Good Driver Test.

I don't know how many of you really know, but I get motion sickness. Sometimes more easily than other times. It's a bit odd. I never know if it will hit super fast or if it will not effect me at all.

There are few people that I call "good drivers" in my mind because most of my motion sickness comes from driving with other people. So if I am road tripping, I have to be the driver or be with someone that I feel is a "good driver" so that I can actually enjoy the road trip. Don't feel bad, my list consists of like 3 people of all the people I've driven with in my life. And they only made that list because consistently I've never had motion sickness from their driving. If I willingly let you drive my car while I'm riding shot gun, you have passed the test. But the true test is when I get off of an airplane and you still don't make me feel motion sick on the drive home.

Well one of those people is my sister Lani. She is just a good driver in general, not to mention she passes MY good driver test. So I am usually a passenger when we drive anywhere, especially on trips.

I remember we were driving home from Utah and usually the sun has already set and it's dark as we drive into Vegas. But this time we hit the sun setting. All I had on me was my point and shoot camera...and the picture is blurry because it was just too dark...but I had to get the colors of the horizon. This is straight out of camera.

It's amazing right?! Plus when I look at this picture (which, though blurry it grows on me every time I look at it) it reminds me of all the times Lani and I drive together. We turn the music up loud. We sing specific songs that we love to sing together. And I'm happy to be sitting in shot gun next to one of my big sisters that I love so much. And plus...I'm not feeling motion sickness so it's an even bigger bonus of awesome!

Happy driving! :)

March Mustache Madness.

Yes...that's what it says. Growing some facial hair in the name of March Madness.

Here are some photos of the fun.

I asked for goofy faces...they delivered.

Blue Skies. Old Signs.

I love old neon signs.



It reminds me of classier time.

Taunting me with emails!

I love music.

I love live music.

There was one point that I was going to a LOT of different concerts within a year span...I went as far as Tennessee for 2nd row seats to a concert.

Well, I outgrew that phase...mostly. I still love live music and I still attend concerts here and there. I have tried really hard to not go to as many shows as I use to back in the day.

Well places like House of Blues, the Joint at the Hard Rock, Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been taunting me with emails left and right of all these different artists I would love to see live. The summer time is coming, it's standard of course. But I am holding strong and I'm not doing it!!

So to feel better about it all, I got nostalgic and found some old concert photos. My best seats (and therefore shots) were back when I was still shooting film...so I don't have those right off hand. Except for this first one. I randomly found it mixed in with some old concert photos.

It was shot on film and scanned on a not so great scanner, so forgive the pixelation! This is back in the day with Maroon 5 tickets were only $15-20!! haha! Miss those days!






This is one of my favorite concert pictures and funny enough has no artist in it. It was also shot on my point & shoot camera. This is when I went to see Jet, which is one of my best concert stories!



I might have to try and find some more old concert photos! This was fun!

Picture of the Week: Rays of Sunlight. Rays of Happiness.

Shot this with my point & shoot camera on a drive back into to Vegas.

It makes me happy.

Liz...headshots!

I have known Liz for a few years now. We had talked about taking headshots for a while but just never really finalized any real date or time. You know how life goes! But finally Liz and I nailed down a date! Liz was a brave soul for allowing me to push her out in the middle of the public to get the shots I wanted! She got a few whistles and "work it guuurl!" so I think it was a successful photo shoot! haha! Thanks Liz for workin' it for the camera!

I love how they turned out! Let me know what you guys think! :)


Gotta enjoy some of that sun flare!


I think these two are my favorite from the day. I just love the lighting. I also love that we hopped over a small fence to sit on the couches! I felt like a rebel! ;)

Just a few candid shots.


Love the black and white shot. It's my second favorite.


Blue eyes make me happy!

It's what I'm aaaBOUT! - Taking a drive.

I kinda enjoy taking a casual drive.

