About carrieowens|photography:

Salt Lake City, Utah photographer Carrie Owens specializes in creating contemporary and custom portraits of newborns, babies, children, and families. Based out of her Sandy, Utah home studio she is available on location in the greater Salt Lake area.

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  • Loves it when a stranger at the grocery store goes out of their way to tell me how well behaved my children are...I so needed to hear that:)


  • sitting on the steps | draper children’s photographer | friday foto

    July 30th, 2010

    I couldn’t resist posting this pic of the little cutie on his front steps…I love how you can see the little sparkle of personality in his eyes.

    draper children's photographer

    christmas in july | holiday promotion | salt lake city family photographer

    July 27th, 2010

    Even though it’s incredibly hot and sticky out here in Utah, Target has started pushing their back to school stuff (which does make me happy)…which will soon lead to Halloween (the *very* best time of year!) and Thanksgiving and Christmas. And if you’re like me, once July is over the rest of the year just melts into one giant month of Augu-cember and it can be scary that those once grand ideas of getting all these things done before the holidays turns into your New Years Resolutions for 2011. I know, I’ve been there :) So this year…let’s plan ahead :)

    salt lake city family photographer holiday promotion 2010

    Call or email today to schedule your session and receive 25 complimentary holiday cards (a $40 value) with your favorite image from your session at no cost to you. This next week I’ll be taking pics…hoping for that perfect shot of my three, and maybe this year I’ll get my cards done early :)

    the a family | salt lake city child photographer

    July 25th, 2010

    I recently had the opportunity to photograph this beautiful family…their two sons are so much fun…the oldest is simply the perfect gentleman. He’s extremely well spoken and completely at ease with adults, a great kid to be around.

    salt lake city child photographer smiling boy in blue

    and his younger adorable brother…full of smiles and laughs once he warmed up a bit.

    draper child photographer boy in grass

    kidrobot | salt lake city photographer

    July 23rd, 2010

    a photo from our trip to South Beach in Miami…I loved the colors and the simplicity of this store so much…

    kid robot store in Miami

    and a photo of my desk now that it appears I collect toys…but how could you not? Beatrice is adorable!

    kidrobot toys on my desk

    Please stay tuned for regular blogging very soon :)

    ahh, cherries | salt lake city family photographer

    July 9th, 2010

    Looking out the window watching the three kids play with their dad in the backyard as I washed the cherries we had just finished picking from the tree I started to wonder…when they are grown, will this be a memory? Will this be something they remember? Will they think back on the summers of their childhood and think about the evenings where we picked cherries from the tree and played in the yard as a family? Will they believe it was something they did every day? every week? or just every so often? As I stood there watching them, I decided it didn’t matter…as long as they remembered.

    So please excuse the technically not perfect shot of the view I had while watching my family play…and yes, all three kids were out there…I just couldn’t get a shot with all of them without exposing the complete disaster of my kitchen :)

    the view from the kitchen window

    and here is the bowl (one of many) of cherries…I thought they looked so cool, each one a perfect little red heart…I don’t really like cherries though. Any ideas on what to do with them all????

    bowl full of cherries

    grand cayman | more cruise photos | salt lake city photographer

    July 7th, 2010

    One of our stops on our Carnival Cruise was to Grand Cayman. For this stop the family decided not to take an excursion from the boat and just find what we could find off the ship. Once we took our tender from the ship to the shore, there were lots of people begging for the passengers attention. We found a tour that would take us to the stingrays and for a little snorkeling, so 13 of the 15 of us decided to take a chance…

    grand cayman shore 2010

    The skies were a bit stormy while in Grand Cayman and we even got a little rain, which felt amazing with the heat and the humidity. I couldn’t get over the color of the water…for our tour we took a quick drive to where the tour guides had their boat and then boarded the boat for a drive out to the stingrays. I am now wishing that I would have done a little reading about the stingrays so that I would have been a little more prepared for our visit…and maybe a little less frightened.

    the stingrays at grand cayman

    stingray city Grand Cayman

    I was shocked that this “Stingray City” idea was simply a ton of boats each with a ton of people on some sandbar out in the middle of the water with a ton of stingrays. I was completely expecting something more…civilized. So before we’re getting off the boat, the guides are telling us to make sure we shuffle our *bare* feet along the sand and I’m sure she mentioned that it was so that we wouldn’t step on them or disturb them, perhaps so we keep them happy in their own water…so we get in the chest high crystal clear water and of course my children are not completely listening and are jumping around in the water and the other people are swimming and going after these stingrays, which is NOT what she told us to do. And Miss Rule Follower Carrie is shuffling her bare feet along this white sandbar and seeing these giant stingrays all around and slowly starting to freak out.

