Matt Ehnes Photography

Cindy Cieluch [Influence]

2011-09-27T15:56:00.000-07:00

cindy cieluch (cin · dy cie· luch) n. [extraordinary, goofy, energetic, funky, Great Falls ambitious photographer]

The first time I was given the chance to shadow Cindy on a senior session I was star struck. One by her overwhelming display of generosity to give me this experience and two I couldn’t believe I had been given the opportunity too actually go on a shoot with THEE CINDY CIELUCH.

Cindy’s photography has always been work I have looked up to as inspiration, but I never really knew what it exactly was about her images that really hit home for me besides how incredible they looked visually. I have no problem making that distinction now that I have gotten to know her.

Its One Word: PASSION.

It isn’t that she happens to know just the best locations to shoot, or just happens to just have ideal clients. It’s that her images are heart felt, emotional, engaging, and represent and depict identity for all that set foot in front of her lens.

I am truly blessed to have you in my life not only on a photographic standpoint, but also as a genuine friend. You’re an incredible person, killer photographer (OBVIOUSLY), and influence me to work hard, take risks, and shoot for the stars.

Thank you Cindy!

Of course when I had studio assignments for school Cindy was forced to step out in front of the camera to model for me:}

15 minute Mini Shoot= Stress Reliever

To New Beginnings! [A Website]

2011-09-14T18:33:00.000-07:00

Today September 14, 2011, will forever go down as the official jump into the cyber world for me and my photography. With the help of Brooke Hansen I was able to take my vision for my website and put it into action with her incredible design background and skills! Thank you again Brooke for all your time and effort:) Everything by far seceded all my expectations!

I can't believe an entire year has went by since I have taken advantage of sharing my world of photography through here. Life surely has its way of throwing you curve balls, and taking you down so many different paths and journeys. My last blog post was around the time I started a new chapter of my life and headed off to college. It may have seemed hard at first, but now I am loving the new atmosphere more than ever.

In addition to the start of college, I have had a chance to really reflect on me. Discover who and what's important, meet and interact with new people, set goals and aim to active them, and continue to grow as a photographer learning everything that I can while I am here at school.

I realized that my blog needs to not be just a place to recap photography sessions, but a place to glorify the opportunities I have been given to meet new people and capture THEM through my photography. And secondly share my life through my experiences and my opportunities through the lens of my camera.

There is so much to post, so much to share, and so much to come. Here's to new beginnings!

I am officially back! Recharged. Refocused. and Renewed!

Check out my new and official website at www.mattehnes.com

Braget Family [Obstacle]

2010-08-11T01:03:00.000-07:00

The Braget Family decided that with Rachael heading off to college this year, it couldn't be a better opportunity to update their walls with family pictures! Since I have taken many photos of Rachael throughout my whole adventure of getting into this, they decided I was the man for the job. However all though it was really nice out the day of the shoot, once we got to our first location we were presented with quite the wind storm. These guys did serious work to rock the wind, (more so the ladies) and the shoot couldn't have been any better!

Running Concentration [Complete]

2010-07-25T15:52:00.001-07:00

Its only been a month since I have blogged so its not really that bad is it? Yes I know its actually really bad and sorry for you out there who are let down every day that you have visited here and found nothing new. I have been doing a lot more facebook uploads though so hopefully that helps the situation a tad. Well through out the last couple months I had been posting installments to my AP Art Concentration and now I can officially say its finished (well we plan to do a few more that we didn't get a chance to do before submission but the pieces that went are and here they are!

The concept illustrated changed and became more developed as I worked through the year. I worked to capture the essence of setting goals, working for those goals, what a runner goes through in a literal since, and finished with a piece that questioned the idea "Was it worth it" and do you put your heart and sole into it.

On Your Mark

Burnout

Solemnity

Breathe

Dehydration

Carb Overload

Stress Fracture

Worn

Sacrifice

Used & Fused

Suffer Nobly

Austin Blaire [UPDATE]

2010-06-11T23:04:00.000-07:00

Austin has made an appearance on the blog earlier from the last time I was down in LA scoping everything out. If she lived here everyone knows that she probably would be plastered all over my page! haha. The last two visits she has been home we have always talked about doing a full on shoot but it seems like thats always the first thing that slips our minds and we end up getting twenty or thirty minutes to shoot before she boards her flight. With that I decided I better post the few awesome shots we knocked out wit the time we had.

