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Best of 2008 : Class of 2009

Tonya Peterson — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:58:09 +0000

I wanted to get all of my Best of 2008 posts done before I got back from Florida, but it just didn’t happen. I guess I was to busy having fun in the sun to think about updating the blog. Well it is back to the frigid weather in Utah so the work has started again. I will be posting 2 more Best of 2008 posts in the next 2 days, so keep coming back . . . oh and don’t forget to leave a comment!

I love doing Senior Portraits! I am really free to do fun, funky, colorful pictures. I have been so lucky with the clients that have hired me. They have all been very cool and modern and up for anything! It as ay to hard to choose my favorites, but here they are!!!

If you are interested in having awesome senior pictures done email me! tonyapetersonphoto (at) gmail (dot) com

Class of 2009 : Kadee

Tonya Peterson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:15:38 +0000

WOW! That one word sums up this amazing senior! What a great session! Kadee was a natural in front of the camera which made my job a cake walk! We went to the most amazing location I have ever been to. It was filled with a bunch of old rusty junk. It was like a dream when my friend told be about this location. Enjoy!

p.s. Kadee . . . I am so sorry this took forever to get up! Life got super crazy!!!

She is a stunner huh!

I am in love with these shoes!

I am just amazed by how beautiful and stylish she is.

I love the light through the tractors window.

Kadee is on the Uintah Drill Team. They are soooo good!

Thanks Kadee for an awesome session!

Class of 2009 : Maygen

Tonya Peterson — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:04:12 +0000

This Class of 2009 session was awesome! Maygen is such a beautiful girl. Her older sister Erica was one of my cheerleaders when I was the coach so I had met her before. She is a total sweetie. She has the prettiest hair I have ever seen . . . it is natural too! I hope she NEVER colors it!

I wasn’t kidding about her being awesome looking! This picture is straight out of the camera. No touchups at all! Talk about flawless skin!

The only request she had the whole day was that her friend jump in for a few shots! Check out the killer smiles!

Love the Shoes!!! I thought it was awesome they were both wearing Converse! Too cool!

*** Also I know I promised that I would post the Rasmussen’s family shots too, but a whole bunch of stuff came up. So I promise tomorrow morning!!!***

Some previews of what is to come!

Tonya Peterson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:09:16 +0000

I have been so busy today that I didn’t get a chance to get a whole blog post up! Sorry about that! I did however get together some little teasers of what is coming the next few days!

I took my nephew Brendan’s 6 month pictures about a week ago. Isn’t he the cutest baby ever!!!

I also took some family portraits of an amazing family! They were so much fun to shoot. Don’t you love how the dog is posing too! So cute!

I always love senior portraits! I had the awesome experience of doing 2 senior sessions in the past week. They are both beautiful fun girls! Wait until you see the rest!!!

Here is Maygen

And Kadee

Be watching in the next 5 days for the full posts!

Class of 2009 : Cheyney

Tonya Peterson — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:22:21 +0000

I am almost half way through the month and I haven’t missed a day! I am so proud of myself! I am going to be posting more Christmas cards within the next few days so keep coming back and checking!

I love taking Senior Portraits! Especially if they are as awesome as Cheyney was! She was one another one of my cheerleaders that I coached. Isn’t she about the cutest, tiniest girl you have ever seen! I just love her! If you love the pictures don’t forget to leave some love in the comments! I had about 30 pictures saved as my favorites but I knew I couldn’t blog that many so here are my condensed favorites! I hope you all like them!!!

We were driving around and we found this killer old orange van. I LOVE it!!!

Isn’t she the cutest thing you have ever seen. I told her she kind of looks like Britney Spears when she first became popular, you know before all of the weird head shaving stuff.

I am really sad that I only have one more year left of cheerleaders I know. My little J.V. freshman girls are going to be seniors next year! So weird!!!

Thanks Cheyney for an awesome shoot! It was too much fun!

Class of 2009 : Chelsea

Tonya Peterson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:50:22 +0000

Chelsea is a total sweetheart to work with. I just love her whole family. I met them all when I photographed her sister Courtney’s wedding. Enjoy!

Alex’s Birthday Weekend + plus some random business stuff

Tonya Peterson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:09:00 +0000

Before I get into blogging the pictures of Alex’s Birthday weekend I wanted to announce the remaining time slot available for Fall Portraits. If you are wanting Family or Senior portraits with the Fall colors my dates avaliable are:

October 2nd, 6th, 7th & 8th @ 4:30 p.m. I am also available for a few morning sessions.

