Congrats to the Class of 2021 | Sandra Day O'Connor Eagle Pride Marching Band | Senior Banners!

Some of the seniors from the Eagle Pride band asked me to make their Senior Night Banners! Since my daughter graduated and all the craziness of the world befell us, I have missed seeing these young people and watching their program grow!! It was a super-secret night planned by their parents where their class is celebrated. I’m positive they had no idea why they came to my home studio for portraits right ;) Some parents make gorgeous, elaborate signs, so I am so honored that a group of parents asked me out for these 48”x36” vinyl poster for their students! I know how much this meant to me as a former EP parent to have one for my girl her last year in the program <3

I am just so glad they get to have their senior night after all the disappointments and events lost out on!! I pray for better healthier days for all of us and the very best for the class of 2021 as they tackle their new adventures!!!

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Projection: ra·di·ance in Music | Oonagh

Mylo Xyloto : Projection of original cover art for Mylo Xyloto by the artist Coldplay. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Parlophone, or the graphic artist(s), Coldplay, Paris and Tappin Gofton. http://coldplay.com/

““Music is simply a force that cannot be explained. It messes with our heads, it makes us feel different emotions, sometimes even physically changes us. Music unites us.” ”

— Adam Crouse, Reporter, BLHS Bobcat Network

Projection of original cover art for Neon Bible by Tracy Maurice and François Miron for Arcade Fire

Neon Bible is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was in North America by Merge Records. 

Artist: Arcade Fire

The artwork for the album is a photograph of a six-foot neon sign that the band commissioned for use while on tour. In the photograph used for the cover, the lighted Bible is caught in mid-flicker.[9] Rolling Stone named the artwork one of the five best of the year.[16] AOL Music cited the cover as an example of an artist "keeping artwork alive."[17] The artwork would go on to win Tracy Maurice and François Miron the Juno Award for best CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year.[18] Frontman Win Butler stated in an interview that the album title is derived from him being particularly attracted to the image, not from the John Kennedy Toole novel The Neon Bible.[2]

Release date: March 5, 2007

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Projection of original cover art for Neon Bible by Tracy Maurice and François Miron for Arcade Fire

Neon Bible is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was in North America by Merge Records.

Artist: Arcade Fire

The artwork for the album is a photograph of a six-foot neon sign that the band commissioned for use while on tour. In the photograph used for the cover, the lighted Bible is caught in mid-flicker.[9] Rolling Stone named the artwork one of the five best of the year.[16] AOL Music cited the cover as an example of an artist "keeping artwork alive."[17] The artwork would go on to win Tracy Maurice and François Miron the Juno Award for best CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year.[18] Frontman Win Butler stated in an interview that the album title is derived from him being particularly attracted to the image, not from the John Kennedy Toole novel The Neon Bible.[2]

Release date: March 5, 2007

best senior picture Places near me Phoenix Arizona take senior graduation pictures SDOHS High School Peoria Az Anthem high school portraits grad photographer Anjeanette Photography

Projection of original cover art for Neon Bible by Tracy Maurice and François Miron for Arcade Fire

Neon Bible is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was in North America by Merge Records.

Artist: Arcade Fire

The artwork for the album is a photograph of a six-foot neon sign that the band commissioned for use while on tour. In the photograph used for the cover, the lighted Bible is caught in mid-flicker.[9] Rolling Stone named the artwork one of the five best of the year.[16] AOL Music cited the cover as an example of an artist "keeping artwork alive."[17] The artwork would go on to win Tracy Maurice and François Miron the Juno Award for best CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year.[18] Frontman Win Butler stated in an interview that the album title is derived from him being particularly attracted to the image, not from the John Kennedy Toole novel The Neon Bible.[2]

Release date: March 5, 2007

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Anjeanette Photography-original cover art for Reflektor by Caroline Robert

Reflektor : cover art for the album Reflektor by the artist Arcade Fire. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Merge Records, or the graphic artist(s), Caroline Robert.

The cover art can be obtained from Merge Records.

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Above: Projection of original cover art for Neon Bible by Tracy Maurice and François Miron for Arcade Fire with Merge Records.

