Portrait

2009-09-30T07:00:00.000-07:00

These are some friends of my little family and I needed subjects. This sweet Mom wanted some family pictures taken and the day we were going to do it didn't happen because her poor husband received a concussion poor guy. He took a little time off from work to recuperate and she asked him again to do pictures and he said yes. We think that may have been to due to the concussion, but I took it.

This is my favorite picture, but it's because I worked hard on this image. The son wasn't actually looking at me in the original picture and was in a different pose, so I imported him from a different picture and replaced the original with this cute little picture of him with his Mom.

Oh yeah, their little girl was too cute. She broke her arm the weekend before her Daddy received a concussion. The cast was originally hot pink, but Mommy likes purple, so I changed the color for her Mom's sake. She really does adore her big brother. I didn't even ask for the hug, I just said, ignore me for a few minutes. Way too cute and fun! This is THE shot of the day for me.

I think this is adorable of the entire family because they're all waiting on the sweet baby girl of the family.

Thanks so much for posing for me my friends, I truly appreciate your patience and willingness!

Greg and Kelly: Reception

2009-09-25T06:00:00.000-07:00

I had reasons for posting the cake smash first. There was chocolate cake on Kelly's dress so I wanted to show those pictures last, just in case you saw large dark spots on her gown.

There were a few of these bells placed strategically throughout the room just in case anyone decided to make a toast to the happy couple. They were beautiful decorations, and toasts were made without the bells.

Aww, the garter toss. It's always a funny look on the bride's face when her new husband takes off this flimsy item.

He sure was excited to catch it! I even think that he was dating a girl at the time, and I do think that it was quite serious.

Sadly, this was not the garter catcher's girl, but nonetheless is was quite lovely.

Dancing went throughout the night, and started off with the daddy daughter dance.

This is Kelly's brother-in-law and niece, I was able to capture this during the daddy-daughter dance, and thought it to be very appropriate.

The mother-son dance followed. I don't think that words could describe the look on her face.

There was plenty of others dancing throughout the night as well. I loved capturing the sweet little girls, they were absolutely adorable!

Greg and Kelly are actually ball room dancers. They floated all around the dance floor. It was a beautiful picture to see the two of them work together.

One of my favorite parts of the evening was the dollar dance. Everyone had the opportunity to dance with the bride or groom if they would like for a dollar. Now, there some who payed more and some who paid less, it's more whatever you have in your wallet kind of thing. The old and...

the very young alike were all willing and ready to dance with the happy couple.

I can see Greg and Kelly teaching their children to dance just as in these two pictures.

I kid you not, these two floated on the dance floor and were almost dramatic at the same time, it created such a smooth motion, that it was very hard not to get lost in.

The last song they played was actually the song that Greg proposed to Kelly during. I believe it was Taylor Swift's Love Story. It was such a cute story, she bumped him with her elbow and gave him a bloody nose while they were dancing. Poor Greg had to recompose himself before he proposed in the last verse.

Kelly's older sister, who would NEVER do this to their pickup. Can you see the mischievous look on her face?

Greg and Kelly: Cake Cutting

2009-09-23T06:00:00.002-07:00

This is such an impressive feat, that I can't help but post it all by itself. Greg and Kelly start off with this cute "We're going to feed each other cake", and the whole nine yards. Yes, they are wearing plastic garbage bags. Kelly had told me to be ready during the cake cutting, I thought I was....

but I wasn't expecting this, that's for sure.

And then this! Kelly grabbed the entire cake and was working on smashing it in Greg's face. I have NEVER seen anything like this!!!!! It was hilarious.

This smash went on for a few minutes.

Finally after calming down and the smashing stopped, they gave each other a kiss.

It was an intense cleanup. The dance floor was changed from one site of the room to the other so that no one stepped in the cake. Their families took about 15 or 20 minutes to clean up the mess.

Greg's Mom was so sweet and was able to find a bin so that the couple could wash up.

How often is your mother-in-law willing to help wash your cake covered feet. There was cake even between Kelly's toes, ewww! Gross!!

Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? I'd love to hear about it! There was a huge chocolate stain on the back of Kelly's dress. It was probably the funniest wedding reception I had ever attended or photographed! Calling it a cake smash was a lot more appropriate than calling it Cutting the Cake, don't you think?

