Personal

Las Vegas Family Photographer

As 2017 comes to a close, I’d like to share with you some of my favorite images and memories from this year.  2017 has been a crazy year full of wonderful memories and family adventures.  As a Las Vegas Family Photographer, I have had the wonderful opportunity and privilege of capturing priceless memories for my lovely clients.  I had so many wonderful and amazing clients this year, that came to visit me from all over the country.  Houston, Orlando, Los Angeles, Wisconsin, Virginia, Minnesota….I am always so honored when a family travels to see me down here in in my corner of the world!  

Our family has had such a wonderful year.  We spent our summer at our cabin in Northwestern Montana and I had the opportunity to photograph my babies in some gorgeous scenery!  You will see those images scattered throughout the collages I’m sharing in this post.  The big news this year is that Calista flew the coop and is attending her first year of college at Northern Arizona University.  She is on a full tuition scholarship and doing a biomedical major.  She’s not sure what direction she’ll go with that, but perhaps she’ll be a doctor someday?  It’s so fun watching your kids spread their wings!  

Last year, I announced that Clint (our eldest) would be joining the Navy.  Those plans fell through, and he is working a full time job in Las Vegas now and has also started college.  I am so proud of him and can’t wait to see what his future holds.

I wrote quite a bit about Sylvie in last year’s year end blog post.  She will be 2 in April and is doing so well now.  She is feisty and full of fire, just like her mama!  While still a very petite, tiny girl, she is VERY mighty.  I couldn’t be more proud to be her mama – she is my hero.  All of the kids are doing so well this year.  After homeschooling them for 2 years, we made the decision to send them back to public school this year.  It’s been hard, but I do believe it was the right decision for our family.  They are all thriving and making new friends and doing so well.  We added a new family member this year – our Great Pyrenees puppy, Yeti Spaghetti!  He is such a wonderful and loving boy although I don’t think he realizes how BIG he is yet. lol  

I hope you all enjoy this collection of my favorite images of 2017.  This is a random mixture of client work, personal images, and creative shoots.  Sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and feel free to leave a comment.  I love hearing from you!  You can check out my 2016 favorites HERE.  Happy New Years to everyone, and I wish you all health, happiness, and prosperity in 2018!

Lisa Holloway of LJHolloway photography is a Las Vegas Family Photographer.  Lisa is located just south of Las Vegas, Nevada.  At LJHolloway Photography you will find fine art portraiture.  Specializing in maternity, newborn, child, family and high school seniors.

Lisa works in Las Vegas, Boulder, Kingman, Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, Bullhead city, and surrounding areas.  Including Flagstaff, Williams, Prescott, Phoenix and Sedona areas.  Please inquire for travel rates to other areas.

LJHolloway Photography specializes in photographing families and children.  Lisa Holloway also loves maternity shoots, newborn portraits, and baby photos.  LJHolloway Photography also loves high school senior photography. 

To see more of Lisa’s work, please go to www.ljhollowayphotography.com or visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ljhollowayphotography.   You may contact Lisa by email at ljhollowayphotography@gmail.com.  Spaces are very limited and fill early.  Booking in advance will ensure a spot on LJHolloway Photography’s schedule.

Lisa Holloway also offers many photographer teaching resources and educational Photoshop and Lightroom videos.  For more details, please visit her SHOP.

Las Vegas Child Photographer

As a Las Vegas Child Photographer, I love photographing my own sweet kids whenever I have some free time!  I wanted to share some of my favorite images of them from late summer through autumn.  We had some amazing times together and have created some beautiful images!  This is going to be a long one, so sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy!

All of my babies together – no easy feat especially  now that the oldest 2 have grown up and moved out!  We did a family photo also, but I’ve since lost over 30 of Sylvie’s pregnancy pounds, so yep – we’ll be re-doing that soon! 

The last of the summer wildflowers…

Sylvie is modeling some adorable new knitwear for the Feltman Brothers here. How cute is she?

Fall is here!  It is one of my favorite times of the year!

