Valentines Styled Shoot

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I am writing this super quick! Please excuse typos!

What: Styled Valentines Shoot, just because I have been wanting to do this for years and years. Valentines hanging from trees. At sunset for the pretty light. I will have a few other styled-type things inspired by stuff I have seen on Pinterest: VALENTINES INPIRATION FROM PINTEREST

WHERE: The wash next to Western Star Park in Ahwatukee, Phoenix, AZ, Address: Parking lot, 4425 E Western Star Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85044. Should be ample parking, if not, park in the nearby neighborhood. From the parking lot, look south past the tennis courts to where the trees and the wash are. Look for the trees with hearts hanging from them.

About this location: it's really green from recent rains and I think it will be really pretty at sunset (which will come a little earlier because South Mountain is to the west of here about a mile - the sun is gone by about 5:37pm behind the mountain, and then everything is in shade/shadow.)

WHEN: Saturday, February 4th starting at 4 PM.

WHO: photographer friends and models

If you know any models who would want to do a fun, TFP shoot, could you let me know?

Models can bring their kids, significant others. or just themselves to be in the photos.

ALSO: TFP, free, nobody is getting paid, it's all just for fun. I will buy the stuff for it. It's a way for photogs to hang out, meet, and for everyone to have some fun. I will collect email addresses from everyone and model releases. Please send all the models photos. I am asking models to wear clothes/dresses that seem to go along with Valentines Day and to do their hair and makeup.

Kid-friendly. Feel free to bring your kids. There is a nearby playground. There are bathrooms

EMAIL ME AT brenda.eden@gmail.com to JOIN IF YOU ARE A PHOTOGRAPHER OR MODEL!

Agritopia Orchard

I first met Erin at an ultimate frisbee game at a park in Tempe. She was there to watch her boyfriend Ryan play ultimate and I was there to watch my boyfriend Ryan play ultimate. It was soon after my spinal fusion surgery, when I couldn’t play ultimate. (Thankfully my spine got much better after surgery and I eventually was able to play my beloved sport again.) I had a really good time chatting with her and getting to know her!

Fast forward some years later and Erin and Ryan are married with two little kids!

We met up at Agritopia at the peach and citrus orchards for some holiday photos. I loved how their family portraits turned out!

If you want photos at Agritopia, reach out to me on my contact page here. The Agritopia orchards have very limited availability (more limited than it used to be) so if you are interested, we have to sign up right when spots become available. Usually there are some spots in September, October, and November and some very limited spots available when the peach trees are in bloom in early February.

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.

Find me at Rocker 7!

Hi there!

I am writing this blog post for my 2022 clients to help them find me at the Rocker 7 Farm Patch for their sunflower photo shoot coming up in mid October.

The day of your photo shoot I will text you a photo of me, just to help you find me. See the aerial map below - I like to photograph where the red Xs are. This is where we will do your photo shoot, so look for me here.

Rocker 7 Farm Patch is located at 19601 W Broadway Rd, Buckeye, AZ 85326. Entry is $8 per person, including babies and kids.

I see other photographers out at the Rocker 7 Farm Patch and sometimes they are really dressed up. They look as good as their clients. While I would love to look that good and professional, you will usually find me wearing sneakers (I had spinal fusion surgery in 2014 and after that New Balance zero drop sneakers are the only thing that are truly comfortable for me to wear - plus, as a working farm, the sunflower fields do get muddy and dusty.) I’ll be wearing a T-shirt (frequently the T-shirt that Rocker 7 Farm Patch sells) and probably black basketball shorts, because they are the best thing to be able to wear while it’s hot and also sit or lay down on the ground for some shots.

I will have a black wagon with me, full of gear. I bring a step ladder, little chairs for kids to sit on, a little bench for kids and adults to sit on, a big gold reflector and a big white light modifier (see the pics below.)

Side note: frequently kids are intrigued by the big gold reflector and want to pick it up and play with it. If your kid does this, that is totally, completely fine! These things are indestructible. I am absolutely not worried about a kid picking them up, they can’t hurt them.

Here’s some pics of me taken in 2020 and 2021.

This one is with my stepson, who sometimes comes out to the sunflowers to assist me. I was wearing Rocker 7 Farm Patch’s T-shirt that day. I like wearing it because it is such a bright yellow shirt that it makes it pretty easy for people to find me. Side bonus is some of the people working at Rocker 7 think I’m part of the crew and are chatty with me.

Here’s a video of me photographing my cousins at the end of their photo shoot in 2020. My bonus son is filming it and that’s who you hear talking. This is back in 2020. Wearing a mask and I had pink hair. Seeing this makes me want pink hair again.

I do not love this photo of me! This was taken after sessions were over one evening last year. I was walking by a woman and her daughter. She asked me to snap some pics of them and then asked if I wanted pics. Thinking of how dirty I was (can you see the dirt on my knees? haha) I started to say no, but then changed my mind because I want to remember this, no matter how dirty I was. Someday i need to get dressed up and have photos taken of me in the sunflowers!