Greg and Kelly

2009-09-17T06:00:00.000-07:00

Greg and Kelly were married in the Rexburg, Idaho Temple, July 28th. Rather than shooting around the temple, Kelly wanted to shoot in some gardens located nearby. The gardens were very appropriate for this couple because they are both Horticulture majors.

Greg had not seen Kelly yet, so we did scene called "First Look" where the bride approaches the groom and we have him turn around when she touches his shoulder. It was so almost magical. Especially to see the look on his face.

Just for a fun effect, Greg spun Kelly around to get a full view.

Kelly didn't want me peeking to take a picture of them while they kissed.

I love these next two shots because this archway is new in the gardens and it makes a nice "frame" for the couple.

I loved being able to capture all of the flowers with the bride and groom especially because of how much she loves flowers.

Kelly wanted to climb up the tree (she was fearless, even in her gown) and when I saw Greg looking up at her, it almost looked like a fairytale. Like a prince helping his princess.

Dr. Seuss like trees that were fantastic for framing.

Another prince and princess shot.

Hello next GQ model!

I love wheat shots!

These next four shots are my favorites by far. I don't know why, but there's just something about shooting a couple from a distance and on different angles.

This couple was lot of fun. They were sooooo happy, you could just see it in their eyes when we did the First Look, it was amazing. Thank you for the amazing opportunity to take your wedding photos and take them in such a lovely place. Best of luck with school and work.

Oscar and Rebecca: Bridals and Reception

2009-09-15T06:00:00.000-07:00

My favorite shot! I think that this picture of Rebecca is very inviting and almost sultry, and I love it!!!

Here's our sweet little bride. She was the first bride with a mermaid gown that I was able to shoot, and we had so much fun.

Of course you know me, I have to do something formal. ;) Okay, maybe this shot is my favorite, it's my blog, I can pick two pictures!

Some of the decorations on the cake.

The girl who caught the bouquet was Rebecca's younger sister. This sister also caught the oldest sister's bouquet about six months ago. Think she'll be the next to marry? Nah!

She was quite the poser.

Another first for me, there was not cake smashing, just feeding, very sweet.

This was the getaway, Rebecca grabbed Oscar's hand and started dragging him towards the door. Her grin isn't mischievous at all is it?

The wind was blowing pretty hard, so everything went amuck as they were tearing out of the parking lot.

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Goodbye!

And I almost forgot this one. Daddy, more money please? I love these kind of shots. Let's just have fun!

Oscar and Rebecca

2009-09-13T10:24:00.001-07:00

Here's the thing, I don't like posting pictures until my clients receive their images, but I think that I might be changing that policy. I might do short previews or teasers I guess. I know it's been a while but I was also preparing for my own brother's wedding, and that was hectic because I was also being a seamstress. I was making a vests and ties for my son and nephew. Anyhow, onto these images.

Oscar and Rebecca were married July 25th in the Rexburg, Temple. They were probably the most fun loving couple I've ever shot. Not that I haven't had fun couples before, but they were so playful and wanted fun/playful pictures more than anything. I loved it!

Rebecca just ran up to Oscar after a posed shot and inspired the picture after this one.

We had so much fun with her running to Oscar, she lifted up her dress and pretty well ran full speed. Sooooo much fun!

Like I said fun and playful were the way these two were. And this wasn't the first time the lovely bride attacked her groom. :)

I was able to get a few posed and formal images from them.

NOOOOOOO!!!!

I loved this shot because they were laughing pretty hard when they were "flipping" each other off with their ring fingers.

Way to go Rebecca!

I had so much fun with Oscar and Rebecca! I hope that everything goes well with your plans for work and school. Bridals and reception posts to follow.

Wedding Announcement Design

2009-08-05T14:00:00.002-07:00

I know it's been a while, I apologize, I've been busy archiving images and editing the two weddings I recently shot, I'm hoping to put them up soon. Remember, patience is a virtue.

No, you have not seen this couple's pictures before on my blog. I did not do their engagement photos, another photographer did. Emily and I were in a class together and we talked about how I did photography and a little bit of designing. She was going to call me for their pictures, but her Mom had already made arrangements with a photographer she knew. Totally cool with that because they wanted me to design their announcements. It was so much fun, and they were pleased with what I was able to produce.

This announcement was a 5x7 and double-sided with a glossy finish, it looked so sharp!

