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Love Venice Beach and this couple!  I’m definitely looking forward to posting more from our afternoon on the beach.

Congratulations y’all!

WOW!  Apparently it’s March.  Where is this year flying off too?

So, I am VERY excited about this Month - I have so many new projects and adventures.  Lately I’ve been swamped under album orders and deadlines, and preparing for WPPI, where I get to reconnect with my Alpha Kappa Camera Girls!  That’s right - we have a penthouse suite in Vegas…don’t worry, there will be plenty to share about that!

I thought y’all might want to have a look at Aimee and John’s Valentine’s Day Engagement Session here in Los Angeles.  I just love the light in these images - the West Coast isn’t bad on the eyes, and neither are these two.  I have the best story to share about Aimee and John, as well as the most fun part of the session, so it looks like this is going to roll on to the blog in installments..

For now, here’s a random peek into the day.

Absolutely LOVING this one…

I thought this turned out pretty interesting…

Walking off into the sunset…

YAY!  I can’t wait to share my favorites from the day - and I also have some pretty big 101 in 1001 items that are about to be checked off on the blog.  (As well as some that have been completed for a while!)  Give it up for MARCH…

Okay, so I shot the vast majority of this session on film, which I’m still waiting to get back - but in the meantime, I intend to make Erin happy and give her something of a sneak peek on the blog!  What does that mean?  You will see this session posted roughly three times on this blog!  Which is fantastic, because how can you NOT just love these two, and also, this will force me to blog more…

I’ll give all the behind the scenes details and location and image information in the next post - so definitely check back for that.  Erin and Adam are a delight!  We had a great time, and really explored some interesting ideas together.  Most of all, I just had a great time with them!  Can you tell?

One from probably my favorite series of the entire day:

I find this series pretty and interesting…it just feels raw…

LOVE this one..

So, while I’m waiting to get back into production mode, I thought I’d put up a couple images from Sunday’s engagement session with Erin and Adam. (Before you get confused - we are working with TWO couples this year named Erin and Adam…I know, what are the odds?)  We did a very themed shoot - which was a lot of fun and a different approach for me.  The original plan was to style outside, but the weather pushed us indoors - so we styled a winter white studio session for the first part of their shoot.  THEN we headed outside when the rain cleared and set up our on location theme and just had a lot of fun with it!

Erin and Adam, you are so much fun, I truly had a blast hanging out with you two!  I am so excited about your wedding and getting to work with you this year.

I’m pretty pumped to share the images from this session on the blog - as soon as they are edited, I’ll have them posted here!

Save The Date…

A peek at the studio session… A little Anthro inspired perhaps?

So many gems and awesomeness to come!  So, get stoked for Erin and Adam!  Congratulations to you both…

Super hot images to come. (It just seems like a good time for a sneak).

So, I got together with Katie and Jonathan recently to shoot their engagement session. I loved this session because they were just so FUN. At the end of the day, I want my clients to just have beautiful images and a great time…and these two really had fun with each other. It didn’t hurt that Katie might have a double life where she secretly models for a living. I would talk about a concept, and before I got halfway through, she’d say, “Like this?” and BLAM. It was ridiculous. She also laughed pretty much the entire time - so I guess we’re just very like-minded. (Picture me pointing back and forth a lot and going, “we’re like this!”).

I also really appreciated that Katie and Jonathan let me do whatever I wanted. They were up for anything - and I was bound and determined to push myself. We ended up with some pretty cool concepts…I’m not gonna lie. We also did a few things that were just absurd, but that’s part of the artistic experience, right? It’s going to be a lot of fun to share this session when its completed, because I can see a clearer direction of where I’m going as an artist. This has been a slam packed year, and it’s so rewarding to get to the end, look back, and see where your eye and vision are going.

Also, I shot a newborn yesterday - something I almost never do. He peed on a cake-platter. I’ll post some awesomeness from that soon - so there’s another sneak!

Yay for Jennifer and Justin! I can’t wait to post their engagement session and I am so looking forward to their wedding next summer. We had a great weekend in Birmingham, and I really enjoyed my afternoon. It’s so nice to be shooting in nice weather in the South again…

Okay, I am quite aware that there are about 50-60 sessions I need to blog. I’m trying, really trying, to get back to work on this blog. All of my life transitions have kicked this blog to the curb, but dangit, it will be revived, and victory will be claimed!

Please note that the minute I move to the West Coast, The South starts getting incredible weather again. This very grandiose part of me is convinced that the weather is somehow messing with just me. I would like to remind you that last year in Phoenix, it rained the entire time I was there. Hmmm…

Anyway, you couldn’t imagine a more gorgeous (AND pleasant) day than today in Birmingham! Michelle and Barrett traveled down from Memphis for an engagement session, and we had a stunning afternoon to enjoy. LOVE this couple! They’re fantastic - so much fun, so easy, hearts for each other, focused on Christ. It was a delight to get to know them. We definitely bonded - gotta love it when clients embrace your attention issues and random creative impulses… I’ll do an entire blog post on Michelle and Barrett at some point and do these two justice…

So, here are a few images SOOC (minus the backlit B&W). And here’s to finally blogging a session. Only 60 to go! I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

Okay, there was an Engagement Session prior to Sushi - but the point is that I love every moment I spend with Mallory and Tommy. Super fun couple! Mallory and I have grand plans for my life in Los Angeles - so definitely stick around for the full post on this session to hear about all of the slightly sketchy merriment we’ve planned. I’m not even sure if this post counts as a sneak - I just pulled some images to put up because I loved my afternoon so much! Check out a little bit of our day…

I’m in love with this image for so many reasons…

I promise I’ll put up a real sneak peek soon! I should have the film from this shoot back in about a week, and I am SO excited about some of the new things we tried. In the meantime, just know that Mallory and Tommy are engaged and fabulous, and their incredible session will be coming soon. And if you’re wondering why I’m not packing - umm….would you be, if you could procrastinate by having dinner with these two and then blog about your day? That’s what I thought…