I keep thinking about how the Summer of 2021 is upon us, and how this summer will be different than last summer. I will sit outside at restaurants, I’ve got that Pfizer vaccine, so I won’t feel afraid of doing photo shoots, I hope to start playing ultimate Frisbee again. I’ve been making a Summer of 2021 Spotify playlist (Perfume Genius’s “On the Floor” and “imma” by bbno$ & Lentra are the first two songs on there, if you were wondering and I always welcome hearing what other people are listening to) and I feel like I want to go out and experience all the things I couldn’t do last summer. One thing I would really like to do is meet up with other photographers and talk shop.
Something that I have always wanted to do in our hot summer months is portraits of people at the Salt River. Last summer, my sister and my nephew and I went exploring for places to take portraits and we found some beautiful spots. So that is one of my plans!
These photos are of Allyson and her husband and their children from September 2020. The first photo shoot I did for Allyson was in 2011 when her daughter was just a toddler baby, so it’s been fun to see her family grow. We all met up at the Queen Creek Wash and when I got there I was a little freaked out to see there was actually water running in the wash. I had never seen that all the times I have been there. It limited the places we could go for photos, but it turned out quite all right! After we got some family photos, the kids and their parents got to cool off in the water. And I did too. Which was fantastic, because it was a very hot-in-the-hundreds Arizona day.
That’s one of the reasons I want to do a photo shoot at the Salt River. We can all get in the water to cool off! And while I’m talking about plans, I will also share that I plan to do swimming pool photo shoots later this summer with my GoPro. You and your kids can get in the pool and swim underwater and I will take photos. These photos will be documentary style images, not the usual portraits I take.
I will be posting dates on Facebook and Instagram for those water photo shoots and you can also sign up for my email newsletter to be the first to find out about photo shoot dates.
