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...
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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...
Gavin & Holly: G&H Pure Cane Sugar (day two)
do you have a good memory? remember my first blog post here? no, not that one… the one after that. okay, my second. but who’s counting? anyway, it was this cool couple at balboa… let me refresh your memory: yeah, that’s them. remember now? okay, good. you may not remember all of the details, but...
siblings on holiday
after having shot her sister’s baby, i got an email from erika asking if i would be available while her family was in southern california. we decided to head down to the montage late one day for the best of both worlds of so cal outdoors (beach and kind of a park setting). one of...
cathie & kids: a family bathed in love (and light)
cathie is an old schoolmate of mine from high school (gooooooo EAGLES!) and we had been trying to get together for this shoot for almost a year now. we finally got our schedules to work out (Wonder Twin powers… activate! Form of…. a mighty lion with all the powers of nature. Shape of… a bucket...
shane & heather: laguna wedding
so, this is how word of mouth works. you do photos for someone, they tell a friend about you and you do their photos for their christmas cards. they, in turn, tell their friend to check you out as their potential wedding photographer. bam! not exactly a math problem that good will hunting would be...