Kaci Young

Kaci may be the sweetest young lady ever! Her mother and brother accompanied her during her shoot and also helped me with holding the reflector and scrim.

We met at East High and went into the gym to get some cool shots of Kaci in her volleyball uniform. Then we went to the Botanical Center for some outdoor shots with there beautiful flowers.

After we were finished there we went back to the studio for her indoors. We got some great pictures of Kaci and her brother. The two of them have an amazing relationship. They are the closest siblings I think I have ever seen. You can just tell when you are around them that they truly enjoy each others company.

As they were leaving Kaci said that one of my examples on the wall was her niece and come to find out one of my closest friends sister-in-law is Kaci's SISTER! I think I say "It's a small world" on a weekly bases.

Stacie Brown

Wow, Stacie is absolutely gorgeous! When I met Stacie and her mother at the indoor shoot she was worried she may not photograph well. She told me that she disliked most pictures of herself when she was younger. Yes, I am talking about the same girl who's image is above.

I had such a nice time talking to the two of them and learning about Stacie's family, hobbies and aspirations. It was interesting to find out how hard these young ladies practice and train for there softball team. They obviously work very hard and are very dedicated. Stacie brought her catchers uniform and we had allot of fun with that.

A few days later I met Stacie and her mother at Valley Junction for her outdoors. I think is was in the upper 90's but we managed to get some great shots. Then we ran over to the Botanical Center for some shots with flowers.

I really enjoyed working with the two of them and I hope everyone loves Stacie's images.

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!!!! SO YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE !!!!

A very wise man and one of my most important mentors once told me "If your house was on fire and your family and pets were safe what else would you save?"

Let me give you a little background on how this conversation started....I was working at a local photography studio and had just finished up showing a family there portraits and helping them choose what sizes they wanted. It was very hard for me to tell them "the 20x24 with a frame cost (x) amount". Which in my mind seemed like so much money. So I decided I would discuss this with my boss. After expressing to him my concerns he went on to explain to me that the value of a portrait is priceless. You would not bat an eye at spending thousands on a new refrigerator, furniture, art, etc....but if your house was on fire those items would not even be near the top of your list of things you would save.

That was a huge eye opener for me and I will never think of portraits the same way. The value of your portraits can not even be measured by price. They are captured moments in your families life that can not ever be duplicated. They are handed down from generation to generation and are treasured for decades.

I know that this is a less than pleasant way to explain this but this is what it took for me to understand and I just wanted to share it.

Since I have had my own family I have tried so hard to get a good family portrait ... but we are just not ... "THAT" ... family so to speak!! With 3 crazy dogs 2 kids under 6 and Cody and I not exactly being super models I was just never happy with what I ended up with. this kills me as a photographer!!! So I decided to think outside the box of what are traditionally called family portraits and this is what I came up with!! Being that when we were all together someone was always looking down,eyes closed,drooling or crying I knew we had to do individual photos somehow so I went to babies-r-us and bought these big letters!! We did a shot of each of us holding a letter of our last name.. I'm not totally done designing it yet but this is the just of it.. I will eventually print these each one as a 20x20 and hang them on my family room wall making a huge fantastic piece of wall art!!! It just goes to show you don't always have to go with TRADITIONAL or be THAT family to get a beautiful portrait of your family!!! think outside the box

Our gift to the Animal Rescue League

So as many of you know Cody and I are HUGE!!! animal lovers !! We were just chatting one day about giving gifts and that true gifts are given not expecting anything in return! We talked about what was important to us... we donate our photography to many charities that contact us every year but we have never searched out a charity that we truly feel passionate about.. So we decided that we would contact the animal rescue league of Iowa and ask them if there was anything that we could do to help all there wonderful animals find good homes!!! The ARL was quick to respond that they really needed to update some portraits of there staff and also get some shots of a few of there dogs for a special program that they are doing. Being such an animal lover I was super excited to get out there and make new Relationships with these FANTASTIC people and the animals they spend there days caring for... IT WAS SOOOO FUN !!!! and I found out many things that I did not know about there facility. The ARL has a farm area for horses and other barnyard animals and that they also have a training center were they not only offer classes to the public but they also work with there current residents to help them in there transition. Oh yes, and cats apparently can learn basic commands like sit, lie down, etc.. I'm am so happy that this worked out and I can't wait until I can go back!!

