It’s been a while since I have blogged, with the holidays we have just been so busy with everything I have not had a chance to! So today is the day, I finally have a little down time so I thought I would share JoAnn and Marco’s family portraits. These two are getting married next year so we did a combined engagement session and family portrait session out at Nelson Ghost town. It is such a cool unique location that I just can’t get enough of! Here are some of my favorite images from their session!
December 21, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Engagement Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Nelson Ghost Town Photography | Tags: 2012, barn, candid, candid family photo, car, ceremony, child, couple, desert, eldorado canyon, fall, families, family, family photo nelson, ghost town, gomoxiestudio, henderson nevada family photo, image, inspired, kid, kiss, Las Vegas, Las Vegas engaged, Las Vegas engagement, Las Vegas family, las vegas family photo, las vegas family photographer, las vegas photographer, las vegas photography, Lisa Derfler, magazine, marriage, married, me, mine, mining, moxi, moxie, Moxie Studio, moxy, nelson, Nevada, old, outdoor, outdoors, park, People, photo, picture, playful, portrait, pose, pretty, relaxed, relaxed family photo, ring, session, son, studio, style, styled, Summer, teen, theme, themed, Vegas, vintage | Leave A Comment »
Emilee contacted me after her super awesome fiance’ proposed to her and they were headed to Las Vegas to celebrate. She wanted her engagement photography to be more urban and downtown was a perfect fit. Here are some of my favorites!
July 31, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Fremont Street Photography, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Headshots and Portrait Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: balloons, Blue; Derfler; Las Vegas; Lisa; Moxie; Moxie Studio; Vegas; after; asian; barn; bath; beautiful; bed; bride; brides; candid; car; ceremony; cinema; cinematographer; clark; clouds; county; couple; dese, dog, downtown, modern, styled, themed, urban, vintage | Leave A Comment »
This is my second time photographing this awesome couple, first was last year for their Christmas portraits when we headed up to Mount Charleston and now this year they are ENGAGED!!! We are so excited for Rhi and Perry! They are such an amazing couple that complement each other perfectly. Here are some of my favorites!!!
July 28, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Headshots and Portrait Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Nelson Ghost Town Photography, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: balloons, Blue; Derfler; Las Vegas; Lisa; Moxie; Moxie Studio; Vegas; after; asian; barn; bath; beautiful; bed; bride; brides; candid; car; ceremony; cinema; cinematographer; clark; clouds; county; couple; dese, dog, styled, themed, vintage | Leave A Comment »
Amy and Owen were married earlier this month at the Golden Nugget Hotel Wedding Chapel in downtown Las Vegas. The Golden Nugget supplied their own photographer for the wedding ceremony but we were there to capture them getting ready and to take some fun photos around Fremont Street after the wedding. Here are a few of my favorite photos from their wedding day!
Amy and Owen also had a very big announcement to make that evening at their wedding dinner. They are expecting! Congratulations guys!
May 30, 2012 | Categories: Fremont Street Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: art, beautiful, blue heels, boneyard, candid, clark, colorful, county, derfler, district, downtown, dress, fremont, golden nugget, golden nugget las vegas wedding photo, gomoxie, gomoxiestudio, groom, hotel, lake las vegas, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Wedding Photographer, Las Vegas Wedding Photography, lisa, lobby, married, moxie, Moxie Studio, museum, neon, Nevada, outdoor, outdoors, photo, photography, picture, portrait, pretty, sign, street, studio, sun, vintage, wedding, woman | Leave A Comment »
Tess and Nathan were married last month at the Misora at the Platinum hotel in Las Vegas NV. If you have never been there or heard of it check it out, it is a really unique alternative option to the traditional wedding location. It was so beautiful overlooking the Las Vegas Strip but had a really cool, hip vibe being up on the rooftop. It was a perfect fit for Tess and Nathan!
During the hustle and bustle of everyone getting their hair and makeup done I stepped into where Tess’ dress was and found Nathan’s daughter admiring her dress and holding it up next to Tess’ wedding gown. She was so cute!
Tess’ shoes were AMAZING! I have to admit I have a thing for shoes, lol, but c’mon what girl doesn’t. Tess took the time to bling her shoes out and they looked stunning!!!
