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It’s that time of year, when I’m swamped with senior portraits.  Here are some images I’ve been working on for Jasmine.

April 12th was Canon Day at Pictureline, Utah’s premier photography store.  In fact, after speaking and traveling all over the country and visiting camera stores everywhere, Pictureline stands out to me as not only the cleanest and most beautifully organized, but also as the store with the most helpful and knowledgeable staff on photography.  I love to shop there!

I felt very honored to have them ask me to speak and do a program for them on this big day.  I started with an abbreviated version of my creativity program, then demoed and showed how I use cameras, reflectors, and other pieces of lighting in a real shoot of my friend Nattalie, a professional model hired for the event.

Here are some of the images I created that day.

We photographed outside the store using various angles and lighting, in both shade and full sun.  After that, we went inside the store where the staff had set up a full studio for me to work with.

While I was shooting, the staff at Pictureline would print the images I was creating on various printers!  They looked fabulous.  It was a great day!

For those interested in attending one of my photography workshops, visit my workshop site for locations and dates on upcoming events.

I also plan on doing a workshop here at my studio some time this year.  It will be limited to a select number of photographers.  If you are interested in attending one here in Utah, let me know.

Well, until next time, America!
– Bry 

Last Friday was Joe McQueen day in Utah (see last post), and we had a great time going and hearing him play.  Upon arriving at the club, the owner gave special treatment to my date and I after seeing that I had a beautiful portrait of Joe in my hands.  I had made it up to give to Joe for having his own day.

It was so fun to hear the guys all jam together again.  All of these guys are really the absolute best in the state.  In this photo, Clayton Furch (who I took jazz piano improv lessons from years ago) on keyboard, Don Keipp (my jazz instructor all through college) on drums, Lars Yorgensen on bass, Richard Bush on baritone sax and clarinet, …and I don’t know the fellow playing trombone.

It was a great night of wonderful music and fun dancing.

Until next time, America!
– Bry 

Some years ago, Utah Governor Leavitt made April 18th, the official “Joe McQueen Day” in Utah. Joe is infamous to jazz musicians in Utah — an absolute legend. He has played Jazz in Utah professionally since his 20′s, and is about to turn 90 next month.

Throughout that time, Joe has played with the absolute pinnacle leaders of the jazz movement: Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Chet Baker, to name a few.

Joe and I met years ago while I was playing the tenor sax in my jazz group in college, and because of that friendship had the privilege of doing some portraits of him recently.

Joe still plays regularly in the clubs of Ogden, and today being ‘Joe McQueen Day,’ he’ll be playing tonight at the Wine Cellar, located at 2550 Washington Blvd starting at 9:00 pm.

Back in the day, Ogden, Utah was one of the biggest hubs for Jazz east of the Mississippi, and Joe was right in the middle of it all. I feel honored to know him, to be able to create such emotional portraits of him, and am very excited to take my date tonight to see him play in downtown Ogden.For my readers that live in Utah, if you are free tonight and love jazz music, you should come down and see a jazz legend perform on his day, in the old jazz district that he loves.Until next time America!
–Bry

Hey everyone.  Today I’ve been archiving images and I came across some photographs I created on a recent trip to Victoria, BC.

I love to go to Victoria.  It is such a beautiful island and city.  These images were created early in the morning — around 4:00 am, while waiting for the ferry to arrive.  After checking in at the port, I had time to kill before the ferry boarded or before any breakfast place opened, so I walked around the city creating photographs.  Here are some of them for you all to see.

I wish you could see these images big and up close.  They look so good up close.  This leaf was on the ground across the street from the grand ‘Empress’ hotel.  I really love the colors and textures in this and the shine of the water from the rain.  Wow!

And these two images were made while looking in shop windows…

In this window, you can see both what’s inside the building as well as the reflection of what’s behind me on the street — all juxtaposed together.  Very cool!

I love abstract images ; the interest is in lines, color, textures and other dynamic elements.  The more I’ve taught workshops to photographers and have had to analyze and define my own creative line of thinking in order to explain it to others, the more I’ve realized that when it comes to creating portraits of people, my unique style comes from my love of abstracts — being able to see the abstract shapes and lines in a face or body and then knowing just how to light and compose them into a great image.

With that in mind, I hope you enjoy these.
And until next time America!
– Bry

Hi Everyone.  I’ve put up a new slideshow of a wedding album on my main site.  This one is Cassandra’s wedding at the Salt Lake Temple in Utah, with a reception at the Old Meeting House in the Holladay area.

It is absolutely beautiful!  You can see and feel how happy and in love the couple is, and the entire design is fantastic and so modern.

The slideshow will show the album design in 2-page spreads, like this image below.  Click on this image to see the show, and browse even more shows and images at BryCox.com.

Until next time America,
– Bry