Salt Lake Senior Portraits with Z

Senior portraits are an opportunity to thoughtfully document your child’s home life, hobbies, and personality, as the teenhood chapter ends and early adulthood begins.

Captured on high-quality, detail rich medium format film, I offer custom Senior Portraits for art-loving families who crave intentional, personality-filled, heirloom-quality portraiture.

My slow, laid back process results in dynamic, feels-like-them portraits, candid moments, and close-up detail features, of the most important places, passion, and details of your senior’s life.

My most popular add-on is the Mobile Studio. Adding a timeless studio feel to your gallery I’ll bring the studio to you with hand painted canvas from Ultraviolet Backdrops.

Once we got Z’s film back we designed the family’s favorite portraits in a 10x10 storyboarded Archival Book bound in a taupe linen bookcloth. All curated print products are handcrafted, printed in the USA using sustainable practices, include customization, and are lifetime guaranteed.

Film notes:

Film Kodak Gold 200 box rated, no push:: Ektar 100 box rated, no push

Garage studio portraits: Kodak Gold 200- box rated. No push.

Backdrop: Ultraviolet Backdrops “Seamless White” backdrop.

Camera: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens.

Film Lab, Developing and Scanning: The Find Lab in Salt Lake City. These are large Frontier scans with borders.

Garden Motif

Me, 2026 with my garden strawberries

Dad, 2022 with his garden tomato, from our last photo shoot together.

One of those shoots it’s gonna be the last. I knew it, I know it now. Death speaks its inevitability acrossthroughbetweenwithin and from aliveness. Can’t help but photograph the mundane, can’t help but let ideas be wild and alive.

I asked my arthritic father to lay face down on the grass like a kid, like a subject, like an actor in the way I saw him, like a return, like a prophecy, ground bound, a ghost. And now I write from his absence.

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Film Notes

Film Strawberry: Kodak Gold 200 medium format film box rated, no push | Tomato: Portra 160 medium format film

Backdrop: Ultraviolet Backdrops “World Forest” muslin backdrop.

Camera: Strawberry: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens | Tomato: Bronica 645

Film Lab, Developing and Scanning: The Find Lab in Salt Lake City

Portraits Within Portraits

Of course it wouldn’t be me photographing Jon without Jon photographing me.

And it wouldn’t be garage portraits without Ultraviolet.

Mother Seen

Gygi on Film

Snowy drive, hot drinks, a winter walk to the meadow with Gygi. A lil talking, a lil crying, a little screaming in the trees.

These last few years Gygi and I have both lost our parents, connected already, we’ve seen each other deeper as we’ve stumbled at the threshhold of death and experienced the strange rebirth that has come in its wake. Her deep presence. Her deep love of life. The way she inspires me to be. I love you Gygi.

Film notes:

Very foggy, snowy day- first snow. Shot rated at 200 pushed a stop on the Rolleiflex 6001.

Film notes:

Camera: Rolleiflex 6001 w 80 mm lens

Film: Portra 800 rated at 200 pushed 1 stop in development. So that means the ISO is set to 200 and then in development you do this THIS which adds a dollar to the cost. WORTH IT.

Lab: Standard scans at The Find Lab Scan with borders on Frontier