Nathan is such a romantic as their officiant began their ring exchange he was handed the rings. When Tess saw the rings she was rather confused and stated that it was not her ring, everyone around began to giggle, Tess still confused and convinced this was not her ring stated a few more times, this was not her ring. Nathan with a huge smile on his face said no this IS your ring, then you see the happy shock on Tess’ face because the diamond was so big! It was seriously one of those moments that still makes me tear up.
Their first dance was such a romantic setting outside overlooking Vegas. The lights were beautiful and twinkling all around them.
They also shared a special Father Daughter dance between Tess and her Father and Nathan and his daughter, it was again such a sweet moment.
Congratulation Tess and Nathan! We have loved being able to photograph the two of you and share in so many special moments!
If you would like to see more of Tess and Nathan, check out their awesome vintage themed engagement session here!
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May 23, 2012 | Categories: Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Photography | Tags: after, allure bridal, alternative, beautiful, best, bow, bowties, bride, bridesmaid, candid, ceremony, cinema, cinematographer, clark, company, county, derfler, destination, diamond, dress, edgy, film, flare, glam, glamour, gomoxiestudio, grass, gray, grey, groom, groomsmen, high flyin' entertainment, hollywood, husband, Jamison, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Wedding Photographer, Las Vegas Wedding Photography, lavender, lights, lisa, marriage, married, misora, moxie, Moxie Studio, Nevada, outdoor, outdoors, party, photo, photographer, photography, picture, platinum hotel, plum, portrait, pretty, primrose lane flowers, professionals, purple, rated, retro bakery, review, rockabilly, roof, rooftop, session, shoot, silver, spring, state, strip, studio, sun, tie, top, Vegas, Vegas Wedding Photo, video, videographer, videography, vintage, voted, vow, water, wed, wedding, wife, woman, young | 1 Comment »
I first spoke with Jessica and Chris at the Beautiful Bride Expo when I recognized Jessica, but for the life of me I could not figure out where I knew her from. She thought for a few minutes and looked through our albums when she realized that some of the prints that were displayed at the booth were ones she had printed at her lab. Las Vegas can be such a small world! Turned out she was admiring my photography when she was printing it! Shortly after they reserved their wedding photography with us and we scheduled their engagement photography session. They wanted to do something different that not everyone else had done which I was totally game for. We headed over to the Clark County Heritage Museum in Henderson NV for their photos. We had some fun with all the vintage decor and props which fits in perfectly to their vintage hollywood glam themed wedding this winter.
I LOVE Jessica’s eyes! They are so haunting don’t ya think?
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May 21, 2012 | Categories: Clark County Heritage Museum Photos, Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: 2012, caboose, car, clark, clark county heritage museum, derfler, desert, engaged, Engagement, gomoxiestudio, house, image, Las Vegas Couple Photography, las vegas engagement photographer, Las Vegas engagement photography, marriage, moxie, Moxie Studio, Nevada, old, outdoor, park, photo; photographer, photography, picture, portrait, pretty, red, spring, state, street, sweet, tatoo, trailer, train, tree, vintage, wall, wedding, woman, young | Leave A Comment »
I feel so honored that Neal and Nicole’s engagement session is being featured on so many blogs as of late. This is the first time I have ever submitted my work and needless to say I will be submitting all of my shoots from here on out. Here is the feature from The Collection Event Studio. Be sure to check out their blog for tons of wedding and event ideas!
April 17, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV | Tags: balloons, blog, Blue; Derfler; Las Vegas; Lisa; Moxie; Moxie Studio; Vegas; after; asian; barn; bath; beautiful; bed; bride; brides; candid; car; ceremony; cinema; cinematographer; clark; clouds; county; couple; dese, dog, event, feature, ideas, press, studio, styled, the collection, thecollectioneventstudio, themed, vintage | Leave A Comment »
I was thrilled when collages.net contacted me and said they wanted to feature Nicole and Neal’s engagement session as website of the week! It truly is such an honor! If you would like to see the entire shoot be sure to go check it out here!
