Summers in Phoenix!!

Not only is it 112 by noon in good ole PHX, but now its wet! The Monsoon is upon us much earlier this year than last year. Ugh now it feels like Florida! But it's also fairly slow with weddings and seniors, few people are brave enough to shoot in the heat, unless your Bryce! Anyway this gives us some much needed time to catch up and regroup. It also gives us time to collaborate with other photographers and build relationships in our market.

So Tammie and I want to host a brainstorming session in the next couple of weeks. It would be an open collaboration session where we go over shooting styles, marketing, and lessons learned. A very casual and informative session open to anyone willing to share their expeirences. So if your interested, let us know! Even if you aren't drop us some suggestions!.... We'll set a date when we know we have enough interested people!

I thought I would post Bryce slideshow since I never did...oops! Check it out here!

MYSPACE PURGE.

Myspace has been an instrumental part of our success with High School Seniors. Over the Past year we have experimented with different types of Marketing techniques. Not all have been successful, although some have yielded well. So with the beginning of the New school year we will be implenting some new marketing strageties focusing specifically on 2008 seniors. So over the next few weeks we will be purging our friends list; anyone not specifially our friend will be purged (no offense to anyone, we're just moving forward), i.e.: anyone not a 2008 Senior or anyone we know personally. If we delete you and you still want to be on our friends list just shoot us over an email. You'll recieve emails, bulletins, and probably ads from us implement our marketing stragety.

http://www.myspace.com/seniorsessions

We're starting our marketing to our new 2008 seniors. Now, how do you market to seniors you wonder, because of course we want to try something new and different, right? We want to be able to catch their attention and not just become another flyer, something they just recieved a couple of weeks ago. hmmmm? So why not look into what "Seniors" are looking at. What are they wearing, what are they doing, where are they going? yada yada... This is where it gets interesting. Chris and I were taken back when we came across this site by Abercrombie & Fitch. Check it out here ***click me!*** (Back to School 2007) How are they selling clothes with this?!

Need COMMENTS!

When you're with family you never seem to get a break from photographing. Chris's mom has been wanting us to photograph Chris's sister Gavelita f*o*r*e*v*er! She told us she had this great place to go and it would only take about 20-30 minutes to get there. So about an hour and a half later we were finally at our destination. I should have known it would take forever to get there when they suggested grabbing some munchies before we headed out. ;) I have to admit though it was gorgeous when we got there and a whole lot of wind!
We were taken back at how great and comfortable she was in front of the camera. There was no holding back from this chick. I can't believe she's 14!...eat your heart out Pocahontas. :o)




She dances in pow wows as a jingle dancer, so of course we had to document that part of her life.

We need a vacation from our vacation! :o) Here's a glimpse of what we were able to see on our vacation. Chris took this image of the Grand Canyon. Can you believe he's lived in Arizona for 5 years and has never been to the Grand Canyon! I think I've been about 4 or 5 times...don't ask me why either. I'm going to try to put a little video together of our little vacation. I really need to sit down and learn imovie, but I get so impatient and make up an excuse to move onto something else. Anywho, until tomorrow!...sorry the image is small.