A Laguna Beach Engagement Session is always a good idea!  It was a busy Saturday at my favorite beach in Laguna.  It was COLD, I was super confused why there were so many people were on the beach.  But then I remembered how rainy and dreary it has been for about 2 months, it’s been […]

I took my daughter out to explore the poppy superbloom in Lake Elsinore for her 6 year pictures (even though she has been 6 for 2 1/2 months).  I’ve been hearing so much about it, and how crazy busy it is out there, but I wanted to see, with my own eyes, what the fuss […]

I was so excited when Chelsea said that they wanted to their engagement session Downtown Monrovia where they spend a lot of their time.  I grew up in nearby Glendora and this downtown reminded me a lot of the cute Downtown Glendora.  To me, maybe because it is most of my earliest memories, but this […]

I had such a fun weekend with Cort and Allison!  They are the cutest couple, such a crack up!  It always makes me so happy when two California kids come together.  They officially met when they were attending BYU in Utah, and they both just happend to be from Southern California. We started their wedding […]

The Coto Valley Country Club in Coto de Caza is a dream venue!  I have been able to photograph wedding in the beautiful Coto de Caza before, but this venue is relatively new and I was blown away with it’s beauty and charm, it is definitely one of my favorites.  The style makes my heart […]

This session was epic!  The deserts outside of Las Vegas are gorgeous!  El Dorado Canyon Mine is so fun, so many options, a photographers dream!  I have shot here twice now and I could shoot there a hundred more times and never get bored!  Who wants do their engagement session out there?  I am more […]

I don’t think that I would be the only one to say that this winter, in California, has been one for the books.  Cold and rainy has been the norm.  To us Californians, 50 degrees is COLD, we are total wusses, but it’s fine.  The Shaw Family came to California from Northern Idaho for a […]

I have been shooting weddings for over 15 years now.  I have photographed literally hundreds of engagement sessions.  I have photographed simple, casual sessions and glamorous, entailed ones and everything in between.  In this last year, I have noticed a trend in engagement photography that not very many couples are doing and I love it […]

Weddings are so special and wonderful when couples are just so openly enthralled by each other.  And that was Chris and Stephanie’s wedding!  From the second I met this cute couple at their engagement session, I knew I was going to love this wedding!  I’m a sucker for outdoor, romantic weddings.  Aren’t they just the […]

This San Juan Capistrano engagement session!  Ahhh!  This couple!  The mission!  It was all so good!  Some couples need direction and encouragement, and I love that, I need A LOT.  But some couples tell me how hard being in front of the camera is and then we get this!  I pose, put you in the […]