Every Little Moment Photography

UPDATE!! We must apologize to our current bidders. We’ve made the decision to extend our auction until NEXT Saturday, September 13th. We’re sorry to mess things up, but since this is a donation for Stephanie and Christian, we think we can do a little bit better. We hope to do as much as possible to ease the heavy burden that has befallen the Nielsen family. Even though what we can raise will not be nearly enough, we want to do our part. So please, BE GENEROUS!

Note: This post will be at the top of our blog all week long. Please scroll down to see more!

If you have spent any amount of time in the blog universe, you may have heard of NieNie. If you haven’t, you have now. NieNie (Stephanie) and her husband Christian were involved in a serious airplane crash just a few weeks ago. They both have serious injuries and are requiring an enormous amount of medical care. They have four small children who must now be cared for by friends and family and the medical bills are piling up.

Aubrey and I have decided to help, so we are are auctioning off a photo shoot with all the proceeds going to Stephanie and Christian. That’s right, one portrait session is up for grabs. It includes a one to two hour session, online proofing gallery, one 11×14 or two 8×10 prints, and ten 4×6 prints. Additionally, if you’re the winner and wish to purchase more prints or a CD, the profits will go to NieNie as well!

Now that you’re excited, there a just a few more things to know:
The photo shoot must be in Utah County. If you are the winner and are not in Utah County, please contact us for travel rates.
This photo shoot has a value of $150, but please, be generous! All of the profits are going to Stephanie and Christian. We want to help them as much as we can.
The starting bid is $50. Please bid in at least $20 increments.
If you wish to bid, leave a comment below. Please include your name, email address, and bid amount.
The auction starts now and will close at midnight on Saturday, September 6th.

Happy bidding! In the meantime, please click here to find out more about Stephanie and Christian.

Welcome to the world, Baby J! Only 15 days old and he’s already breaking some hearts. Seriously, how can you resist a face like that? I could not get enough of his teeny baby cheeks.

Or his teeny baby toes.

Unfortunately, he only wanted to sleep for the first five minutes of our session. After that, all he wanted was to be held by his Mama. We obliged.

We sure managed to tire him out pretty quickly though.

Thanks for letting us ruin your nap time little J. We can’t wait to see the person you’ll become!

…coming soon!

We spend a hot, hot, HOT afternoon with Brittani and Jake hanging out at the Heber train station, and had a blast! Jake is from Heber and it’s also where he and Brittani will live after their upcoming September wedding. The train station is such a fun place…lots of fun things to shoot with, in, and around!

We had so much fun with these two. They did the “don’t look at the camera…pretend we aren’t even here!” thing so well. There are so many cute, nuzzle-y, intimate shots of them…my favorite!

So cute…

On the way home from the train station, we stopped at a little meadow near the lake and happened upon some gorgeous light!

And my absolute favorite from the day:

Thanks for the fun, you two! (and thanks for being such troopers in the heat…you guys rock!) Everyone else…stay tuned for the bridal shoot, coming soon. I can tell you it was shot in the most amazing backyard I have ever seen….complete with a lake, waterfalls, streams, and lots of beautiful landscape. You don’t want to miss it!

Welcome to the new and improved www.everylittlemomentphotography.com! Instead of having two separate worlds, blog and portfolio, we’ve merged it all into one friendly website. This is now your one stop shop for everything ELM Photography! Anything from our old website and/or blog is still available, it’s just in a brand new wrapper!

If you would now turn your attention to the link bar across the top of the page, I will demonstrate how to navigate our site so you can find anything you need.

HOME – Clicking here will bring you right back to this page. If you ever get lost, this one is a good one to click.

ABOUT US – Technically still under construction, but this one is pretty self explanatory. We promise to fill you in on everything about us soon, but we just couldn’t wait to show off our new site!

WEDDINGS – This link will take you to our wedding portfolio. It will open in a separate window, so don’t panic if you can’t see this page anymore.

PORTRAITS – The link to our portrait portfolio. Again, it opens in a separate window. Simply close the window to return home.

PRICING – Here’s where we get down to business. All our pricing information can be found here. This includes all you need to know about our portrait and wedding packages and our current print and album prices.

CLIENT LOG-IN – If you’ve had a recent photo session with us, here is where you can view your photos. It’s the exact same system we’ve been using, so just log in with your username and password to get started.

ARCHIVES – Do you want to read about what we were up to last month or even last year? It all can be found right here.

CONTACT – Do you love us or hate us? Did you find a typo or you have a question? Here’s where you can let us know. If you need to get in touch with us, this is the place to do it.

So that’s it. Pretty easy, huh?
We hope you love our new site as much as we do! So, go ahead. Take a look around and feel free to tell us what you think. We would LOVE to hear from you!

Thank you sooo much to Jessica Weiser for designing us this awesome new blog and for sticking with us when the going got rough. The blog gods seemed to be against us at first, but we triumphed in the end!