Bridals

2009-07-15T06:00:00.000-07:00

Once again we had class fun, however, I was in charge of rounding up a bride. As much as I love shooting brides, I couldn't find one for the life of me! Know why? I don't know many engaged girls for one and for two I don't know many married women/mothers who fit into their wedding gowns. You've probably seen this bride before. This is my younger sister. After two years of being married and having a baby, she can still fit into her gown! That's so exciting for her! I'll admit it, I'm jealous.

Anyhow, these pictures were shot at the Idaho Falls Temple grounds/

We had barely begun, and she was already giving us these looks. Normally I get these looks at the end of bridals or wedding pictures, I couldn't help but laugh, because I know it all too well.

I put her up on this pedestal and we had to figure out a pose for her. We thought it was very appropriate to call her "Grecian Goddess". Appropriate enough? :)

My goofy sister, when she gets bored or is goofy, this is what happens, but that's one of the reasons why I love her. She's not the only in our family that does it either.

I changed my logo this time to a solid color. What do you think? Do you like it better or should I keep the two tone look?

Class Fun Part 2

2009-07-13T06:00:00.000-07:00

If you can't tell, this little lady is the daughter of one of my classmates. She was put into quite a few photos so that we as student photographers could get plenty of shots. She is one of my favorite models because I've used her quite a bit, and have some very stunning shots of her.

Can you tell from all of the other images that it was a somewhat windy day?

So many different shots, I had to divide them up into different posts. I have a lot more images, but these were my favorites.

Class Fun

2009-07-11T06:00:00.001-07:00

I'm currently in a Portrait Photography class (which I love by the way) if you can't tell from all of my studio images that have been posted. Once in a while instead of critiquing or lecturing in a class room, we get to go play. That means we get to go take pictures models. For this particular the class students were the models. So these people are either classmates, or a daughter of a classmate.

This first image I love because she loves posing with a serious face and I'm looking through the space between my teacher's arm, shoulder, and head while she's taking a shots. Don't worry, this is the only one like it. There were a total of 8 people all shooting, so it's was pretty funny to watch.

She has a great smile...

but she still loves the serious faces.

Can you guess what the background was on this image?

If you guessed a dumpster you are right! It's amazing what people can use as backgrounds.

This next background was actually a wall on the exterior of a funeral home. Morbid I know, but it worked.

So, what do you think of my logo on the pictures, better than before? I'm debating on just going one solid color, because the gold doesn't stand out near as much as I would like, I'm still toying with the idea.

Facelift

2009-07-03T15:02:00.002-07:00

I hate not posting pictures, however you already see the picture because it's a new background! I designed and uploaded it can you believe it? I'm not the most tech savvy person so this was exciting for me. What do you think? Personally I'm so excited that it turned out, and I'm still working on a few minor details such as the banner/title and the font, let me know what you think, and hopefully you like it better than my previous background.

New Brand

2009-07-01T06:00:00.003-07:00

First off, can you tell what this is? Does it makes sense? Should I keep the two tone look?

This is a combination of a T and P for Tasha Poulsen, I've done this since I was young when I had to initial things and I've been working on this new brand for a a little while now. My maiden name began with an F so I did something similar. I think that I'm finally happy with it. Let me know what you think.

P.S. Yes a website is coming...

Maternity: Laura and Payden

2009-06-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

This is Laura and Payden. Laura is due with their little girl on July 16, and they are both so excited for her to come into their home. They had just moved into our apartment complex before we moved. I gave them a card and said that I would be needing subjects for class if she would like some shots done. She later contacted me and asked if I still needed models, "YES!" was my reply, and here they are.

Laura really wanted some shots of her and Payden together, that was fun for both of them and definitely a new and exciting experience for me. At least doing maternity shots with the husband involved.

I did black and white for all of the shots because not only do they look great with the classic black and white, that's also what they wanted. I was happy to oblige.

A few shots of the mommy to be by herself.

I don't know why, but there's something about these last five images, that kind of leave me in awe and show how much love that this little family has and will be able to share.

This foot shot is just plain cute, it kind of brings in the whole barefoot and pregnant thing.

I love this one because it brings a feeling of strength and protection and that it takes parents, not a parent to bring and raise a child in this chaotic world.

This is my second favorite shot.

