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Josephine's 3 year children's portraits

We recently were blessed to work with a new family that came to us from a referral from one of our families participating in our First Year Package (you can see details on this package on our website under the information link). It was so fun to meet Josephine and experience her love for creative play, her energy and enthusiasm, and capture so much of her personality during her session! Enjoy the video below that has many of our favorites from her session!



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Jonathan Betz Photography High School Senior Photography Scholarships!

It is with great excitement that we announce TWO SCHOLARSHIPS for the Class of 2011! We will choose one scholarship based on need and one based on merit. To apply, request an application through e-mail to us through the "clients" link on our website or e-mail us directly: jon@jonathanbetz.com

All applications must be received by May 1st, and winners will be selected by May 20th. Each scholarship recipient will receive their session experience free and have $450 of studio credit toward their order!

We are so blessed to be doing what we love and are blessed to give back this year!

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Meet Sarah Viera - Wedding Planner!

We had the privilege of spending time with Sarah Viera this morning. We met her initially last summer and then connected to learn more about her business and the services she provides to brides. We were very impressed by her professionalism and loved how evident her passion is for serving brides! We are so excited to partner with her and promote her services. We know how many details go into a wedding and how many different plans come together on the wedding day itself, so we're thrilled to know such a warm, caring, and enthusiastic person to whom we can refer brides who really want the peace of mind from and partnership with a planner. Oh, and how could we not love her when she also has a daughter named Natalie?!?!

-Lindsay

Her website launches SOON, so feel free to check it out in the coming week!

Sarah Viera Events

Back Home from our Photography Convention...

We arrived back home late last night from our WPPI Convention. It was great, and we're back and overflowing with new ideas and energy! We flew in and out of the Colorado Springs Airport (we love how small it is and so close to home!) and were greeted by Natalie and Tyler and Grandma. Jon and I really enjoyed our time as just the two of us but seeing Natalie and Tyler really made it great to be home again! Even Tyler's upset, hungry cries during the car ride home were somewhat heartwarming after being away from the little guy! And Natalie's excited smiles and "Mommy! Daddy!" brought huge smiles to us as well. It's true that being away gave us new appreciation for the day-to-day (and even exhausting!) moments because it's out of these moments that the blessing of family comes to life and memories are made. And we feel so blessed to be able to do what we love and photograph your lives...from the day-to-day to the once-in-a-lifetime.

Oh, and how crazy is this...we returned with so much excitement for some of our ideas that we were up until 3 am putting a few things in motion...more to come on that SOON!

-Lindsay

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Leaving Las Vegas...

WPPI 2010

We are currently here in Las Vegas, NV, for our annual Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) convention! Every year this is such a fantastic trip of learning and energizing our business with new excitement and ideas. Last year Natalie came with us, and that worked out okay (she wasn't walking yet!) but we did know that it would not work so well in the future...and that was back before we knew our family was going to add another little one before this year's convention! So, we brought out Grandma to watch Natalie and Tyler, and Jon and I got to come out as just the two of us! It's our first trip as parents without bringing the kids, and it's been a really nice and blessed time to relax a little and really focus on all the great learning opportunities.

We are currently exactly half way through our time here since arriving LATE Sunday night (which ended up being Monday morning thanks to a VERY delayed flight!) and beginning with our convention experience Monday morning. We are here through Thursday and are excited to return to work Friday full of all our new ideas! And we're VERY excited to see our little ones again Thursday night!

-Lindsay

Here's two of our most recent portraits of Natalie and Tyler together (22 months and 3 months old)...





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Simply Canvas & Jonathan Betz Photography Meet.

We just placed our first order to Simply Canvas for some new products and are very excited to see them. Simply Canvas created a great video to share with us and we wanted to share it with you as well. Thank You guys from Simply Canvas for doing a great job!

-J

Post Production Workshop!

IT"S HERE!
You all have been asking for this class and now its finally here!
We are offering a 6 week class on POST PRODUCTION. We will cover tons of cool stuff in Photoshop and how to create a digital workflow and would love for you to sign up and be there. The class will start the end of January. Sign up today by calling 719-291-9798 or send an email to: jon@jonathanbetz.com
email us for class syllabus and details.
Thank YOU!

Wedding St.Louis Missouri

This was the wedding we shot in St.Louis Missouri in October this year. It was great to photograph such a fun couple and wedding party! Congratulations Jon and Gina!

Introducing Tyler!

Photo Class 1

I have been teaching a photo 1+ class here the last 3 weeks and the last 2 weeks have been in the field to hands on training and teaching how to see and use light to their advantage to enhance their images. Here are a few taken from the last week natural light (outside) and from tonight's studio setup (garage) .

-J

Kaitlyn is here photographing Shane experimenting using a reflector and some shade


David and Lea watching and shooting a different angle


heres the set up


Lea is directing Christina on how to turn her head.


here is a close up of Christina being photographed by Lea

Kris Smith High School Senior 2010

We had the pleasure of photographing Kris Smith a high school senior in colorado springs and wanted to do his senior pictures at the Garden of the Gods to show his love for the mountains and nature. Thanks Kris we had a great time photographing you and hope you have a rock'n final year at high school!

-J

junk yard fever!

Natalie works with the camera.

Our little lighting assistant is moving right along and now working with lenses and cameras! good job Buggie!

new lighting assistant!

Natalie has been quite a help on our senior sessions this summer so I thought I would show you guys that child labor is a big deal around here. Natalie's is setting up a light for our next shot. thanks Natalie!

-J

Senior Photography

Here is a sample of some of our seniors from our 2009-2010 season. We can't believe summertime is almost over, we have had so much with all the seniors this summer. Good luck guys and gals as you enter your final year of high school as it does go fast!

-J

Ashton 3 months

We had a pleasure of photographing one of the cutest babies in the world a little bit ago and Ashton was his name. We always love to take on special requests and this time we got to use his beautiful bedroom for a few shots. Thank you Tommy and Heather!

-J

Got Milk??

We recently did a commercial shoot for one of our families, the Fowlers. Carissa and I are both all about cloth diapers and their many benefits for the little ones. Carissa feels so strongly about them that she's created a full length educational DVD for families to learn all about cloth diapers. The DVD is in final stages, and our shoot was to capture a cover image. Her website is still in the finishing stages, but feel free to check it out here. She'll come to see the images this next Monday, so we can't show you the shot yet (3 babies involved!!), but we wanted to share a couple of our Natalie, who we volunteered as another child for the shoot. These were during her "drink break" and were especially cute and funny since we had her in the cow print diaper!!

-L

Chris Carrell Falcon High School ... 2010 GRAD

Chris we had a blast with you on the very long but very rewarding senior shoot. Feel free to share this video with your friends and family to show them a bunch of favorites! Enjoy the rest of summer!

It's a BOY!!

We are so excited to announce that Natalie is having a little brother come November! We had our "Baby Cakes" party last Wednesday after having the big ultrasound earlier that day. The tech sealed the gender in an envelope which we then took to a friend who frosted the middle layer of our baby cake with pink or blue. The outside of the cake was just white, so it wasn't until we cut the cake that we found out it's little Tyler in there!!

-L

Cutting the cake...


Excited reactions around the room...


Our baby cake...