Artsy one for the 21st Birthday invites I designed for her!

Front Design

Back Design

Sarah [Senior Reshoot]

2010-05-27T17:06:00.001-07:00

Sarah never ordered way back when I took her senior pictures last summer. It was something that kind of slipped our minds, so when the hard drive crashed we both realized we had an issue. However, Sarah was stoked when she heard the news and was ready to go full force on round two. We masted the art of avoiding the squatters who live amongst the junkyard, and got past the scare of a possible rotting human head!

This is the head we saw in a pile of junk. Thankfully it was only a doll head.

GFHS Girls Softball [Sports Poster]

2010-05-18T00:19:00.000-07:00

This would be round three for the sports posters! The girls were all looking for a boxing scene so I did the best I could working with the theme! Despite the backdrop falling towards the end of the shoot, everything went pretty smoothly. Its out and up around town for you who would like to take a closer look. Thanks again Brooke for your crazy indesign skills!

Bhaskaran Family [Opportunity]

2010-05-16T18:33:00.000-07:00

The start of a clean slate of no longer feeling behind was marked with the opportunity of shooting a family session. When Jaskiran gave me a call inquiring about some family pictures I was completely thrown off, because all I have really done recently are seniors and the artsy kind of stuff. Since I am all about taking risks in the photog world I jumped at it and met up with them a couple days later to get an idea of what they exactly were looking for. Sahil and Aman were pretty much two of the studliest little guys I have ever seen. The coolest thing about the shoot was that I barely had to do any coaching because they rocked it all on their own! Thanks again to the four of you for providing me with another great opportunity. And Cindy thank you too for shooting these awesome people my way!

Enjoy your sneak peek!

I wasn't going to post this one, but I couldn't get over how priceless this shot was with Aman pointing at his dad!

Ronni [Senior Reshoot]

2010-05-11T00:14:00.000-07:00

Ronni was so close to ordering before the hard drive situation occurred. I had finished up a few of them for the blog, posted them, and then they were gone! Although having to redo a few sessions wasn't something I really had intended on doing, I was able to explore new depths in the photo world. Sun Flare kind of became a driving force when we started shooting, so if in the next couple of posts you see a lot of it I am sorry! I kind of have become obsessed. Here is what round two provided for us!

GFHS Tennis [Sports Poster]

2010-04-22T15:38:00.000-07:00

I took the tennis poster pictures quite a while back, but I was unable to post the final poster on my blog until now. I’m sorry about the time delay, but I think it turned out great. I came up with the theme of video games and I chose to design the poster to look like a video game cover. Top Spin is an actual Playstation video game, so I used that as the basis for the design. Thanks to Brooke Hansen for helping me make the headline.

B.VaughAn Productions [Fan Club]

2010-04-18T10:57:00.000-07:00

I made the decision to give up on my track career this year (such a hard one since i was so good and all, haha kidding!) "We're just JV", right Lauren? Actually, I just decided that although I really do like running I really didnt like track. There is just something about 8 laps around and around that really isnt enjoyable, and plus I really needed to buckle down and focus on my photography. With my decision came a great idea to create a Ben VaughAn Fan Club. It began small and I told him that even though I wasn't going be out for track I'd be at every meet cheering him on. After the first couple of meets, the fan club began to grow...out of control. The t-shirts I designed for Lauren(VP) and I are now everywhere. They even have hit the east coast! The new fan club members have been doing there best to be in attendance at each meet repping the shirts and posters. You know its become a big deal when people recognize us as "The Ben VaughAn Fan Club" when we make our big debut at each meet.

I think we are up to about 40 people with Fan Club T's. If you want to have your own Ben VaughAn Fan Club T, please let me know by Thursday of this week when I will be placing the final T-shirt order.

Here's the T-shirt graphic

Fan Club Billings [Photo by "David VaughAn]

Caitlin & Friends [Prom]

2010-04-09T17:50:00.000-07:00

As CMR's prom came around this March Caitlin's mom Chris suggested that she had me do a session of her after she was all decked out in her dress and ready to go. Only having roughly an hour we had to do some work with the time we had. Grabbing two of her friends we headed out to a location to knock them out. Here is what we ended up with. Caitlin you and your friends looked awesome.