That Shot. I love this one by far. I think it has to do with both Mom and Dad's hands, the baby coming into life, the angle, I don't know but this is my favorite.

Payden and Laura best of luck with your baby girl, I had so much fun, and hope that you did as well. If I can offer one piece of advice for you Laura, sleep when the baby sleeps, forget the house for now and everything else, just sleep.

Studio: Savannah

2009-06-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

I'm so excited about these photos of Savannah, I'm practically giddy! Not only did they turn out gorgeous, but I was also taught a new technique in the studio. I was taught to use a 5th light which is referred to as an accent (garlic) light, and I have fallen in love with it. All it does is add just an extra accent to one side or the other of a model and separate them from the background even more. In this image below, the accent light is on her right (your left).

The rest of these images have the accent on her left (your right).

I hope you like these images as much as I do. It just helps to make things stand out a little bit more.

Studio: Rachel

2009-06-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

I'm back in the studio doing work for a class again, so for those of you wondering if I do studio work, unfortunately it's for classes. However, someday when I can afford the lights and all the cool props, heck yes! I will do studio work someday, it will just take some time. (Sigh) Hopefully sooner than later.

Anywho....This is Rachel, and because it's been a while since I've been in the studio, it took me a while to set up the lights and refresh my memory so I was only able to snap a few pictures and these two are my favorite.

Just the girls: Part 2

2009-06-19T06:00:00.001-07:00

This first image is one of my two favorites from the shoot with all those girls. I think it mainly has to do with the fact that it's kind of environmental in a way.

This is one of my other favorite it's kind of up close and in her face, but it's not intense, it's totally relaxed.

This one may look soft and quiet, boy howdy, that wasn't the case! There's always one that has a tendency to be bit hyper or wired or something during a shoot, and she was the one. I thought it ironic that my favorite shot of her happened to be this very calm and gentle image of her in the tree.

Just the girls

2009-06-17T15:54:00.003-07:00

These are some girls that are part of the Young Women program in my ward. They were willing to have their pictures taken, and I was willing to take their pictures. They were a lot of fun to work with.

You can probably tell that for the most part they were all pretty shy so I had to come up with something to make them laugh. I got sunburned severely the day before, so all I had to say was "Look at the red lobster!" that worked pretty well.

Although not in the Young Women's program yet, I snagged her for pictures later on. I think that she's adorable and has the neatest color of eyes.

Steven and Alyson: Bridals

2009-05-29T06:00:00.000-07:00

The day ended cloudy and for unknown circumstances their original photographer was unable to do the reception. There weren't any bridals done, so we did the best with what we could. Considering we may not have had the best lighting or backgrounds, I think the pictures turned out nicely.

This is my second favorite shot of the bridals that we took. It's so soft, and elegant.

She had such fun shoes, that I couldn't resist shooting them. Alyson's Mom did all of the flowers for the reception, and they looked beautiful.

This is my favorite shot of Alyson by far. Her eyes stand out, and she is perfectly framed by the ringlets coming down the sides of her face.

Steven and Alyson: Reception

2009-05-28T12:30:00.004-07:00

Steven and Alyson are from Chicago, however all of Alyson's family is located in southeastern Idaho, thus a wedding in Rexburg. I don't exactly know the details, but something came up for their photographer and they were unable to shoot the reception. I know one of Alyson's grandmothers and she contacted me the about 6 hrs before the reception. I was happy to shoot their reception, and if you can't tell, we had fun!

Steven and his brother-in-laws/groomsmen. Aren't they just cozy?

I think that the bridesmaids are actually Alyson's cousins, but I wasn't for sure. Like I said, I met the couple at the reception.

I think this is one of my favorite shots because he's so tuckered out from playing and running around the reception hall.

Steven actually yelled right after this shot "Okay everybody let go!" Alyson freaked it turned out to be quite the hilarious ending.

"More please Daddy?" Poor Dads, their pockets are always empty after such events.

Alyson and her two brothers.

I thought this was fun because it makes it look like the men were conquered.

Our happy couple.

They didn't have a wedding cake, but trust me this looked just as good. It had Angel Food Cake, with banana pie filling (pudding?), raspberries, strawberries, and blue berries. Something I hope to try in the future.

Steven and Alyson, although I didn't get to know you all that well, thanks for having me shoot your reception. I hope that you had just as much fun posing for the pictures and I did taking them. Congrats!

