Before we left on vacation we had to pass up on a really cool assignment, RV was already rented and we were both in need of a break; however, we were bummed. When we got back from vacation we learned the shoot was moved back and the client wanted to know if we could still shoot it, couple high fives later the shoot date was booked. More details will flow over the next week so stay tuned, and if the day couldn't get any better we received a phone call while setting up to shoot another killer assignment. Today was a good day.  
 
For todays shoot we all needed a quick workout to get ready and here is Trish and Jason.......

Many of you may recognize Sayonna & Mike from our business cards or our website or our marketing materials or from the Palms wedding campaign....We shot their wedding about three years ago at the Palms, and, we'll let's just say that their good looks have helped us to create some of our most spectacular wedding images.  
 
About a month ago, we got in touch with them about using their images for the Palms Wedding Marketing Campaign, and they thought it would be a great idea to do a family session now that the kids had grown up a bit....In knowing their kids, we knew the images would be awesome, but had now idea of what they had in store for us.  
 
Kylie & Riley have grown into beautiful little girls since the last time we saw them, and seriously are some of the best behaved little people we've ever met....and Sayonna actually dressed them up as little fairies with wands and flowers in their hair and of course, little wings....it was INCREDIBLE!  
 
Guys, it was seriously so great to see you and honestly, we both want to thank you to always being so open to our creativity.  
Hope you enjoy the sneak peak....and looks like you'll have lots more images to rotate in your frames....

just had to add this one as well.........

Basically since returning from vacation we jumped right back into work, we actually ended our vacation a couple days early to hurry back to Vegas to shoot a last minute assignment. Can't go into details yet about what we shot, but I can tell you this, it was awesome and we made some images that knocked our client off their feet. The pic below is Jason our right hand man standing in for a lighting test, Jason really pulled his weight at this shoot, and he has offically been added HERE in the about section.  
 
On another note we will begin our studio remodel tomorrow so if you swing by or come in for a consult please excuse the dust and mess, the new space will only be a million times better. Couple months back we mentioned some new products and goodies we will be offering, well we are getting really close to letting the cat out of the bag, just bear with us a little longer.....  
 
We'll have lots of blog love hitting you toward the end of the week, including a killer Life Session, and another Life Session +2, a wedding, and to top off the week a shoot with FHM Magazine........

Due to the fact that our spring was super super busy we had to but a hold on Head Shot Mania, those that missed out not to worry it's coming back........ Starting back up in August we will be offering Head Shot Mania in our newly reconstructed studio space, more room, in house make-up, and just a plan ole rad environment.........  
 
So what is Head Shot Mania?  
 
The session includes the sitting fee plus 3 high resolution professionally re-touched images on disk perfect for print or the web.  
 
$175.00  
 
We will also be offering model portfolio building sessions and of course our signature one of a kind Christmas Pictures, these are only a small fraction of what is coming, stay tuned........  
 
 
 

Every wonder what we do with all the photo booth pics we shoot? well here's a quick little peek........  
 

This is how much of our trip looked......  
 
 

Driving pretty much non-stop the last day and a half we are finally home, so much to post put feeling a little tired. Trish is already back at it down at the studio, I'm a slacker and unpacked the RV and am getting ready to say good bye to the Steve Irwin. We ended up cutting the trip a couple days short due to a super cool last minute assignment we'll be shooting tomorrow, we'll give details to the shoot down the road. Couple more pretty pics from our trip and some of the facts....  
 
FACTS:  
*drove roughly 2500 miles  
*caught roughly 40 some trout, one brown the rest rainbows  
*Trish won scrabble once and Jared won twice  
*only ate out 3 times  
*ate bacon pretty much everyday  
*caught a cold  
*camped where we got engaged  
*sick of the rv bed  
*love the fact that my wife put up with me for over 11 days........  
 
 

running from the bears..........all and all it was a great trip and we will share more down the road. Looks like P.R.D. (post road trip depression) will be hitting hard over the next few days.

So yesterday was probably one of the most unusual days both of us have ever had....it started normal enough...  
 
