Alex

Finally. . . my first photo shoot in my new studio/office. I was a little nervous - new lighting, new area, new family to meet. I didn't get a chance to test everything out first, but everything went well. Alex was great and full of smiles. He thought it was fun to scream in the room - lots of noise with no carpet. Look at those eyes - they are beautiful!

I have tons of new props that I can finally use. If I find something shopping now I have places to store it. I will constantly be in the lookout for new props. Anything fun that you find, send me info. I love this pottery bowl & photos . . .

I really didn't know if a seven month old would fit into this basket, but Alex did. These photos turned out so cute.

I still love the candid photos. So precious. . .

It was so fun to meet your family. Thank you for waiting until the studio was finished. I hope you enjoy every photo. . .

Studio Project

So the office/studio remodel is not done quiet yet, but getting so close. My girlfriend, Amanda, encouraged me to give the infant/children's studio a try. I have so many fun, unique ideas, and I am so excited to start up this area of children's photography. It is hard to take photos of children in Montana when you never know what the weather is going to be like. My love is shooting photos with natural light, which I will still do. This studio will be geared toward infants, children, and seniors if they want a few indoor photos along with their outdoor session.

Man have we been busy. I say "we" because this has been a family effort. Last year I started thinking about a winter project. Winter in Montana is definitely a slow time in the photography business. There are not a lot of weddings and most families want to wait until spring to take family pictures.

We had a huge office in our home and a huge mud room. My office was always a mess, not organized, and drove me CRAZY! Our mud room was huge and just stored Costco diapers, coats, boxes, etc. So I started to think. I am the person in the house that comes up with the next remodeling idea - I blame my parents. Not that remodeling is a bad thing, but while I grew up they added on to their home 4 different times and I helped rebuild our family deck at least 3 times.

I come up with some ideas in my head, then mention them to Donovan, finally I draw them in AutoCadd, and then the critique. This helps us come up with the best design. This office remodel was changed quiet a few times before we started demolition. The new design gave us (mostly me) a huge office closet and a nice closet in our mud room to "hide" our family mess. You can never have too many closets can you?

One thing I hate most. . . picking out tan? Really I always though, it's tan how can you go wrong. Well we've had pink looking tan, yellow looking tan, too dark, and too light. I think we picked an alright tan, but still not my favorite. If anyone out there has a "must have" tan, please let me know!


There are not any photos of the whole office complete yet. We just got the flooring in and the trim is our next task. We still have a long list of things to complete, but we have walls, paint, and beautiful flooring. My goal is to get the studio complete by March 21st/28th.