Recently I attended a fundraiser at a Tempe bar, Casey Moore’s Oyster House, to benefit the Tempe Veterans Foundation put on in part by my sister-in-law. My sister and a group of her friends were also there to help support the event, and have fun of course , and I had the chance to meet them and spend the evening laughing over fish and chips and a few drinks. One of her good friends is engaged and needed photos while his fiancee was in town for Thanksgiving so we made plans to meet in Scottsdale that weekend.

Of course right before I left the house to drive to our meeting spot, I was informed that it was…raining. Yup, the desert does get rain, and of course it would be that day. So I scramble to find an umbrella, I do own one of those right? I found it buried under the kids toys in the backseat of the car and headed out across town. In my head I came up with all these great ideas for a session in the rain and got excited to do something totally different than normal. And then guess what? It had stopped raining by the time I got there and it appeared to have mostly dried up. *Poof* went those ideas, but as soon as I met Andy and Jamielee I knew this was going to be fun. They are constantly laughing and playing off each other, snuggling in sneaking a smooch. It doesn’t hurt that Jamielee is gorgeous! And hey I’m excited to know a brand new chiropractor (she’s graduating this month).

Apparently we stumbled upon a really hot spot for photo sessions (there had to 5 others in the same little park) and had to compete for locations .




I love how natural they look in front of the camera, of course it makes it easier when they were telling each jokes-something about a bear and a bunny doing their business in the woods…

We walked around Old Towne Scottsdale for a little while, shooting here and there and then wandering into a few allies where we came up with my new tagline- “some of my best work is shot by smelly garbage dumpsters” or something to that effect. Funny enough it happens often that some of the best lighting and backdrops happen to be right near a stinky trash bin, good thing it doesn’t show!


As we wrapped it up and headed back to the cars, they kept up the affection and fun. I snapped this picture as we walked past an older married couple and I smiled as I heard him say to his wife, “I love love.” Me, too.

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