Rick and I shot this session on a very cold December morning.  The original plan was to meet Amanda and Mike in Old Town so we could do most of the session there with a few closing shots at their home afterwards. Plans are made to be changed however, and due to the cold, it ended up being the other way around.  We wish Mike and Amanda all the best with the new addition to their family!

-DeAnna Dimmitt and Rick Meiers

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This session was on November 22nd at Elena Gallegos Open Space.  We wish the Diercks family the best of luck with their new baby, who should be arriving any day now.

-DeAnna Dimmitt and Rick Meiers

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It’s funny how when you meet someone you never know what your future’s together will hold.  I actually don’t recall exactly when I met Caitelen and Greg but I’m guessing it must have been in 2006 because I photographed their wedding in June of 2007.  They would have had to book early to get the date.   Their wedding was great but it was what happened later that came to stand out.  Several months after their wedding, around the end of October, Rick and I were putting together the game plan for what would soon after that become Dry Heat Photography and during a networking session we coincidentally ran into Caitelen working part time as a wedding planner.  So long story short, we needed some help and Caitelen and Greg were super cool and gracious and they agreed to get all dressed up again and let us run them all over downtown Albuquerque for an afternoon so that we could begin the process of replacing the ten years of portfolio material we were having to leave behind.  Some of you long time blog readers will recall that session .    No exaggeration, those images were largely responsible for the initial success of our studio, but enough about us….

Over the years Caitelen and Greg have become our friends and when I heard that Caitelen was pregnant I had to offer to do a maternity session.   We started in Old Town, took a happy hour break at High Noon and then continued at their home.  Even at 8 and a half months pregnant, Caitelen is radiant and looks terrific.  At their home I notice pictures from the wedding and from the downtown session.  I always feel touched when I visit my client’s homes and see my photographs on their walls.  Hopefully these will join the others in the natural progression of things.

To Caitelen and Greg, thank you for being our friends. I know you’ll be great parents!

-DeAnna Dimmitt

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The little doggy’s name is Jooniper

LOL!

total comedians these guys…

the baby’s room

Meet Kaylene, Eric, Bella and soon to be Marcus.  I am blogging this session well after the fact, so much so that there is already a blog entry of Bella and Marcus and Marcus is 6 months old!  I had, of course, intended to blog this session right away but you know how it is, the pace of life continues to accelerate and it just didn’t get done, until now, that is.  This session was on April 2, 2009 at the Dry Heat Studio and today is March 15, 2010 but I am retroactively placing it in the time line where it belongs.

-DeAnna Dimmitt

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