    stingrays in Grand Cayman

    Do you see how large some of them were? I will not share the photos that my brother in law took as they show a very freaked out Carrie (although they are quite humorous)…but if you’re my mom, you’ll see them someday :) So we’re in this water, the kids are having fun, Jarrod is having fun, my niece and nephew are having a great time chasing after these animals, my sister in law is trying to feed them…everyone who was on the boat and got in the water fails to see the creepiness of this adventure and are swimming around in bliss thinking this is all ok and a completely normal activity. And then one of their tails went across the back of my leg and it was all over. Jarrod said the look on my face told him everything and that he can’t remember a time that I looked so freaked out. He told me to get out of the water if I was so scared…I was already halfway back to the boat, to heck with all you people in the water, I was getting out of there. So now, looking back, I wish I would have somehow prepared myself so that I could have voluntarily touched one like my daughter did…or held one like my husband and oldest son each did. But instead I hung out for half the time in the boat with my smartest child Max as we watched these crazy people play with giant stingrays.

    grand cayman watching the stingrays

    After the stingrays we drove the boat to a different location for a little snorkeling and that was a lot of fun…tough with the little kids hanging on mom and dad, but something I would love to do again. The boat returned us to shore, the buses took us back to the port for the tenders to return us to the ship after we took in a little shopping. Overall, the trip was a huge success and the kids still find it extremely hilarious that their mother kind of lost it. Good times for all.

    tender to take passengers back to the carnival ship

    on a mission… | salt lake city family photographer

    July 3rd, 2010

    I was asked to take some family photographs of this beautiful family as they appeared just days before their second oldest son left on his mission. It was great to visit them in their home and take advantage of their beautiful front yard. We had intended to make sure we got some family shot…which I will post some of those in another post…but also focused on some individual shots as well.

    mother & father on the front bridge

    the oldest of 5 brothers

    brother 2 salt lake city family photographer

    third oldest brother on rock in front yard

    fourth oldest brother

    youngest brother on a rock

    blue eyed brothers in the front yard

    sweet girl in pink on a rock

    close up of girl in pink

    beautiful mother and daughter

    cruise photos | family fun

    June 30th, 2010

    I wanted to share some images from our recent cruise…be prepared, this is a long and lengthy post with lots of images to keep the family happy :)

    carnival cruise ship Desitny

    I loved the lines of the ship and had a shot in mind, but with the camera and lens I brought, it wasn’t happening…the above shot ended up doing theĀ  job.

    port of miami carnival cruise

    The port of Miami was full of so many boats and the weather was beautiful.

    carnival cruise to jamaica

    I love how little Maxie is trying to see over the edge…the wind was fierce as we looked over the edge after leaving the Port of Miami.

    faux tattoo on boy

    As we were wandering around the ship that first afternoon, the video guy stopped us and asked if one of our kids wanted one of the airbrush tattoos for free in exchange for being on tv…of course Jack was thrilled with the idea and got a blue-green scorpion.

    carnival destiny in Jamaica

    Another shot of the boat…love the little sun flare :)

    the bay in Jamiaca

    The colors in Jamaica were beautiful, the deep greens, the amazing colors of the water…the bright white buildings tucked into the hillside…loved it there.

    the water in jamaica

    There were many booths set up by the locals for shopping, however we took a trip to Dunn’s River Falls to hike up the falls. We couldn’t bring our cameras along for the hike, so I didn’t get any images of the long chain of people hiking up the falls…including Claire who braved the trip after a nasty fall in a waterfall last summer resulting in several stitches in her knee (twice). We were so proud of her! :) And all of us…it was a pretty steep climb in some spots, but our guide took great care of us and got us to the top.

    shopping in Jamaica

    After the falls we headed to a beach to swim and eat and play in the ocean…

    child on the beach in Jamaica

    snorkeling in Jamaica

    And tomorrow I will hopefully post images from Grand Cayman and the rest of the trip…

    what to wear wednesday for families | salt lake city family photographer

    June 30th, 2010

    a little family wednesday what to wear for you all, again from my very talented photographer friend Kelsey Anderson from Las Vegas.

    what to wear for families in salt lake cityComing soon…a little sneak peek from an amazing family session and some cruise/vacation pics :)

    home again | salt lake city photographer

    June 27th, 2010

    just got home last night from a very fun filled trip…more to come soon.

    carnival cruise to jamiaca and grand cayman

    salt lake city photographer in jamaica

    salt lake city child photographer in jamaica

    we had an AMAZING trip, a cruise to Jamaica and Grand Cayman..lots to tell…took lots of photos, have lots to share, but first I must attend to the laundry pile :)

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