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Hard Drive [Eye Opener]

2010-03-29T11:59:00.000-07:00

The post that I have been dreading for over a month now is finally gonna happen now! This little guy became my lifeline once I started rolling with the photography. I saved everything to him, homework, yearbook, and more importantly every photo that came out of my camera. The month of February came around and I began to notice that something just didn't seem right with the recognition of the drive into my computer. It seemed to be delayed and occasionally while editing it would unrecognize itself. I made it appoint that I really needed to get everything on there backed up because if for some reason I lost it all I wouldn't know what to do; my whole life was on there.

And than it happened........

It was a normal day of plugging the external hard drive into my computer to finish up an order and nothing recognized. I did my routine of unplugging it and plugging it back in and still nothing. Thats when I started to panic. My first instinct was to take it to Staples for some reason. The realization that I could never get anything back hadn't really hit me until my mom broke the news to me when I got home from swim practice. To everyone consider yourself lucky that it was Austin who got my phone call and no one else! haha. She probably is one of the very few people who could have calmed me down. The idea that there are a ton of other professionals out there that I should take it to kept coming up so thats what I did.

Brooke Hansen had suggested that I had her dad's co worker Kevin take a look at it because he is good with all of that kind of stuff, and I wasn't about to not try everything I could. The ordering of parts and switching things out seemd like it really had potential, but in the end the problem just could not be determined. Thanks again Kevin for taking a look at it and doing everything you could.

Drive Savers was my last resort. These guys are top of the line,"PRICEY", and extremely talented in this profession. Sending it off and having them take a look proved another failed attempt to get it back. They called an let me know the damage internally was to exstensive to retrieve antything. Thats when I knew it gone forever.

So an apology to all of you who this effects along the lines of your session if you just hadn't ordered yet. I have already talked to ya if thats the case and ill be seing you for a reshoot when we scheduled. I have to be positve about the situation and look past it. This is something that just bettered me as an indivdiual and as a phtographer. Ive learned my lesson and now know to back everything up. So for all of you out there who had the same mentality as me "Its never gonna happen" think again and expect the unexpected with everything and anything you do.

Runway Models [Commercial]

2010-03-20T22:46:00.000-07:00

I have finally had the opportunity to do a shoot that focuses on the direction of photography I plan to study in college. This being the commercial side of things. The owner of "The Runway Salon"(Alice Marshall) had talked to my mom about getting photos of girls that her crew would do all up so they could have real examples of what they were capable of doing at their stations. It wasn't something I even had to think about because these photos were perfect for the portfolio. After getting together and discussing everything I put out the idea that I knew quite a few good lookin ladies that would fit the part for these. This is where Lauren Larance, Ronni Scott, Emilie Jacobsen, Haylee Clapshaw, and Rachael Braget became a big part of this project. Elise, Kirsten, Alice, and Melissa you guys do incredible work. From the make up to the hair these ladies can do it all.

"The Runway Salon" is located at 718 Central Avenue or you can give them a call at (406) 452-5709 if your looking for a new look. Clearly they know whats up.....Take a look!

I had to take this one a bit farther....

Breathe [Update]

2010-03-05T17:44:00.000-08:00

This pic was posted quite a while ago in black and white, but because I kinda need to let the "boss" have a say being the fact he is the one having to be put through all of this each time I did it in color just for him. Once I got it all knocked out it I realized it was a good thing I listened to him because this one could probably be my favorite now! Its a lot stronger in color don't you think?

Great Falls High School [Artsy]

2010-02-21T15:10:00.000-08:00

I decided that because of what just recently happened to me ( which I will be posting later) I am going to make the most out of what I still have... "at the moment" .... and hope that I will get it all back. I was asked earlier this year to get a shot of the football field so that the senior football players could take with them the memory of what they were now leaving behind. Surprisingly it ended up not just being a photo, but something I decided to go crazy with and make artsy. I lucked out too, because I volunteered to be a part of the prom invitations committee for student government and because they wanted to go with a picture of the school I already had that taken care of. So many of you have already seen this pic but I never posted it and it is now time to do so!

