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...
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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...
alli & sean: wedding by the harbor (part one)
you gotta love the internet, right? an old friend of mine contacted me through facebook, asking if i shoot weddings or not. a few days later, i was meeting with these two to go over details… and a week later, was their big day. without time to fit an engagement shoot in, we agreed to...
olivia: a playdate in the fog
i met olivia through a fellow photographer and good friend, tracie. we had a “photography playdate” with olivia (amongst others) previously and i kept in touch with olivia for future shoot possibilities. some plans went awry this day, and by the time we got to the beach, it was enveloped with this thick bank of...
lexi: little girl, big spirit
way back when i was first getting my site up, a woman i work with overheard a discussion about my going “pro”. after a bit of talking, she hired me to shoot her daughter, since it had been so long since her last professional photos. we met at a park in irvine and once lexi...
kristen: a belly out and about
when my wife told me that her friend wanted to have me take pictures of her shortly before her due date, i was thrilled for the honor and the opportunity. i got into “meeting of the minds” mode with kristen to find out what direction she wanted to go with the photos. when she said...
Gavin & Holly: G&H Pure Cane Sugar (day one)
through word-of-mouth (thanks joel & michelle), i got hired by this couple to shoot their wedding in october. we got together for an e-shoot (engagement session, since people always ask me what that means) in and around balboa island in the end of may. the sun didn’t make much of a showing that day, so...