Brown Eyes and Butterflies {Montana, Senior Photographer}

Meet my gorgeous cousin Shayla.  No she isn't a model, but could be.  She prefers to spend her time in the gym...not in dresses in fields reading history books.  However, she agreed to get her girly on just for me.  I had a few ideas that I wanted to try out, and since I was going to do Shay's seniors photos anyway, she seemed like the perfect girl to try them out on. 

I LOVE the butterfly photos and even though she may have been a touch skeptical at first, Shayla loves them too!    I have also been dying to use my drop it modern backdrop outside in tall grass, and I really love the way they turned out.  It has a studio feel, but I was still able to use the warm sunlight I love so much.

 Shayla is so naturally pretty, and really has that boho look about her. 

 The above and below are a couple of my favorites.  

HELLO awesome serious face! 

 Shayla will be the star of another shoot soon.  This was just a warm up :)  Thanks Shayla for being such a rockstar in front of the camera.  Girly looks good on you...but so do knee pads.   

Fairytale Wedding {Miles City, MT Wedding Photographer}

If I made a list of all the reasons why I love weddings the list would go on and on and on.  Seriously. It would.  I don't sleep well the night before a wedding- I'm just way too excited.  The morning of the wedding, I have butterflies.  Not the nervous dreading kind-the can't wait to be part of the biggest day of someone's life kind.  It is a big deal, and every time I book a wedding, I feel so grateful and honored.  

Booking Layne and Erin's wedding made me feel especially grateful because they booked me last summer before I had even shot a Miles City wedding.  They had enough faith in what they saw on my blog and website to trust me on such an important day.  Sure I had shot numerous weddings in the Bozeman area, but I was brand new to their area.  I feel so blessed to have been welcomed into the Miles City community in so many ways, and this wedding was a big welcome.  

Onto the wedding itself.  Well first off, Erin is STUNNING.  I kept snapping photos of her getting ready and thinking to myself, "she doesn't even have make-up on yet, and she looks flawless."  Layne was so excited and ready to be married that he updated his Facebook status to married the night before.  Their families were amazingly supportive and just plain thrilled for the two of them, and their friends surrounded them with well wishes and love.  So much planning and work went into the day, and it really paid off.  The day was perfect.  Layne and Erin wanted to nothing more than to be married.  Having it all go perfectly was just an added bonus.    

I say this a lot but, if you decide to do a first look you will end up with more bride and groom portraits.  There is just more time that way.   Plus, it usually seems to help with some of the nerves.

 The below photo is my FAVORITE.

.... and they lived happily ever after

The view from Fairview {Eastern, MT Photographer}

So this should probably be three separate posts, (engagement session, family session, senior session) but since it was all shot together, I am going to post it together.  Plus I am swimming in a sea of editing right now so a combined post is the way to go.

Last week I made a trip to the far east-far east Montana that is to shoot Tony and Destiny's engagement photos, as well as Tony's brother, Reece's senior photos.  I also had to snap a few photos of the adorable Taylor.  Not only is she quite the model, she was also quite the assistant.  Since I had never been to Fairview, Tony, Reece and Destiny found a handful of locations for us to use.   I love when clients do this! And other than the mosquitos and a little muddy foot incident which was surprisingly not my doing, the evening was perfect.  (I tend to accidentally get clients muddy A LOT)

Tony and Destiny will be getting married in May, and I am so excited to make the trip back to Fairview to be part of their day. 

 Reece is very handsome, and incredibly photogenic.  Miss Taylor kept calling him a model and she just may have been on to something.  Boys are typically a little harder to pose than girls in my opinion, but Reece was so natural in front of the camera.  He really didn't need a lot of direction.  

He is graduating high school from Bozeman, but has spent the summer working in eastern MT.