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April 16, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Uncategorized | Tags: balloons, blog, Blue; Derfler; Las Vegas; Lisa; Moxie; Moxie Studio; Vegas; after; asian; barn; bath; beautiful; bed; bride; brides; candid; car; ceremony; cinema; cinematographer; clark; clouds; county; couple; dese, collages.netthe collection, dog, event, feature, ideas, press, studio, styled, themed, vintage | Leave A Comment »
Carlos and Jennifer attended the Las Vegas Bride Expo and won a free engagement photo shoot from us.
I was thrilled when she called and told me the theme of her wedding which is summer days and starry nights. Immediately I thought of an image I had seen before by another Las Vegas Photographer and thought I would
love to create something similar. So we headed out to the dry lake bed for their engagement photo shoot.
We were a little short on daylight as poor Jenn and Carlos’ car broke down on their way out to the shoot 
Luckily they made it just before the sunset and we made those 10 minutes count! But the night sky and stars
were amazing once the sun was down.
I can’t remember the last time I saw such a beautiful sky! Living in vegas we don’t get to see the stars much so this was a real treat for us. Seriously people if you need a romantic relaxing night away from Vegas, go to the lake bed set up some blankets and just look at the stars! They are so bright out there!
March 23, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Photography | Tags: affordable, Blue; Derfler; Las Vegas; Lisa; Moxie; Moxie Studio; Vegas; after; asian; barn; bath; beautiful; bed; bride; brides; candid; car; ceremony; cinema; cinematographer; clark; clouds; county; couple; dese, bride, cheap, derfler, dry lake, Engagement, gomoxiestudio, image, jean, Las Vegas, modern, moxie, Moxie Studio, Nevada, night, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, session, silhouette, sky, star, stars, state, studio, styled, themed, Vegas, vintage, wedding | 2 Comments »
I met up with Nicole,Neal and their dog Sumo yesterday for their engagement photo session out at Nelson ghost town. I have been editing the images today and just love how they are turning out! Here is a little teaser but stay tuned in the coming days for the full blog post!
March 15, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Nelson Ghost Town Photography | Tags: balloons, Blue; Derfler; Las Vegas; Lisa; Moxie; Moxie Studio; Vegas; after; asian; barn; bath; beautiful; bed; bride; brides; candid; car; ceremony; cinema; cinematographer; clark; clouds; county; couple; dese, dog, styled, themed, vintage | Leave A Comment »
I met Frank and May at the Beautiful Bride Expo in Las Vegas this past January. When they emailed to book their engagement photography session I was thrilled and knew we would be in for a fun session. These guys made being a photographer too easy, they were so natural in front of the camera and together. Frank is a true romantic in every way and it just pours out of him when he is with May. I love to hear proposal stories so I had to find out how this romantic proposed to his lovely fiance’ and I was not disappointed 
He whisked her away to Catalina Island where they had a magical day together and then he asked May how her day was so far and she said perfect, then he said well lets make it even better and asked for her hand in marriage! So sweet!
For their session we headed to the Neon Boneyard Museum which is always a treat! Love, love, love this place! It is so cool to see all the vintage signs and history of Vegas.
Afterwards we finished up their engagement session down around Fremont Street.
This story behind this shot. We stepped into the dark alleyway to do a few photos when Frank and May saw the 111, this seems to be a theme with them! They said everywhere they go they always end up with the number 1 or 11 or 111 etc, how funny! I swear I don’t remember ever seeing this address next to this spot and I take photos here often. Sometimes I think things are just meant to be and on this day I believe Frank and May were meant to be photographed by me at these locations.
Your probably thinking, why on earth would you pose them at a bus stop poster right? Well this is actually a safe driving advertisement that I did the photography for I was so excited to see it that they asked for a photo with it Remember look both ways before crossing the street and stop for pedestrians in crosswalks!
March 7, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Fremont Street Photography, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Neon Museum Portraits | Tags: affordable, alternative, boneyard, Bridal Session, bride, candid, catalina, derfler, Engagement, expo, fremont, fun, gomoxiestudio, image, island, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Couple Photography, lights, may and frank, modern, moxie, Moxie Studio, museum, neon, Nevada, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, proposal, session, sign, state, story, studio, Vegas, video, videographer, videography, vintage, wedding | 1 Comment »
Jessica is pursuing an acting and modeling career and came to me wanting to do a vintage shoot out at the
Clark County Heritage Museum. This is Jessica’s second photo shoot with me and we already have
plans for the next! She is always a blast and full of fun ideas
The museum has this awesome old train station fully loaded with lots of luggage so we headed inside for a few shots.
