Brooke schultz

Hi friends! I’ve been cooking up some scarycool ideas and today they were just bustin’ out of me and I got so giddy–and now I need your help. I’m looking for a lovely couple who just can’t get enough of each other to model for a styled wedding shoot this fall in the Salt Lake City Utah area. You’ll be paid in the form of some pretty snazzy photographs of you and your favorite person. I’ll tell you that my work has been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Style Me Pretty, Ruffled, Wedding…

I'm what some might describe as a holiday junkie. I absolutely cannot get enough, so the minute I put away the turkey on Thanksgiving, my mind starts to wander the next holiday waiting in the wings. L...

Brooke Schultz Wild hearted OC, CA family photographer and educator

Brooke Schultz Wild hearted OC, CA family photographer and educator

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you know how i’m always talking about the same things? the heartbreak and joy of family, the duality of life–how we can’t sign up for heaps of happiness without also knowing intense pain? so, i’m not sick of talking about those even a little. but maybe you’re a tiny sick of hearing about them so i will say just one slice and move on. our family loving is so hard won. every minute we spin a web of what we ultimately create and all of this–these photos, the work i do–is simply my own attempt…

i could tell you how adorable becky kimball (yes, that becky kimball) and her family are, about their fab house, and glowy light, and blah, blah. but that’s not what I want to tell you about, as much as I want to tell you about heartache being the other side of this crazy joy we know as family. they are forever interlaced, two sides of the same coin, because to know one you have to be gutturally familiar with the other. you have to go to sleep with the ache of knowing that your mistakes will…

there’s a difference between pretty-ness and beauty. you probably already know that, but let me explain. beauty isn’t just a bigger grander version of pretty. It’s full of depth and knowing, like the way your mother is gorgeous to you because she’s lived, even though her body isn’t as “pretty” as it was when she was 18 and her face has lines now. when you look at her eyes you can see she’s known sorrow, big rivers of it–but that she’s strong and isn’t afraid to rip her heart open to huge joy…

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