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sunshine on my face makes me happy — southern california portrait photographer

laurel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:28:23 +0000

and i’m sure it makes janae happy too!

i had such a fun time on this shoot with her. i was able to give the kids away to grandma, and just focus on doing some fun photography. i have to admit, it’s been a while since i could do that! i swear, whoever decided to try and do a photography business with 2 kids? oh yeah, that was me. well, i am crazy for doing it, but i love it so much that i just can’t stop!

ps: this is my favorite shot of the day. isn’t she just gorgeous?!

just a couple…

laurel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:02:34 +0000

oh this fun family! these are friends of ours from our orange county days and i really like erin a lot. she’s so sweet and unassuming and just really has such a good heart. i loved being able to capture her and her family (those adorable little girls!) a while ago. we had an interesting session, as the girls weren’t loving the situation, but in the end i think we had a good show.

thanks, you guys, for a wonderful time!

just because i couldn’t resist

laurel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:15:41 +0000

…posting some beautiful photographs of this awesome family. i mean, come on, who has a kid with a mohawk named hubert?

yeah that’s right, these guys do. it’s totally trailer park. and totally awesome.

so enjoy the awesomeness that is the d family.

thanks for the fun, you guys!

newborn sneak peek – southern california baby photographer

laurel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:41:30 +0000

i know you’ve been dying to see these, tawni! so here you go. just a small sampling of the adorable photos that i got of not only your sweet little new baby boy, but your sweet little girl (and you!) as well. i had a lot of fun doing these and i hope you like them as much as i do!

is he not the cutest little thing you’ve ever seen?? seriously, tawni, thank you so much for letting come and capture these memories for you guys!

there will be more where these came from, i can promise you that.

these guys are fungis! i mean, fun guys. :)

laurel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:21:57 +0000

in the church that i belong to, we have men and women called missionaries who take 2 years out of their lives to serve a mission for our church in some part of the world. that means that where we live, we have missionaries assigned to our area. we like to have them over for dinner as a service as well as a fun time to get to know them while they’re stationed here.

these two elders (that’s what they are called) are such great guys to be around. and since they were over at our house for dinner one night, they saw my lighting equipment and asked if i take pictures. yep! was my reply, and they asked if i’d take a couple of them. and i do mean a couple, we had a mini-session that lasted all of 8 minutes.

here are a couple from that session. again, it’s nothing major, we didn’t even use a backdrop, just the wall of my front room. but it was fun to play around a little bit.

i will be having a couple of great sessions coming up soon, so stay tuned for those!