Suffer [Installment 4]

2010-02-15T01:41:00.000-08:00

I finally figured it out! It only took me eleven days but it's done and I am finally satisfied with it. I guess showing up at "The Beach" at 9pm to hang with Jack, Lauren, Ben, and A'bee' did something for me. This photo took me all of three seconds to get and not because it was quick and easy. It was 20 degrees out and having Ben sit in a bath tub full of ice wasn't something that his body could handle on a physical level for very long. It was actually kind of nice because we were in and out and I didn't have to deal with Ben choosing to not cooperate because he really didn't have a choice in this one. It was either he froze to death or he got the job done. Once the ice was shoveled on top of him, he wasn't about messing around anymore! I had the fan club (Christina and Danielle) there to help me set up and Brooke there doing all the crazy make up so everything worked out pretty awesome. Ok I have to give her some serious props because look at how amazing she did. I was so blown away with how realistic it looked that I couldn't wait to get a move on this one. Thanks again "fan club" and Brooke for everything you did. Even though pulling the fake skin out of Ben's leg hair wasn't something you found to be exciting Brooke you managed to get through it hahaha!

My Other Life...

2010-02-04T23:42:00.000-08:00

Holy I see I have neglected my blog once again!I have a legitimate excuse though. You see between doing my session photos I kinda have a whole other side to my life. Its hard juggling work, swimming, school, my running series photos, actually enjoying my last semester of high school, starting to apply for scholarships, and needing to dedicate myself to my position as photo editor of the yearbook! I seem to be chasing my life but am finding out I can't really catch up to say slow down. Thats a part of life though I am finding out. So with this post I decided to post a variety of different things....mostly pertaining to my life in yearbook!

Mike Mehaffey - 100 yard Butterfly

Santino Williams - Varsity Basketball Player

Danielle Braget - CMR Wrangler

And here would be a sneek peak of the location where I shot my next installment in my running series...can you figure it out ! It'll be up soon, I just can't figure out what I seem to be missing but it will come to me eventually.

Ronni [Senior]

2010-01-17T17:12:00.000-08:00

After I was informed today by a certain someone that my blog hasn't been updated in 11 WHOLE DAYS I decided I better get a move on it. I don't think... well actually I KNOW that the little reminder wasn't just a general heads up but uh "Hey get my pics on there now! I have been more than patient." You see I have been getting subtle reminders all week from this person, and now that I have had a few moments to sit down and breathe here they are! So Ms. Ronni Scott you have finally made a big debut on my blog. This lady here has been my best best friend since I can remember. We have been through so much crazy stuff in the last 4 years that I don't really know how either of us managed to survive...but we did! Thanks for always being there!
I cant wait to finish up your session with your dress when it warms up.....so until than!

Now I couldn't really leave out one of her favorites!.....

Brooke & Hunter [Sisters]

2010-01-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

I suppose Brooke you have been bugging me long enough to get these up here for the world to see so here they are! This would be the other session I mentioned about being a Christmas present so I couldn't really post it before hand. I know I get cut some slack because what we (Brooke and I) go through in the yearbook room on a daily basis is a lot to handle. Between "pretending" like you guys like each other or something we managed to get quite a few awesome shots! haha. Thanks Hunter for putting up with me and well Brooke you do all the time.

Hear, See, and Speak No Evil [English Project]

2010-01-05T12:46:00.001-08:00

After learning about everything dealing with the Holocaust in AP English we were presented with quite a project over Christmas Break. This project was to use pages from a book generated by the white supremacist to construct "positive art" from it. I immediately new that I would be busting out the camera for this one!

Suzie was hours away from getting on her plane to head back to Stanford when I called her up to let her know she was needed and even though I could tell she was trying to work out in her head how she was possibly going to find time for this she made her way to my house to get the job done. I went with the idea "Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil."

Thanks again Suzie for everything. Hopefully ill be seeing you before I head out to college but if not will kinda be in the same state so will meet up sometime.

