julie parker photography......delight in the little things!

Filimone and Jasey~engaged

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Jordan and Alex~sealed!

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I absolutely ADORE these two! I was so sad I wasn't able to shoot their wedding last year, but at least I got to be there for their sealing! Check out their engagement shoot and some modeling shots from my workshop last year.

Dancing with the Stars

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Check out Thomas Degasperi on Italy's Dancing with the Stars! Watch this intro to see clips from my video that David Perry shot for me last Fall as well as a couple of my images! Good luck Thomas!

His promo video is pretty cool also!

Baby London

2012-01-31T15:49:00.000-08:00

Look at this little butterball!! I wanted to keep her! I shot her Mom and Dad's wedding last May. Check out their engagements, bridals, wedding and magazine feature!

Brianna

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The Alldredge Family

2012-01-22T16:49:00.000-08:00

I love it when my former bride and grooms have babies...especially when they are as photogenic as these two! It was so great to see them again and meet their adorable baby girl! Check out their engagement, bridal and wedding sessions.

Cam and Karina~married~part three

2012-01-17T11:00:00.000-08:00

Cam and Karina~married~part two

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Cam and Karina~married~part one

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What an honor is was to shoot Karina and Cam's wedding! I have been a huge fan of Karina for several years as a professional slalom skier and world record holder, and now I am an even bigger fan of her as a person! Both Karina and Cam are the sweetest, most kick back, down to Earth people I have ever met! I had to break this post up into three, so stay tuned for more!

My favorite shot of the day...the first look!

Registration is open!

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To reserve your seat, choose an option from the drop down menu and hit the pay now button or contact me at julie@julieparkerphotography.com to make other payment arrangements. You can choose both days for $650, one day for $600, or payment plan to break up your payments(additional $25 fee applies)

Class fees are non-refundable. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.

If you will be traveling, use airport code SLC for flights and for a list of recommended hotels you can contact me.

*This is the only group workshop I will offer this year.

2012 Get Schooled Workshop

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This will be the ONLY workshop offered in 2012. I will still accept one-on-one mentoring sessions however. Registration will open at 9am this Thursday the 12th! I will put a paypal button on the blog, or you can contact me to pay by check. If you have any questions, you can email me at julie@julieparkerphotography.com. You can see last year's workshop here and images from past workshops on my workshop website .

Quin and Sam~married

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I totally LOVE these two!!

2012 Get Schooled Workshop announcement

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I'm off to Canada today to shoot my very favorite professional water skier's wedding on Vancouver Island! Wow, I'm curious what it will be like shooting my idol!! When I get back next week, I will announce the dates for my 2012 Get Schooled Workshop. Those who are on my workshop mailing list will know one day before it is announced. If you would like to be added to that list, please send me an email to julie@julieparkerphotography.com and put workshop in the subject line.

Tyler and Alisha~married

2012-01-02T08:00:00.000-08:00

2011 Favorites

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Every year I go through my blog folder and pull some of my favorite images. This is a really good exercise for photographers, especially if you are trying to develop/find your style. As I was choosing images to post, It was kind of exhausting as I realized how much I traveled and worked this year!
I had a really exciting year and met some amazing new friends. I truly love what I do and I feel so blessed! Thanks for looking at my blog and have a happy New Year!

FASHION/COMMERCIAL

COUPLES/ENGAGEMENTS

BRIDALS/FORMALS

WEDDINGS

WATERSKIING

FAMILIES/SENIORS/KIDS

Utah Bride Blog~ best of 2011~engagements

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Thank you Utah Bride Blog for choosing Brianna and Kyle's engagement session for your best of 2011! I am truly honored!

Florida

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Last week my husband and I went to Florida to do some skiing with my new friend Thomas Gustafson. We had so much fun! We skied so much, our hands were bloody! Thomas is a great coach as well as a great cook and host. He made delicious, healthy meals for us and convinced me to stop drinking my sugar free Rockstars and Power aides! Thomas is an amazing photographer! His images are perfect straight out of the camera and he doesn't need to do a thing to them in Photoshop unless he wants to! Check out some of his amazing images here.

While I was there, I did a commercial shoot. After I was finished, I wanted to do something for fun, so I asked my model to bring a dress with her. I really didn't have a concept or anything planned. I noticed how dark the water was, especially near the lilly pads and thought that it would look cool to pour milk in it, so I sent my hubby to the store to get 5 gallons of milk and I love how it turned out!!

I decided that I WILL own a house on a lake one day with a dock like this for my boat!

The Ciampinis

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One of my very favorite families...ever!

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John and Lisa~married

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I just had to post this last one...with the bride's permission of course!

Our gargantuan Christmas tree!

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It is WAY too big for our house...oh well! My daughter decorated most of tree.

CYBER MONDAY SALE!!!