Brooke: She's pregnant!

2009-05-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

Did you get it? I hope you enjoy these. Brooke was around 5 months along when we did this shoot. I wasn't objective and hopefully she won't either.

I love this shot! I think that it's by far my favorite!

We did some urban shots, and she didn't have any idea how to pose, and she actually did pretty well. I love the attitude.

This is my second favorite shot for Brooke's maternity session. There may not be much to her belly thus far, but you can tell that the love is already there.

Brooke

2009-05-22T09:30:00.002-07:00

This is Brooke. You'll be seeing her again tomorrow for the same photo shoot, however you see something a little more of her. I just thought I would show how she looks with a little less of her...Have you got it yet?

She has some of the prettiest blue eyes that I wanted to make pop, so we went and stood by harmonious colors and urbanesque settings. Let me know what you like.

Lovell Family

2009-05-21T06:00:00.002-07:00

So those of us married in my family (my sister and I) do family portraits for Mother's Day gifts, and it works out very nice. So these are the portraits that I took of Jordelle and her family.

I don't think that we had gotten photos of Jordelle and Michael together, so we decided that we would do so.
I have to apologize for the poor lighting on this one, Josh was in a hurry to work on things and it was tough enough getting him to stay in the family pictures.

I think this is one of my favorite baby pictures because this is totally Michael, I can't think of how often I see him sucking his thumb.

Devin's Sr. Portraits

2009-05-20T06:00:00.000-07:00

Well, it seems that I'm doomed to either get only Ririe Senior guys for portraits or none at all. That's okay, we'll work on it. Anyhow, Devin wanted some more personalized Sr. Portraits than the ones that his school provided so we went out and took some in different places around Rexburg.

We figured that he's better for smiling than for a serious face, so we just stuck with the smiles.

Good luck with everything Devin and with graduation this month.

Andrew and Mandee: Bridal, Groom, and Temple

2009-05-19T06:00:00.001-07:00

I think that this may be my favorite bridal shot of Mandee with Andrew in the picture. She was son content and relaxed at this point.

This is also my favorite groom shot of Andrew. Why you ask, I got an absolute genuine smile from him.

When this groom gets ahold of the bridal bouquet, he goes all Academy Awards on us and starts "bawling", the "I'd like to thank the Academy" speech.

These two shots are by far my favorites because they are genuine shots. I had nothing to do with them. I had just finished taking some pillar shots of them, and they thought that I was just walking over. It took them a little while to figure out that I'm like a PI, watching their every move. It was such an intimate moment.

I'm trying to get new angles of the Rexburg temple, let me know what you think.

I love the way that these two accidentally helped me to find new angles, and were so much fun to with in poses and teasing.

Andrew and Mandee, I had so much fun with the two of you. You're both awesome. Mandee it was great getting to know you not only through class, but also through preparations for your wedding. I'm excited to keep in contact with the two of you.

Andrew and Mandee: Wedding

2009-05-18T14:23:00.003-07:00

Andrew and Mandee were married Saturday, April 10, 2009 in the Rexburg Idaho Temple. I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to post, but my last semester of school started, we moved and didn't have any internet for a while, so bear with me while I catch up, because there's a lot to do.

I feel I should explain, (these people are Andrew and his siblings) I saw Andrew's older brother dipping, and wasn't sure what was going on. Moments later, I get this reaction, and lot of laughter. Not 30 seconds later, I see a pen flying in my direction. Not at me luckily. Andrew's brother was goosing him. It was definitely a funny few minutes.

Mandee and her new nieces. They were so darn cute.

I can't remember if this was Mandee or Andrew's grandfather, but I thought it was very appropriate.

This is a reaction when you see...

...this. It doesn't help that their photographer :) stole his keys to make this possible.

Once again one of the nieces, she was so cute!

This was the best smelling shot of a ring I have ever taken. The Easter Lilies that were part of Mandee's bouquet were beautiful and so fragrant.

Blake and Sarah: Bridals and Groom Shots

2009-04-23T06:46:00.003-07:00

I love the bride's eyes to pop out so I always do at least one shot of the eyes in color with everything else in B&W.

Sarah loved the detail on her dress and wanted to capture it, so I incorporated just a little bit more than dress detail, but also her ring. I don't have a shot of the nails by themselves, but I absolutely loved them with the detail and simplicity.

