Sweet n' Sassy Senior Portraits at the Sugar Bowl

We had the honor of taking photos of this gorgeous young woman once again, and this time we took it up a notch. 

Amanda is so much fun and super sweet, and on top of that she's got crazy, amazing, edgy style! She's the ultimate cool girl. So for Amanda's senior photos we wanted something that embodied exactly who she is. We feel like this shoot was successful in that, and we couldn't be more excited with how it all came out. Also, we all had a lot of fun while we were at it which is really all you could ever ask for. 

Falling Back in Arizona

Well, I guess we don't really fall back or spring forward here, but it's that limited fall season that we get in Arizona! You wouldn't know it in Phoenix; however, if you take a little trip up to Northern Arizona the scenery takes a turn pretty quick.

So that's exactly what we did! Because who doesn't love fall colors and a relaxing hike in some 70 degree weather?

HALO Crowdfunding Campaign

As you may have guessed from some previous posts, we do what we can with HALO Animal Shelter to try and help them find their animals a forever home. In August we were happy to help them with a new project!
 

They needed a video for an upcoming crowdfunding campaign that helped to explain what it is that they do and how they are different than some of the other shelters here in the valley. So that is exactly what we did for them.

They did indeed make their goal of $33,500 too which will all be matched!

The Great Depression (Update)

I've been waiting to write about this one again for a while. This is James Schwartz's chopped up Model A in a more final form. If you've been reading these for a while then you'll have seen some photos from our first blog post when he began chopping it.

It's an interesting time of the year here in Arizona where we get those lovely monsoon storms, and we had already postponed this video shoot once the week before due to one rolling in. Of course on this day the weather was looking beautiful...right until I got off of work.

We were all way too excited to get this finished up. So we pushed on anyway. However, the fun didn't stop there.

This location may look familiar because we've been here before with Jayjay's Subaru. We've always liked this spot because of the trees, but more importantly in this case it's right near home. As this build is still in progress, it needs a couple of things hooked up, and it has not been registered yet. This kind of limited us on where we could go, and that's why we ended up here.

I wish that I could say that alleviated all of our issues, but that wasn't the case. On this short journey of back roads we managed to drive right by a Peoria Police Department officer. Needless to say he wasn't too thrilled about us being out on the roads with an unregistered vehicle, but he let us go. Not before declaring his love for the build and his urge to take pictures with it, of course. 

Off we went again.

After trying to grab some decent rolling shots for the video, we made it. We chose a spot, started turning around, and then James' clutch line broke. We could not catch a break.

James went into full on MacGyver mode. With the donation of some shoelaces from Wyatt he got to work but to no avail. We pushed it around into the spot that we wanted, and I got to filming.

James' dad heroically came to save us and give James a tow back to their house.

It was certainly an eventful shoot. We made it work though, and I managed to grab some shots that I'm particularly proud of.

I'm eager to circle back around to this again once it gets all finished up and registered. Then the real fun can begin.

RIP Wyatt's shoelaces.