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.

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The best part of this engagement session for me, as a photographer, was how willing Jenn and Mike were to just go around all over the city of Phoenix, and take our time! When we came to a cool spot for photos, we had time to stop and basically play!

Valentines Styled Shoot

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

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.