Some fun Pied Piper news....

Well I'm finding photography a little more physically exhausting these days. Why you ask? Well....this rather large thing (which I thought would NOT be so large so quick) is slightly in my "moving around" zone! It is making me seriously tired (and will only do more of that in the future!)! However, nothing could make us smile more than waiting for our upcoming addition!

So baby boy or baby girl...we point at you, talk about you, kiss you through mom's belly, think of your name, imagine what you will look like, think of all the photos we will take and we pine for October when you are in our arms and our family of three becomes four...

Sidenote: My superbly lovely friend and fantastic photographer Jen took our family photos and I just LOVE THEM! She kindly passed the RAW's over to me and let me play with them myself (now that is a confident photographer). Many hugs and kisses to you J for your beautiful photos that I will always treasure...you are a gem!

Lovely home session with such lovely people...

Home sessions can be a little more difficult but they create such warm wonderful memories!
This great fam was just so easy to shoot!
The boys were too cute and can we talk more movie-star couple than this?!

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An Urban Chic sneak peek....

I had the very lovely pleasure of shooting the family of the uber fabulous Maranda Peterson of Urban Chic Portraits. Talk about hilarious and soooo much fun! And can I tell you how much I love what they wore! Oh so very definitely "urban chic!" You live to your name Maranda! Thanks for the blast!

These two shots are some of my absolute faves from the session!

Another SLC sneak peek....

What a treat for me to shoot this family!
The kids were such a crack-up and so cute...it was superb!

Another fun Utah shoot....another freezing one as well....geesh it was cold!
I can't believe that these cuties managed to smile at all!
Thankfully they did!

I had the lovely pleasure of photographing the most fantastic Michelle Coleman, co-owner of Little Dreamer Designs. She and her cutie patootie girlies braved the freezing Utah weather to shoot it out with me!
and........LET. ME. TELL. YOU it was COLD COLD COLD!
Thanks for the wonderful time ladies!

Workshop photos...

Oh goodness me! The workshop was this past Saturday and it was so great!! We had almost 30 in total so it was a lovely sized class! All of my attendees (and you know who you are) were fabulous! There was A LOT to take in and learn so I hope that it is all starting to sink in and "gel" in your mind!! Here are some of the shots from the mock photo shoots we had. I've used the actions that came on the CD's for all of you students. There will be more shots of the workshop itself as for now....I want to see your photos! Here are mine so those who couldn't come won't have missed out on too much ;)

this photo was done with a levels adjustment, "pop rock it" action in the Hamelin Action set, then the basic BW with a contrast adjustment.



this was done with a basic color action, "pop rock it" action, sharpen and then "sweeten the image" action.


this photo is an example of "shooting from the hip." I literally laid my camera on the ground to take the shot. It is a funky approach but creates a different kind of pleasing look. This was processed with "pop rock it" action, basic bw, levels, sharpen and then a contrast adjustment.

This was done with the basic color, "pop rock it," then the "seventies" action (by Pioneer woman) dialed down in opacity to 75%. Then a sharpen, then the sweeten image action dialed down to a 10%.

Same used here!


"Pop rock it" action then the basic BW with a contrast adjustment and a levels and curves. Finish off with a sharpen!


this was done with a basic color, "pop rock it," sharpen, contrast adjustment, then a sweeten the image!

More photos are coming so stay tuned!! There are a number of queries I have had about buying the booklet and CD from the workshop. If you are interested in purchasing it please contact me at: infoATpiedpiperphotoDOTcom
The cost for the booklet and CD is $250

Sneak peek for the J family...

Oh goodness what fun what fun! This little guy was such a hoot! Same name, same age, same love for balls like my boy....he was as busy as my guy and totally uninterested in my camera! Boys will be boys!

Stay tuned for the workshop photos....they are coming!