Ginger and Brian Engagements

Did another engagement recently of an awesome couple!
Their wedding is in a couple weeks at the Newport Temple so I wanted to make sure I posted pics of the engagement...
So excited for them...can't wait for the wedding!

Elder Jacob Clark

a special little story about these scriptures that Jake is holding...his mom, Sue served a mission a few years ago...and the ward she came from in England purchased these scriptures for her. They are very special to her...and so to have a picture with her missionary son holding them...made it even more special for her




Jacob is already on his mission...serving the people in Jamaica
I wish him all the best... he is a wonderful young man
I can't wait to hear about all the great experiences he will have

Clark Family

My very dear friend Sue (who I've known for over 20 years...and was also my matron of honor) called me not so long ago...
Her oldest son Jacob was leaving on a mission in a matter of a week and the last time she had a real family picture was before her fourth child (who is now 13...LOL) was born.
Again...all these kids that I remember being babies are growing up so fast! I remember the day Sue and her husband Robert brought Jake home from the hospital! Anyway I digress down memory lane...
So we scrambled to work out our schedules and took some amazing pictures of the bunch down at the beach. It turned out to be a beautiful, sunny day!

Winter Formal 2011

I have realized I haven't posted some sessions that I've recently done...
Posting to Facebook and updating the website...I can't remember what and where I have posted...LOL
so here are just a few of my favorites of the boys amd their friends

Alexx & Brad {Wedding} - Las Vegas Wedding Photographer

seriously...the week I'm headed to Utah and it's snowing! Although snow pictures are b-e-a-utiful! I'm so California-ized...I don't have the wardrobe for freezing! LOL Well ready or not...here I go...and it's going to be an amazing week! Family picture sessions and an amazing wedding of two of the most amazing young people ever! Can't wait to share some pictures with you all!
Here are a few more from Alexx and Brad's engagement session in Las Vegas...







Can't wait to do their pictures this week...I'm so excited...I've already packed and I don't even leave for a couple more days!!!
Well...ttfn {♥}

Landscape {love}

some favorites of places we've been to recently...

Random Senior Shoots

I've been so crazy busy with shoots lately I haven't been able to keep up...so here is just a few of the amazing young people that I've been able to do their sr portraits

had to throw one in of my son...we are doing his in stages...lol he can't make up his mind exactly what he wants...so he's become a guinea pig on location siting...I just get more pics to choose from of him in the end...more will follow ~

Samantha & Charlie {Wedding} - Murrieta Wedding Photographer

it rained the day these two were married in newport...
but the reception a few days later was absolutely beautiful!
went back a few weeks later and shot pics at the temple...so amazing!
love these two ~ just so sweet!

Nighthawk Softball

Here's a team that prays together...what an amazing group of young women!
more to come this 2011 season from the Lady Nighthawks Softball teams!

joy of love - {day 3 ~ then & now}

so today I am using pictures of my husband.
He turned 40 last week and we will be celebrating our 19th anniversary this year.
I love him very much and am so very blessed to have him in my life...
I am posting one of our wedding pictures for the BEFORE picture, that I love, but we got married back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth ~ and before digital so the only pic I have that isn't in our album was a cruddy scan of it {sorry}


But then the AFTER picture is a great shot of my hunny on his 40th birthday ~ I love his eyes...they are so blue ~ I think the first thing I fell in love with about him!

so today...is for my sweet husband...he is the source of my joy and love

joy of love ~ {day 2}

So Logan is really sick 8(
He hasn't been this sick in a while! Poor baby...
He might look like a big tall man normally, but really my shaggy, blonde hair boy is only 15...and when he's sick, it's like he's 3 again!
He's been sleeping most of the past two days to try to shake whatever this bug is he has...I told him he could have a change of venue and come out to the livingroom on the couch...wasn't there but two minutes and he was out. So for today, again, he is the subject of my joy of love...today reminded me that no matter how old my boys get, they will always be my babies! I used to sit and watch my boys sleep when they were little...they looked so innocent and angelic...lol and I needed those moments of peace and quiet to remind myself how precious they were ~ having 4 boys sometimes amongst the chaos of the day you forget...
Here is today's submission...it's of Logan

The light from our side window was very soft and hit his face perfectly...f4.8 shutterspeed 1/500th ISO 800 with no flash. In low light areas it's best to steady yourself/camera on a tripod, monopod or lean your arm on something to hold you still. I rested my arm on the couch to get the angle that I wanted.
I hope my baby gets better soon...he's even missing his soccer game today, which really tells you how bad he's feeling.

joy of love ~ {day 1}

ok...I have been so busy taking pictures of everyone else's families, I have negelected my own...
my boys may argue otherwise...they do refer to me as their person stalk-a-ratzie!
but I am generally taking pictures at sporting events, school events, etc
not the everyday stuff.
Besides being a photographer I am an avid scrapbooker {and have been know in the past to do a class or two & design work} but even that has fallen by the wayside since business in my photography business has picked up...not complaining...
so I found a class of sorts online from one of my favorite photog websites: {willette} and she has put together for the month of february a class/challenge where she sends daily assignments to photograph someone you love doing something that is outlined in the daily email from her...
today was the first day, and here is my first submission...


#3 boy...Logan, has been a sickie poo the past day and a half, and thus banished to his bed for rest and recovery...but sick or not, the boy texts his throng of girls
So our assignment for today was to photograph someone we love doing something that they "DO" ~ well, Logan texts! ALL THE TIME!
The room was pretty much pitch black except for the light from his phone.
the settings I used: f/3.8 shutterspeed 1/200th and I amped the ISO to 2500 ~ didn't use the flash...and the room was DARK! I love the "catch light" of sorts in his glasses from his phone LOL! The only editing I did was to clear up a little acne and turned it to black and white...
So...here is my {LOVE} Logan...doing what he "does" ~ texting