Matt got up, went to work, Cindy wasn't feeling well, so she slept all morning, basically we caught up a little on things so we don't get too far behind when we get back....then we all decided that hitting Glacier National Park was a great idea as it was Cindy & Matt's four year (well actually five...) anniversary especially since they had spent almost all of their anniversaries there except for one.  
 
We arrived at the park and we're blown away by the spectacle of nature. Total environmental insanity is what we'd call it...Nature Completely going off in every direction possible.  
 
We were greeted at the gate by a large herd of wild horses, which completely surprised us, which was then followed by a mountain goat sighting....FUN! Next up, we stopped for a piece of homemade apple pie and ice cream, which was DELICIOUS! And the trip just kept getting better and better...  
 
We headed to Many Glacier as it's one of the only parts of the park that's open right now....and it was incredible. The photo in Jared's post below is actually the view from the back balcony of this gorgeous hotel that sits right at the base of the glacier. It's an absolute must see, and seriously everyone should try to get to this national treasure at one point in their lives.  
 
Once we were all set with the natural beauty, our friend Matt suggested we hit a quick hike at Ptarmigian Falls, said it should only take about an hour and a half or so, about a four mile hike, and as it was about 6:30, we figured we wouldn't hit dinner until about 8:00 pm as the sun doesn't set until 10:30 PM up here! Which was super cool....  
 
We packed up and hit the trail....it was INCREDIBLE....green everywhere no matter which way you turned, bushes, brush, wacky trees, berries......we just kept going trying to make as much noise as we could after reading the grizzly country warning sign you see below.  
 
Matt lead the way, he ran us through a quick grizzly spray 101 and we just kept going, headed through the thick, thick brush, Matt keeping pace, made it about a mile into the hike, 7:20pm... we could see a clearing up ahead... then I'm not even sure how I saw it, but my arms automatically came up into a cross with Cindy and Jared behind me as if we were stopping short in a car and I heard myself say in a very quiet loud voice...."WHOA, WHOA, WHOA".....we all stopped in our tracks as everyone else turned and looked at me. I pointed down the clearing about 130 feet away (very close)....Everyone became completely silent as we all gazed downhill to see what I was looking at, then they saw it too: A GIANT GRIZZLY CUB WITH A HEAD THE SIZE OF A TELEVISION SET STARING RIGHT AT ME and IT'S GIANT MOTHER sitting eating berries just below us....OH MY GOSH!!!!  
 
In my head I heard myself yelling "Run!, Run for your lives...Bears, bears....everywhere bears....we can't even see them!" "They're going to eat me.....!"  
 
But actually that was just in my head, no one ever heard it; I never said it aloud, but I was SCARED and of course Jared was fascinated and tried to fire off a few photos, but it all happened very quickly.... And although we were all a bit nervous and you could have heard a pin drop because it became so quiet in our group, we all just remained completely calm; we waited for them to scamper downhill, which they so graciously did and we all just backed away down our hill back into the brush as quickly as we could without drawing further attention to ourselves.  
 
We talked about it for the ENTIRE NIGHT as we ate dinner at the wonderful hotel at the base of the glacier....I think we really high tailed it back to the car, just to make sure we didn't run into any other bears, but Jared did think he saw another one across the clearing as we headed down.  
 
Funny thing was as we reported to he ranger, he just kept telling us how lucky we were to have seen not only one, but two in the wild....and what a fortunate event that was to have witnessed. And in fact, seems like we've had lots of other friends who've spent just as much or more time in the wild than we have and have also never had a run in with a bear and they also see it as a very lucky and wonderful event of nature.  
 
So we now feel pretty lucky to have seen something so few people get to witness for themselves. But I can tell you that seeing a grizzly in person is a massive shock to the system; at least it was for me. The head on that cub is something I will never, ever forget especially because he stared right in my eyes. His head was like a giant box with a short snout and fur ,lots of bushy carmel fur, but he didn't seem scared or threatened, he just seemed hungry.....for berries.....

Yesterday was pretty much one of the coolest days we've ever had, I will let Trish's words in her next post talk about what happened because I won't be able to do it justice........ Until her post here is a pretty picture shot while we were out hiking yesterday, not a bad place to be hiking........well I take that back, I'll let Trish explain........