All done!

Well that's it I'm done (for now). I just completed editing my last wedding of the year and I get to take a small break and start all over again. I will be shooting a wedding with George in Jan but my own personal next function is Feb 7th and then my first engagement session of the new year is Feb 21st with Brian & Melissa in my favorite city Las Vegas!! I can't wait for this one. They are a hot couple and they are down for anything. This one should be fun :) I wish everyone Happy Holidays and a fantastic New Year!!!!

Barbara & Jay are married!!

Yesterday I shot my last wedding of 2008!  It was a great way to end the wonderful year I've had.  Their wedding was great!  It was my first Christmas wedding and I can only hope I get another one next year. Barbara & Jay are so cute together and Barbara being the musician that she is she surprised Jay with a song at the ceremony.   Here are a few of my faves.  Congratulations Jay & Barbara!!!!

Julia is 30!!!

Julia turns 30!!  Mrs. Julia being the designer that she is had the most beautiful birthday party ever!!  She went all out with the flowers, lighting, decor, food, and wine.  Here are a few snaps from this awesome party and Julia herself.  To check out her work go to www.kallistoevents.com.

The beautiful Annette

Last weekend I got to photograph the beautiful Annette.  She is such a natural beauty she really should be doing Noxema or Cover Girl ad work.

Nicoles family shoot

I just love photographing in Laguna and it's even funner when it's a big beautiful family.  The sky could not have been any more dramatic than that day.  I just love these pics!!

The Fultons & The Grahams

Some more fun Christmas pics

Twilight

Yeah I finished the book!!!  I have been meaning to read it for some time now but I've been so busy that I've put it off until a friend of mine dropped it off on Friday.  I started it that evening and if my weekend wasn't so photoshoot packed I would have finished it by Saturday night for sure.  I was hooked right away.  I LOVED the stinkin thing and I LOVED Edward.  Hello.  Why do us girls love the dangerous boys?  I know I do.  Luckily though I didn't marry one :)  What a powerful love story.  I love Vampire books anyways but this one was different.  I'm hooked and I can't wait to see the movie on Wed!!  I will start the next book in the series "New Moon" tomorrow.  I read the little sneak peek and I can't wait to start it.  I don't know what it was about this paragraph that I loved but I loved it so I wanted to share it.  Click on the pic and it will enlarge it so that you can read it!

The Stavros Family Shoot

I love shooting the Stavros family.  This is the 3rd photoshoot I've done for them and it's always lots of fun.  They're great polite kids and I love photographing them!!  This shoot was for their Christmas cards.  It's so fun to get Christmas cards that I photographed!  Can't wait to see them!!

Barbara & Jay are Engaged!

 On Monday I had the pleasure of photographing Barbara & Jay.  They were lots of fun and great sports.  We risked their lives (as you can see in some of these pics) many times throughout the shoot :)  Thanks guys and I can't wait to shoot your wedding in December!!

New Slideshows

YEAH!!  I have successfully updated my "Wedding" and my "Boudoir" slideshows.  I'm really excited about the new pics and I hope you all love them.   Now I've got to finish the rest! AAHHHH!!  And I love my homepage pic but it's time for a new one.  HMMMMMM what will I do?

New Look

You might have noticed that weird things are happening on my website.   Pages are disappearing my client slideshows are not there etc etc well don't worry you're not going crazy.  I am working on my site and since I'm not a computer wiz things are happening that are not supposed to be happening.  Please be patient with me I'm on it! I'm excited about the new look new pictures and new songs.   I have not gotten rid of my client slideshows it's just taking lots of time to load them all up.  I have added a Boudoir section so I'm working on the pictures to put there.  Keep checking it should be done by the end of next week!!  Thanks for your interest in my photography and I can't wait to get your feed back on the new look.  Ciao.

Haunted House

My demented hubby :) and his friends like to put on a haunted house every year.  It is actually really good and people love it but it is NOT kid friendly and this year my 7 year old wanted to be a part of it.  They have her sitting on a couch just looking at people as they enter.  She is dying to jump up and chase them but one of the guys got punched in the nose by a scared teenage girl so I don't want her anywhere near freaked out people.  They have the scarriest masks and there is soooo much blood and body parts everywhere.  I will post more pics after tonight.  This is the first night I can actually be there to take pics because I've had weddings every weekend.  Here are a couple of pics we did.  Oh and yes that is my 7 year old that my lovely husband is holding and I photoshopped out the stool she was standing on so NO he is not holding her by her hair!!  And those are props!!!