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Katy Ski Jam Pro tounament

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In October I got to go to Katy, Texas with my friends, the Goodes, to shoot the Katy Ski Jam tournament. It was my first time on a private jet and Dave even let me fly it! I had such great time watching and shooting these amazing skiers!

The highlight of my weekend was meeting world record holder, Regina Jaquess! Watching her ski was so incredible!!

So fun watching them ski under the lights!

My friend, Thomas Degasperi.

Chris Rossi's boy...so cute! Everyone loves him!

My friend, Carlo Allias

Like father, like son!

Shooting from a crane with Waterski Magazine editor, Todd Ristorcelli

Karen Truelove

Marc Shaw

Terry Winter

April Coble Eller

Ski besties, Jessie and Kev-bot Lundell!

and BFF Dawn Goode

Mike Parsons

Nate Smith

Chad Scott

Kevin giving TGas an adjustment

Dawn celebrating her birthday.

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Gateway Bridal is excited to announce our

BLACK FRIDAY BLOW OUT SALE!!
With over 300 bridal, prom, and bridesmaid dresses to choose from, an affordable gown won’t be hard to find!
We are featuring sample wedding and prom dresses from our
Gateway Bride, LatterDayBride, Bridal Curves, and White Couture collections.
BRIDAL GOWNS STARTING AT $99.00
PROM GOWNS STARTING AT $49.00
November 25, 2011 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
These great deals will only last as long as the dresses do!
Hurry in to find your dream dress at your dream price!
*Note: Appointments to try on Blow-Out-Sale Bridal gowns will run every 30 minutes and will be on a first come first serve basis!
To get a taste of what will be available at the Blow Out Sale please visit our Facebook Page and click on our Wedding and Prom Sale photo album at www.facebook.com/pages/Gateway-Bridal-Prom

178 South Rio Grande Street Suite 150
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
T: 801.363.2574 F: 801.363.3694
http://www.gatewaybridal.com/

The Sefakis family

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I'm all about killing two birds with one stone, so if you have a high school senior who needs pictures, we might as well do family pictures at the same time!

Can you believe that they won this car in a raffle at the Greek festival? Crazy!

Winter waterskiing

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The Bell Family

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I love this cute little family...and their new house!

Ivee~high school senior

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Featured~Utah Bride Blog

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Lisa's bridals are featured today on Utah Bride Blog, which is one of the very best resources for brides!

Shaw and Lindsay~Maui'd part 3

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Thanks again for an incredible week! Love you guys!!

Shaw and Lindsay~Maui'd part two

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We decided to do a bridal shoot before the wedding since the ceremony was on the last day would be there in case the weather was bad or something.

End of October skiing

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Shaw and Lindsay~Maui'd part one

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Wow, what a fun wedding week this was! Wren and I had so much fun hanging out with Shaw and Lindsay! They are so much fun to shoot, so we did a bunch of mini fashion shoots all week! This first shot is from the top of Haleakala at sunrise. It was so FREAKING COLD, but totally worth getting up at 3am for! Shaw biked up it a few days later-sea level to almost 10,000 feet in 5 hrs!! He's an animal!!
I am obsessed with surfing and surfed almost every day we were there. Each day I rented a smaller board than the day before.

Raleigh and Carli~married

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Happy Halloween!

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Quin and Sam~formals

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Tyler and Alisha

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Lisa~bridals

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I LOVE my job!!!

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Julie

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Meet Julie Hill of Layers cakes. She does absolutely amazing work!!

Quin and Sam~engaged

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Shaw and Lindsay~engaged

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Wren and I are off to Maui for 10 days to shoot Shaw and Lindsay's wedding! I'm so excited, they are so fun to shoot! Then, I'm home for a couple of hours before flying to Texas with the Goodes to the Katy Ski Jam water ski tournament! I will return all calls and emails as soon as I get back on the 17th.

I am in love with Lindsay's Betsy Johnson dress and shoes!!!

http://www.goode.com/

My clients are BA!!!

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I came home after skiing a couple of sets this morning to find this on my front porch! I LOVE it!!!

John and Lisa~engaged

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This is Elephant Rock . I'm about 75 feet off the ground. John set all the pro so I would be nice and safe...

...I did start to worry a little though when they started talking about how to get me down!!!

TGAS and Carlo

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Last week I got to hang out with, take pictures of, and be coached by Thomas Degasperi, the 2011 world champion slalom skier!!! He and Carlo Allias were in town for the Goode records tournament. I snapped a few shots of he and Carlo before shooting them in the course as they skied around me. Then he watched me ski and gave some pointers that really helped me! He is an amazing teacher!

I have been so excited for this opportunity and my family, husband and water ski friends have had too much fun teasing me RELENTLESSLY about it! I'm hoping that the teasing will soon stop now that it is over!