Next we headed outside to play in the sun. I always love to get some sun flare photos.
January 31, 2012 | Categories: Clark County Heritage Museum Photos, Las Vegas Headshots and Portrait Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: actor, actress, affordable, black dress, cheap, clark, county, derfler, female, flare, flower, formal, gomoxiestudio, headshot, heritage, hispanic, image, inexpensive, lace, Las Vegas, latina, luggage, model, modern, moxie, Moxie Studio, museum, Nevada, old, park, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, red, retro, reviews, session, state, studio, sun, Vegas, vintage | 1 Comment »
We had such an awesome time with Tess and Nathan for their engagement session. Nathan has a sweet old rat rod that he drove down to Fremont Street for the shoot. It was perfect had so much fun to do something with a car. We were visited by nearly everyone that drove by because they wanted to see the car. We even had the police stop by to check out the photo shoot.
We also had to get the kids in on a couple of photos! They were so cooperative and made my job so easy. Such a beautiful family! I love this family photo!
Next we headed over to the El Cortez Cabana Suites lobby which was a really cool location. So glad Tess thought of it. It worked out perfect!
Our last stop was the Neon Boneyard, we had perfect lighting and these two just can’t take a bad photo!
I can’t wait until their upcoming wedding. This engagement session helped us to get to know them so well and it will make the wedding day photography that much easier. If you have not considered doing engagement photos, you really should. It is such a great opportunity to build a relationship with your photographer and cinematographer and become familiar with how things work on a photo shoot. Thank you to Tess and Nathan for an amazing photo shoot!!!
January 27, 2012 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Fremont Street Photography, Las Vegas Children Portraits, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Family Portraits, Las Vegas Photography, Neon Museum Portraits, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: atomic, bride, camera, cheap, children, cinema, cinematography, cortez, derfler, downtown, el, Engagement, family, female, film, formal, fremont, go, gomoxiestudio, grundge, heels, hot, image, kids, Las Vegas, liquor, lobby, modern, moxie, Moxie Studio, Nevada, park, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, red, reviews, rod, session, spring, state, street, studio, Uncategorized, videi, video, videographer, videography, vintage, wedding | Leave A Comment »
Here are another set of images from the Marie Antoinette inspired trash the dress photo shoot at the Jean Dry Lake Bed. This is Lindsey and you may not be able to tell in the photos but this poor gal was beyond frozen. She was so awesome for sticking it out. The floral was AMAZING by Layers of Lovely – An Inspired Floral Art Studio www.layersoflovely.com , Gimme Some Sugar www.gimmesomesugarlv.com/ outdid themselves with an absolutely delicious and breath taking cake and goodies, the makeup and hair was beyond perfect by Your Beauty Call www.yourbeautycall.com
If you haven’t chosen your florist, cake or salon be sure to check out
all three and let them know that Moxie Studio sent you their way!
December 29, 2011 | Categories: Las Vegas Photography, Portraits in Las Vegas | Tags: affordable, antoinette, beautiful, beauty, bed, Bridal, bride, cake, call, chelsea, cinema, clouds, creative, custom, derfler, drama, dramatic, dress, dry, favors, feathers, female, floral, florist, formal, gimme, gomoxiestudio, henderson, image, jean, lake, Las Vegas, layers, lovely, marie, marriage, model, modern, moxie, Moxie Studio, Nevada, nicole, of, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, reviews, session, shoot, some, southern, state, studio, sugar, trash, unique, utah, Vegas, video, videographer, videography, vintage, wed, wedding, woman, your | Leave A Comment »
Here are another set of images from the Marie Antoinette inspired trash the dress photo shoot. There were three brides with three different sets, this is the second of the three Sarah. Some of Vegas’ best made this happen! The floral was AMAZING by Layers of Lovely – An Inspired Floral Art Studio www.layersoflovely.com/ , Gimme Some Sugar www.gimmesomesugarlv.com/ outdid themselves with an absolutely delicious and breath taking cake and goodies, the makeup and hair was beyond perfect by Your Beauty Call www.yourbeautycall.com/
If you haven’t chosen your florist, cake or salon be sure to check out
all three and let them know that Moxie Studio sent you their way!