Our new puppy, Yeti Spaghetti. Yes, he really is a puppy – only about 5 months old in this photo. He is HUGE!

This was such a crazy day! The fall images were taken in the mountains that we live in. It was SO cold. Sylvie didn’t last long and was over it! We decided to drive into town (about 10 minutes from where we had been shooting) where it was probably 20 degrees warmer with some very late summer wildflowers still clinging to life. She was much happier picking flowers in the warmth!

My oldest daughter, Calista, has the sweetest boyfriend. His name is Tyler and they met last summer lifeguarding together at the local pool. Now they attend the same college. I truly couldn’t have asked for a nicer boy for my sweet girl. We just love him!

More fall images of my babies…I won’t tell you what we were saying to get these laughs!

Calista and Elliott have the sweetest relationship. He has missed her SO much this year since she left for college. He was so happy to have his buddy and big sister back for a few days!

Gabriel and Sylvie have the sweetest bond. I love photographing them together!

The next 3 images are of my 11 year old son, Adrian. He’s turning out to be a great little model!

Sylvie is modeling an adorable Christmas dress by the Feltman Brothers here! Already employed at just a year old!

Those dimples!

These next few images were nothing short of magical good luck. We headed to this location with plans to shoot the kids on the old rope swing that hung from one of the ancient cottonwood trees there. When we arrived, a mother donkey and her baby were there for a drink of water. They were likely some of the regulars in the old west town of Oatman.  They were very friendly and interested in what we were doing. The photography gods were smiling on me that day and I got a couple one in a million shots of my kids interacting with the donkeys. I’ve been asked many times if the shot of Sylvie kissing the mother donkey is Photoshop – NOPE. It’s 100% real. A split second moment that somehow, I was lucky enough to capture. It is now one of my favorite photos ever!

This photo of Millie swinging is actually an image stitch of nearly FIFTY images.  These trees were huge!  You can see the mama donkey and her baby in the background here.  I’ve also been told I surely must have Photoshopped in donkeys from another photo.  They couldn’t be more wrong!

Boys and dirt are two pretty much inseparable entities.

While driving home from the donkey/rope swing shoot, we noticed these interesting rock formations in the distance and thought it would be the perfect setting for a little cowboy camp out shoot. Gabriel and Elliott made the cutest little cowboys and had a blast doing these photos!

In late fall, the local cotton fields are ready for harvest. I couldn’t resist a few photos – what a neat location!

I even got a few ‘big camera’ photos of Theron this year!

Fall lasts a LONG time in the desert. It starts as early in September in the higher elevations and lasts all the way into December and even January sometimes in the hotter, lower elevations. These next few images were taken in late November in one of my favorite spots!

Sylvie is modeling another Christmas dress and bonnet for the Feltman Brothers here. Doesn’t she look like a little doll? There is nothing cuter than a baby in a bonnet!

CHD (congenital heart disease) has been a part of our lives ever since Sylvie’s birth in April of 2016. I have done an ongoing series of photos highlighting her battle against this disease and her strength throughout it all. I hope that we can do our small part to help make people more aware of how common CHD is and how desperately underfunded the research into it is! 1 in 100 babies are born with a heart defect and many of these babies require life saving surgery very early on in life. Sylvie had her open heart surgery at just 3 months old. Today, she is kicking butt and taking names! She is a smart, happy, energetic, loving, and sweet little girl. We are so thankful for the doctors and nurses who helped ensure she would have this life to live!  She has enriched our family so very much.

Anyone who photographs toddlers knows how tough it can be. They are only interested in doing their own thing and are not yet old enough for bribery. Sylvie is definitely at that stage too and shooting her is completely hit or miss. Most of the time, I’m lucky to get 1 or 2 shots before she revolts. This little shoot, however, was different. She felt SO pretty in her green Christmas dress!  Her face just lit up when she saw herself wearing it in the mirror.  We took her downtown for a few photos and she was so happy! She was waving at everyone who passed and telling them ‘hi’ and ‘bye.’ She sat herself down on this step and was grinning ear to ear for me. I could tell she felt like a pretty little princess!

