Wha-what!!! Yep another fun shoot with my sister Julie and her doggies. Only this time we ventured out further beyond Tucson and found some delicious pale yellow fields of grass. Yes Arizona does have fields. I know crazy huh?! It’s nice to have a change from the urban look that we always enjoy. So we packed up the car with lots of water and cozy blankets for the dogs and headed out for the afternoon to grab some killer photographs. Eric and I surprised my sister with the concept on her birthday back in mid October. Everytime we visit her home we notice how empty and lonely the walls are. So we decided to plan a flipside shoot and create some AH-mazing artwork for her to display. We’re going to hang some of our larger scale MOD canvas wraps which will make a BOLD statement in her place. I can’t wait to show you the layout. In the meantime here’s a little peek at what we had up our sleeves. Can you say….’way CUTE!!!’ LOVE IT!!!  Meet Bella. She was the * of our last shoot (click HERE to see it) and soon you’ll be introduced to her other roommate Riley. Riley isn’t as photogenic as Bella but we sure did trick her into getting some great shots!

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Sooooo FINALLY…the Montoyo’s me2 session is up on the blog!!! And boy do we have a story to tell you! As some of you might know we love to choose locations that are unique and a little unexpected. SHOCKER…right?! For the Montoyo family we took aim on downtown Tucson. You see they wanted something a bit more urban this time around. Well…after photographing there for only a few minutes we made the decision to switch locations. Normally we welcome the crowd and busy traffic, but for this particular family session it just wasn’t right. So we hopped in the car and took a quick drive to one of our favorite industrial locations nearby. During the car ride over…we decided to change it up and shoot over at this awesome run down structure right adjacent to the railroad tracks. SCORE!!! So we thought After about 20 minutes of shooting we were ‘cordially’ (<---sarcasm alert) greeted...more like yelled at by a man quickly walking towards us. To all our surprise he was a cop. Yeah...come to find out we were trespassing on railroad property. The really funny part of the story is he thought all of us were taggers tagging the building. Come on dude...with two kiddos in tow?!!! He explained that there were 'NO TRESPASSING' signs all over the place. When we asked 'where' (cause we didn't see any signs) he replied 'oh...yeah people keep stealing them!.' HA! All in all he was pretty nice...since WE were nice. Now we have the distinct honor of being in their 'trespassing' database and if we get caught doing it again...big fine or the slammer.

BTW – we didn’t take one shot on the railroad tracks…









































A few weeks later we hosted the Montoyo’s MOD viewing session at their fabulous-ly cute COZY home. You’d think after the whole train cop run-in we were done with things going wrong! NOPE. After setting up all our gear we soon realized the internet was not going to be on our side that night. Our portable card couldn’t pick up any signal and we couldn’t tap into their WiFi (Eric even talked with AppleCare). We went ‘old school’ and just hand wrote their favorites and concept ideas. As with most MOD viewing sessions we had to move a few pieces of furniture around in order to set up the ji-normous screen. Well…when we moved their dinner room table back into place we all heard a ‘POP’ and just thought it was the wood shifting. Come to find out that large ‘POP’ was the table leg cracking all the way down. Ekkkk. We are so glad to hear they are getting a brand new table exchanged. Phewww…what a story.

Thanks Montoyo family for being so patient and hanging on during our crazy lil adventure!!!

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