This video shows the best images from our on-location vintage photo shoot with our high school senior model Tessa Alexander . We selected three outfits and ventured out to a location in downtown Phoenix. Tessa looked awesome in and around the silver bullet trailer, vintage lawn furniture and old architectural elements. The vintage video style perfectly reflects the look of the images we created on our trip. The music is by Beckah Shae - Faith, Hope & Love and is licensed for use in this video.
We are still accepting applications for 2012 high school senior models! You can find out more about this program at our senior site: ArizonaSeniorPhotos.com.
Here is a shot from our photo session today on location with Lee Anderson, author of Developing theArt of Equine Communication. This book is in the early production stages. We will be presenting sample images to the publisher for possible use on the cover with additional images for inside Lee's book. Lee is an expert horse trainer, author, "living historian" and re-enactor. You can find out more about Lee at his site: http://historicaloldwest.org/
Bob Davis (1-26-36 to 12-21-2011) passed away recently after fighting his battle with cancer. Bob was a very unique individual, as you may gleen from these images and I was happy to call him a friend. We did a photo session with Bob late last year before he became ill. As a result, we have these wonderful images to remember him by. I hope you enjoy these beautiful portraits of Bob we created and later made into this memorial video. The song is Guardian Angel by Leah West and is licensed for use by Apatrou Photography for this video.
Tessa is one of our new 2012 Senior High School Models. She received a free photo session and a discount on all products including prints, albums, canvas and metal prints and more. I think she would tell you how much fun she had and I can tell you she did a fantastic job. Just watch her video and you'll see all of her best images and some really great video clips. We are looking for more senior models for this school year. If you are an active senior you can contact us by email and find out more about the senior model program.
Here are several images from a recent High School Senior session with Tessa. We have a new web site just to consolidate all of our senior images, music videos, and information here: arizonaseniorphotos.com. We will be adding several recent 2012 galleries and two new music videos!
We have been working on a ballet art film for several months titled La Lettre (The Letter). The film debuted at the Rebel FREE4ALL Film Festival at Pollack Tempe Cinemas on August 11th, 2011. La Lettre won for Best Cinematography! This was our first project of this type and I think we will be doing more of this in the future. This was a great learning process for our studio and I think we blew away most of the competition with the beauty and quality of our imagery. Our film starred Katelyn Konderik, who was also our choreographer, along with Arianna Lee, Salem Ramirez, and Julia Ruiz. Our young dancers came to us via the School of Ballet AZ. The music was performed by Dr. Lynne Haeseler and was recorded just for the film. The pieces used are the Chopin Valse and Etude in Eb. If you are dancer and would be interested in working with us in a future film project, please contact us by email with your information. Note: We have a limited number of La Lettre DVD's and film posters available in our studio.
Here is a review of La Lettre by William Pierce, Phoenix Indie Films Examiner, August 13th, 2011
La Lettré – Allen Patrou
"A great film to begin the evening with, Patrou presents a very well shot figure study of a ballerina (Katelyn Konderik) in a wide range of moods and colors. Exquisitely lit and exposed, the dancers seamless transitions from the inorganic indoors to the dreamy, misty and colorful outdoors (Boyce Thompson Arboretum) are smooth and relaxing. The prop and dialog (“Oh!”) almost ruined it for me, as this dancing visual delight needed no extra topping.