Hang on! I am finally updating the blog with the last few weeks of amazing shoots! We are also right in the middle of launching an all new website and blog, so stay tuned for some exciting changes!

We’ll start things off with what has been occupying a large chunk of our time lately…the upcoming Miss American Fork 2008 Scholarship Pageant. We have been heavily involved with the pageant this year and have had so much fun getting to know these girls. They all have amazing goals and are all so self-aware and confident!

Meet Liesl. She is the reigning 2007 Miss American Fork, who will be handing her crown down to this year’s winner. We had the opportunity to spend a week in Salt Lake watching Liesl compete for Miss Utah. She did a fantastic job…but more about that later!

This year, the pageant director extraordinaire Staci wanted a fun, fresh approach to the pageant. The Miss America program is trying to get away from the stereotypical pageant, where everyone is plastic and fake and wants “world peace”. They want real girls, with real goals, real problems and real confidence.

Meet the contestants!

Contestant #1 – Breanna Proctor

Contestant #2 – Adrienne Shelley

Contestant #3 – Trina Williams

Contestant #4 – Kelli Sumsion

Contestant #5 – Alliesha O’Neal

Contestant #6 – Jennifer Chambers

Contestant #7 – Kaitlin Hale

Contestant #8 – Carrie Helland

Contestant #9 – Juli Carter

If you’re in the area, you should definitely think about coming to the pageant! It will be held August 16th, 7:00 p.m. at the American Fork High School. Come watch the girls compete, as well as Sam and I in photo-action!

We will also be choosing one of these lovely ladies to be named ‘Miss Photogenic’ at the pageant. Any guesses? Who is your favorite?

Liesl has done an amazing job as the 2007-2008 Miss American Fork. She has worked with city officials and schools to help implement her platform, Teenage Financial Awareness. She has been an integral part in getting a financial literacy class required for graduating seniors, and has really shown how much she is capable of!

We spent the week in Salt Lake watching Liesl compete for Miss Utah about a month ago. She did an incredible job! She wanted photos of her in each of her competition outfits…here are a few of my favorites.

Her beautiful evening gown. Unfortunately it wasn’t finished in time to be worn for the competition, but it is so beautiful we had to get a couple shots of it!

Liesl is a very accomplished ballroom dancer. She put together an amazing routine-not an easy thing to choreograph when you are used to dancing with a partner all the time!

Her awesome, patriotic shoes for the Miss Utah “Show Your Shoes” parade!

I love that Sean has already seen Ashley in her dress, so we don’t have to hold these secret! Can I just start by saying that Ashley is one of the most poised and beautiful brides I have ever worked with. She has such beautiful posture and is simply elegant!.It was hard to narrow these down, there are so many beautiful photos of her.

Isn’t she breathtaking?

The sun was just about down here, so we had some beautiful, warm, sun-setting light!

We started the day with the Family session so we could get the girls photographed before they got *too* dirty from playing!

Little B had just been woken up from a nap and was not happy about having her pictures taken. She is such a daddy’s girl and wanted nobody but him.


We decided to let her take a break to wake up and get used to the idea a little. Aren’t these two darling? Unlike B, they loved having their photo taken and would pose all day for me!

After running around and playing with her Daddy a little, B was in a great mood and had a great time!

Sean is so cute with the girls. They all have him wrapped around their little fingers.

Ashley with her soon-to-be daughters (who LOVE her almost as much as they love daddy)

Thanks for hanging out with us all day, guys! You have a beautiful family!

Ahh..what can I say about Ryanne and Braden? If you thought their bridal session totally rocked, you should have seen their wedding.

We started the day off at Mount Timpanogos Temple, right around noon on the hottest day of the year! It was a bright, hot day, but Braden and Ryanne took it with a great attitude.

We kind of love Braden and Ryanne…so many of these aren’t even posed, they know just what to do in front of a camera with very little direction!

Aren’t they darling together??

Moments like these just happen naturally with these two. They are so in love, they were unaware of anyone around them and just wrapped up in their day!

A lil’ something to keep up with the vintage look Ryanne loves!

Their reception was beautiful! It was held at Wadley Farms, where Ryanne took the beautiful scenery and turned it into a spectacular reception! She has such an amazing eye for details and everything was set up perfectly!

There is an awesome red barn on the property. Since Ryanne’s colors were red and black, we decided it was the perfect place for their formal shots!

Braden and ‘the boys’

I couldn’t resist catching a few more of Ryanne and Braden together!

The awesome cake

She had a fun candy refreshments bar (everything in red and black, of course!) As well as fresh fruit, chicken sandwiches and the most delicious brownies ever! (catered by BYU Catering – YUM!)

Ryanne’s awesome red shoes

Beautiful ring! ( I think Braden even picked it out completely on his own! Go Braden!)

Braden just finished up school at UNLV, where he played baseball. (Go here to read a newspaper article about his baseball talents and his love for Ryanne!)

Cake clean up!