Sweet Gabriel…could this boy be any more handsome?

Calista was home from college for Christmas so I had all my girls together! I did a photo of them together last December and thought it would be fun to re-create it exactly a year later. We shot in the same location, same type of lighting (light overcast), same dresses, same posing, and even the same post-processing. It’s so fun seeing how much they’ve all grown and changed! You can check out the December 2016 version of this image HERE.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for looking!  I cannot wait to see what 2018 brings!

Lisa Holloway of LJHolloway photography is a Las Vegas Child Photographer.  Lisa is located just south of Las Vegas, Nevada.  At LJHolloway Photography you will find fine art portraiture.  Specializing in maternity, newborn, child, family and high school seniors.

Lisa works in Las Vegas, Boulder, Kingman, Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, Bullhead city, and surrounding areas.  Including Flagstaff, Williams, Prescott, Phoenix and Sedona areas.  Please inquire for travel rates to other areas.

LJHolloway Photography specializes in photographing families and children.  Lisa Holloway also loves maternity shoots, newborn portraits, and baby photos.  LJHolloway Photography also loves high school senior photography. 

To see more of Lisa’s work, please go to www.ljhollowayphotography.com or visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ljhollowayphotography.   You may contact Lisa by email at ljhollowayphotography@gmail.com.  Spaces are very limited and fill early.  Booking in advance will ensure a spot on LJHolloway Photography’s schedule.

Lisa Holloway also offers many photographer teaching resources and educational Photoshop and Lightroom videos.  For more details, please visit her SHOP. 

As a Las Vegas Child Photographer, I love nothing more than creating fun, themed shoots with my own sweet babies.  Elliott and Mia have been head over heels in love with each other since they first met at the age of just 2 years old.  My good friend Suzy Mead and I have done several shoots of them together over the past several years and always thought it would be fun to shoot their wedding.  Our family owns property and a cabin in Northwestern Montana, and Suzy and her family came to visit us there this past summer.  We spent hours scouring the internet looking for a suitable abandoned church in the eastern Montana farmland.  Most were too far of a drive (9+ hours) but this one was absolutely perfect.  The Milk River Valley Church located near Kremlin, Montana was our go to location.  It was built in 1916, so is over 100 years old now.  It is beautiful, and lonely, standing in solitude on the Montana prairie.  Full of charm and mystery, it was the perfect backdrop for this sweet wedding.

It’s nothing short of a miracle that we found the church as it’s located down several turns and many miles of unmarked farm roads literally in the middle of nowhere.  It was such a fun adventure!!  By a stroke of luck, we were able to find it, and shoot Elliott and Mia’s wedding.  I think what makes these photos work the most is that these two genuinely DO love each other.  You can see it in the way they look at each other!  We always talk about IF they get married for real someday, what an amazing album they will have.  Wouldn’t that be fun??  I hope you enjoy looking at these photos as much as we enjoyed creating them!  

If you’d like looking back at some of Elliott and Mia’s previous shoots together, here are a few links for you!

The Shoot That Started it All!

Summer on Mt. Charleston

Modeling at Elena Shumilova’s San Diego Workshop

Elliott & Mia’s Spring Flower Shoot

Elliott & Mia’s Montana Wedding

They even had a romantic honeymoon on Swan Lake…

Lisa Holloway of LJHolloway photography is a Las Vegas Child and Family Photographer.  Lisa is located just south of Las Vegas, Nevada.  At LJHolloway Photography you will find fine art portraiture.  Specializing in maternity, newborn, child, family and high school seniors.

Lisa works in Las Vegas, Boulder, Kingman, Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, Bullhead city, and surrounding areas.  Including Flagstaff, Williams, Prescott, Phoenix and Sedona areas.  Please inquire for travel rates to other areas.

LJHolloway Photography specializes in photographing families and children.  Lisa Holloway also loves maternity shoots, newborn portraits, and baby photos.  LJHolloway Photography also loves high school senior photography. 