Actually, I would take a lovely early evening stroll, walking around a neighborhood any day over driving, but there are safety issues involved with walking around at night, especially alone, darn it. Plus, I'm cute, so I'm an easy target for getting stolen...kiddddding! ;) So to suffice, I like to drive around.

Well, I don't get to do that very often lately. I've realized how much I miss it. I like it as a way to think about things going on in my life. I like to listen to music that is a part of my life at the moment and just drive and think. It calms me down. I am able to regroup. I am reminded of how blessed I am. Sometimes I do it just to get out of the house. I love going at sunset or late at night when the roads are a little more empty.

I also looooove driving with the windows down when the weather is just perfect. I'm smiling just thinking about it.

One night, I was driving home after visiting a friend of mine. We hadn't hung out in a while. We chatted, laughed, cried, smiled, and just remembered why we need to do this more often. We both had recently had big things happen in our lives and we just felt a commendatory that we didn't feel anyone else understood at that moment. It was nice. It was a beautiful night. The stars were super bright. And the weather was oddly really nice for it being "winter". So I drove with my window slightly down and listened to music. Drives are just that much better when I am able to think about the conversation I had just had with a good friend.

I took the above picture with my phone to remember that night.

I enjoy taking a casual drive.

Family pictures at Red Rock.

I love shooting family pictures at Red Rock. There are so many options of places to shoot.

Jill contacted me for family pictures by email. She told me how she met and fell in love with Dave and they married a few years ago. They both had kids from previous marriages and had not had a picture with the now blended family.

I was so happy to be able to take pictures for them! I have to say, when I got them laughing (I'm pretty funny...just in case you were wondering! hahaha!) they have some infectious laughs in their family! It made me laugh just at their laughs which might have looked like I was laughing at my own jokes...I promise I wasn't! :)

Here are just a few shots!





When I shoot family pictures, I will almost always ask your family to do some goofy shots! Most of the time your family isn't all prim and proper, I know there is goofiness in there, so expect this if you book a session with me! :)

Red Rock...White Rock?!

Near the end of January, there was a pretty good storm brewing around the outskirts of the Vegas valley. Red Rock Canyon was one of those places that got a huge pile of snow thrown on it. The funny thing is, further down into the valley, though cold, the temperature was night and day in comparison to how cold it was up at Red Rock. I was dressed somewhat warm, but not nearly as warm as I would have been had I known how cold it was going to be. Same went for a lot of people that were also around taking in the gorgeous snow capped mountains.

For instance, I was standing next to another photographer. We were clicking away and behind us was a few guys around my age standing there watching. They were doing that "I'm cold" jittering wobble as they stood there. They were dressed like I was, hooded sweatshirt, jeans. They had beanies on and I was jealous of that. Finally they said, "Duuuuude! We want to get back into the car!!" And their friend, the other photographer I was standing next to handed them the keys to the car. I laughed and said, "You guys can't take it, c'mon?!" And they said back, "Oh you know you are cold too!" Yes. Yes I was. And when I got back into my car I saw how red my face was!

I saw one guy getting out of his car with a short sleeve polo shirt on and I had a look of shock on my face as a cold gust of wind swept my hair across my face. He must have seen my face because he started laughing. So I owned up to my obvious shock and said, "Are you crazy! It's freeeeezing!!" and he replied back with a chattering jaw, "Yeeeaaaaaah, I'm regretting not bringing a jacket with me." Uh, yeah.

I know a lot of people who are in places that get snow all the time think, "what's the big deal?!" I'm a girl from the desert. This is a big deal for me. I loved it. Though I'm grateful to not have snow all the time, this was the perfect amount of snow for me to enjoy this year's winter.

Sorry, enough talking...here are just a few (but a lot) of the pictures I captured.



Second favorite shot of the day...but a really close second. I love that you can see just enough down into the valley to see there is only snow at Red Rock.










My favorite shot of the day. I was in my car driving slowly and saw this awesome bare tree. I looked behind and saw no cars were coming, stopped and took the picture.