I invited my good friend, David Perry to come along and capture it all on video. I had no idea he was going to do something THIS cool! I owe him big time!

Thomas and Carlo couldn't be any sweeter! I loved hanging out with both of them and am so glad to be able to call them my friends!

I also added a few shots from the records tournament.

Julie Parker Photography shoots TGAS from David Perry on Vimeo.

BTW, shooting insanely fast action shots with a tilt-shift lens is HARD!

I literally went weak in the knees after this shot and had to stop for a minute!

David aka Shooter MGavin

My girls are obsessed with him as well! He signed all of our skis for us.

Me and my BFF Dawn, who made it all possible!

I decorated for the tournament dinner. We did it on an island in the river!

Dave and Dawn Goode

National Champion Alison Poulsen

My buddy, pro skier, Kevin Lundell aka Kev-bot

Pro skiier Nick Parsons

My buddy Tylor Brenchley

My buddy Jessie Lundell and new buddy Shannon Strickland

The Chugg Family

2011-09-19T13:32:00.000-07:00

This is how you pick outfits...coordinating, but not matchy, matchy! Audry is a senior so we combined family/senior pictures in one! Plus, it's smart to get senior pictures done early while you are still tan!

Carli~bridals

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Kevin and Jessie

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The one thing I am more passionate about than photography is water skiing, and when the two combine....I am in heaven!! I have wanted to do this shoot with my friends, the Lundells for a while and I just love how they turned out!! They are both amazing skiers, although the vintage skis were a bit challenging!

Here's the video from the shoot again, in case you missed it!

Quinton and Mercedes~married

2011-09-09T07:00:00.000-07:00

Q and Mercie are the sweetest couple ever! I just love them to pieces!

You have to do this....

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To get this!

The Shupe family

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I love this family!!

Carli

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One of my many favorites from tonight's bridal session.

Stephanie Mabey

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A couple of years ago, I happened to sit next to Stephanie on a connecting flight out of Denver. We talked the whole flight and became instant friends. This girl is insanely talented and is about to release her album, "Wake Up Dreaming." She is doing a kickstarter project where she is trying to raise $7000 for her album. If she does not reach her goal of $7000, then she gets nothing. There are 43 days left to pledge and she still needs about $5500. Please check out this link to watch her darling kickstarter video and to pledge.

Dalton and Brooke~engaged

2011-08-30T08:45:00.000-07:00

Brooke is the daughter of one of my best friends in high school! It's crazy to me that we are old enough to have kids that are old enough to get married! These two were so fun to photograph! They gave me complete control and even humored me by letting me do some shots I have wanted to do for a long time in the sprinklers.

The Sutherland kids

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I wish my kids got along as well as these two do!

Baby Cooper

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This little nugget belongs to one of my very FAVORITE bride and grooms!

Searching....

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I shot these last night while we were searching for smooth water to ski on.

Raleigh and Carli~engaged

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Chris and Hanna~married

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Up next.....

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Back to school breakfast

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I mounted my Go Pro camera to my water ski. It's kind of a fun perspective!

Baby Tosh

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One from tonight's shoot.

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I LOVE it when couples give me creative control!!

The Jorde Family

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It's never too early to start thinking about Christmas cards!

Nick and Deven~married

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Kyle and Brianna~formals

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Nathan and Jenni~day after session

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I'm off to shoot Chris and Hanna's wedding at the Oakland Temple, then to San Fransisco for a few days for a little shopping in Haight/Noe Valley, lots of walking, breakfasts at the Pinecrest and Mama's, Gaemebows in Chinatown, Muir woods, etc., etc. I will return all emails and calls when I get back.

Quinton and Mercedes~formals

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Celebrity look-a-like contest winner~Blake Lively

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Whitney won the celebrity look-a-like contest that Stephanie Brinkerhoff and I held last month. I sent this inspiration board to Stephanie to give her a better understanding of what was in my head and as usual, she was spot on! Whitney was such a good sport! I have been wanting to use my new paddle board for a shoot and she was totally up for it.
Hair and makeup by Stephanie Brinkerhoff

I'm wondering if it's time to.....

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lose the bird and branch on my logo. Please help me out by voting yes or no on the poll below. Thanks!!!!

Nathan and Jenni~Pennsylvania wedding

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I think this is the longest blog post I have ever done...probably because this is one of my favorite weddings I have shot in a long time! I had so much fun with the bride and bride's maids! As you can see, they are all CRAZY! I wish I could get married again so I could have them all as bride's maids at my wedding!

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I love this shot of the bride from Saturday's wedding!

Photo Booth

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Photo booths are fun. This shot of me with the bride and groom cracks me up! I can't wait to share this wedding....LOVE these two!

I couldn't resist....

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sharing a few from today's celebrity look-a-like contest winner shoot. There are soooooooo many great shots and I will post more later!

