Martin and Breigh were married during the last week in October. Their celebration was held at Shenendoah Mills.

Brett and Erica were gracious enough to meet up with me and my wife and our little one to do a little picture-takin-tradesies for Christmas card season.
This shoot was only 50 frames and less than 7 minutes ( I checked the time/date stamps )long but I thought they were great images and wanted to share a few favorites.

I was so excited to photograph this beautiful family. I've worked with these guys before and they're such a great looking couple and I was also really excited to get to meet their new little baby (she was so stinkin adorable). I love getting to shoot at the temple on days when there is a little cloud cover, it makes the images more dramatic.
Here are some of my favorite images that we made that day:

MOon-12, originally uploaded by paxmanphotography.

400mm ISO -100 f/11 1/80
The moon is kind of tricky to expose for correctly. It was kind of nice out so I thought I grab the telephoto and the tripod and take a few shots.

CB-10-Edit, originally uploaded by paxmanphotography.

Author/Model/Actor - Christopher Bryant
Venue: Mesa Arts Center - Mesa, AZ
Christopher Bryant recently published a book called
"Lonely For The Holidays".
This image was commissioned for the website used to promote the new book. Check it out at : www.lonelyfortheholidays.com/

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September and October were so crazy busy for me I am just going through my photo-library now and trying to catch up on the blogging I got behind on. While I have been shooting mostly weddings this year it really is nice to get a break from white dresses and tux's and chase little kids around a park, every once in a while. These guys are from my hometown and I went to high school with their Mom and Aunt. I really think it's great when parents recognize the importance of getting great images made of their kids. These kiddos were so adorable and I'm so glad I was able to catch a couple grins from the Nyla.

Depending on how long you've followed my blog you might recognize these guys. I did family pictures for them early in 2008 . I grew up with Heidi and love to see how her cute little family is growing.

The Bloomer kids all got organized for a big family photoshoot as part of a gift for Grandma and grandpa.

One of the things that makes me most nervous in photography is a group of kids. You never know what they are going to be like and sometimes I know they are looking at me thinking "I dare you to make me smile,'cameraboy'!"
But these lil guys were great and I was thrilled that we got all of them to look at the camera at the same time.
All the grandkids:









I'm thinking about writing a book about the ethical dilemma of letting kids fall while I'm photographing them (look down a couple posts on my blog, same kinda shot in almost the exact same place with a different family).

This is just a sneak peak at Jim and Jen's wedding images as there will certainly be more to come later....but....James and Jennifer chose to see each other before their ceremony. We took this "first look" opportunity to make something special.

Enjoy!

Meet the K, family.
We went out to Freestone the other week and got some great fall family portraits done.






This inevitably happens with little guys in this age range where they can absolutely sit up on their own but if you put them on slope they don't quite have the balance to stay upright. And herein lies my dilemma: I am within an arms reach and the closest person to him. Do I do the humane thing and reach out and grab him? or do I keep my face behind the camera and capture the fall. The photographer beat out the humanitarian in this case and decided to capture the fall.