There has always been a place for rhythmic sounds that can communicate our feelings." Exploring your mind: Psychology

My daughter has a very hectic schedule. No, we really are not one of those who overschedule kid's, not that there is anything wrong with being an active family. She has passions and drive all her own thank you and we support them. But behind every drawing, every book or math problem has always been music. When daily life stress overwhelms her, she soothes with music either dancing with her headphones or drawing to music. When she is elated-music! No surprise she plays like a thousand instruments.

And in between, she puts up with me taking thousands of photos and documenting her passion and life. We had fun playing with a projector last week! On the occasion of Oonagh’s birthday, for the very very very tentatively titled "Oonagh's favorite songs" project we have been working on off and on for over a year. This in no way encompasses all the music she loves…hopefully the project will continue on!

Mylo Xyloto : Projection of original cover art for Mylo Xyloto by the artist Coldplay. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Parlophone, or the graphic artist(s), Coldplay, Paris and Tappin Gofton. http://coldplay.com/

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Anjeanette Photography-original cover art for Reflektor by Caroline Robert. Original cover art for the album Reflektor by the artist Arcade Fire. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Merge Records, or the graphic artist(s), Caroline Robert.

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This photo and background paper created by Anjeanette Photography. Original artwork & idea for BØRNS "Blue Madonna" photography and Album & singles covers are photographed by Chuck Grant (@Yourgirlchuck). Click small BØRNS below to get more info on BØRNS and where to find album (um, everywhere!)

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This photo and background paper created by Anjeanette Photography. Original artwork & idea for BØRNS "Blue Madonna" photography and Album & singles covers are photographed by Chuck Grant (@Yourgirlchuck). Click small BØRNS images above to get more info on BØRNS and where to find album

“Studies have shown that music can buoy your mood and fend off depression. It can also improve blood flow in ways similar to statins, lower your levels of stress-related hormones like cortisol and ease pain. Listening to music before an operation can even improve post-surgery outcomes.”

— TIME magazine

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Above: Projection of original art by JR: Everything Now installation for Arcade Fire. More about the artist JR and musical artists Arcade Fire here. This photography by Anjeanette Photography. Visit Arcade Fire

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Photograph by Anjeanette Photography. Original artwork projected: An Awesome Wave is an album by alt-J, released on 25 May 2012 through Infectious. The projected image of album artwork for An Awesome Wave is a multi-layered radar image of the Ganges river delta in Bangladesh.[5] The image in each of the three layers by the European Space Agency's Envisat Earth-observing satellite,

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Above: Ólafur Arnalds albums “Re:Member” (in blue) and “For Now I am Winter” (grey).

I could not locate album artwork artists.

A little about the images I photographed: For the B0RNS album, we built the cover design set with nothing but painted paper- even the white shirt is white lacey paper! Ok, ok the suit is fabric, and her hair obvs. Next for the remaining album or single track art homages, we used a projector, not Photoshop. I love PS, this just wasn’t how we got the album art up for this ;) Other tools used were strobe Flashpoint falshes, a triangle prism, plastic sheets and blue gel squares. Originally the idea to do this began from recent experiments with gel lighting, then later I looked it up and saw that there is so much truth to the saying "there is nothing new under the sun"- because it seems like everyone is getting some awesome artistic photography going with projectors recently!! Heck yeah! Don't worry about that, don't let the fact that there is nothing new that hasn't been done discourage you. Do it anyway, play with your art because it has never been done by YOU, and your voice like music is what unites us. SO, ANYWAY, I was checking out some Jake Hicks gel lighting tutorials on ProEDU (as recommended by David Byrd) ...and I saw a Jake Hicks projector mini tutorial. Then I started playing! I held up a piece of clear plastic for the ghosty white in two of these, and a prism for the one (bouncing it off the projector light because I was standing right next to it in that one- don't think it would work from another angle bc besides the strobe to light to light her face no light in the room) So you can totally get flare and prism and those effects really easily in PS and I do all the time, art is art! We were just playing and sometimes its fun to see what can happen “in real life” I tried a projector that was basically my phone in a fancy cardboard box and it did NOT get great results. We used an Epson digital for this that I borrowed from my husband's studio. The colour was fantastic! I ran into issues Jake mentions like chromatic abrasion on wall image (esp with BW lines etc) and the ‘screen door effect’ where you see pixels so I pushed the projector as close to her as possible and unsharpened (blurred) the focus a tiny bit and that helps. I would love to try with a film slide projector! I still have slides of my old work!! One part I love less but is basically a PART you cant control is shadows- so she def is going to cast a shadow duh hahahh! I didn’t want just straight ahead perspectives however so ya gotta live with those. A few others I used a second gelled strobe and that was really great. Sooooo much angling so that the strobe doesn’t wash out the projection! We got clear mod heels and the white painter coverall from Amazon. It was the smallest they had but still 10 sizes too big for my girl so there are a lot of pleats and a tape belt. Smoke and mirrors baby. Oooh, I should have used some mirrors! Staring camera info (I changed it up as needed throughout- play with it!) iso100, 35mm, f/1.4-2.8, 1/200ss Epson printer tethered to Mac using HDMI cord. Sometimes we messed with the perspective and blur knobs. All rights and respect go to the music and artistic directors and original artists of the original images! DIrect credit as I could find it below each image, original images projected are only belonging to the artists created them and those they have agreements with etc. None of the original artwork projected belongs to me..

