• Welcome!

    Hello everyone!

    My name is Charro Benteau and this blog is where I keep my latest news and previews into my most recent photography sessions.

    With the beginning of a new season, we decided to update our website and blog with a newer look for us and I hope you enjoy it. 

    Please visit the portfolio section to view our website and I would love to hear from you so please feel free to comment on the blog.

    A big thank you to Charla Maarschalk for the beautiful photographs she took of me and my family that you see to the left. 

Deanne & Mitchell

Congratulations Deanne & Mitchell! Deanne and Mitchell are getting married this summer and wanted to have some pictures taken to use in the design of their invitations. I’ll have to remember not to make any jokes about tossing Deanne into water on their wedding day because Mitchell takes direction a little too well!  When I jokingly told him to push Deanne into the snow he did!! Not once but THREE times.  Deanne had her revenge in the end and managed to get him buried in snow as well.  Thanks for being so much fun!

Cathy & Keith ~ December 19th, 2009

Congratulations Cathy & Keith!  Cathy and Keith were married in Avondale on a very snowy Saturday but luckily the weather held off during the middle of day so everyone was able to make it to the wedding and reception!  Cathy was such a sweetheart and was a real trooper when it came to getting pictures taken outside.  It was so cold I could barely hold my camera and she was out there in a strapless dress!  Good thing Keith has such big arms to wrap you up in!   Thank you to the parents for your hospitality and being so nice and to Cathy’s Dad, who managed to get me out on the dance floor before we left that was a first!  Next time we are in Avondale we will drop in!

Thank you Cathy & Keith for being such great sports, we had so much fun shooting your wedding!  You two are amazing together, a true childhood romance story come true.  I wish you all the best in the years to come. 

Albert & Leslie ~ “Day After Shoot”

Albert and Leslie were married on October 17th, 2009.  Prior to the wedding they had decided they wanted to do a “Day After Shoot.”   We didn’t do this the “day after” the wedding, we waited until we had a nice day in November and headed out to shoot some of the places we didn’t have time to get to on the day of their wedding.  Having a picture with their dogs (Standard Poodles) was very important to them but not practical on the wedding day;  so we visited their two very excited and happy puppies in-between locations!  Would you have guessed such big dogs would have banana’s as their favorite treat??  It was a pleasure spending another day with the two of you (and Ali too!) I wish all of you much happiness in the years ahead! 

Jennifer & Trent!

Congratulations Trent & Jennifer on your upcoming wedding!  I know these are a bit late going up, but better late than never!   Trent and Jennifer were so much fun to shoot with.  There is something about the way they look at each other that just makes you smile when you watch them together.  I can’t wait to see you guys in the spring for part two of this session and then in seven short months the big day will be here!!

Nathan!

 

Nathan came in with his Mom and Dad (Natasha & Steve) for some pictures for a Christmas Card!  Nathan was such a little sweetheart and very pleasant to work with!!  I love the staredown with the bear picture, the set of those is really quite funny! Thank you to Steve and Natasha who also jumped in for a picture or two!  I can’t wait to see Nathan in the spring when he turns one!!  Merry Christmas Natasha, Steve & Nathan!

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