GFHS Girls Basketball [Sports Poster]

2010-01-02T16:27:00.000-08:00

This project opened up a whole different world for me! It was not only taking photography into consideration, but design concepts as well. When Brittany first asked me if I was interested in doing the girls basketball poster,my first reaction was your joking right.....no way I am capable of doing that. After I took some time to think about the idea, I came back to her and asked if she had found anyone, and if not I changed my mind and wanted to do it. Luckly she hadn't and I decided to take a risk. I sure found out that taking one once in awhile isn't always a bad thing because I think it turned out quite nicely...wouldn't you say? We went with the phrase "We Make It Rain" and took it up a notch by adding the runny make up and wet hair. It definitly brought it all together.....so here it is!

Haylie [Sister]

2009-12-26T20:20:00.000-08:00

Two posts in one night...I am on a roll! Well due to the fact that my christmas was quite merry this year, I got the lens I have been needing for quite awhile now.The 50mm 1.4! My 1.8 really just wasn't doing the job. I had to many problems with the focusing but I must say it was a great lens to start with. Since I was so eagar to get out and shoot with it, I grabbed the sister and we hit the streets looking for a cool location to test it out. It was a win win situation for us for sure, she has been begging me take photos of her for what a couple months now Haylie? And I got to experiment and let me tell ya...It was amazing. Well sister here ya are!

I think this has to be my favorite of them all!

Stress Fracture [Installment 3]

2009-12-26T17:59:00.000-08:00

The ideas for this whole series have been flowing its just been awhile since we successfully completed another because we have been trying to find a time to knock them out. Well today was finally a day we accomplished the completion of yet another. This one finally topped the record of capturing the right shot putting us at 2 hours due to Ben being his normal cooperative self. I wanted to go with something dealing with an X-ray of a stress fracture and because MaryGlen Vielleux's sister Megan deals with all of this she volunteered to help me out! We used the abandoned hospital next to Planet Beach and staged the whole process. Thanks again Megan and Mg for dealing with obiviously are "willing" model and setting everything up! Laura Milos also thank you for getting me the X-Rays to apply to the light board. It really made the photo.

PS: If your looking for something in the X-ray they show very small evidence that a stress fracture is present.

Markie & Molly [Sisters]

2009-12-24T22:23:00.000-08:00

Its about time that I get another post up on here! I have kinda been postponed due to the fact that the last two sessions I have done were christmas presents for parents, and due to the fact that their parents frequently checked out my blog for new posts I couldn't really post them now could I? Markie and Molly are actually related to me....unfortuantley! Kidding! No I love these guys and when they had the idea that getting photos done together for their parents would be the perfect christmas present, they came wandering to me! This session can pretty much be a marker as my fastest session yet. Despite the wind, we got a solid hour in and were got some pretty awesome shots. (I had to throw in some of the funny ones too...sorry guys! haha)

We even tried to get some of the little guy (Markie's son) and let me tell ya he is surely at that age that trying to take a perfect photo is impossible....I got lucky!

Ali & Matt {UPDATE}

2009-12-18T21:02:00.000-08:00

After Ali and I sat down and went through all of her photos we both realized that we had yet another "matt face" going on. This one was actually not planned believe it or not!

Austin [Potential Model]

2009-12-06T23:38:00.000-08:00

All that know me know this would be my black sister. Well not literally, but sometimes it gets to confusing to explain how she is my mom's best friend's daughter. Once I start with that everyone seems to get way to confused so I like to keep it simple..."black sister" Austin and I have bound to be a duo pretty much since I came out of the womb. We are truly two of a kind. We think a like, act a like, but just don't look quite a like! haha! She is more than a "sister" to me she is really a best friend.

But anyway because she is clear across the country going to school out in North Carolina I don't get to see her to often so with the two college visits I have done (Phoenix, AZ and now Santa Barbara, CA) we make sure she tags along. Now that my camera very rarely leaves my side, she was well aware we would be scouting the streets of L.A. to do some photos of her! I don't think you can really blame me....Look at her!

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This wall was way to awesome to not take it to an artsy level!

I sat her for quite awhile again trying to figure out black and white or color for this one and eventually I gave up trying to decide so I put both lol!