She loves the Rexburg background and wanted as much of it as she could get.

I think that this is my favorite shot of Blake, he looks like he came straight out of the GQ magazine.

Blake and Sarah: Wedding

2009-04-20T11:59:00.005-07:00

Blake and Sarah Rawls were married April 10, 2009 in the Rexburg Idaho Temple. They actually contacted me in November or December to shoot their wedding. I was so excited to meet them and see what kind of people they were, because I wanted to see them together.

I'm trying something a little different with my logo, let me know what you think or which you like best. If you can't tell a difference that's fine, but I know some of you can.

I don't remember what was so funny, but it was obviously hilarious, and I knew that everyone there was laughing.

You know Ihave to do my signature jump shots!

It really amazes me how much the bridal couples thinkg that they are getting away with. ;)

Here they are, newly married and proud of it!

Not only is this shot SOOC (Straight out of the camera) it's also probably my favorite.

So bear with me, I had two weddings, two days in a row, so I'm going to be a trying to get as much up in the next couple of days as possible.

Shelby's Graduation Announcements

2009-04-06T14:54:00.002-07:00

These are the first announcements that I've designed, I'm hoping to do more of them. We'll see what happens though in the future. Shelby is my little sister so I was the photographer as well. She is graduating from two different places, so she wanted two different announcements. This is her College level degree announcement.

This is here High School graduation announcement. She and our mom both enjoyed the simplicity and personalization of the design.

Adam: Spring is on its way!

2009-03-29T19:13:00.002-07:00

Alright, so I'm slowly trying to learn blogging lingo, and a new word that i recently learned is SOOC (Straight out of camera). I'm really glad I learned that term because all of these photos of Adam are straight out of the camera. This also just happened to be one of the first warm days of the year. Unfortunately though, today we got lots of snow because of drifting and whiteouts. There are always a few more snow storms after the start of spring.

There's just something about a little boy and being in denim.

Yes, Adam can walk, no problem. But when it comes to something new, such as an arched bridge, he prefers all fours, but who wouldn't? And I love the smirk/look of determination.

I can honestly say, I did not try to pose Adam for this at all. Besides how do you pose a 19 month active little boy?

Last one, "I'm turning my back on you winter, welcome back spring!"

Andrew and Mandee: Bridals

2009-03-26T13:52:00.005-07:00

Andrew Bell and Mandee Burg are getting married April 10, 2009 in the Rexburg Idaho Temple. Mandee and I are a lot alike, so you might think that a bad thing, but it's actually quite fun. We love it! And because of how similar we are, I swear she can just read my mind and know exactly where and how she is to pose.

There's just something about black and whites that just add drama and serenity. I don't know what it is, but I love it.

No, we didn't go to a jungle, but there is a greenhouse on the BYU-Idaho campus that is called the jungle room, that's where we took these pictures. In the middle of the day no less. I love greenhouse lighting, it's perfect because it diffuses natural lighting so well.

Mandee has these goreous dark blue eyes that I couldn't help but capture.

These photos were taken on the Labelle bridge about 5 minutes outside of Rexburg. Now, these pictures, we had a blast with. First because we were terrified of the height over the river, and the railroad tracks had about 4 inch gaps in between. Second, were were just a tad nervous about a train coming because we were a ways in on the bridge. Wouldn't you be if you didn't know the train schedule?

Mandee and I have a class together, so I get to see her sassy side once in a while, I thought it might be fun to bring it out in this shot with her veil blowing in the breeze.

This is my favorite shot of the day.

We actually started the shoot with high heels in the jungle room, but when Mandee saw where I was taking her next she got nervous, so I suggested she put her sneakers on. And of course with us being girls, we love our shoes no matter how they look. What can I say?

Mandee, I'm so excited to do your weddding in April!

Sam and Audrey: Wedding

2009-03-18T14:31:00.004-07:00

They're finally here. Pictures from Sam and Audrey's wedding. I think I just need to get the pictures of the wedding up before I do the Bridals huh? Don't worry I'll figure it out.

Audrey's parents were with me during the shoot and they talked about Audrey's infamous jumping pictures, so to have/want one with her new husband was apparently not a surprise

I think with the ring shots, I'm really starting to like using the environment. This was actually taken on the bench that they jumped from.

I think Sam looks quite dashing in his red and white tux? What do you think?

