I love this time of year because it is engagement session season! A couple of my wedding packages come with engagement sessions so it’s a fun time to get to know my clients before their wedding approaches. It’s also a great time for my clients to get used to my shooting style before the big day. Katie and Jerame were my first couple of the season. These guys are so cute and fresh. I was excited to find out that they were also high school sweethearts! So fun.

Anyway, here are a few of my favorites. We shot around 10am around Camelsback Park.

Sometimes there are behind the scenes things I would love to share but never get to because it’s a moment that can’t really be captured. I got an opportunity to catch it this time.

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It’s not uncommon for me to end a session with a little one holding my hand out of the park. I gain little buddies! The other night after a session I was walking on the sidewalk myself when I had some company. I realized it was one of the moments I always want to capture. The shadow gave me a perfect opportunity. My 3-year-old buddy, with his hands on his hips, was walking with me out of Katherine Alberston’s park.

Congratulations to Scott Ryals for winning the Cell Phone Photo Contest with the photo below! I’ll be in touch with details about your session.

Okay so he’s not really a super senior but he’s super and he’s a senior. I had soooo much fun photographing Brandon. He is energetic and was willing to do anything I asked him to do. He plays for the Vallivue marching band so I made him play a little while I photographed him.

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Brandon is a Vallivue Senior and the future has SO much in store for him. I can’t wait to see what he accomplishes.

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Here are a few of my favorite shots from his session.

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I mustache you a question….

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Am I absolutely adorable?

 Around this time of year, usually when I’m looking out the window at the rain, I decide I need to kick off spring with a giveaway. I am doing another photo contest but with a twist.

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Since I discovered Instagram (a cell phone taking and editing software) I’ve been obsessed. Taking cell phone photos has never been this fun. Here are a few recent ones.

Okay… okay… I’ll get to the contest!

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This contest is going to be a photo contest. However, all photos submitted MUST be taken with a cell phone. No pro photos, no point and shoot photos.

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How To Enter

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Head over to Tamara Kenyon Photography’s Facebook Page and click on the “photo contest” link on the timeline. You can also access by clicking HERE.

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DO NOT EMAIL ME YOUR PHOTO. IT WILL NOT COUNT.

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How Voting Works

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Photos will be up for display for people to vote.  Photo with the most vote wins! Contest will run until May 11th.

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Prize

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Winner will receive a free portrait session with Tamara Kenyon Photography.

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Rules and restrictions can be found at the bottom of your photo entry. 

I’m back! I know I didn’t really tell you that I was leaving but that was on purpose

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Happy to report that I have a tan, quite a few mosquito bites, and refreshed. We decided to take a little vacation to Belize for my husband’s 30th birthday. It was so amazing.

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We stayed for 6 nights and had the opportunity to hang on the beach, bike into a tiny little village several times, zipline, hike up to a waterfall in the jungle, come across growling monkeys that were actually super nice, and check out several Mayan Ruin sites along the Guatemalan border.

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Here are a few of my favorite photos from the trip.

Hopkins, BelizeBiking into HopkinsHomes in Hopkins, Belize

My husband being sweet and carrying both bikes while I take photos.

Hopkins, Belize

Police station was pretty dead...

Kids biking home after school

 Washup at our hotel

HI! So I talked about my rebranding stuff a couple months ago. I’ve finally got a new logo! My logo has changed every year for the last 3 years but that is because this can be a working process. I loved my logo before but I have grown out of it and finally figured out exactly what I wanted.

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You ready?

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It’s not a ton different but just a small enough adjustment to make it perfect. I opted for using my handwriting instead of a stock font. I noticed lots of other photographers had the same font for their logo. I also decided to take out the tree. Though a tree has been part of my brand I felt like it started to distract away from the actual logo. I wanted simple and discrete.

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I have an alternative graphic I can use when I don’t want to put the entire logo on something. It’s a variation of my T and K from my handwriting. This will be used for my Facebook square graphic and for the little favicon icon that will go in the address bar when you visit my website.

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My migration process will be slow. I’ll get all the web stuff switched over but my packaging stuff will take a while because I still have tons of CD cases that have the old logo on it

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Anyway, I just thought I’d share!

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Also HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to Heather Carlson for designing this logo for me. She has done my last 2 logos and is amazing.

My first wedding of the season was last Saturday! Such a great looking couple.

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I’ll have more photos to show soon, but thought I’d sneak these ones in.

This little lady has such a bright personality. I love all of her expressions!