Last night Spokane Valley’s West Valley High School traveled to Sandpoint to take on the Bulldogs. I was on hand for the Girls JV, Girls Varsity and Boys Varsity games. Below you will find a selection of photos from these three games, for more photos and to order prints visit my website at one of these links.
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I met up with the Abbott family for a “Dad and Kiddo Friendly” family mini-session. The goal was to get a great shot for Christmas cards while avoiding hypothermia. Most of the trees in the Sandpoint area had decided to shed their nice fall leaves for the winter but thankfully we were still able to find a spot that was still holding on to a remnant of fall color. Here are a handful of the shots we were able to get in our short session.
No, this quite turn around was not prompted, I am sure glad I did not miss it!
We wanted to get one more look in our time together so we picked a spot where we could get a kind of washed out, back lit look to a few of the shots.
It was a little chilly for this family portrait shoot but we had our lights set up on their back porch which was only a few steps away from the warmth of the house! There was also a bit of a breeze, but as you will see in the photos that kept the clouds moving so even in a short period of time we had a different looking backdrop in every photo.
My family has had the pleasure of attending church with the Klynstra family for the last couple of years and our kids adore each other, which makes the purpose of these family photos a little heartbreaking for them. This wonderful family is heading off to serve in the mission field for Mission Aviation Fellowship and they needed a good family photo for their prayer cards. I was glad to help them out, it only took us a few minutes to get the kind of format that M.A.F. needed and then spend some time getting a few bonus photos for both of our families.
Cole and spent some time at a few different locations around Priest River for his Senior Photos. We had some great fall colors and Cole was great in front of the camera and to top it all of the end of our session featured a great sunset with some amazing clouds.
The Pend Orielle River and a great natural light show made a great backdrop for the final part of this senior photo session. It does not get much better than this for environmental portaiture!
Jacob is a senior wrestler for Priest River High School. Thankfully on this overcast day we stayed dry and the clouds added some great drama to the sky for some of our shots.
Mark was not super excited about getting his photo taken, but I think in the end he could say he had a lot more fun than he anticipated!
This last week I had a portrait session scheduled with a family that was gathering in Sandpoint for the weekend. There was only 1 day that everyone would be together and available and the plan was to get some outdoor portraits with Lake Pend Orielle as the backdrop. The day rolled around and of course it was raining, eliminating the possibility of outdoor portraits. Since this was the only day that the entire family would be together it was decided that we would adapt rather than cancel and we set up for some indoor portraits in the house that they had rented for the weekend.
The one room that we could work with was tall, narrow and fairly dark. You can see the room we were working with in this early test shot:
To give the room some depth and make the photo more interesting we added three more flashes to the setup with two strobes behind the chimney upstairs and one behind the chimney downstairs. Here is the final image with the entire family, I think those extra lights made a pretty significant difference!
After getting the hardest photo out of the way we moved on to some smaller groupings, here are some of the portraits as well as some of the happenings between portraits!
To wrap up the afternoon we even took a few engagement photos!
When Sammy and I got together to do her senior photos I ended up taking 2-3 times as many photos as I usually do. Not because I was having a hard time getting good shots but because she was so much fun and she was constantly making the goofiest facial expressions which I eagerly wanted to capture!
We will get to the goofy faces, but let’s start with intensely serious . . . .
We had a spectacular sky and sunset for the conclusion of our session, check it out!
Alright, now on to a little bit of goofing around.
Lastly, a photo of someone other than Sammy. As I was taking her photo a tourist from Canada saw us working and he wanted a piece of the photographic action, he pulled out his camera and took a few shots himself. I was also quick on the draw and snagged this shot of him before he continued his journey back north.
I have known Todd since he was a freshman when I was his Shot Put and Discus coach, due to the increasing demands of business I am no longer his coach but I still get to see both him and his brother Tim often through my camera viewfinder. In the fall they played next to each other on the offensive line for Sandpoint and in the spring Tim spends his time on the baseball diamond and Todd will be back to throwing heavy objects as far as he can!