If the colors last longer than next week I have the 13th-17th open as well.

Also for anyone living in the Wasatch Front area, I will be in the city next weekend and have 2 slots available. Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th @ 9:00 a.m. If you are in the Park City area I might be able to squeeze you in on friday the 10th in the evening. If you are interested in booking any of these slots please email me right away. My next two weeks are filling up so quickly

Email —> tonyapetersonphoto at gmail dot com

Ok, now on to some fun stuff! A BIG thank you is in order to everyone who comes to my blog. The amount of visitors I received in September was double what I had in August. If you stop by the blog PLEASE leave me a comment so I know who has been here! If you are a photographer reading this PLEASE leave me a comment with your blog or website address so I can check out your stuff! Nothing is more fun than blog stalking!

Wow! That was a lot of stuff to cover! Now back to the original post… Alex’s Birthday Weekend! If you know when Alex’s birthday is (September 4th) that you know how behind I am at blogging. But better late than never! I decided to take Alex and Paige for a little getaway to Park City. We stayed at the Marriott’s Mountain Side Resort (which is top notch BTW) Paige loves the pools there! We also went down into the city one of the days we were there.

Alex has been dying to take Paige to the Aquarium so we finally went. I have NOT been dying to go to the Aquarium . . . I don’t even like to go down the fish aisle at the pet store (so creepy!!!) Oh the things you do for your children. It actually was pretty cool. Here are some pics!

I had to take a picture of the outside of the Aquarium in SLC. Yep it use to be an Albertson’s! So funny huh!

Paige was so deeply asleep when we got there. We couldn’t get her to wake up!!!

My fav shot of the day! I am telling you, Alex has some mad skills with the camera!!!

Paige is so spoiled! I swear she got 5 stuffed animals that weekend! The insanity needs to stop!

Again…MAD SKILLS! All of these shots were taken by Alex (except the one of him, obviously!)

Thanks again to everyone who stops by the blog! You all rock but you would be rockin my socks if you left a comment! So do it!!!

Loves

Tonya

A little of everything!

Tonya Peterson — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:52:32 +0000

The Shiner family is one of my favorites! I have done Sammi’s senior portraits, both girl’s weddings and now Blake’s senior portraits and family pictures! They are some of my best customers, but more than that they are friends. I always feel so welcomed into their home. They are one of the families that makes me love my job more and more every day! Carrie wanted a whole bunch of pictures taken so we decided to get them done all in one day!

So here is the story with Sammi’s bridals. If you have been following the blog for a while you may recognize her. She actually got married in March, but the day we were suppose to do her bridals her brother Blake got in a accident and had to cancel them. Thanks goodness he was ok! So even though it took almost 5 months to get them done we finally found to do them. Tis actually worked out great because it was is beautiful in Altamont in the summer, but not so much in the winter/early spring.

Next up was Blake’s senior portraits. To say he hates getting his picture taken is an understatement, but he did an awesome job and the pictures turned out so great!

Now on to the family shots. These were so east and fun to take because first I knew them all so well, but also because they are super goof balls and had fun with the camera.

The Kids:

Alex, Kirby, Blake, Sammi, Matt

Shane & Carrie Lynn

Thanks again Carrie Lynn! It was a blast!

McLayne : Class of 2008

Tonya Peterson — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:29:13 +0000

I met McLayne’s mom (who happened to be my husbands 4th grade teacher!) when I was taking pictures for the USU graduation. She graduated with her Masters Degree! More of that to come later!

McLayne played Golf and Baseball during high school so we thought it would be fun to highlight both of the sports. I love the way they turned out!!!

I love this golf club cover! A CATFISH! It was so funny!

This is my mom’s new car! Killer huh! McLayne wanted to take a picture by it. He told his friends it was his graduation present! It is the cutest dang car and a BLAST to drive!

I think it is awesome that McLayne and his mom both graduated this year! Congrats both of you!!!

Now to some casual shots!

One of my fav shots of the day…

Congratulations!

Blanca : Class of 2008

Tonya Peterson — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:11:51 +0000

I was so excited when Blanca called me to do her Senior portraits. I was her cheerleading coach last year and I miss ALL of the girls so much. It was really fun talking to her again!

The blue wall we found was my favorite!