December 29, 2011 | Categories: Las Vegas Photography, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: antoinette, beautiful, beauty, bed, Bridal, Bridal Session, bride, cake, call, chelsea, CineArt, cinema, clouds, creative, ctr, custom, day, derfler, drama, dramatic, dress, dry, favors, feathers, female, floral, florist, formal, gimme, gomoxiestudio, henderson, image, jean, lake, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Couple Photography, latter, layers, lds, lovely, marie, marriage, model, modern, modest, mormon, moxie, Moxie Studio, Nevada, nicole, of, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, Portraits in Las Vegas, pre wedding shoot | Tags: affordable, reviews, ring, saint, session, shoot, some, southern, state, studio, sugar, trash, Trash The Dress Sessions, Uncategorized, unique, utah, Vegas, video, videographer, videography, vintage, wed, wedding, woman, Women | Leave A Comment »
A group of Las Vegas photographers and videographers headed out to the Jean dry lake bed for this amazing
Marie Antoinette inspired photo shoot, myself being one of them. There were three brides with three different sets, this is the first of the three Carrie. Some of Vegas’ best made this happen! The floral was AMAZING by Layers of Lovely – An Inspired Floral Art Studio www.layersoflovely.com/ , Gimme Some Sugar www.gimmesomesugarlv.com/ outdid themselves with an absolutely delicious and breath taking cake and goodies, the makeup and hair was beyond perfect by Your Beauty Call www.yourbeautycall.com/
If you haven’t chosen your florist, cake or salon be sure to check out all three and let them know that Moxie Studio sent you their way!
December 27, 2011 | Categories: Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Photography, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: affordable, antoinette, beautiful, beauty, bed, Bridal, bride, cake, call, chelsea, cinema, clouds, creative, custom, derfler, drama, dramatic, dress, dry, favors, feathers, female, floral, florist, formal, gimme, gomoxiestudio, henderson, image, jean, lake, Las Vegas, layers, lovely, marie, marriage, model, modern, moxie, Moxie Studio, Nevada, nicole, of, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, reviews, session, shoot, some, southern, state, studio, sugar, trash, unique, utah, Vegas, video, videographer, videography, vintage, wed, wedding, woman, your | Leave A Comment »
We had the pleasure of photographing Christian and RayAnn on Saturday at the Clark County Heritage Museum.
This was our first time there and it was a pretty cool area. Here are some of my favorite images from their session.
November 28, 2011 | Categories: Clark County Heritage Museum Photos, Las Vegas Children Portraits, Las Vegas Family Portraits, Las Vegas Newborn Photos, Las Vegas Photography, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: baby, barn, cheap, children, derfler, fall, family, gomoxiestudio, grass, heritage, image, kids, Las Vegas, leaves, modern, moxie, Moxie Studio, museum, park, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, red, session, studio, train, Vegas, vintage, wall | Leave A Comment »
You probably recognize Michael and Michelle as I previously shot their family portraits at Spring Mountain Ranch.
Well I thought they should have their own engagement session to celebrate their upcoming vintage themed
wedding. We timed it perfectly with the leaves changing in Las Vegas, it actually looks like fall! We headed up
to Floyd Lamb Park where I discovered I brought Michelle to her worst nightmare, lol, ducks and geese.
Luckily the animals played nice and kept their distance for the most part except a random pigeon that really
wanted to be in a few photos. Here are some of my favorite images from their session.
November 18, 2011 | Categories: Engagement Photography in Las Vegas NV, Floyd Lamb Park- Tule Springs Photography, Las Vegas Couple Photography, Las Vegas Family Portraits, Portraits in Las Vegas, Uncategorized | Tags: engaged, Engagement, fall, family, gomoxiestudio, grass, image, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Couple Photography, leaves, modern, mountain, moxie, Moxie Studio, outdoor, park, photo, photographer, photography, photos, portrait, ranch, session, state, studio, tree, Vegas, vintage, water | Leave A Comment »