Boudoir

I've been getting lost of calls for Boudoir lately and this is one of my faves.  I can't mention her name just yet because she is surprising her husband for their first anniversary in November but she was lots of fun.  First of all because we've been emailing back and forth for a while and I really felt like she was a friend by the time her shoot came along and second because she had lots of fun outfits.  A few where 50s inspired and she even had her done in a five finger wave.  She looked great and I'm sure her husband will LOVE them!  I will post more after her hubby gets to see them:)

Boudoir

Liz & Tonis Claremont Wedding

Stinkin blogger

AAAAHHHHHH I'm so frustrated with blogger.  I have been trying to post pictures for almost a week now and it's just not uploading them.  I actually let it upload for over an hour once and still nothing.  I love blogging and sharing my new shoots but this is crazy!!  Well, you keep checking and I'll keep trying!

October 12th.  Well, it's not just any day for me.  I have dated 3 boys who were born on this day. Cameron, I can't remember what his last name was we dated briefly, Billy Zumbrun, who is now a professional boxer I also dated him briefly, and James Harper, whom I dated on and off for 2 1/2 years and was the love of my life (until I met the real love of my life Markie poo) James passed away tragically a few years ago :(  Now not only did I date 3 boys who share this birthday, but I was married on October 12th 1997.  After exactly 4 years of marriage, Mark and I had Miss Alexa on October 12th, 2001.  How bizarre is this?  I'm curious to see what else significant happens on this day.  As for this year, not much we celebrated Alexas birthday yesterday and went to my little cousin, Arias, bday party today.  I can't believe I've been married for 11 years!!  I feel like we just got married.  How time flies!!

I often get such beautiful emails from people and I save them and read them over and over again. I received this one from Star yesterday and I just wanted to share it with you all.  Stuff like this really makes my day and makes me feel great.  I love the people that my camera has brought into my life.  Thanks to everyone for your encouragement and kind words.  People often say to me "oh yeah I saw that on your blog" or "great blog pics" and I'm surprised at how many people really do come to my blog.  I'm flattered.  Please leave comments so that I know you were here.  Sometimes I feel like no one is looking at it and I'm wasting my time.  Ok drama blog entry right?  :)

My beautiful email from Star-click on it for a larger view

Star & Andrews Laguna Beach Wedding

On Friday October 3rd I shot Star & Andrews wedding.   I have been looking forward to this one since they booked me back in Jan of last year.  The couple lives in San Francisco and the wedding was at The Surf and Sand Hotel in Laguna Beach.  I went up to San Fran in July and did their engagement shoot and just had a blast.  Here are some pictures from their amazing wedding.  Doesn't Star just look awesome? (you too Andrew) Love it!! Click on the pics to see them enlarged.

Evette and her family

On Sunday I got to photograph my friend Evettes family.  They are all so beautiful and I'm so glad I got the opportunity to photograph them.

Mary & Daniels Las Vegas Wedding

On Sunday, Sept 28th  I got to go to my fave little city to do my fave little thing, shoot a wedding.  This was the perfect wedding for me because I love shooting weddings and I just LOVE Las Vegas.  And it was at The Mandalay Bay.  I had it all planned out.  We were going to go to the Moorea Beach Club (Mandalay Bay Pool check out the virtual tour it's HOT) to do the bride & groom shoot and then we would sneak out to the strip for a quick strip pic (wow tongue twister) but it didn't work out that way.  Daniel was done after the ceremony & wanted to go to the reception & relax.  I tried and tried but the answer stayed no.  We took some inside the hotel but I wanted to go outside.  I was bummed because there was soooo much drama in the sky with a summer storm brewing & the pics would have been amazing but I didn't want to make anyone upset so I sucked it up and went with the flow against my better judgement.  The couple had The Vista Suite (take the virtual tour online) so I knew I would be able to get some incredible strip pics but nope.  Actually, I did get them just without the couple :)  About an hour into the reception Daniel came up to me and said "lets do this" he just needed a few drinks and to relax.  Unfortunately they didn't want to go outside and the sun was already down at this point but we did get some really steamy fun pics.  Of course I wanted to take great photos for me but I now consider Mary a friend and I really wanted her to have fantastic wedding pics.  After all The Mandalay Bay provides a photographer with their wedding packages and they hired me on top of that.  Well it all worked out and I can rest assured knowing that they got what they wanted even if they didn't know it at the time.  :)  I have added a little teaser of their photos, click on them for a larger view.  Enjoy and thanks to Mary & Daniel I had a blast.