Chris and Hanna~formals

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Chris and Hanna really wanted a picture of them in front of the C&H sugar factory because of their initials, but that place is like Fort knox!

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Remember these two? Well, I am off to Pennsylvania to shoot their ring ceremony and reception. I will answer all emails and calls on Monday.

Salt Lake City Temple workshop

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I had a great time with everyone! Once again, I forgot to get a group shot! Attendees: Once you post your images, put a link to your blogs in the comments.

I like to give a special thanks to Gateway Bridal and Prom for letting me borrow the beautiful wedding dress and thanks to Brianna and Kyle for modeling(I'll be doing their REAL bridals soon!)

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One from this weekend.

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One-on-one mentoring session

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Shannon came from No. Cal for a little one-one-mentoring. Here are a few shots from our session.

Utah Bride Blog feature

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Check out Kyle and Brianna's engagement session on Utah Bride Blog today! These two are so cute, they modeled for my SLC Temple workshop last night and did an amazing job! Thanks again you two!

And the winner is....

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Whitney Whitelock as Blake Lively! Watch for our upcoming shoot. This is going to be really fun! Thanks everyone for voting.

Last day to vote!

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Today is the last day to vote for your favorite celebrity look-a-like. You can vote by going to my business page and either leaving a comment, hitting the like button, or both.

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Aaron and Annique~wedding

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Celebrity look-a-like contest finalists

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These are the three finalists that Stephanie and I chose. Please take a minute and vote for your favorite by going to my FB page and leaving a comment(State if you are voting for Blake, Brooklyn, or Kathrine) You need to "like" my page in order to leave a comment.
The winner will get a free celebrity makeover and photo shoot! Voting will end on July 6th.

Blake Lively

Brooklyn Decker

Kathrine heigl

Quinton and Mercedes~engaged

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to enter the celebrity look-a-like contest!! CLick on the link for details. The last day to enter is Friday. I cannot believe the amazing entries we have had so far!

beach babe

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Circus styled wedding shoot!

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What a BLAST! I love collaborative photo shoots like this! This was Amanda Schelin of Branches Floral's brainchild. A bunch of photographers were invited to come and shoot it all. It was so much fun seeing some of my photog friends and meeting others in person! You'll notice my daughter Wren is the ringmaster. We had so much fun! Thank you to everyone who was involved with this shoot. A lot of work went into this and I hope everyone enjoys the images and it was worth it! Here are some credits:
Flowers: Branches
Invitations/party favors: Polkadots & Daisies
Wedding dresses: Gateway Bridal
Hair/Make up: Stephanie Brinkerhoff(Hair and Makeup by Steph), Flavia Palacios(Versa Artistry)
Cake:
I am probably missing some other credits, so if you see this let me know so I can add them!

I want his eyelashes.

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I love it when my brides have babies. It's always so fun to see them again!

contest

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Julie Parker Photography and Hair and Make-up by Stephare teaming up for a
GIVEAWAY!

The theme?
We want to see your
CELEBRITY LOOK-A LIKES!

If you have ever been told you look like someone famous -
an actress, musician, athlete, reality TV star, super model, ANYONE famous -
we want you to enter!

The winner will receive a free make-over,
transforming them into their look-alike, and then

strut their stuff in a
free fashion photo shoot with Julie!

Need some inspiration?
Check out this photo shoot inspired by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling in
the Notebook -http://greenweddingshoes.com/the-notebook-inspired-engagement-photos/
This could be you!

OR
If you don’t have a celebrity twin, you can enter anyone you know who has a celebrity look-alike.
If some one you enter is the winner,
you get a prize too!

-HERE’S HOW TO ENTER-

1. LIKE Julie Parker Photography AND

Hair and Make-up by Steph on Facebook.
2. Email us a picture of yourself (or whoever you are entering)
and tell us who your celebrity look-alike is.
Email your photos to - sbrinker88@gmail.com

That’s it!

On July 1st, three finalists will be chosen and posted on Facebook
where you get to vote for the winner!
Good luck! We are excited!

Contest ends on July 6th.
Photo shoot will take place in July in Ogden, Utah.

Melissa

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She is LITERALLY going to KILL me, but I had to post these!!

Kyle and Brianna~engaged

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Could these two be any cuter? GEEZ!!

One-on-one mentoring session

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Here are a few shots from another one-on-one mentoring session from last week. My daughters and my daughter's friends modeled for us. I love this first shot of my little girls!

Cosmo and Whit~engaged

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Actually it's and Keith and Whitney! Whitney was a cheerleader at BYU and Keith was Cosmo, the mascot! If Whitney looks familiar, it's because I just shot her identical twin sister's wedding a couple of months ago!

Get Schooled Workshops presents:

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*class fees non-refundable