According to Wikipedia, “The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li’l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, created by cartoonist Al Capp. In the strip, Sadie Hawkins Day fell on a given day in November (Capp never specified an exact date). The unmarried women of Dogpatch got to chase the bachelors and “marry up” with the ones they caught. The…
Congratulations to one of my best friends, Rebecca – who married one of her best friends, Rob, yesterday. Although I have known Rebecca for less than a year, I feel as though we have been friends for a lifetime! We have so many things in common and I will be so sad to see her…
I have some other sessions I really should post before this one from this past week. But I know mama is anxious to see how some of these turned out. And although I haven’t even made one pass through all of the images from this session (which was really more like 4 sessions rolled…
I had a delightful time taking portraits for Janice – for the occasion of her new book that will soon be published! This is the fourth author I have done head shots for, and I will be doing another next month! Is that a new niche for me? Given that I love to read so…
Kimber and I go way back. Back to before I even started taking pictures for other people. She was my first real friend when I moved to California 12 years ago. Our mutual love for horses, and riding and animals in general brought us together initially, but there were so many other things that kept…
Pets are family too! Well, certainly these pets are! They are wonderful companions for their adopted “mom,” Deborah. And so well behaved too! Well at least some of them were… I have to admit it was a bit chaotic keeping track of two dogs, two cats and two rabbits n a new place – they…
Deborah wanted some special Christmas portraits done of her pets for the holidays -but because of some scheduling conflicts we weren’t able to get together until well after Christmas was over. “That’s OK,” she said, “I’ll just get some Christmas portraits to remember this Christmas by and to use for next year.” Fortunately we had…
Every once in a while I take a step back from the super creative process of creating fun and whimsical portraits and just take some regular old head-and-shoulders head shots. There is a real need for better photographs than snapshots in the corporate workplace and even for places like Facebook or LinkedIn profiles. While not…
I couldn’t think of a better word to describe this family, so keeping it short on the blog titles tonight! I was pretty excited to see that Jessica had signed up for my annual Valentine Mini Sessions, as I had a wonderful time photographing her lovely family just over a year ago, at the Redhawk…
I mean the love in the air. And the excitement. And the fun. All essential ingredients for a successful session with the “Y” twins! What made it even more fun is that this was the 4th mini session with the twins. You can see how they’ve grown over the years by checking out their past…
So, today is my little sister’s birthday. I thought I would surprise her with just a few images from the family portraits session we did in Laguna Beach when she came out to visit Sunny Southern California this month! We had a great time for the few days her family was out here – dinner…
There is nothing quite so thrilling as being a part of that magic moment when a man takes a knee to ask his love for her hand in marriage…and she says, “yes.” I get chills every time. It’s the very beginning of a new path that two people set out on together. I’ve done this…
