Toni + Jon = Love + Maternity

With a last minute call to do a Maternity portrait session with Toni and Jon, I jumped on the opportunity as I am new to Maternity Photography.  Treating it like an Engagement Session, even though they are already married, I had a variety of poses in mind for them to show off their love as [...]

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Change is Good, Thank you WPPI and Photobiz!

With my recent trip to Las Vegas and the WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) Convention, I was on the hunt for new knowledge and expansion.  My wedding calender has been getting more and more booked up, so I decided to purchase a new and completely separate website to showcase my work for future clients. [...]

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New Wedding Photography Logo

I created a new wedding photography logo today for my company. I might put it on business cards soon that just direct people to my wedding photography pages. I’m also in the process of shopping around for new websites that just advertise my weddings, portraits, and engagement sessions packages. If you know of any, please [...]

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Pro Photo West Competition Entries

The Professional Photographers of California and the magazine Pro Photo West are holding a student photo contest for 5 California schools including, Santa Monica College, Brooks Institute, Palomar College, Tri Community, and San Francisco Art Academy University.  The winner of the contest will get a scholorship to the 2009 Professional Photographers of California’s West Coast [...]

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A Marathon Wedding in the City that Never Sleeps.

When my college friend Andrew Frevert told me he was getting married in Vegas on December 7th, 2008, I said cool.  Then he said he and his finance Rachel would be running the Las Vegas Marathon, cool again.  Then he said they would be getting married at mile marker 5 of the marathon.  Whoa, wait?  [...]

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Portia the 80 pound puppy!

Now I know what you’re thinking, that’s not a puppy?  Well Portia is just that, an 80 pound 8 month old Corso, similar to an English Mastiff.  Portia is also the alpha female, so not one to be messed with.  With her giant peanut butter swirled color, my goal was to make her cute and cuddly.  [...]

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Toey + Fernando – Pasadena, California

Always a pleasure to shoot with Henry Chen Photography, I immediately agreed to Assist/2nd Shoot with Henry on this Saturday’s wedding shoot.  Set in the beautiful old downtown of Pasadena, California, next to the Civic Center lies the Westin hotel, where Toey and Fernando planned to have their wedding ceremony and reception on September 13, [...]

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Sammy’s Photo Shoot

Sammy just entered college this year and wanted to get a few nice photos for her grandmothers birthday.  She didn’t have a senior photo session in high school, so thought that it’s better late then never.  We started in Santa Monica and drove around looking for interesting backgrounds, great light, and colors that matched.  We [...]

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Ellie + Carlos E-session

When I asked Ellie what kind of photos she wanted for her engagement session, she sent me one of an elegant bride on a balcony overlooking the ocean.  Lucky for her, we live in LA and her request was honored.  We started with shots in the park, her and Carlos had a great attitude but [...]

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Older already? 32 and unfortunately still counting.’

As my 32nd birthday party started, I didn’t feel old, just “older.”  I was surrounded by not only friends of all ages, but babies and kids now.  As I get older, my friends have babies, which they later turn into kids.  I have more then a few friends with kids as old as 4-5 years [...]

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