Amanda and Wei. I had a wonderful time getting to know your fabulous friends and families. I felt so much at home around everyone, and it was a pleasure being able to be with my Husbone and his wonderful music, among all your wonderful and warm family and friends. We had a wonderful day. Thank you.


As I’m writing this I’m getting many flashbacks of my college days living with Tony in our nasty apartment. There were many moments shared between us that is best not revealed on the internets. I will leave it at that.
Tony and I have very similar senses of humor that falls very flat with our significant others. I’m sure millions of girlfriends can relate. We always take unfunny jokes to another level and then laugh all that much harder, while our girlfriends just stare and roll their eyes. So putting us together leads to an exponential magnification of jokes that only 12 yr old boys can appreciate. Well, needless to say, this led to good times.
It feels totally crazy and surreal, but my house was featured in November’s Nest magazine.
Shooting the article was so much fun - we had incredible team of creative folks to work with, including stylist Anthony Albertus, writer Riann Smith, photographer David A. Land and stylists Yael Gitai and Racine Christensen along with The Nest’s wonderful creative director Lisa Aelion.
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are helping me get over my fear of cats! Yes it’s probably a little known fact, but I have cat issues. After this session I’m feeling much less terrified of the fanged creatures.
But seriously, I had a blast spending time with Mindy and Tim during their engagement session. They were a referral from another great couple, Morgan & Scott, so I knew they were going to be fun and creative. I love the way these two are together! For the session we started at their apt in LA. Just hanging around the house, playing with some cats, and painting some toenails. I loved just capturing them on a lazy morning. Then we headed out to the theatre where Tim proposed to Mindy. Hold on to your hats because this is an amazing proposal story!
Tim surprised Mindy by renting a theatre, having his and her family there, playing a movie of the two of them through the years, then ending by dropping on one knee and popping the question! WOW! So romantic. So the theatre shots are THE theatre where he popped the question. And lastly we wrapped it up with a few shots around their neighborhood. I love it when we can shoot engagement sessions in locations that are so special to the couple. So here are a few pics from the shoot, hope you enjoy. Stayed tuned in a few months for some photos of their amazing wedding that is going to take place at The Social in LA. Can’t wait!

How do I love thee, let me count the ways…
I’m at such a loss for words when it comes to Megan & Eric. I feel like we’ve been friends forever, even though we only met last year. These two are amazing - together and separate. Their warmth, generosity, spirit, individuality, and creative conscious just blow me away. I feel like we’ve supported each other a lot through the last year and I hope that friendship never ever ends. If you’re interested in the amazing story of how they met and how fate intertwined their lives, check out their story on on Meg’s website.
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Me, Dave, and my mom are helping me convert our dining room into a home office–a place to do the paperwork and packaging since that is kind of taking over my upstairs craft room. That way I can keep the “fun part” in my craft room, and get away from the bookkeeping and taxes and forms if I want to. Today my picture is from spray painting some of the vintage office stuff I picked up a few weeks ago.

Rachel + Austin were married on July 19th, 2008 in Newport Beach at the LDS Temple. I’m not sure if anyone has noticed that we get to shoot there often (and not that we’re complaining, it’s a beautiful location), but we get super excited when a couple getting married there options to go to a second location for something unique. In Rachel + Austin’s case we went to a fun location just a few miles away from their reception that was being held at a residence in Corona. This amazing location is called Dos Lagos!!!! We had WAY too much fun working with the lines and shadows!

While I would love to say that we fill our studio with fresh flowers daily, that may not be entirely truthful. However in preparation for a photo shoot (more on that later), Emily literally filled the studio with floral arrangements. They were stunning and really creatde such a peaceful, beautiful atmosphere to work in. We are constantly inspired by florals, so I thought I would share some of the photos I took of the flowers alongside some of our floral inspired work. I got photo happy (what’s new) so this is part one. Enjoy!
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