lani (and let me help you, off the bat… her name is pronounced LAH-nee. like lonnie. it’s hawaiian. mahalo.) and i met while i was shooting at my brother’s pet rescue center’s annual year-end event in 2011. she was doing a ‘live painting’ there during the course of the evening. some creatives like to use...
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tara | a life’s journey | portraits
when tara originally made contact with me, i assumed it was because she knew someone i had photographed before and wanted to follow my work to see what else i posted of her friend. it happens. i shoot with someone and once things start going up on the interwebz, friends and family will start adding...
alexa | portraits
i have shot with alexa before. i have actually shot at this same location with alexa before. so why are we back here again, together? well… there are plenty of places at this location to shoot to make it very different, not to mention how the seasons can change things. also, look at alexa from...
abbi ** sneak peek **
about a year ago, i shot an event in laguna beach. i was still really trying to book shoots to practice at that time and handed my card out to a ton of people at the party (since it was full of ‘beautiful people’). abbi is another one of the people who got my info...
ashley: back to the tracks
ashley and i have been trying to work a shoot out for almost a year now. we finally got our ducks in a row and headed to a little nook i am loving lately. when i asked ashley what kind of setting she would really like to shoot in and ‘graffiti’ was one of her...
margo: from friend to model
margo has been a good friend of mine for a handful of years now (years come in handfuls… dollars come in fistfuls). i think from the time i started taking photography more seriously, i had it in my mind to do a shoot with her. she has a certain… je ne sais pas about her...
melissa: a very special TTD
TTD is another common term for photographers to use (i.e.: e-session, SOOC, etc.) that sometimes we will just say and people will cock their heads to the side a little. TTD stands for “trash the dress”… said dress being a wedding gown. don’t get too uppity… you don’t literally trash it. it is just a...
scott: it’s business (headshots) time…
scott is an old friend of mine from years gone by. he is a mover and a shaker and needed some new / recent headshots for his business and the like. he lives and works in downtown santa ana, which can be a photographer’s paradise for urban backdrop. we took a few shots before we...
heather and her girls: love to the third power
heather is an old classmate of mine, from elementary school. our families were friends well before the two of us ever met. so, when heather asked me if i could take pictures of her with her little girls i was quite excited… even just for the catching up we could do. we settled right in...