Latest Scramblings

Been scrambling up a lot of mountains lately. One to fulfill

a new years resolution, and the others to just see the

beautiful state I live in and to keep with being active this

summer.

The first Mountain scaled being Mt. Olympus in SLC. Yes,

the mountain of the Gods. One would think we scaled it to

be recieved at the summit with ambrosia and nector but

no....all we got was trail mix and sweat (and maybe a little

bit of tears). Instead of getting more and more heavenly

the close we got to the heavens, it actually got more and more

like "another place". A hot place. We were sweltering. (it

was the first day that UT got up to the 100's in temp) and

all of us except for my dad became all of the seven dwarfs

except for Happy (dad got to be Happy, dang it!) at one time

or an other. I was probably Grumpy longer than anyone. Kate,

Reece, and I all became Dopey around the time we crawled

through the doors of the closest 7eleven eight hours later,

zombie-like moaning for our life giving slurpies. Its not that

we are out of shape.....well maybe a little....but mostly I guess

it came down to expectations, dont make our mistake

venturing out on this hike looking for a quick 2 hours up

2 hrs back hike. Go expecting an elevation gain of 4000

ft in 3 miles one way and more than half of that scrambling

up large rocks. Then you should be fine. I think.

The second half of the hike the trail was lined with wild

roses, maybe we should have stopped to smell them more.

My next hike was just up the street in American Fork

Canyon. We hiked up to Sliver Lake. Beautiful hike,

not to hard but not a simple jaunt either. And again

let me say, beautiful hike. I loved it. This is one

I will do often from now on. Walking through forests of

aspens, passing reservoirs and lakes, wild flowers....

delightful.

Boating

Thank you to the Dearths for taking us out on the Lake.

It has been a long time since I have been on a wakeboard,

boy was it fun to be back at it again. The water

was cool but not so cold that you were

shivering while waiting for the boat

to swing around.

So refreshing and wonderful company.

thanks guys.

Oooo It was so fun to board with Kelly at the same time.

Something that I have never done before.

We will have to practice a routine, I think we could

be amazing.

About to be "born"...

The new site is almost done being constructed

click on the image to be sent to what has

been built so far....let me know what you think.

There is a lot of new work on there, so

check it out.

Note: the domain for this new site will soon be

www.bethanymadisonstudios.com

so if you want to see my business site from

a few days and on go to that site and not

www.bethanymadison.com

that site has been old news for awhile now.

My email however will still remain

bethany{at}bethanymadison{dot}com

thanks.

Vintage

{Speaking of dressing up and posing my sisters...

this is my oldest sister that I photographed

for a project Im doing for my grandmother.

Isn't she beautiful?}

Jens Im still trying to find the fashion pics I took of you

if I cant find them soon I guess we will just have

to do another shoot.....which I actually

have already planned....

Alohamora: HP6

{Alohamora being the only spell that I can remember go here and look

for your favorite}

On the opening day of the new Harry Potter and the Half

Blood Prince we had ourselves an official Hogwarts

celebration feast and one hilarious HP photo booth jubilee.

I love getting into themes, throwing parties, and being

totally excited for a movie....so this magical evening was just

my thing. Our feast was complete with butter beer, pumpkin

juice, lemon garlic and thyme chicken drumsticks, sweet

potato swirled with regular white mashed potatoes, black

berry demi glaze, homemade butter flake rolls, and

butternut squash and cinnamon soup. All toped off with

miniature pies al a mode.

{everyone got their own Felix Felicis luck potion

to be used for those opportune moments}

For the photo booth pics I had knitted 2

griffindor scarves to go along with the 1

sorting hat, 2 school girl jackets, 4 pairs

of HP glasses, 1 flying broomstick, 1 creepy

dementor, 1 very real and hyper witch's cat,

3 gilded spell books, and lots of butter beer

in pewter steins to get a little tipsy off of.

{Clarification: butter beer = bottle of

cream soda with a cork in it}

Thanks to you all that got into the

party and made it so fun. And ooooo,

I LOVED the movie.

Helpers {2}

Thank you also to a my sweet husband who has

allowed photography to be such a large

part of our life together. Thank you for

helping find all the right gear, for packing up

and carting all that gear around the world,

for being my translator on our travels,

for taking up photography to be with me,

for helping shoot all those weddings,

for assisting me on so many shoots,

for making all my subjects laugh and

feel comfortable while I was busy figuring out

exposure, for setting up the huge database of

external storage to store and organize all

my images, for making me feel like nothing

is impossible.....thank you, and I love you.

{Us shooting our first wedding, and me on a train

in Japan with all our gear}

{Reece has become such an amazing photographer,

he also has helped so much by relieving me of the

stress of documenting all the places we go perfectly,

so many times Im down trodden because I couldn't

capture something the way I wanted to,

and then Reece shows me the images he got....

and I can relax....my husband can capture beauty..

and it makes me happy}

thanks also to my lil sis for all her help with the

lavender shoot, as well as endlessly playing

the model for me. Oh all those times I would dress you up

and pose you, you are so patient. Im so glad that you

also have taken up photography as well

I always knew you would be a

natural. check out her images here....

Helpers

Thank you Mom and Dad for all your help

in my many photographic ambitions.

From holding reflectors, to holding lights,

to holding props and sitting through

long shoots,

to staying up all night attaching photographs to

Japanese scrolls.

Im where I am because of you.

So good at finding and reflecting that light,

although dad seems

to make my subjects laugh more than usual.

Beautiful Friends + Beautiful Location = Fantastic Fashion Shoot

Thank you ladies! you were all

so wonderful to photograph.

Lavender will always be

glamorous to me from now on.

Kitch helped me be part of the fun

and photographed me

although I didn't feel as glamorous

as all the other gals, it was still

fun, thanks mom and dad for

holding the props and reflector

for my shoot.