New Award!

I just received notice from Wedding Wire that I won an award

for being in the top 5 % of wedding photographers in Arizona.

Thank you to all of my past and current clients! This is what

Wedding Wire had to say:

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Congratulations! We are excited to announce that Photographic

Passion has been chosen to receive the Bride's Choice Award 2010.

This award recognizes the top 5 percent of local wedding

professionals from the Wedding Wire Network who demonstrate

excellence in quality, service, and professionalism.

The Bride's Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent

newlyweds (brides and grooms) through extensive surveys and

reviews, which means your past clients have spoken on our behalf

and selected you to receive this honor.

Lillian

I took Lillian's senior portraits a few days before Christmas. With the holidays and workload, I am just now getting to blogging them. Lillian wanted to go to Encanto Park, which was a great choice, except the amusement park area that we wanted to use was closed. But we made do with all the park's scenery and historical buildings. It was a group of us, Lillian had her best friend and boyfriend there, and I had an assistant there helping with the lighting. We ran out of sunlight towards the end due to a late start and overcast sky. We had a good time, and here are our results!

Here I am with my family. We had these taken
in December for our Christmas cards, photographed
by Ana Counts of Photography Counts. Thanks
again Ana, we love these shots!

Pictured is my husband, Bill, my daughter, Katie (almost
14), my son, Tyler (8), and our dog, Trouble.

Katie and Kaya

This past Sunday, my daughter and her friend wanted me
to take them on a modeling type of shoot for fun. We were
just out to be creative and have a good time. These
are our results-- a blast of colors and looks!

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Amanda and Todd

Amanda and Todd are getting married May 8th at the amazing
Valley Ho Resort. We did their engagment photos a couple
weeks ago, but with the holidays I just didn't get them on
my blog 'til now. We had a great time shooting together;
it was very layed back, casual, yet fun. Amanda is the sister
of one of my brides from this past June. I look forward to working
with their family again!

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Nadia and Will

This shoot was just for fun! It was at a new venue in the northwest valley, called The Stonehouse. The bride and groom were my bride and groom from October 2nd, Nadia and Will. Their wedding was in Utica, New York. It rained on the second half of their wedding day (freezing, windy rain), so we didn't get to do any photographs of the two of them outside. So yesterday we had a reshoot day. Plus the venue needs some photos. We rented a tux for Will, and Nadia wore her original dress. Nadia also wore another dress for part of the shoot, just to have variety. We had Amy Mohr of Hair Designs by Amy do the hair styles for our bride. And Rita Vanek of Rita's Floral Designs provided the bouquet.

During our shoot, our bride (who is expecting) passed out on us! She gave us all quite the scare. But after resting for a while and having a bottle of water, she was much better. She wanted to finish the shoot, and so we did, cautiously. Nadia is quite a tough cookie-- most people would have wanted to go home to rest!

A big thank you to Helen Van Hemme, of The Stonehouse. Helen was so welcoming and accommodating. She went above and beyond with helping us with the shoot! Helen is the wedding expert of the valley! Thank you to Amy Mohr of Hair Designs by Amy for the beautiful hairstyles and the help throughout the shoot. And to Rita Vanek of Rita's Floral Designs for the gorgeous, stylish bouquet! You all made the shoot a big success!

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This next shot is my favorite from this shoot...