Troxler Multimedia Portrait Portfolio

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Gale Girls Once upon a time there were two sisters whose fun-loving grandma wanted pictures that captured not only their “sister bond” but their individual personalities! For the Gale Girl shoot we took advantage of the natural diffused light created by the canopy of a stand of ancient cottonwood trees that one sometimes nds in the sand creek beds of the eastern Colorado plains.

Mercedes Of all the portraits I've done, these of Mercedes are among my favorites. We had to talk Mercedes into these particular shots because the ones she asked for— like any “horse girl” — were with her favorite horses from that summer of working for us. I'm glad she humored us, and after the horses were put away, she settled against one of the power poles in our Colorado pasture and gave us amazing expressions of female strength and determination as she looked down the lens.

Jamie There's a denite bit of irony in the fact that the ladies in my life are—at best—reluctant muses and none more so than our Jamie Rae. This made for some challenging photo shoots because Jamie is an otherwise perfect choice to work into my equine photography because she is an extremely skilled horse wrangler.

Jamie was tapped to assist in many of our photo shoots but was always much happier off camera than as a model.

For more about this particular photo shoot check out the blog post on Troxler MultiMedia.

Kelly Waterfalls provide a great backdrop for portraits and in the Fingerlakes region of New York you are spoiled for choice when it comes to options of locations. For Kelly's senior portrait the choice was Buttermilk Falls in the autumn. We shot many standard poses that day, and having done the shots that Kelly had envisioned we had the chance to try for some creative imagery. We found a nice at rock in the creek, had Kelly take whatever positions were comfortable and went for it. This shot was at the very end, when we asked Kelly to just “put your hair up quick”—and this happened.

Paige When I say that this picture of Paige is entirely due to “serendipity” it's the absolute truth. The setting was Seaside Beach in New Jersey, and the objective of the day was to shoot Paige's mom with their black Arabian stallion. At this point in the shoot I was some distance down the beach doing just that while Kath was watching Paige simply enjoy her moments on the beach in the way we all should. By nding the amazing in everything around her. Being a well-oiled team, Kath saw the picture that she hoped I could get and one quick call turned me around and I saw it as well.

Chris In 2014 we attended The Return of the Redtails at Wings of Eagle Discovery Center in Horseheads, NY. I was there to get a very speciď€ c shot, and this portrait of Chris isn't it. When we headed out that day I didn't know that in addition to historic vintage aircraft and honored WWII veterans, there would be WWII era re-enactors and Chris was one of them. He posed with a vintage army staff car as well.

Dean Dean Ottaway was the reason we learned about the Return of the Redtails event. A relative contacted us because they wanted pictures of him at the event and couldn't attend in person and asked if we could get the photos they wanted. That was an easy yes! Especially when we learned the details of Dean's story and the reason he was attending.

Dean had been a Top Turret Gunner and Assistant Flight Engineer on a B-24 Liberator Bomber in the 782nd Squadron of the 365th Bomb Group and ew his 25th Mission on his 19th birthday, November 20, 1944. The Mustang pilot’s duty was to protect these heavy bombers as they ew their missions and while Dean never knew if any of these men were the actual pilots that would have own escort for his B-24 but that did not matter. These amazing men were part of Red Tails and that was good enough for Dean!

It was a long day. Interesting and fascinating but the line to shake hands with these ne veterans snaked around the room. The challenge to get the shot came from the fact that I needed to be unobtrusive. Get the shot, yes. But this was their moment, not mine.

Luck was with me, and when Dean leaned over the table to shake hands with Dr. Roscoe Brown, no one stepped in front of my camera.

Cayla I actually approached Cayla to pose for me because I had some new lighting equipment that I wanted to shoot with. On top of that, she had new Harley 883 Sportster that she was very proud of and had worked hard to acquire. This made for a really fun shoot.

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- Jean-Luc Godard

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