Carley [Let it Run]

2009-11-25T17:51:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving pretty much brought me something I wasn't expecting until Christmas. That being getting to see Carley and Katy since they have been off living the college life! I always wanted to take photos of these two but never really got the chance to before they trucked it out of here. Well today was Matt/Ben/Carley/Katy have lunch day and hang for awhile so in addition I told these two we should do some photos with runny mascara and all that goes along with that. After a quick trip to Target and the two getting all there make up on, Katy realized she had to be over to the boyfriends house faster than we had time to do pictures. So unfortunately we lost Katy for the shoot but have her look a like photos on a stand by. Carley definitely had no problem making it work as a lone ranger.....well besides dodging the rocks that Ben found necessary to throw at her!

And the mascara runs now....

Ali Brown [Professional Photographer, Mentor, & Friend]

2009-11-22T22:03:00.000-08:00

The time has finally come for me to introduce the one and only amazing photographer Mrs. Ali Brown!
I am 99.9% sure that anyone who makes their way to my blog and sees this post knows who this lady is! Ali is a professional photographer here in town who once I saw her work knew she would be the one doing my senior pictures!

This lady here has done far more for me than I could have ever imagined someone doing for me. I would not be the photographer I am today without her help. She built me from the ground up when it comes to editing and processing. I was blown away to find someone who was so up to helping me be the best photographer I can be and guiding me into the professional side of things. Still today between quick phone calls and mini lessons at her house and mine I learn something new and exciting every day.

Thank you again for everything you do and still are doing to help me today Ali! You are truly an amazing person and an awesome friend.

During our shoot Ali let me shoot with her 5D Mark II and it was pretty much incredible from there on out!

And to think the guys at this business were having a good laugh at us taking pictures by this dumpster...

This is what Ali would like to call the Matt face! She pulled it off I would say!

Second Installment [Breathe]

2009-11-17T22:14:00.000-08:00

Each week I am trying to shoot another "installment" for my concentration of running. I found out that the ten I thought I needed to have by May was actually fifteen so I need to get a move on it. It is early I know, but I am going to need more than that to ensure I have twelve strong pieces of work to send off as my portfolio. This go around we worked with the idea that as a runner you struggle to breathe. I am lucky enough to have a mom who knows quite a few people in this town and when I discussed my idea with her she knew exactly who to call. Thanks again Tavey for letting us come over there to get done what I needed to. It was the perfect location for this!

Lauren [Senior]

2009-11-07T23:12:00.000-08:00

I have to start off telling Lauren sorry for not getting her sneak peeks up any sooner! She understands though with how crazy yearbook has been, work, and getting orders ready to be sent! Lauren is my assistant photo editor by the way so she definitely understands being behind the camera but as you can tell she has mastered being in front of it as well! Well here they are!

Lauren ended up being the first shoot I did with a prom dress and it ended up turning out amazing!

Tad & Danielle [Engaged]

2009-10-25T21:34:00.000-07:00

Where to start with this one.....Well Danielle and I go way back. We were neighbors growing up and our families became really good friends. Its really a bummer we ended up moving during my 8th grade year because our neighborhood was awesome.
Last week I got a phone call from Danielle not only notifying me of the good news but to also see if I wanted to do there engagement photos...well here we are! It was a fun session between taking photos, adventuring into what we are pretty certain was a meth house, and Tad ready to flash his badge at drivers who thought there cars were pretty studly! (Tad's a cop by the way!) Even though Danielle was slumped way down in her seat I thought it was pretty funny!

Its crazy to think your getting married Danielle! Congratulations to the two of you and I hope you both like your engagement photos!

Danielle wanted to take some photos of Tad proposing because she wasn't a fan of how he really did so this is what we got!

AP ART CONCENTRATION [RUNNING]

2009-10-18T19:48:00.000-07:00

In addition to the whole portraiture photography and yearbook stuff I have now began working on my AP Art portfolio. My concentration is running and the focus being the hardships and pain a runner goes through in a sense. Here is the first installment representing "Dehydration." Its not quite finished but I thought I better post it and see what people thought! Totally up for suggestions so throw me a comment if you have one!

The sunset looked awesome and because Ben and I always talked about doing a running silouhette we went for it! Ya it looks a little posed but still turned out cool.