This shot wasn't exactly how we planned, but for some reason Audrey ended up taking most of the Sam's weight, and the bridesmaids were just laughing.

Like I said using the environment (and a few of the bride's accessories) for the ring shots are pretty high up on my favorites list.

Sorry Audrey there's no turning back. :)

I had so much fun in Boise that day, I'm so grateful that Sam and Audrey were willing to take a chance on me and the weather. Rexburg weather wasn't very friendly that weekend, so I was a little nervous about making it safely. But there were no road problems beyond Idaho Falls, so all was well.

I know I say this about a lot of my brides and grooms, but I really do mean it, you guys are awesome and soooo much fun!

Sam and Audrey: Bridals

2009-03-17T10:36:00.002-07:00

Sam and Audrey brown were married on February 7, 2009 in the Boise Idaho Temple. It was such a nice day compared to some of the weather we were experiencing here in Rexburg that week. It was probably in the low 40s.

I don't know why, but red seems to be the color in this season for weddings. It's so much fun for me as a photographer to play with. Audrey had a beautiful dress with all the red. Her red sash...

and yes, a red detachable, yes I said detachable, train. She looked gorgeous.
Audrey had such pretty eyes that I had to do the eyes over the flowers. It was so much fun because she made the little sighs that only an "in love bride could sigh." We both laughed so hard.

Don't worry, there will be pictures from the wedding soon. I just couldn't help but play with the bridal pictures first.

Aaron and Brittany Engagements

2009-03-12T16:56:00.002-07:00

Aaron and Brittany had their engagement pictures taken on January 10, 2009. (Yes I'm finally into this years photos) They were so cute together. I thought we might try a serious shot, but not these two. They were so happy, and I guess the best way to put it would be giddy. So fun!

Even in that freezing cold weather there was a constant smile on their faces.

I loved being outside, and they did too. We tried to get around to more things, but it was just too cold to go anywhere else. Thanks for being such troopers guys!

Berret Wedding

2009-03-10T10:29:00.005-07:00

Cory and June Berret were married June 28, 2008 at a Lodge in Pocatello, sorry the name has escaped me. It was a lot of fun. It was a beautiful day and really warm.

I actually had a couple of brides-to-be ask at the Rexburg Bridal Fair if I can do the black and white with colored flowers. So I thought that this photo would be appropriate to show that example with.

Our nervous groom before the ceremony.

I love this picture because it's the first time they were able to kiss as husband and wife. They were smiling so big before they kissed, and it was so fun!

This little girl was a niece to the bride, and she kept getting herself into these really cute situations that I couldn't help but catch her in. Here, she had stolen a a marshmallow from the chocolate fountain. Probably a good thing there was no chocolate on it because Mommy wouldn't have been happy about chocolate all over a white dress.

The punch was so vibrant and colorful!

Here she is again, dancing and twirling. She did that for quite some time after the ceremony.

Cake cutting time, you know what that means...

Cake smashing! I know this picture is a little dark, but I love the look on June's face.

Both Cory and June had pretty big smiles after the cake smashing. They were really cute and so much fun to work with. I appreciate their willingness and trust to have my sister-in-law and myself as their photographers.

Jason and Miriam: Last One I Promise!

2009-03-05T15:00:00.002-07:00

I know there are a lot of posts and photos of Jason and Miriam, but because we took photos a couple of days before we had tons of time and there was no rush. Yay!

Fourth, (My list continued from their Wedding post) we were able to an amazing sunset. Believe it or not, these sunsets occur more than you think.

Thank you Jason and Miriam for an awesome and fun experience!

Jason and Miriam: Groom and Bridals

2009-03-05T14:48:00.004-07:00

Alright, so I had to slip one shot of the handsome Jason in here!

I love this image of Miriam, it's just so serene and feminine. I definitely love the nature and that surrounded her.

The black and white images are probably my favorite. We actually took these after the sun had set and so it was dark, which made it even more dramatic and fun, hence the dramatic pose in this first black and white.

We had to have shoes off somewhere, so why not here.

Jason and Miriam Wedding

2009-03-05T14:29:00.005-07:00

Jason and Miriam were married July 26, 2008 in the Rexburg, Idaho Temple. Shooting Jason and Miriam has to be one of my favorite shoots. Why you ask? I'll tell you. First, Most of the pictures were done a few days before the wedding and we were all so relaxed and we had a blast.

