Our friend Alex and his girlfriend happened to come out to a concert that I was photographing. So I decided to do an impromptu couple portrait for them.

We love that our friends are different and embrace their differences as we never discriminate here at Broken Image Photography! We will photograph anyone that requests it; not caring about sex, race, creed, sexual orientation, subculture, religion or anything else!

Love is love and we refuse to shun anyone for being who they are.
Embrace your fellow human being and the world will be only be a happier place to exist.

Sometimes the simplest of words are the most powerful. The most evident; the base emotions, while there are hundreds of words for emotions in the English language; how many do we truly feel?

Hello everybody, I just wanted to add a bit of self help advice that I wrote myself last night at a very significant part of the night. I hope you take something away from this and learn to be a better you.

• Be Confident, fake it if you have to.
• Be Creative in everyday and non-everyday situations. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!
• Be strong; do not bow before down things you might be afraid of.
• Understand others, put yourselves in their shoes and that goes for everyone you meet/know.
• Communicate with your fellow human beings; know their pain and desire; always be in tune.
• Take the time to listen. You will learn things important to your survival and goals in life.
• Do not be prone to inaction. The ground is hot lava, if you stand still, you die.
• Write your thoughts down, sometimes the best thoughts and revelations are fleeting. Be a firm believer in serendipity.
• Start everyday with a mental drill sergeant keeping you thinking intelligently every minute of everyday, you stop thinking, the boogieman eats you.
• Be happy; emotion makes emotion and creates positive effects within your life.
• Look in the mirror everyday and tell yourself something positive about yourself.
• Both verbalize and write down your desires everyday for that day, that week, that month, that year, that decade, that century.
• At the end of each day; think about things you might be able to improve on and write them down; use this little journal as a way to improve daily.
• Put everything you want into action. Even if it is just on a small scale; after all, even an avalanche starts as one snowball. Start now, not later – the sooner that snowball is formed, the sooner it will affect a positive trend of change throughout your life and before you know it you have 30 avalanches worth of snow built up.
• Take the time to appreciate all the small things in your life; without them, life would be boring.
• Value problems and the unexpected; for these are what keep life interesting.
• Try to learn at least 10 new things everyday.
• Exercise everyday. Eat at least one healthy meal.
• Dare yourself to change.
• Perform one selfless act a day.
• Bad times will come, learn to understand that you must have contrast in life, you cannot have good without the bad; therefore you must embrace the bad if you are to really embrace the good. (Added by Kelly)
• Do not take vacations and/or make big expenditures unless you complete an important goal in life. Rewarding yourself for nothing is self defeating.
• If you want something, go after it relentlessly.
• Lastly, become perfect on your own scale.

Michelle 101, originally uploaded by brokenimage.

A model named Michelle dropped by today to have a few portraits taken.
It was fun to talk to her again because I haven’t shot with her in about 3 years or so. It was very refreshing to use new tools to shoot an old model of mine, please enjoy.

Melinda Crick, originally uploaded by brokenimage.

Melinda Crick, my own personal hairstylist and also my hairstylist/makeup artist on many of my shoots asked if I would shoot portraits of her; I couldn’t refuse as she is obviously a beautiful subject to photograph.

She really wanted to get a “vintage” sort of feel to the photos, I attempted to add a more modern feel as well; making it all the more vibrant and enticing to view!

Colorful Lips, originally uploaded by brokenimage.

Makeup is a wonderful thing. Chelsae and I decided to have fun at Nordstrom’s - Melissa did both of our makeup but Chelsae’s ended up being the winner here! Her fierce eyes and lips made for this wonderful photo! MAC cosmetics were the only makeup used to make this wonderful frame!

Melinda’s Hair Before and After, originally uploaded by brokenimage.

Make sure to hire Melinda Crick for all your hair and makeup needs.

Zombie Beauty Pageant @ Phoenix Comic Con, originally uploaded by brokenimage.

Friday Night kicked off Phoenix Comicon or “Cactus Comicon” here in Arizona! The largest comic convention that goes on here in Arizona!

It was a very nice event, though most things ran behind so left most guests waiting for things to begin and some just gave up mid-wait.

But through all the hustle and bustle, it was a supremely awesome con and I cannot wait to head to the Phoenix Convention center in 2009 to see what they have in store next year!

Please check out my flickr for additional photographs!

Even Ghostbusters need a coke… @ Phoenix Comic Con, originally uploaded by brokenimage.

A few weeks ago; had a nice weekend photographing the Phoenix Comic, full of characters dressing up as various anime, comic and other scifi related costumes! Among my favorites were the Arizona Ghostbusters whom are actually a charity organization that really seem to help their various causes!

It was also attended by more than 5000 people, exceeding the expectations for the event, clearly as many of the lines for various events were very long. But, I’ll surely be at Phoenix Comic Con 2009, without a doubt!