Mariah Jo Tyler

2009-10-12T22:05:00.000-07:00

These photos were from quite awhile ago but I promised her she would make an appearance on the blog eventually. So it happened that I ended up getting my 50mm the same day Mariah and I had a family birthday party and I wasn't about to leave it at home. After mingling for awhile I drug her out to the alley to just play and see what it was capable of, not thinking anything good quality would come out of it because it was getting late and dark at that lol. Well wasn't I surely wrong! Here you go "best friend," I think for 15 minutes we did pretty good!

Homecoming

2009-10-02T15:41:00.000-07:00

As photo editor of the Great Falls High School yearbook I was responsible for the Homecoming Royalty photos used in the display case and the INIWA. This year I wanted to do something that was totally different from any previous years.....something that kind of through people off guard....something that people thought was pretty cool! Well as I started coming up with things the idea of creating a poster like all the sports teams have kept running through my mind. So thats what I decided to do so for any of you who haven't seen the print in the display case at the school here it is!

I don't know what it is about this picture but I really like it!

And here is something fun I did with Kelsey's photos as she was twirling around in the gym!

Reanna [Senior]

2009-10-02T13:50:00.000-07:00

So I have no idea to start with Reanna! She was the "one who created me" as she likes to tell most people! haha! She begged me for like a week straight to do her senior pictures way back in July! I finally gave in under the condition she make a back up appointment with someone who had been doing this for awhile just in case things didn't turn out as planned. I was pretty nervous Ill admit but she was more than sure she would love them! Being the first person, we experimented for quite a few days and just recently finished up the rest because of her dying need to take some in her new clothes!

So a thank you goes to you Reanna for pushing me to go for something that enjoy doing all the time!

Morgan [Senior]

2009-09-27T21:52:00.000-07:00

I met Morgan in AP Art this summer and because we were two of the three taking it we kind of just started talking. He was always telling me that my drawings had "Potential." Hahah. Well its not my fault photography is my thing not the whole pencil and paper stuff! Well because of a little dilemma he had to cancel his senior session with who his Mom had booked him with and in result recently asked me if I was up for it! It was another opportunity to pick up my camera so there wasn't really an option of turning down the offer!

Casey & Sarah [Couple]

2009-09-26T18:52:00.000-07:00

So I decided that it would probably be a good idea to start posting some of my previous sessions that occurred before the creation of my blog. Sarah had asked me if it was possible to squeeze Casey and her in for a surprise she was doing for him before he headed to college. And the crazy thing is we made it happen the night before he left! Here was the crazy schedule of our night!

5:00pm - Shoot the photos as fast as possible (Casey had people waiting at his house to see him before he left)

6:00pm - Race back to my house with Sarah to download and see what we came out with!

6:15pm - Sarah was going through and picking the few she needed for the frame!

6:45-9:00pm - Edit as fast as possible while keeping the perfection level at an all time high! Also grab food because we were starving.

9:00pm - Jump in the car head to Walgreens to make prints because as I mentioned he left the next day and we didn't really have time to order any!

9:10pm - Drive to Sarah's house and pick up the frame!

9:25pm - Adventure back to Walgreens to find an error on one of the prints! We had to reorder a new one putting us back farther!

9:45pm - Send Sarah on her way to Casey's for delivery!

It was surely a crazy night but it ended well and Casey thought it was pretty sweet! I also threw in one I don't think you two have seen!

I couldn't decide which one to post because I really like both of them a ton but Casey wanted the one in color so this ones for you!

Sadie [Senior]

2009-09-15T21:32:00.000-07:00

To switch things up this senior session was in Ulm! I ended up meeting Sadie because....well long story short her aunts use to babysit me when I was just a lil guy! She saw my work on myspace, liked it, and we kind of went from there. So as Sunday rolled around Sarah (pretty amazing assistant I might add) and I headed out to Ulm not really knowing what to expect location wise. Upon our arrival Sadie had already scoped out the area and found some pretty amazing spots....except for the one that ended up costing me a wound to the knee because I got twisted up in barb wire! haha. Well Sadie I hope you like a few of your sneak peaks!

Ok I had to do put this one up here because I thought it was the coolest thing ever getting that rainbow surrounding her

Emilie [Senior]

2009-09-13T19:27:00.000-07:00

Ok so to start off sorry Emilie I haven't got you up on here. I wasn't sure if I should wait until we went for a second day so I could pick out my favorites or just go off what we whipped out on day one! And now that your face is huge and talking is somewhat of a struggle for ya I figured just post some because who knows when that swelling will ever go down! Haha...kidding but than ill update this post with some new ones once we adventure out again. I hope you like um!

