Johnstone Studios

The day was perfect! Misty was a beautiful bride and Ray and his groomsmen were easy going guys willing to push the limits of wedding imagery. They were married at the Chateau at Incline Village. Just a couple miles up the road from Lake Tahoe set in the trees among a golf course, the evening was enchanted with Tahoe charm to the music of D.J. Troy, That’s Entertainment. We had so much fun spending the day with Misty and Ray and were provided with enough time to get down to the beach toward evening for a bridal session with the awesome couple.

What a great day we had working with two of Reno’s finest. Stephanie, a sheriff for Washoe County and Norm, a cop for Reno police dept had the brilliant idea to do a photo session in uniform. We think they turned out beautifully!!! Then we all went downtown and got to see how good these two look in their civilian clothing. Thanks guys for choosing Johnstone Studios as your photographers. And hey, stop following us! (we ran into them at our most recent wedding and… took some more photos of them)

Trash the dress is a fun, unique way to get the most out of your wedding clothes. As you can see from the images below, this is a great way to get some very creative photos of you in your dress. We can take it to the extreme of destroying the dress, or just getting it a little dirty to the point where it can still be drycleaned. Here are some of my favorite photos from a recent shoot we had with the exclusive group “commonly different“.

Many people often ask why in the world would anybody want to Trash their Dress? Just take a look (also see Tourine’s amazing photos) and you’ll know why.

Hmmm, getting to go to Squaw for the afternoon, taking photos of beautiful people and calling this work… is this allowed? We had a great time with Laura and Joe in Squaw Valley Meadows. They were a lot of fun to work with, can’t wait for the wedding! Who knew Joe was the cartwheel master?

Yea, yea yea, it’s been taking us forever to get to our blog. Sorry about the delay. Tourine has now graduated with her Master’s degree (wooopeeeee) so this should give us more time to focus on our photography and creating beautiful images to the best of our capability for our clients. Here is a recent engegement session we had in Downtown Reno with Heidi and Barry. Thanks guys for such a fun day! We couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather. Barry, we’re glad you can now admit that it’s not so bad to have your photo taken.

During the week in Santa Cruz I got to work with Joe Buissink and other great photographers at the California Photographic Workshop. It was a fun week, even though it rained quite a bit of the time we were there. This is the second year I attended this workshop and each year I have had a lot of fun getting to play with my camera and equipment, which so often I don’t get to do on a working shoot. Here are some of my fav photos from that week taken straight out of camera, no photo shop work, besides color adjustments were made to these images. No actions were run on these images and my personal goal was to focus on capturing the light that I could utilize it in camera. Do you recognize the groom modeling in my last photo?

Welcome back to our blog! Apologies to all our loyal readers who have wondered what exactly happened to me since that last post in early March when we were in Santa Cruz at the California Photographic Workshops. Well, it was about that week that life flew at us in full force. I had some major work left to accomplish before graduating with my Master’s degree from the University of Nevada, Reno in May and as life goes, business was busier than ever at the same time. Trevor did an amazing job at managing the business, designing bridal albums, processing our new 2008 wedding clients photos, AND being a full time parent for our little girl, Taylor (who turned one on May 18th!). Oh, and I should also mention and give kudos to Trevor’s design business for adding some new major clients in the Reno area. His work is growing and the response has been all positive! So, I am going to play some catch up. I promise to add a post with some of my kick ass photos from the workshop, but first I want to post some of the photos I took during the Commonly Different group Trash the Dress session we did in April. Trevor has some great works in progress to post too, but I will let him tell you about those another time. Gennifer and Crystal were our awesome models and did such a great job taking direction from everyone and patiently working with us throughout the day. If you would like their contact info for a model shoot, email me and I will pass your information on to them. They both do quite a bit of modeling work.

We are very excited to announce our acceptance into a new community of professional photographers at Photographik! What a great opportunity to be a part of a nationwide expert panel of inspirational artists. While the site offers anyone a searchable reference for wedding and portrait photographers in your area, it also offers some great information on photography in general. If you have time, it is definitely a site worth browsing.
We are on our way to Santa Cruz, CA for 6 nights on the beach. I am attending the California Photographic Workshop with instructor and famous celebrity photographer, Joe Buissink. The workshop is an intensive 4.5 days of wedding photography. I should have some images to post throughout the week, so please check back here soon. Trevor and Taylor are coming too for a vacation and I am sure they will have their own adventures to share.

I was asked to photograph Clear Blue 22 at their CD release concert at the Grand Sierra resort in Reno Nevada. Of course I jumped at the opportunity. CB22 is one of my design clients (I designed their new album, posters, t-shirts, etc) so of course I wanted them on the photography side as well. I asked a friend of ours Aaron Underwood of Underwood Photography if he would like to join me. It was a ton of fun working together in a relaxed environment. We had a great time getting to be onstage with the the band and hanging out with them in the dressing room backstage during the breaks getting free drinks and food. Plus, we shot some amazing photographs on top of it. Thanks Jasmine, Paul, Don and the rest of the guys of Clear Blue 22 for such a fun night.

Wow, were we busy last weekend! Lots of good times and photographs! We had our first wedding of the season on Saturday. Angela and Andy you guys are married!!!!!!! We had the pleasure of photographing this beautiful couple at the Ridge Tahoe (of course at Lake Tahoe) and the weather was one of those picture perfect days, you couldn’t dream of anything better. Here are a couple of photos from the day (we still haven’t had a chance to look at all of them). We’ll be posting a couple more as we get some more time. Check back again soon to see other amazing photographs from their day