portraits

Portraits in Paradise

Saturday, I had the pleasure of shooting with a young lady that left Montana at the young age of 14 to study ballet abroad. She is now an amazing professional ballet dancer who lives in London and performs all over the world. Maria Sascha Khan, an extraordinary woman and multi talented being! Maria and I spent a little time on the phone to talk about the vision of the project and agreed on the shoot date. Fortunately when the day came, it was sunny, relatively warm and gorgeous. We started in the Paradise valley and then headed south to visit a ranch in Mill Creek. The final location was a little school house near the border of Yellowstone Park where she attended grade school. The final images were taken in the last few moments of light on the porch of the school, now the home of a kind couple that allowed us to make photos on their property.

It was a wonderful experience. Such a treat! And, my applause and many thanks to Maria’s mother Teresa Khan MacKay who brought her styling skills and intuition to the table and younger brother Master Nicholas MacKay for all the support, creative input and moving image capture. Such a great team. I hope to work with them all again soon.

enjoy the view!

Nicholas shot video and stills and was an excellent creative co-director

Meet Leo my new friend the French Bulldog. He is quite famous on instagram. Check out and follow the adventures of “Theatre_Dog”

portraits: a glimpse of the Soul

Portrait: A Glimpse of the Soul

Making portraits is very personal to me. There is no crowd of people, nor grand wedding event in the process. It is just me and the individual or family that I am capturing moments with. It is a completely different experience from photographing weddings. It’s much more intimate on a soul level. Today I sat down and reviewed a few years of portrait images and found this collection that is very moving and meaningful to me. I feel so grateful for my chosen profession, the path that I have both chose and was led to in this life!

I hope you enjoy this one minute collection.

Cowgirls vs Cancer 2017

Well, I hope words serve me well at this late hour, but this is the hour that I have. I will say again that it was an honor to spend time with you courageous and beautiful souls. Personally, I have no idea of what it must be like to walk the path that you have trod. However, I can see it in your eyes, I can feel it in your hearts and hopefully I captured some of this in the images that I made. Heather and I totally enjoyed spending the afternoon and evening with you all. The dinner was fabulous, Kate and crew. Jessica the music was moving! Nicole you were amazing in serving every momentary need and in bringing Rem to the party. Lisa, your loving presence and happy heart is a pure gift. Margaret your unicorn cake was something from your heaven world! smiles… and David, the most gracious host! Molly and Henry your kindness shined brightly in assisting Karen in getting upon that horse so she could have that meaningful experience! My only regret is that I didn’t grab that tent by the river for the evening and shared the campfire hours into the wee morning light. And now a few images. My camera does not lie… you are all SO beautiful!

Can I get an Amen?

Katie’s story

Life authentic – facing diagnosis

February, 2016

For some time now, I have been contemplating the value of authenticity in my life and in my passion of image making. Living this great gift of life with cognizance, and the motivation to sort out what is real, what is meaningful; and on the other hand, what is unreal, not authentic and can be dispensed with. Seeking Life Authentic.

Well… I got a message from a client of mine from 2007, asking me if I was interested in a project and she said that “time was of the essence”. The next day we were able to connect. I asked what was going on that was so timely and what is this project. Katie was reaching out for some imaging of her and her sweet family as she is facing the life shaking diagnosis of breast cancer. Katie is 34, married to a fine man and they have two beautiful young daughters.

It’s then, it’s what she told me next that totally turned me on a dime.

She said that this shocking reality of going headlong into treatment and surgery had changed her life and that all of a sudden everything in her life that was not authentic was falling away! I knew from her words that I had found a very important and meaningful task. Time to give!

Yesterday, I visited Katie, Tom, their two daughters and Katie’s ‘sister’ Jes.

Here in lies the beginning of a journey in life. A journey that many women face these days and one that I am honored to capture and share, for Katie and her family as well as others that might find beauty, strength and inspiration. Here’s to the VICTORY of Katie over this disease.

A year of treatment

March, 2017

After seeing Katie go through so much over this last year, I look forward to seeing them all again and continuing this project.

‘PROJECT’ sounds so disassociated with reality. The reality is Katie is a dear friend and this is more about friendship and support than it is about being a ‘project’! I just want to make that clear. I just happen to be a friend with a camera.

Here is a selection of just a few of the many moments that I have been honored to capture in Katie’s life. Hopefully I can add to this story in the near future. Larry

Fun with Jude

Last Saturday I visited a young friend of mine. His name is Jude. I photographed his mom and dad’s wedding in 2014. Then in January of 2015 I photographed Jude while he was in his mommy’s tummy. Last year I met Jude for the first time outside the womb and we had lot’s of fun making photos together. This year I got the call from Antonia and Rance once again with an invitation to make historic family photos. I got to know little Jude a bit better this year and you can see in the photos that he is a happy, intelligent and loving little guy.

When shooting with an almost 2 year old boy, things can be really wild. It takes just about every trick that I have… and other’s I sort of have to make up, to capture and keep the attention of a busy young boy. Then, add to that two dogs (brother and sister) and, well, they gave me a run for my money!

Here’s some of my faves. smiles!

Katie over cancer

Katie is a young friend of mine that is battling breast cancer. You may have seen some of my recent posts about Katie. She has been down a tough road of 15 rounds of chemo. Her next step is a double mastectomy and radiation treatments. Today I took a little time off from the business of photography to do a little something special for my friend. Take a minute to see the beautiful strength in her eyes.

Katie, I love your new hair and I hope you love these images.