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Well this is embarasing, portraits of me !

The cliche, the photographer doesn’t like to have their picture taken, is quite accurate in my case. Not that I hate it, it’s just kind of uncomfortable and awkward. I can’t stop thinking about all I’ve read, how to position your arms, turn your waist and flattering angles for your face.

Brandon and I needed some professional photos of ourselves for our website so we set up at Caughlin park and made some photos of each other, as well as Maggie, Moose and I.  Caughlin park is a popular place for family photography because of its central location, varied backdrops, shade and ability to still get great evening light.

It turned out to be a pretty fun time thanks to Brandon being chill, plus Maggie and I got some great shots of ourselves to send to our families.  Brandon was kind enough to take an afternoon of his time and shoot these for us, Maggie and I really appreciate it.  Families love photos of those they love.

Have a great weekend, I’ll be back Tuesday with more fun

- Josh

reno portrait & wedding photographer

Josh is back to posting, an update and a product plug.

Brandon took over posting for a while as I vacationed and did some personal work.  I’ll be back posting for the next couple of weeks as Brandon takes a break and a trip to South America. Lately my photography work has been personal and commercial work, so I’ll be filling in with some stuff that’s a bit different than our normal portraiture.  We’ve also been busy booking weddings  for next summer, the weekends are filling up.  Thanks to those of you who have graciously recommended us and promoted our work!

It has finally began to snow here in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, as I sit here typing the mountains are filling up and us snow lovers are getting excited to start the long-delayed season. Whenever I go out back-country skiing I take a camera, so be sure to check our facebook page and Josh Hejl photography for some sweet powder shots. Let me know if you would like to see that kind of thing on the blog and I’ll make sure to keep ‘em coming. In the meantime check out a couple of my photos, as well as the scoop on the ski weather at Powdiction.

I recently ordered our first acrylic print from Millers lab.  I had a feeling it was going to be awesome but the clarity and vibrancy of the print really surprised me. The acrylics also come ready to hang with stand-off mounting brackets which help with the translucent effect. The print was from this family session I did with the Hammond Family up on Peavine Mountain just to the north of Reno.  Just a few photos today of the acrylic print, I’ll have another post up on Thursday.  I’m shooting some family photos of the Hammond’s again this weekend, so we’ll get to see their smiling faces up on the blog again soon.

Have a great day,
Josh

 

Mammoth Mountain Snowboarding Engagement and Wedding Photography with Brian and Roanne

Brian and Roanne (AKA Broanne) were looking for a few different looks for their Mammoth engagement pictures, so we decided to do two sessions: One in the fall and one in the winter. Coincidentally, the weather and snow accumulation were just about the same each time. In fact, it was raining and hailing the day we did their first session at Devil’s Postpile and Rainbow Falls.

Nonetheless, they were hoping for a winter wonderland session which we appear to have been about a week to early for. Hopefully we’ll find time to do that later in the year, but for now we’ll settle with some sweet snowboarding action.

We started at the top gondola station, on a monument created for three ski patrollers (Charles Walter Rosenthal, James Juarez and John Scott McAndrews) who were killed in an accident on Mammoth in April of 2006.

Local artist Larry Walker created the monument and it’s an incredible and timeless tribute placed in an awe-inspiring location.

From the monument, which sits above Mammoth’s Climax, we headed down Cornice Bowl for some action shots with the Minarets to the west. The snow is about 97.5-percent man-made up there, but was still pretty good. I grabbed some shots of them shredding down, and then we decided to get out of the wind for a Bloody Mary break at Tusks Bar.

At this point the wind picked up and Chairs 1 and 3 were shut down, forcing us to stick to the lower mountain. We made the best of it on Chairs 2 and 6, and had a great day. They even got to meet Woolly.

That’s it for this week. Thanks a lot, Brian and Roanne, for a fantastic weekend and for the Tupperware gift. It’s much appreciated. We’ll get that Sierra Star-snow shot you’re after next month, because it appears winter has made it to Mammoth.

-Brandon

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