Addy Kiddos {Great Falls Children's Photographer}

We had the pleasure of hosting 3 kiddos in our studio for a photography shoot.  Because of a beautiful dress we decided to take some portraits in front of the stained glass window.

The colors were perfect!  After getting some great shots of this beautiful girl, we were planning on moving to a more neutral background, but the second in line wanted his turn:

He really had fun in the window, we got some great smiles!  But I haven't introduced you to the 3rd member, a natural born model!

 

And did I mention super sweet!  Now, here are a few extra shots:

So thank you to the Addy's for letting us have a great time with your kiddos!

 

McKenna {Great Falls Portrait Photographer}

So as I start to write this, I realize that again *sigh* I have fallen behind on keeping you all up to date on what is happening here in beautiful Great Falls, Montana, and all of the fun we have been having in our new photography studio!  You know life is busy, but really I should be keeping up on this!!  So I am here to try to get a little caught up, and maybe stay that way!

To start off this new spurt of writing and planning to stay on track, I introduce you to McKenna!  She is a beautiful, young lady who came to our studio to celebrate her 13th birthday with some great portraits (or maybe it was her mom's surprise for her??)  Anyway. . . she is a wonderful dancer and a sweet, lovely girl with the best personality!  We had a great time with her (and her sister and her puppy)!!  :o)

So thank you, McKenna (and mom), for choosing JSV Photography!  We really enjoyed working with you, McKenna, happy 13th birthday!!

Stevenson Children

This past weekend we had the privilege of having two very cute kids join us in our Great Falls studio!  These two little munchkins were active, and so adorable to photograph!

It is so much fun to shoot children, you never really know what you are going to get.  Sometimes they are all smiles, and sometimes you can catch a serious/thoughtful look!

But when the kids have these great big, beautiful blue eyes the portrait just captures you!

Thank you, Jessica, for bringing the kids to see us.  We really did have a great time with you!!

A Great Great Falls Family!

As a Great Falls Family Photographer, we really love to get families like the one I am going to show you into our studio!  We had a lot of fun with them!

Laas and Amy came to us because they hadn't had family pictures taken in a couple of years.  It really is amazing how time flies when you are trying to keep up with young kids!

Their daughter is four, and gave us some great shots, letting her attitude show through!  We loved it!  Her brother definitely tried to keep up!

Thank you, Amy and Laas, for bringing your family to us to capture this stage of your life!

Wilson/Wearley Shoot

We had the pleasure of our first shoot in our new studio being the Wilson/Wearley family!  It was so exciting to be able to take portraits of this family.  They were a happy group, and we enjoyed our time together!

 Thank you for being our test subjects!  We had a great time!!

Our Family's Portraits!

It's that time of year again (*sigh*).  It has been a year since our last family portraits, and we want new ones.  I went shopping and clothes were found that kind of match.  The children are a year older.  Scott has another year of photography under his belt.  We are ready. . . well, as ready as we can be!

So we got to the studio, and 3 hours later (granted that included set up and tear down), we have a few pictures that we are willing to show you!

We must have tried this shot over 20 times.  It's a challenge when you aren't behind the camera to get all the kids to look at the camera and have a half way decent expression on their face!  It was definitely shoot some shots, go check, shoot some more, go check again.  We are very thankful for digital images!  :D

It was a little easier to get pictures of the kids!  Especially since Scott was back behind the camera!

So there we have it, one family picture, a couple of children pictures that are fun, the individual pictures, and even a few with a child and one parent.  

Definitely glad that it is easier to shoot other people's children and families than our own!!  Over all, I am satisfied with the results!

Santa Clause Came to Longfellow

Santa Clause is coming to town. . .

CTA and several Great Falls businesses come together to give the kids of Longfellow Elementary School a gift and some Christmas cheer.  Frank, a Great Falls CTA employee, dons his Santa outfit, slings a bag of gifts over his shoulder and enters Longfellow with some additional help from some CTA elves!

The children enter with excitement!  They give Santa their wish list, and receive a little bag with gloves, hats, toothbrushes, and candy.  Scott gets a photograph of each with Santa.  (The portraits will be printed off, courtesy of Sam's Club, and given to the children before Christmas break!)

 Thank you to all those who donated their time and money to bless some kids with a little Christmas cheer!

May you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Alaskan Family!

When Scott worked for Maxim Technologies, he became good friends with an engineer who worked in the Helena office.  Soon the whole family became friends of our family.  Then Aaron took a job in Alaska, and he and his family moved to Anchorage.  Even over the distance, Scott and Aaron have remained friends.  They email and call each other (mostly Aaron calling, but Scott enjoying the chat) and have kept up the relationship.  It seems that there are only a few people that come into our lives that actually stay friends over time and distance!

Since Aaron and his family return to Montana once a year, they decided to have Scott take some family portraits for them on this trip.

We decided to do the photography shoot at Ryan Dam near Great Falls, Montana.  There is a beautiful island right below the dam that has been turned into a park, Ryan Island Park.  The rocks were great for adding some texture to the portraits!

Scott even had some fun with one of the old frames that had been put on a rock!

Thank you, Aaron and Julie, for trusting us to capture this memory!  We enjoyed working with you and your family.  It was great to visit with you and see you again!

Testing Out the New Camera!

Scott took Nathan down to his temporary studio to play with his new camera.  Nathan is turning out to be quite a model.  He was excited to go with Dad and help him test out the new camera!  I loved the shots Scott got of him!  Now if we can just talk Nathan into cutting his hair again (thanks, Sam, for convincing him long hair looked good!)  :)

No matter the length of his hair, I think he looks great, but I may be biased!

Brown Family

It has been a busy couple of weeks around here!  We had a great time at our Saturday Shoot here in Great Falls, MT!  Just got these pictures edited and uploaded to the website.  Thanks to the Brown family who let us try some neat black and white shots!

Scott wanted to add a sense of the closeness of family.  I know I'm biased, but I think he did great!

The kids were great to work with.  They gave us wonderful expressions that made shooting them easy!  I couldn't pass up adding a couple of the cute pictures!

  
Of course, we also like to add in a little bit of fun, too!!
 

And to the ones who started it all, thanks for trusting us with you family portraits!

 

Santa at Longfellow

One of the guys who works at our office has been dressing up as Santa and visiting local school kids for several years now.  Last year, he decided to ask a few people if they would be interested in helping out by purchasing some little toys and candy to give the kids.  Before he knew it, quite a lot of money was available for the cause, and several hundred kids each got a bag of goodies, including gloves, candy, toothbrushes, and toys.  Seeing how much it touched the children, he wanted to do it again this year.

Thanks to some generous people and businesses, Santa was again able to hand out goody bags for the kids at Longfellow this year.  Some of the kids were a little shy.

Some were definitely not.

But they all seemed very appreciative.

It's interesting to me that so many of us seem to be generous with our time and/or money, but it often takes one individual to get the ball rolling.  Perhaps we occasionally need that one person to remind us of all the other people living outside of our daily routines.  It's not that we don't want to help those in need, it's just that we're usually too busy trying to survive our own lives to notice the struggles of others.

It's good to get little reminders like that.  But it's also good to give them.  Hopefully we can take turns reminding each other, and not just during this time of year.


~~ Merry Christmas~~