Ray & Jessica [In Matrimony]

2009-09-07T21:35:00.000-07:00

This summer my cousin Ray finally got married to the woman of his dreams Jessica! (It's about time! lol) Unfortunately I was just starting to really get into this whole photography thing so they didn't really know I did this kind of stuff or I would have been given the job! However the catch was that the hired photographer had asked them to make sure no one else was shooting photos before or during the ceremony! At first I was like you gotta be kidding me, but I later understood in a sense where he was coming from. So I made sure I stayed out of harms way, getting a chance to shoot the "getting ready photos" and some artsy ones later that night. Sorry Ray, but Jessica is kind of the highlight in these sneek peeks! Take a look at her, I don't think you really can complain!

[Mom]

2009-09-07T14:10:00.000-07:00

For those of you who do not know my mom this would be her! Yesterday was such a perfect day to shoot that I practically drug her out the door to go take some photos since no one else seemed to be up for it! She needed some new photos of herself with the new business coming soon so she figured why not! (For any of you who have not got your membership to Planet Beach I recommend you get on that.) Well here are a few of them!

Tucker [Senior]

2009-08-30T21:04:00.000-07:00

As many of you all know Tucker would be my cousin. When he suggested I do his senior pics I was all for it. I had a new location already set aside waiting up for him, and today we went out on a mission exploring it. Showing up with less clothes than I had imagined and Hailey who only had an hour with us we seemed to be a problem at first, (Hailey you won't be working at Macaroni Grill during our next go around, alright!) but after things got moving ended in a successful completion of day one! Here are a few sneek peeks and ill be posting a few more later!

Trevor [Senior]

2009-08-29T14:36:00.000-07:00

I know what your thinking..... Didn't I already see pix up of Trevor on here earlier? Well now that my blog is looking much better, I figured I better go ahead and post a few more sneek peeks of Day 2. His mom was looking for a picture in his baseball uniform so we kind of meshed her idea with my grungy style and whipped this out down at the baseball field. Here are an aditional two as well!

Sarah [Senior]

2009-08-28T19:26:00.000-07:00

Well lets see...I don't even know where to start with Sarah. She was one of my guinea pigs in a sense with the whole senior photos idea! Patience is the only word that can describe this and Reanna's sessions (Her pix will be coming shortly). We tried things one day than if it didn't work we were running around trying to make it happen. All and all she rocked every day we went out to shoot! (Even if for some crazy reason she doesn't seem to think so)...

Coming Soon

2009-08-28T13:53:00.001-07:00

Hey for all that are coming to my blog sorry it hasn't been updated in awhile or stylized, have been super busy with editing! It is my goal tonight however to figure it all out so check back later!

SISTERS [Rachael & Danielle]

2009-08-06T16:58:00.000-07:00

SENIOR [Rachael]

2009-08-06T16:32:00.000-07:00

Rachael showed up depsite kind of a bad day, lookin good and ready to shoot some senior pix! I wondered if it was going to reflect in her photos but clearly it did not! Take a look for yourself ladies and gentleman! We found some awesome new locations, and her sister Danielle was probably the best assistant anyone could ask for. I got a few of them together as well. They will be coming shortly. Enjoy

SENIOR [Trevor]

2009-08-03T22:15:00.000-07:00

Trevor was one of those kids that kills ya to shoot because you never know what to expect. He would be posed and than as your just about to shoot, change his whole expression. After awhile he finally got into the swing of things, relaxed, and knocked it out of the park. Well it sure ended up turning out awesome! We have some studio based photos left and hopefully tomorow will be able to tackle that idea!

Finally A Blog

2009-08-02T15:24:00.001-07:00

Ok now that I have been getting into the swing of things, I thought it probably would be the time to get a blog up and going for everyone to preview sessions and as well get my name out into this world! Not to mention myspace has a tendency to display lower quality images. It may take awhile to fully figure it out, but I think I can handle it. So for now enjoy and more will be coming soon!