This past Saturday April 2, 2011, the Talbot family celebrated 20 years of ownership at Gold Key Racquet Club in Phoenix, Arizona. The celebration began at 4 pm with a Mixed Up Tennis Social, which included some of the club’s former pros as well as the current staff. There was also a dedicated carnival court just for kids that included mini tennis, tennis games and a bouncy house. Following the tennis social was a Pro Doubles exhibition with all the pros rotating in.
After the exhibition, Master Chef Clay Cox presented dinner with carefully smoked beef brisket and chicken cooked on the barbecue. The celebration continued late into the night with the wonderful voice and music of Jeordie & The Mixology Project who performed by the pool.
Images from this wonderful celebration can be seen on the Studio Laurent website or by clicking HERE. Don’t forget to also check out a couple of the videos below!
Laurent was born in Paris, France. After growing up in Versailles (just outside of Paris) for almost twenty years, he moved to the United States to pursue his college education. Now another twenty years later, he is still here and living in Arizona.
In college, Laurent studied advertising, marketing, photojournalism, public relations, multimedia techniques & communication but his real passions are travel, sports (mostly tennis and skiing), photography and graphic design.
Like many photographers, Laurent became interested in photography at a young age. Having a camera in hand pretty much for the past 20 years, he finally realized that photography was more than “just” a hobby. In 2007, Laurent decided to create Studio Laurent to combine his passions and talents into a creative photography and design studio.
In his spare time, along with playing tennis, he enjoys traveling around the world or in his neighborhood to discover other cultures, new landscapes, new faces and immortilizing these special moments with his camera. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Indian Ocean and nearly half of the United States of America and looks forward to discovering more everyday.
Laurent is currently based in Scottsdale, Arizona, but thanks to his international experience, is available to travel anywhere in the world for your photography needs.
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