A huge congrats goes out to the winners of the Best of 2012 comment contest! And thanks to everyone who participated! All of the images were lovely, but… The winners are:
The Carter family, who will be receiving a gallery wrapped Canvas!
2nd Place
These lovely cowgirls will receive a 12×18 or 11×14 print of their winning image
3rd Place
4th Place:
5th Place:
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First I want to start by thanking all of you who made 2012 such a wonderful year! I had so many fun and amazing sessions and loved getting to know so many of you better! So I’m going to have a contest! I have pulled some of my favorite images from 2012 client session – and this was no easy task! I started out with 300 favorite images, but that was going to be a bit overwhelming, so had to narrow things down several times. So, here are the details, and the RULES!
1. Visit my FB Page by clicking here and look for the “Best of 2012 Contest” album.
2. Place your vote by commenting under your favorite image in the album.
It is up to you and your supporters to vote up your image! Work your strategy! The “Best” image is subjective and they are all the best in my eyes. . The image with the most comments from individual people gets the most points! (So if your mom leaves 5 comments under your image – that will count as ONE point – if you have 5 different friends leave comments on your image that will count as 5 points).
3. Contest ends on Tuesday February 5th at midnight and contest winner will be announced on my blog and FB page on Wednesday February 6th – so check back then!
Feel free to share this link to your friends and family so they can see the rules!
The Prizes
1st Place Winner - A 10×20, 11×14 or 12×12 canvas gallery wrap of their favorite image
2nd place winner – a 12×18 or 11×14 print enlargement of their favorite image
3rd, 4th & 5th place winners – metal ornaments featuring their winning images
Let the Voting Begin!
They’re back! One of my most popular sessions of the year – the Valentine minis. Valentine’s Day is less than a month away! Take advantage of these mini session specials to make a meaningful gift for your significant other, capture a beautiful portrait of your child – and have some super unique and creative Valentine’s to hand out as well, or celebrate the love you share with someone else by capturing the essence of your relationship now.
Perfect for giving your partner a Valentine’s gift that will remind them of you all year round, or for an updated portrait of your child, along with the cutest, most unique Valentines in town- perfect for attaching to treats, cookies, or even suckers!
Join us Friday February 1st (in studio) or Saturday February 2nd (Laguna Canyon) for a mini, petite or half session. All images come with full resolution digital files, gift prints and Facebook Timeline covers. Valentine cards are offered with special pricing as an add-on as well!
This session felt jinxed from the beginning. Having had to be rescheduled due to bad weather, we made a second go at it last Thursday! This sweet family wanted to do photos at Crystal Cove State Park because they live right there in Newport Coast. But there wasn’t enough time to properly submit for a permit to shoot there and Crystal Cove State Park requires a permit from the CA Film Commission. I told them we could give it a try to get some shots at their own stomping grounds, but there would be a chance we’d be cited or asked to leave. Sure enough, not two candids into our session we were approached and asked for our permit and then made to leave. Bummer. But fortunately for us, Shaw’s Cove is just a hop, skip and a jump down the beach from Crystal Cove and is a beautiful setting for portraits. So, in spite of our unlucky beginnings, we were able to capture some beautiful memories, in a beautiful location on the coast of Laguna Beach. I think the end result was well worth all of the hassles! Enjoy your sneak peek “C” family!
Can you tell that these folks really love each other… and they love to play… a lot? All of my favorite images from this session were the ones where they were interacting, playing, loving each other and enjoying their visit to the beach…not posing. Hugs, tickles, ring-around-the-rosies, chasing waves…of course the fun and games all ended once the waves almost swallowed the littlest one up. But everyone thoroughly enjoyed their lovely sunny evening at the beach, as you can clearly see!
The Christmas season is in full swing and I have a record number of last minute (or last few weeks) sessions to get out and edited this time around! Which means blog posts long on photos and short on words! I loved the fun props brought to this session and this adorable family! I think we rescheduled this session 3 times for weather, but scored on a beautiful afternoon when it was finally not raining on us! We ended up fitting in a Senior portrait session for Alex as well, and they all turned out beautifully! Enjoy your sneak peek!
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I really enjoyed spending a lovely August evening with this fun-loving family from out of state. Now that it’s fall, I’m enjoying remembering those golden days of summer! Enjoy these fun loving images from your session “F family”
After shooting Angelica and Kevin’s engagement portraits, they wanted to know if we could take a few head shots as well for work or portfolio. So we kind of combined the sessions into one and just got a few individual portraits after the couple shots – and they pretty fun and unique. It also helps having such great looking clients!
I love that I get to meet so many folks from out of town for my work. And I think that I’ve had more clients from Arizona than any other state this summer! And who can blame them! My own folks live in Arizona and they look for just about any opportunity to come and visit during the hot summer months! This lovely couple was taking advantage of their escape from the summer heat out here to get their engagement photos done at Shaw’s Cove in Laguna Beach. Arent’ they adorable? I think so! And up for everything…even perfect strangers jumping into their photos and posing with them just for fun. You never know what wild and crazy things might happen on a session in Laguna! After getting lots of them together, we got some individual head shots which I’ll post next!
“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”
Hugh Walpole, Sr.
Aaron and Holly traveled here from Las Vegas to celebrate 10 wonderful years of marriage – and wanted to have some romantic portraits taken for the occasion. So we met at Shaw’s Cove in Laguna Beach for a lovely evening together. They truly made my job easy, because they are beautiful inside and out..and their love for each other was so apparent! My most difficult job with this session was narrowing down my favorites… I’ll let the images speak for themselves! Enjoy your sneak peek! There are lots more lovely coming very soon to your gallery!
