Sometimes you just have to work on a technique, try a thing or two, give back, and step out of the box to continue to grow as a photography business. We have something fun set up with a group of students and we need some models – we are probably looking at the month of September. The catch is: We only bring in people who have been to us before. That’s our way of saying *thanks*.  For this job, we are looking for females who are late teens and older. We will reward you with a couple of websized images for your facebook or blog. If you want prints, those will cost extra.

Interested? You need to email your name and number to Shelley @ shelley@steveharrington.net for more details.

You read that right! Your fun factoid of the month would be Kersten’s story. It all started with a phone call from a girl from Alaska. We said, “You do realize we are in Utah, right?” She said, “Yes, I have family in Spanish Fork that we are visiting and I want to get my senior portraits taken while I’m there.”  The story continues that she searched the internet for a photographer and came across us. Our favorite line from her goes like this: “I saw your site first, then started going down the line clicking on other photography sites, but – your work set the bar really high and I kept coming back to your website and decided to call you first.” …. I love this girl!!

So, she drove from Spanish Fork and spent the afternoon with us. We did our studio/outdoor session with her. We are so happy she did! She’s a doll and we got some great pictures of Kersten of the Alaska clan!

Thank you Kersten! We are back home and working on your images, we will be getting in touch with you soon!

Lisa and her bestie, Trixie came by for some outdoor senior portraits. Two of the sweetest girls we’ve met! Lisa also happens to be a great swimmer on the varsity swim team at Bear River High School. We were happy to meet them on the most perfect day and we got some great images, images that we can’t wait to share with them!

So a big warm “thanks” goes out to Trixie, Elisabeth and mom for hiring us for such a great job! We will see you soon!

It’s been a fun adventure! We knew we’d be busy people by scheduling 3 workshops so close together. But it’s not such a bad thing when you happen to be doing that which you love! We are fortunate people and will be the first to admit it!

Our last workshop took place in an old German settlement colony in Bethel, Missouri. Here is a fun factoid – I realized once we were there that we were not far from Navoo Illinois. I know a bunch of Utahans make that journey to visit the temple there. If this is on your planned list, I encourage you to take a trip through Bethel and stay at the Inn Harmony there. I could not believe how wonderful that bed and breakfast was. It was like traveling through a time machine. Inn Harmony – 1-660-651-2718.  The rate is $20/person/night and it includes a stocked kitchen to make your own breakfast. They have a kitchen as well and some rooms share a common bathroom. Your kids would love it! We had so much fun sitting out on the porch, talking shop while watching fireflies and possums!  (That doesn’t happen in Utah!) There is also a great buffet in Heartland just down the road. One of the best I’ve been to!

So anyway, the workshop went great. We had plenty of senior aged models to help us with the days we shot. Here are some samples from the workshop. We will add more to this gallery as they come along.

It’s good to be home and back to our studio and local clients! Give us a call if we can help you with anything. 435-452-1952

Thanks for reading our blog! – Shelley

Oh sweet Samantha! We were excited to get her in early for senior portraits. We wanted to be able to show her off all year long! We’ve done work with her as a Box Elder cheerleader and as well as did her family portraits once. She came in just before we left for Canada so we appreciate her patiently waiting for us to get some images up of her on our blog. Hopefully it was worth the wait! We will be in touch with you guys soon. Thanks for a great session!

Here are two of my favorites from Sam’s indoor/studio combo session.

-Shelley

Well, it’s official – I am part Canadian now. Ok, not really. I just really, really enjoyed the whole Canadian experience and I can’t wait to get back there someday! We met some great people, made new friends, and just pretty much had the best time ever.

Let me share some images we got from our week of teaching there. I will post most here to this thread as they come up, but right now it’s time to get back to work here at home! We couldn’t get to our messages in SK because there was no 3g in the area we were staying. Talk about feeling lost! So if you placed a call during that week. We will be getting in touch with you sooner than later!

-Shelley

Our 50% off senior sale is still on, but we are almost booked up through July. Give us a call if you want the best in senior savings that we offer through the year! 435-452-1952

These 2 sisters were such cuties, they made this session way too much fun!  Here are some of my favorites from the session.

All Magical Forest sessions are planned for one day every 6 to 8 weeks. If you are interested in a Magical Forest session, you can find the details under the packages. You can also give us a call at any time! 435-452-1952 The next Magical Forest portrait session will probably be some time in September. We’d love to take portraits of your fairy or fisherman! We have set ups for both boys and girls!

We have a “Review” box on Facebook that has yet to be filled.. So let’s do this for our Facebook and blog clients: (For a limited time!) Write a short review on our business & get 75% off your next session fee! Offer cant be combined with other sales. Click on the “Review” tab above & give us a testimonial! We love using testimonials! We’ll also  post these here on our blog along with the others we have collected HERE.

P/S -The first client who posts a review will get a 100% free session fee! (Congrats to Cindy Fronk!)

Write your Review here!

UPDATE:  Thank you to Abby, Criston, Krista, Dana and Cindy for the nice reviews. They now have a killer deal on their next session fee. The 75% off offer is now expired, but for a limited time, you can write a review on us and receive 10% off your next session fee. Offer cannot be combined with other sales or package discounts.

So nice to see this family come back to us, they are full of beautiful people! It’s Marlee’s turn for her senior portraits. We did an outdoor only session with her and turned out some superb images. As Steve says, (insert sarcasm) “Man, I HATE my job!” when we get done with sessions like this!

Marlee is not only extremely pretty, she also happens to be a tough and talented varsity softball chicky!

A large thanks to the family. We appreciate your loyalty! Here are a couple of my favorites. We will be in touch soon.

To the rest of you… call and book your senior session today! This time of year is the best! I think these images prove it!

-Shelley