Hey there, how's it going! Modern Fresh Hip Photography...yep that's what we do! This is where you'll find random & exciting happenings within our lives. Some days we'll focus on the small quirky moments and others the all-out planned ventures. THANK YOU so much for stopping by! It totally makes our day that you are interested in our crazy, creative, ever evolving world we like to call...OFF THE GRID!
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We surely can’t get enough of random details when shooting our sessions. Eric . YES . Eric grabbed these gems while we photographed the Barcena Family a few weeks back! Now I truely know what he’s up to everytime he disappears around a site. Knowing the outcome will look like this he can go where-ever when-ever. My little grasshopper has made me so proud!!! See what happens when you give an artist totally freedom. Now we just need to get some sort of walkie talkie/ear piece system (that sounds so 1980’s) going so I can dispatch him over when I need help with a family shot. Ah-mazing & inspiring!!!
Midcentury modness!!! These are soooo much fun & unique. It’s not everyday we get to do a funky session @ a client’s midcentury home…we LOVE it!!! Way cool. There’s tons of character, vintage details, and just pure rawness all over the place. But of course there is. Alison & Matt King of Modern Phoenix wouldn’t have it any other way. It was also nice to do their session before they started their huge landscaping project in the front yard. This way they can remember the way it used to feel & then we will have to do another session for the new feel! It’s going to be beyond awesome and clever. Jealous! Thanks again guys for being yourselves and letting us capture all your favorite activites you enjoy together. You’ll definitely inspire more families to do so.
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Just hanging out…
Last week while Eric & I were visting Kansas City, Missouri we had lunch with Kelley of Kelley Photo (who I first met @ the ‘Anit-Workshop, Seattle). We all connected up around the River Market area…which is way cool! Fresh market goods, gelato, and ethnic food (which I attempted but found too spicy for my palette…Eric LOVED it of course!). Heather Cole & Josh Solar also came. It was so nice to finally meet him and put a face to all the ‘twitterin’ we’ve been doing back & forth. Thanks for coming Josh! Kelley’s friend Ashley who works in the studio also came…so we had quite the group of photogs. Great conversation & many laughs about all sorts of random stuff occured. Wish we could all do that on a monthly basis. So to show off our silliness here’s some snapshots we arranged in the matter of seconds while we checked out Kelley & Josh’s killer studio. Jealous!
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Eric, Me, Heather, Kelley, and Ashley 
Meet the Barcena family!!! We’ve known Liz & Dennis for a few years now…Eric & Dennis used to work together @ an Architecture firm and Liz also styles our hair. She’s amazing!!! I give her complete credit to all my fabulous haircuts & color…you can find her @ Toni & Guy, ’Crossroads Festival’ location. So when Liz mentioned she finally wanted to do her me2 session I was gleaming…’Yay…finally’…I said. More like ‘it’s about time’!. We both agreed it was well overdue since we’ve discussed it for over 2yrs now. She’s only had photographs done once of little Paul when he was under 1yrs old…and it was at one of those studios that shall remain nameless in this post. Hint ‘PP’. Ugh. So I’m glad we were able to get them a much needed update to their bare walls. It’s sooooo cool to give someone funky fresh artwork like they’ve never seen before. Something they wanna display and not something they have to just cause another year has gone by. There are so many awesome series & collections from their me2 shoot we did @ the University of Arizona. That place is a gold mine for variety. I know it sounds cheesy to go down to the campus but it totally works for everyone and their unique styles!!!
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claire + paul . playshop
So as some of you might know Eric & I attended Heather Cole’s ‘PLAYshop’ this past Monday in Kansas City, Missouri!!! So proud of Heather for hosting her very first shop…YOU GO GIRL. We had a great time meeting everyone and learning so much from each other. It’s amazing how the most simple steps to a process can be so eye opening…I had a lot of ‘duh’ moments! Hopefully I wasn’t alone on that. Our trip was so casual & smooth the whole time…except for getting lost around downtown areas and all the ‘one-way’ streets, lack of street signage and their itty bitty stop lights. Oh and all the scary storm warnings and getting woken up by the loudest thunder & brightest lightning EVER @ 3am the first morning. But yeah…otherwise it was fabulous!!! Makes me feel greatful for Tucson’s weather now and how we really don’t have much to complain about except for the heat.
So what would a post be without some yummy photographs from the yummy models Claire & Paul. Who were so friendly & laid back and totally knew how to work the camera…though Claire is also a photographer in the Kansas City area so how could she not?!
I’ll also be posting some super silly random pics I created with my tiny pocket camera when hanging out @ Kelley Photo’s Studio the following day!!! Stay tuned.
On a side note…here’s Eric & I at the shoot! I never knew that he got a shot of me like this until I downloaded the cards & realized I had done the same…freaky! Gotta love those puddles.
