It's what I'm aaaBOUT! Music-Rosi Golan

"Moment that I wait, or I hesitate's a moment that I waste"

This is a line from the song "I Don't Wanna Wait" from my new favorite artist...

Photo by Laura Crosta

Rosi Golan!

I am soooo in love with her music. I found her randomly on someone's blog. They had a link to her album on iTunes. I checked it out and instantly fell in love with each 30 second clip of music.

I can be pretty protective of artist/albums that I fall in love with that are not super well known. I don't know why I do that, but I do. It's completely selfish of me. I need to share amazingness when I find it. So, I am trying to give up my selfish musical ways and share this.


Go and get her album "The Drifter & the Gypsy"! (one of my favorite songs on the album, by the way)

Here is a link to her website to listen to full versions of the songs.

A Package of Three!

I have known Kiffyn since she was...wow, maybe since she was 10. And now she is a junior in high school. I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me feel a lil' old. But more than anything it just makes me glow with happiness to see such a great girl still be as great and cute as ever.

Kiffyn brought along her friends Jessica and Kawai. They were a TON of fun from beginning to the end. It started with them trying to stuff their things into the trunk of my car; talking on the drive about boys, football games and group dates (telling them the bad news that dating gets more complicated as you get older, not more fun as it is in high school, haha); and all the way to getting in a little bit of nonsense trouble with a very unhappy grouchy park ranger.

They also taught me how to do my hair cute like they have it too! They were a ton of fun and I was just there for the ride! Oh to be in high school and have that much energy again! ;)





Second favorite shot of the day.
When I was taking individual shots of the girls, Jessica kept coming up with all these goofy faces, and all Kiffyn and Kawai could say, "Oh man! That is such a Jessica face!" I had to show you at least a few of them!
I asked the girls to 'vogue' for me...it was a fun little moment.

The only shot I could find that I was willing to do in black and white. I was just loving the colors everywhere.

My FAAAAAVORITE shot of the day. Don't ask me why, but it just about makes me giddy when I look at this shot!


Thanks girls for being pretty much kick butt! (hehe) The funny thing, my favorite shots were all after that kill joy park ranger shook her finger at us! :) Thanks for being the cutest girls ever! You made my job easy peasy!

Picture of the "Week"!

I love clouds and sunsets because they usually include lovely moments that make me grateful, hopeful and faithful of the things I have learned in life.



This picture is not from this week of rainy weather. I took it a year or two ago (while driving, of course). But the weather has made me think of this shot so I dug it up.


Happy rainy weather! :)

2009 Catch up.

I have a TON of blog posts from photo shoots done in 2009, which I know...is sooooo last year. But I wanted to still share them with everyone. So be prepared for some posting left and right!

Sideways...

Up and down....

Loopy loos...



Okay. I'm stopping. :)


Every post needs a photo...here you go! It was a beautiful sky, so I ran outside and took a quick picture.

p.s. this was done hand held, no tripod...boooyah! :)

A horse is a horse of course...Easy & Lindsay!

I love it when past clients contact me again for another photo shoot! Well, one of my favorite brides, Lindsay, sent me an email saying she wanted to take some photos. Now let me just tell you, Lindsay is gorgeous so I was VERY willing to get her in front of my camera again, but this time it wasn't so much about her as much as it was about someone else in her life...Easy!

Easy is Lindsay's horse. And the name fits perfectly. :) I won't ramble on about how fun it was to see these two interact with each other, or how grateful I was that Easy was willing to let me shove a camera in his face and not eat it, or that we had some gorgeous light...I'll let you just check out the photos!






See, like I said, Lindsay is gorgeous!!


Favorite shot of the day...I love the lighting. Just a girl and her horse.


Thanks Lindsay...and Easy! I had a really great time!

Neon Boneyard-PART TWO!!

Here it is...with growing anticipation and many people rightfully pestering me for this post...thanks for waiting!

Wendy and I had been emailing and chatting on the phone back and forth and then one day she said, "We were thinking of a..uh..(pause)...wardrobe change?" I didn't see this as a problem, I don't get why she paused. But it must have been to add dramatic effect because well, it deserved some dramatic effect.

"We want to dress up like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe!!"

No greater words could have been spoken to a photographer when the photo shoot location is in the Neon Boneyard. This is just one of the MANY reasons why I love my clients, they are pretty stinkin' RAD to think of these things without me trying to convince them to do it!

So here is the math: Elvis + Elvis/Marilyn x 2 =AAAAWESOMENESS!!


Like Father...
...Like son.

I yelled out "Marilyn and Elvis...give each other a kiss!!" and the kids both look at me like I was crazy! I forgot there was two of each! Mini Elivs is most effected by it, just watch his reaction in the series of pictures below...it starts with "eewwww!" to looking at his parents to see the icky kissing!!




Just a little individual yet family love. :)





I loooove this shot, not only because of the PERFECT sun flare but because Kevin looks so rock star walking towards the camera!