Deer Valley Unified School District Marching Band invitational 2019 | ANJEANETTE PHOTOGRAPHY

The 2019 Band Invitational was such a success! Beautiful evening, beautiful music. Love seeing all the kids from all the awesome Deer Valley schools cheer each other on! Regardless of what happens on the field of competition, the high school marching bands of Deer Valley Unified School District- and all marching bands really, are comrades. they lift each other up, they cheer for each other, they applaud solos and get excited about guard tosses and intricate dot maneuvers. Marching band is more than just a sport- and yes its a sport look it up- it’s a team-building experience that positively leads young people and teaches them to be leaders. Go band!

Barry Goldwater High School Bulldogs

Boulder Creek High School Jaguars

Deer Valley High Skyhawks

Mountain Ridge High The Pride of the West

Sandra Day O’Connor Eagle Pride

Smoke Bomb Grenades | Add some fun colour and drama to your Phoenix senior portraits! | Anjeanette Photography Peoria, Az

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There is just something so epic about being enveloped in an aesthetic cloud of colour!

Long-time staple of the extreme sports and paintball worlds, smoke grenades took off as stunning photo props several years ago. And the products colours, consistency, and length of time you get to shoot while one release keeps getting more awesome!

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It's important that my seniors keep in mind that I have to follow important safety rules when using them- they fall into the same category as fireworks so I need to be sure to only use them in seasons when it is legal to use fireworks. In Phoenix, it is legal to set off novelty fireworks such as sparklers or smoke bombs in safe areas- like asphalt or concrete away from flammables. They can stain so keeping them away from garments or surfaces that are vulnerable (parking lots are perfect for smoke grenades) Regardless of the season or time of year I never use them in natural areas near grass, trees, etc- it's Arizona and basically almost always dry. I have used them on rocks if there is no brush, weeds, or sticks of any kind within a 100-foot radius. They are also expensive- they kind I use puts out a LOT of gorgeous amazing smoke and colour- but at $12 each for approximately 60-90 seconds we have to make every second of them count, and I only offer one per session if it is in an appropriate area.

Isabel Class of 2019 | Phoenix Senior graduation portraits | Anjeanette Photography Peoria

Another fantastic senior session with Isabel at the Desert Botanical Gardens! Izzy danced and posed, and twirled in blue smoke- so many great memories to deliver to her and her family this week!

Jayde Perry High School AZ | Phoenix Graduation Pictures & Senior Portrait session | Anjeanette Photography Peoria Az

I am so blessed to have met Jayde! I didn’t know that I had already met her twice- or at least my camera had- at WGI winterguarde competitions the past two season!

She is a fantastic young person, gorgeous in every way, and she did such an amazing job at her senior session with so many lovely looks and her spunky personality!

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Arizona Marching Band Portraits | Sandra day o'connor High School Band | Anjeanette Photography Arizona

It was my pleasure to be a part of the Media Team for the Sandra Day O’Connor Marching Band Fall 2018! Congrats on your achievements and growth during a challenging season- you have shown you can conquer anything!

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“Anjeanette Photography shot individual and group Sr. Pics for the Thundering Herd Marching Band this fall. I was very impressed with the consistency of the pics, creative setup shots and her editing process for final prints. My daughter liked working with Anjeanette for this group and individual poses. If you are looking for something that is outside the normal Anjeanette is for you. She is a photographer with the eye of an artist. ”

— JASON ELKINS, 100 CUPS CONSULTING