Katy and I have a mutual friend Laura who loves both of us very much! Katy needed pictures and I needed clients and Laura made it happen. Katy is so sweet and has the sweetest little family. Katy and Josh’s daughter was full of energy and excitement (when it was her turn to take pictures; she was […]
What a joy it is to be able to take pictures for your closest friends and what a honor when they actually want to pay for them??! E’lana has always supported my dream. I remember when I got my first film SLR back in 2003 of the Minolta family, she was one of my first […]
Anyone who knows me well KNOWS how much I absolutely adore my husband… but they also know that we’d be the best choice for MTV reality series because we would definitely give Nick and Jessica a run for their money. Together we are hilarious, passionate, full of love, strong-willed and loud and all of those VERY […]
**Let me preface this blog by saying that this was the shortest and absolutely coldest shoot I have done to date: It started snowing and my poor cousins started freezing and we had to cut the shoot short, but before it got toooo bad, this is what we were able to capture–before we froze our tooshies […]
What do you say about Junko and Ivan??! What words do you use??? I have five: 1.) Committed2.) Servants3.) Comedic4.) Caring5.) Compassionate Enjoy them as much as I did….. and our awesome overexposed, crazy, matrixy picture of the lovebirds………….
There are NO words for how much I absolutely LOVE and adore this family. I officially met Fahren, the matriarch, in September at my church, after hearing about her and her incredible voice for years! Fahren showed up at all of my local coffee shops and community fests–I admired her from afar but never in […]
Kahlil is the kind of baby that makes you want to be a parent, or at least me. He was so enduring and so sweet. He is such a ladies man at only 5 months old. His grandmother, my aunt, is head over heels for him, and it didn’t take me long to see why… […]
A few silly moments I shared with the Thompson kids while capturing their CHRISTmas shots the other day. Their personalities come through in these candid snapshots, they are EVERYTHING like their pictures, funny, inquisitive, goofy and totally in love with eachother. What a joy siblings can be?! [from the eyes of a only child, of […]
practicing my depth of field with my new 35mm portrait lens. I already love it! i hope your all getting into the CHRISTmas spirit??!
On our drive into work today, this is what we saw…..
Ohemmgeeeee!! God has blessed me with some amazing relationships with young people, in fact to date, I am a god-mother to four children and I am so thankful–but no child has made me happier or helped me thru harder times then the one below! Olivia has been such a BRIGHT spot in my life! Olivia […]
I found these and loved them. Weird probably, but whatevs. Kinda reminds me of “he who finds himself a good wife finds a good thing” or “two become one” or that’s why a man leaves his parents to become one with… you get it right?? Anyway, enjoy this abstract piece of art from a abandoned […]
What happens when the thing you never thought would happen does? What happens when you unexpectedly get sick? What happens when someone you love falls ill or even worse dies? What happens when a natural disaster hits and destroys everything you've worked so hard to build? What happens when you become ill or paralyzed and are unable to run your business? What happens when you find yourself in a global pandemic and you're unable to work for months at a time? What are you going to do?
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