Jessen Family/ Cedar City, UT/ Action Shoot-Family

Parents versus kids. Boy versus girls. Dad versus everyone else. Whatever the combination, who ever the victor is, tug o war is ALWAYS a blast.

Leavitts/ Cedar City, UT/ Action Shoot-Couple

Cedar has one of the best pet stores, ever! The animals are the nicest, calmest animals that I've ever been in contact with and I've been to many pet stores around tons of animals so I know what I'm talking about. And you know why? Because they let you play with ALL the animals (except the fish for obvious reasons.) I think every pet store should do this. FYI- Reptile room HUMID

What a great way to bond with one another, as a couple. Animals are really great therapy too. It was a blast watching these two interact with the animals and with each other.

Holmes Family/ Cedar City, UT/ Action Shoot-Family

I love this family. How cool are they for all coming out in their pjs and having a pillow fight complete with crazy feathers in the middle of nowhere. Part of the mission of this series is to get real emotions and what is more real then a bed found in the middle of nowhere LOL. It's art people it's art! FYI one down pillow is all that is needed for a huge pillow fight mess of feathers.

Edgel Family/ Cedar City, UT/ Action Shoot-Family

I'm in my LAST semester of school (finally). One of the photo classes I'm taking is called Business Practices for Photographers which I LOVE. We had to individually come up with a project series of photos that we would work on the whole semester that would also help us grow as a photographer. It was really hard at first to come up with something that I really liked but once I got this idea my excitement exploded.

I want to "capture" the essence of families( and couples) and how they interact with one another without being self conscious or posed for family pictures like the norm. We will set up an activity and then I will take pictures of the event taking place. Most of the ideas for the shoots are really hands on and interactive.

The Edgel Family were my first volunteers and I had them participate in a family paint fight. Each person got a different color and paint brush. It was a BLAST. They are even eager volunteers for other shoots.