your true colors – autumn landscape | fall at the st. louis temple

UPDATED 11/7/14: To make our temple photos easier to find, we've updated this post to include the Pre-Dawn Snowfall photograph ...

All three images are available for sale in the following two sizes*: 12"x8" ($30) and 16"x20" ($50), plus $6.00 shipping. 

For every 12x8 sold, we'll donate 25% of the proceeds to help purchase care kits for newborns and their mothers in Guatemala. For every 16x20 sold, we'll donate 50% of the proceeds.

Email your orders to photos@benandbeccalee.com.

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(Learn more about our parents' Guatemala humanitarian project here: https://www.crowdrise.com/quisieraayudar or here: http://kentandlorriesservice.wordpress.com/)

* Have a frame already picked out? Additional sizes may be available upon special request. Just ask!

pre-dawn snowfall over the st. louis temple | december 14, 2013

What a difference 10 minutes can make. When I initially got the camera set up to photograph the St. Louis Temple Saturday morning, the sky was pitch black. The first images were pretty – the trees glowed as they do here, and the flakes were large. Once I thought I had captured the image I had originally envisioned, I moved to a new angle to show more of the building. After 10 minutes, I noticed the sky was starting to gain a little color. And then this happened:

This print is available for sale, printed on metallic paper. Three sizes only: 12"x8" ($24), 18"x12" ($44), and 24"x16" ($84) plus $4.00 shipping. If you've never seen a photo on metallic paper, it's a sight to see – kind of like this was in person. 

Email photos@benandbeccalee.com or leave a comment on this blog post if you'd like to purchase one. 

happily ever after | the "a" team -- alex & alison oldroyd

A 2 min. 38 second stop-frame memory book of pretty much the cutest young couple in St. Louis, Mo. Married for time and all eternity in the St. Louis Missouri Temple in Town and Country, Mo., in October 2012.

Music by jewelbeat.com.

tech specs: nauvoo, illinois

50mm, f/5, 1/800 sec.

missouri trek 2012

After a week in Ohio at the 51st annual UPAA symposium, Saturday morning it came time to put into practice some new ideas (can you spot the free-lensing?). And there was no better place to do just that than middle Missouri on the fourth and final day of the St. Louis North Stake pioneer trek in Mark Twain National Forest. You can see more on Facebook if you're interested.

this should be a travel blog.

Having never really defined the the criteria for what we post here vs. what gets posted in our digital travel diaries, I feel I'm breaking a rule that doesn't exist. And I guess that means it's not really a rule at all.

Still, if a photo was shot while on vacation or, frankly, anytime either of is out of town, I think it should be posted on our other page. But who knows. Maybe someday soon we'll merge the two. It'd sure make life easier. And take some of the guessing out of blogging.

We all need fewer question marks in life anyway.