Second, the day started off with this huge thunder shower and pouring down rain, so we started under the canopies. The weather here in Rexburg changes frequently, so as you can tell by the rest of these pictures the day warmed up quite fast, and a there was a gorgeous blue sky.

Isn't her ring cool? It's very unique, because of the black pearl as the main gem and the two opals on the side. Another reason that it's unique? Jason designed it himself. If I remember right, she didn't get this ring until right before the wedding because the jewelers had to make sure they got it right.

Third, I was there along every step of the way because Miriam and I were classmates and friends. So that made this shoot even more special for me.

Kolby and Kimberly Wedding

2009-03-03T10:43:00.003-07:00

Kim and Kolby were really cute together. They were married at the Rexburg Temple on September 2, 2008. It was a little cool that day, but not freezing. It was a sunny and beautiful day!

I think that here in Rexburg, even if we have a clear day we always have some sort of clouds that add a lovely background. Either that or the sky is such a pretty blue. Kim had such proper form and I didn't need to worry about her posture once.

Yay!

Matt and Aubrey Reception

2009-03-02T21:53:00.002-07:00

I had way too much fun taking pictures of the decorations at the reception, yes, the cake included.

I thought that this was sweet. Matt has an amazing voice and he sang such a sweet song to his bride and new wife. I can't remember the song now, but I remember it was sweet.

Aubrey was obviously enjoying her husband's serenade.

Matt and Aubrey

2009-02-26T16:04:00.005-07:00

I'm going to be going backwards for a little bit because I'm trying to get my "galleries/albums" updated. Bear with me.

Matt and Aubrey were married on November 22, 2008. The best day of the year in my opinion. Why you ask? That was my wedding day. I had so much fun. What better way to remember your own wedding than to photograph another?

If these aren't pure looks of joy and happiness, I don't know what is.

I think that this photo of Aubrey has to be my favorite.

There's just something about those red shoes that make you want to say, "Show 'em off!"

Alright, I went a little crazy in Photoshop and tried something different. I took a bridal shot and a ring/bouquet shot and combined them. I had fun with it and it definitely went outside of the box I think. What do you think? There's a wall with the Thirteeneth Article of Faith on the BYU-Idaho campus. This probably won't be the last of that wall...

Final Studio Work

2009-02-20T11:22:00.002-07:00

Alright this is my last set of photos from the studio class. For now. Anyhow, these are some of the assignments I have turned in and my final portfolio, I received mostly "A-"s on my individual shots, so I was very excited! This first shot was just to get a nice reflection out of the spoon. The rest of the shots were mainly for my portfolio where I stole my son's teddy bear and blankets, and then the rest were just for some sort of box and a reflective metal shot. Enjoy!

More Studio Work

2009-02-17T13:40:00.002-07:00

As you can probably tell, I love taking portraits of people. They're my favorite because you can see so much more in a person and truly see who they are. This is LeAnne a friend and former classmate she and I switched out modeling for each other and we had a blast.

I was also assigned to shoot a still life of some sort of statues or anything that we wanted. I love these Willow Tree statues that have been given to me by my mother-in-law and sister. We were assigned to shoot a single set-up and I had fun with it.

Studio Portraits

2009-02-12T14:54:00.002-07:00

These happen to be some of my favorite studio portraits. There are a few more, but these were my top four. I'm a little biased towards the little blonde haired boy (my son :)) But I truly love pure joy and laughter in the first image and the soft lighting that lands on his face in the second one.

Jeremy is a friend and former classmate. He has a very strong face and don't get me wrong, he has a great smile, but his serious shots turned out so much better.

He may come off tough in this bottom photo, but I think that the top one shows his personality more.

Weddings

2009-01-24T16:19:00.000-07:00

Engagements

2009-01-23T14:19:00.000-07:00

Baby Portraits

2009-01-22T12:43:00.000-07:00

Senior Portraits

2009-01-22T09:13:00.000-07:00

Series of Children

2009-01-21T18:49:00.000-07:00

Baby Collages

2009-01-21T12:50:00.000-07:00

Adult Portraits

2009-01-20T09:34:00.000-07:00

This is a pregnancy portrait

Non-people photos

2009-01-19T14:22:00.000-07:00

2009-01-03T17:43:00.001-07:00