Yay…these are finally up! Phew…it’s been a little crazy around here and I want to THANK Liora for being soooooo patient. We met Liora back in October (I know I know this post is well over-due) and she couldn’t be more sweeter.  See more about our introduction…HERE!  I can truly say I really enjoyed working on her images along with all the COOL architecture shots Eric photographed. It’s so easy to get consumed by such Ah-mazing details when they involve modern textures and elements.  It’s not everyone’s cup of tea but it sure the heck is ours!!! We’re going to have to create a ‘BEST OF THE BEST’ blog post from 2009’s random objects and details.  FOR REAL!  And Liora’s shoot has lots of them…it was hard for me not to combine them all in her flipside portrait session.  It just added to the character of the shoot and we LOVE that.  Not to mention how easy it was to photograph her.  Photographing photographers or artists in general lends it self to an experience filled with tons of creativity. Everyone gets involved.  The shared ideas and visions make the concept much more powerful.  We can’t wait to collaborate with many more artists in the future.  Hint…hint…we have something up our sleeves for 2010…but you’ll just have to wait and see!












































We are now booking flipside and me2 portrait sessions for January & Febuary in the Tucson and Phoenix area. Please contact us to inquire more information on booking your HIP photographic experience!  You know you wanna.  If you know anyone who’s attracted and inspired by the type of photography we create…we would LOVE for you to pass along our website and blog links. NETWORKING & REFERRALS ARE THE BESTEST!!!

I LURVVVVE this flipside session Eric & I photographed with my sister Julie and her two dogs for her Birthday!!! Click…HERE to read more about our concept in our previous sneak peek. This post is quite a long one so just pace yourself. It’s always so hard to decide which images to showcase on here…I’m thinking that’s a good thing. OH YES! These two pooches are beyond cutie-patooties. Bella the ‘mommy’ of the two just likes to be loved and loves EVERYONE (she’s the black & white one). Whereas Rylie is the mischievous adventurous type. And they complete each other. A perfect sister-ship x 4.

I’m so glad we did the session when we did because I just found out early this morning by text message…5 am to be exact that Bella had a siezure. Rylie frantically paced the house and kept whining trying to wake Julie. At first my sister thought an intruder was in her house! Scary. But then she figured out what all the commotion was about. She found Bella in the hallway all curled up. The attack lasted for around 40 seconds which always seems longer when it’s happening. She finally relaxed after Julie cuddled with her. UGH…how nerve-racking. Bella was checked out immediately this morning by her vet and was given a good bill of health…Phew! No valley fever like Rylie. So at this point we still don’t know what caused the episode and now it’s Rylie’s job to look after her while Julie is at work. I just know she’ll play her part.

Ok no more sad talk…on to the FABULOUS photographs! I promise you’ll like them…

We’ve been M.I.A. in the blog world lately…lots and lots of projects going on. Eric and I can’t wait to share all the goodie designs with you. He’s been designing MOD cards for our clients like a mad man and YUMMY canvas galleries for their lonely walls. I’ll be posting some concepts in the next few weeks…stay tuned. In the meantime here is one of our FABULOUS me2 family portrait sessions we did in October of the Yousey family. We simply adore them. Not only do they live across the street from us but the dad is also an architect and runs his own firm. They are currently remodeling their home so we BOTH get to share our funny and frustrating stories, plans, and cool fixtures we find. LOVE IT!!!

Some of you might know but this is the Yousey’s third me2 family session with Purple Nickel Studio…and we can’t wait to photograph many many more! Maybe our next session will be a maternity one???!!! Hey…I’m just sayin’. You can check out their sneak peek I posted a few weeks ago…HERE. Again I can’t tell you how much we enjoy hanging out with this family.  Two seconds with their daughter Mia and you’re ready to eat her up.  She has the cutest laugh, most GORGEOUS eyes (as if you couldn’t tell) and is soooo silly.  Ummmmm…can I order one just like her? Pllllleeease?!  Ok ok ok…so on to the photographs cause I know you’re just dying to see em’.

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!

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!!!