Art Las Vegas style

Back in July I went to Vegas for 3 days and of course where I go my camera goes.  We were walking in the Forum when I spotted this add (hello it jumps out at you).  I loved all the black surrounding it and how the reflection was so reflective of the poster. ( I was trying to be funny there).  Ok so as cheesy as this sounds this really was beautiful to me in an artistic way.  Yes it didn't hurt that he is just a god!

48 & fabulous!!

Last week I shot a boudoir session for a 48 year old lady who wanted to gift them to her husband for his 50th bday.  What an awesome gift and hello does she look 48?  There was NO photoshop used here.  She emailed him the slideshow while he was at work and he apparently almost had a heart attack.  I'm guessing he went home for his lunch break!!

The front of my brochure

This is the front of my brochure.  She's so awesome.

My new brochures are done!!! YEAH!!

I have been designing my brochures all week and have tried many different pictures and layouts but I think I finally got it. The brides name is Morgan and I just loved her.  She was down to do anything. Her reception was at her cousins house which was just beautiful and he had the coolest dinning room complete with a Swarovski Crystal Chandelier and deep red velvet drapes.  I asked her to do some pics on the table and she was all for it.  I wish all brides were like her.  It didn't hurt that she was beautiful either :) This is the inside fold of my brochure.  You can click on it to see the images enlarged.  Ya like?  

Lizas Maternity Shoot

Last week I had the pleasure of photographing Liza!  She is pregnant with her first baby and is due in 2 weeks. I love that she was not afraid to take it off in public!!  :) She drove all the way up from Dana Point for me to photograph her.  Doesn't she look fabulous? You go girl!

New website!!

Hi everyone.  I've had a lot of people tell me that they miss my slideshows well don't worry I'm working on it.  I actually didn't change the site,  the company that handled that part did!  I am working on it and I can't wait to reveal it so please be patient and keep checking because I am working on it and it's going to be GREAT!!!!

Little Rockstars

I have been working on some cool projects lately but I have to say that I just LOVE this one.  I have added a little rockstar birthday package.  I'm still working out the details but here is a little sneak peak at my "Little Rock Star Princess" birthday shoot.  This is actually an invitation from the shoot.  Dontcha just love it?!

The Stavros Grandchildren

Monday was a really hard day for me. I had a photo shoot in Huntington Beach.  What a tough job I have :)  I got to photograph 8 wonderful kids.  I really enjoyed doing it and I think they did too.  And yes they did jump in the pool when we were done!

Tony & Cynthias Wedding in Wrightwood.

Saturday I shot the most colorful wedding ever.  Tony and Cynthia were married in Wrightwood Ca. and their colors were green, orange, hotpink, and red.  I loved it.   It reflected their personalities perfectly.  Cynthia was a larger than life bride.  She has an infectious smile and made my job a breeze.  Congratulations you two.  Here are some of my faves.

Free to Succeed Tour-Jasmine Star

Tonight my brother &  I went to the "Free to Succeed Tour" in L.A.  We primarily went to see David Jay who we both really admire and he was great but I fell in love with the wonderful personality of Mrs. Jasmine Star.  She was so down to earth and REAL.  I have for months now been addicted to the blog of another photographer I really love named Scarlett and for some reason the whole time Jasmine spoke I kept thinking to myself  "she reminds me so much of Scarlett"  When I got home I went straight to Jasmines blog to leave her a message and wouldn't you know it the last person to leave her a comment was Scarlett.  I guess they know eachother! How funny is that?      

My girls!

Last week Mark and I took the girls up to Big Bear.  Of course I had my camera and could not resist taking pics of them playing in the water.  They are my favorite little models!!

Boudoir

My business has brought some really wonderful people my way and one such special person is Mary.  She is my Las Vegas bride and she is just such a great girl.  She wanted to give her fiance a Boudoir picture of herself on their wedding day.  What a great idea.  What man wouldn't love that?  Here is one of my very favorite pics.  I did get permission from her to show these :)