To see more of Lisa’s work, please go to www.ljhollowayphotography.com or visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ljhollowayphotography.   You may contact Lisa by email at ljhollowayphotography@gmail.com.  Spaces are very limited and fill early.  Booking in advance will ensure a spot on LJHolloway Photography’s schedule.

Lisa Holloway also offers many photographer teaching resources and educational Photoshop and Lightroom videos.  For more details, please visit her SHOP.

As a Las Vegas Child Photographer, it is such a joy for me to be able to photograph my own sweet children during our summer trips to our property in Northwestern Montana.  We traveled to Montana for the first time 2 1/2 years ago and it was love at first sight!  We eventually purchased a little cabin on 11 gorgeous, secluded, wooded acres about 30 miles from Glacier National Park.  It is our home away from home, and when we are not there, we are longing to go back.  It is another world from our desert home in Arizona, and something that I hope helps to create beautiful memories for our children that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

We spent June and July this summer at our home away from home.  It was a fun trip filled with fishing trips, hiking, relaxing, time at the lake, good friends, and adventure.  Of course, I did some photography too.  How could I not?  It is like a dream being in such a stunning area full of mountains, lakes, and forests.  

Our first stop on our way to our cabin was a ghost town we fell in love with the previous year.  I did a shoot with Octavia there then.  You can see it HERE.  This year, I decided to do some photos of Sylvie in the old hotel.  She isn’t nearly as cooperative of a model as Octavia was, but I still love these pictures!  She had just learned to walk prior to our trip north, and was having so much fun exploring this amazing location!  The light from these enormous windows in the old hotel was haunting and beautiful!

The daisy fields in Montana are SO beautiful! And why not stick a little boy in them? Gabriel is fast becoming one of my favorite little models!

This beautiful forest full of bear grass was growing not half a mile from our cabin. I dressed Sylvie up in a vintage gown and took her there – you really get a good perspective on how tall these flowers are when you see little Sylvie standing in them!

Sylvie’s name literally means ‘one who dwells in the forest.’ I have always wanted to do a fairy shoot with her, but the brown deserts of our home don’t exactly scream ‘fairy fantasy land.’ Thankfully, Montana has just that. How cute is she?

The lakes and rivers in Montana are simply stunning. The next 2 images were shot on the same lake, with the same boat, not more than 20 minutes apart. Crazy, isn’t it?

My little cowboy!

We spent our 4th of July in Montana as well. We had spotted this awesome and HUGE flag hanging on the side of an old barn. I couldn’t resist doing a few photos in front of it with my little patriots!

Back to the daisies – one of my favorite wildflowers! Montana is full of magic!  Until next summer…

Stay tuned for Elliott & Mia’s amazing Montana wedding! Suzy and I trekked over 4 hours to the farmland of Eastern Montana to an old forgotten church where we shot this fun session with our little love birds! Coming soon!

Lisa Holloway of LJHolloway photography is a Las Vegas Child and Family Photographer.  Lisa is located just south of Las Vegas, Nevada.  At LJHolloway Photography you will find fine art portraiture.  Specializing in maternity, newborn, child, family and high school seniors.

Lisa works in Las Vegas, Boulder, Kingman, Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, Bullhead city, and surrounding areas.  Including Flagstaff, Williams, Prescott, Phoenix and Sedona areas.  Please inquire for travel rates to other areas.

LJHolloway Photography specializes in photographing families and children.  Lisa Holloway also loves maternity shoots, newborn portraits, and baby photos.  LJHolloway Photography also loves high school senior photography. 

To see more of Lisa’s work, please go to www.ljhollowayphotography.com or visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ljhollowayphotography.   You may contact Lisa by email at ljhollowayphotography@gmail.com.  Spaces are very limited and fill early.  Booking in advance will ensure a spot on LJHolloway Photography’s schedule.

Lisa Holloway also offers many photographer teaching resources and educational Photoshop and Lightroom videos.  For more details, please visit her SHOP.