SNEEK PEAK!!! 2011 SENIOR MODELS ..PART 1 .. YARD DOGS

Talk about a hard day of work!!!! This group of 2011 senior model "YARD DOGS" were hardcore!! they spent all day in the blazing sun ,dirt,wind, glass and rusty metal with Pebbles the pitbull !!! Ill say it again "HARDCORE" We busted out windows with baseball bats climbed on old smashed up cars and walked the dog!!! so this is just a little sneak peak.. there will be "LOTS" more to come!!! don't forget KESLING PHOTOGRAPHY MODELS... next Sunday the 18th at the Teachout bldg. for part 2.. thank you Trails End Auto Salvage for making our shoot AWESOME!!!!

I dont know how many times Ive said "I love my job" latley I have really tried to analize for my sake what it is that I love???? so Cody and I sat down and made a list!!! we decided that it really important to both of us to create beautiful portraits and art peices for our clients and capture there memories.... we also really enjoy the feeling we get when our clients love there portraits and exspress that to us... we also love the places we get to go and things we get to see... we love that we get to involve friends and family into our buisness and we get to spend lots of time with our children because tis buisness allows us to... we love the other photographers and artists and mentors that we meet and learn from...I cant forget our employs Stacy and April you guys dont even know how much you bring to this buisness and our lives... BUT most of all we LOVE!!! all of you-- the new friends that we get to make every time we have a new or return client.you have all truly became our friends and we always look forward to spending time with you and sharing in your memorys!!! that why we finally decided that what we love about this job is "RELATIONSHIPS" that is our new word at Kesling photography... the relationships we build is OUR PRODUCT!!! and the photography is wellll just what we do.. WE BUILD RELATIONSHIPS!! check out what some of our friends have said about us at http://www.linkedin.com/in/keslingphotography .... thanks for your time

????So what is this model thing all about????

Earn BIG$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ towards the BEST SENIOR pictures around ..Check out for more info

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyFIv-RvVY0 or go to our website to contact us at http://keslingphotography.com

This Saturday is our first wedding of the 2010 season!!!!!! Sooo.. were getting out and dusting off all the wedding equipment!!!! We still have open dates so if your planning a wedding give us a call or check out our website http://www.keslingphotography.com ... We have tons of new ideas for this season and new things that we have learned at the seminars we attended this winter..
we are super excited for another outstanding wedding season.. thanks for reading my blog

Kesling Photography 2010 Senior.. EARN FREE GRAD CARDS

Say... YESSSSS !!! to saving some $$$$$ on grad cards and earn extra cards by spreading the WORD...

2011 Senior Model Search

We just finish our 2011 Senior Model Search Video!! Thank you to all of our 2010 Seniors. If not for them we would not have so many gorgeous examples to use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyFIv-RvVY0

We also updated our website with lots of new images, music and links.
http://www.KeslingPhotography.com

Pretty in Pink!!!

I shot this little cutie last night. her big brother and her were soo good but she wasn"t about to give up and go to sleep for me!! working now on a new Senior slideshow and its going to be Totally AWESOME!! I cant wait to post it so all of you can see it.... back to work

Altoona Library is displaing my Photography

I received a call from the Altoona Library last week saying they would like to display some of my work for a month!! so here is the display... have a great day

Bridal show with no snow!!

The Bridal show went GREAT!!! even though there wasn't a huge turn out I have already had a few brides follow up with me and it was a good learning exsperince for next time. We got to talk to some of the other vendor from our area and do a little networking and taste test some AWESOME!! wedding cake... Our 2010 wedding slideshow http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBhepIgGFkwas a huge hit everyone LOVED!!! it and we handed a copy to everyone that came to our table. the 15" of snow they forcasted

never came "thank God" but overall we had alot of fun and hopefully we wil have and oppritunity to share in some nw Great couples special day!!!

tonight Im shooting a famly and a 1.5 week old hopefully Im going to try some new shots if baby cooperates and goes in that "milk coma" lol Ill try to post some images tomorrow.. have a great day

Snow Senior with smoke from adventureland fire

So heres my snow senior from yesterday with the added bonus of the smoke from the adventureland fire ... snow is always so tuff to shoot at!!

Getting started... Kesling Photography

First blog ever!!!! YEAH!!!!