November and December have been wonderful months up here in the mountains. Record early season snowfall totals have taken the edge off the winter slowdown and a couple of new corporate clients didn’t hurt either. Champagne Family Dentistry contacted me to take photos for their website update and new brochures. They had previously been using canned stock images of people with big white smiles, and while a few of those are still appropriate for their website, they wanted to show what their office actually looked like using their dentists and clients. I can’t say enough good things about these guys. What immediately struck me, was that this was one of the most modern dental offices I have ever been in. Full electronic records that you can fill out online, automatic appointment reminders to your email or mobile device, state of the art equipment, and a very nice staff. They are in the process of updating their website with images from the recent shoot.

Kaia Fit is a company started in Minden/Gardnerville and South Lake Tahoe which now encompasses a small chain of women’s-only training and fitness centers in the California and Nevada area. The founders contacted me after seeing some of my action and adventure photography and we talked about the look they were aiming for with their new website and company expansion. The idea was to create a series of images that would both show the nature and activities of their classes (they do a lot of outdoor fitness trainings sessions using the natural environment,) and also produce a series of images that could be used as posters and decoration at the various studios to give them a sense of continuity. The images are also destined to be used in their printed materials. They have not yet updated their website to include any of the images we shot, but that should come after the new year. This is a fun group of gals, serious about making fitness both functional and enjoyable.