Arizona Wildflowers

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ZANJERO LOCATION - This is a water retention area in Gilbert, Arizona. It’s one of the only places I can find within the metro area that has wildflowers. It is a gooooood place for photos. Some of the things that are good about it: EASY parking, close to the freeway so it’s easy to get to, has a LOT of variety for backgrounds, there are almost no people there so you don’t have to worry about people being in the backgrounds of your photos. Right now it has a TON of wildflowers!!!! Soooooo many more than last year.

The bad things about this place: some of the plants are thorny/sticky and you can get goat burrs in your shoes, so you should definitely not wear open toed shoes.

VISTA DEL ORO AND THE BEELINE HWY: Here is the pindrop for this location. Don’t be alarmed by dry and unpretty this place looks on Google streetview. Right now it is green and GORGEOUS and there are SO many different kinds of wildflowers!

https://goo.gl/maps/zbEr8sHzCKdA5jJk9

Victoria and her daughter met up with me one early evening last April in 2022 for photos in the wildflowers. I absolutely loved how these turned out, though in the almost year since then I have learned more photo editing techniques and I have bought more editing tools for Photoshop, so I kind of want to go back over these and edit them again. We had this field of flowers all to our selves and it was so cute to watch how Vicki’s daughter picked the purple and yellow wildflowers and gave them to her mom.

With all the rain we have had in the last couple months this past winter, I really am so excited about our prospects for amazing wildflowers and even super blooms in Arizona. I’ve gone out searching and found flowers around South Mountain, Usery, and next up I will be exploring Picacho Peak.

I will be announcing Wildflower photo sessions and mini sessions as soon as I figure out when and where to go! If you would like to hear more about those, please subscribe to my newsletter in the form below the photos! They are perfect for engagement photos, maternity, mommy and me, and family photos.

Highlands Church Wedding in Scottsdale, Arizona

In no particular order, here are some photos from Jessica and Stan’s wedding in October 2008! Jessica found me on my old blog and we met at Lux Coffee on Central in Phoenix to discuss what she was looking for in wedding photography. I just thought she was the coolest person right away and seriously experienced joy hanging out with her at coffee. Some time later my sister and I photographed Jessica and Stan’s engagement session. We went to the LOVE statue in Scottsdale and then to the ASU campus and to the Mill Avenue bridge for really fun engagement photos.

They got married at Highlands Church in Scottsdale, Arizona located at 9050 E Pinnacle Peak Rd Suite 100, Scottsdale, AZ 85255. They had the theme of Love Birds for their decorations and decorated with bright red and a vintage style. Highlands Church was a fantastic location for a wedding; I would love to photograph another wedding there.

I recently read that Highlands Church has created an inclusive/universal playground with shade and a splash pad! I haven’t gone to check it out, but I absolutely plan to take my 4 year old nephew there very soon!

So here are some photos from their 2008 wedding. The formatting might be a little off because I have posted these images in other places.

Tilt Shift Engagement Photos!

These photos are from quite some time ago! These are engagement photos for Jenn and Mike. We started out in downtown Phoenix at Lola Coffee, went across the street to a little park, then we went uptown to Smeeks and Francis, and then to downtown Scottsdale to take photos in the tiny secret alley, at the LOVE statue and around the Scottsdale Civic Center. Jenn brought origami paper birds that she had created that she was going to use as part of her wedding decor.

I used a tilt shift lens for a lot of these photos. Tilt shift lenses are super fun to use for photo shoots and make dreamy images. They are mostly meant for shooting architecture, but about ten years ago wedding photographers were using them a bunch. I don’t see this trend nowadays, but I don’t think it looks dated, I still think it looks fun and enchanting. I don’t own a tilt shift lens, but I can easily rent one if you like this look and want to have it for your own photo shoot.

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Murals in Phoenix

I absolutely love the arts district of downtown Phoenix, known as Roosevelt Row, as a location for photos. Perfect for high school seniors, maternity, family portraits, birthdays photo shoots, kids, couples/engagement sessions.