I think Courtney & Obi are amazing.  They’re smart, they’re funny, they’re so great together.  They’re amazing.  After meeting in college, Courtney & Obi hoped to go to medical school in the same city.  Courtney picked USC and Obi chose UCLA.  At the end of May Courtney will graduated, the next week Obi will [...]

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  It always amazes me how much Southern California has to offer.  After six years year, I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that we have beaches, mountains, fields, oceans, rivers… all of it really, and we have it all within driving distance of my house.  As a photographer, I feel so lucky [...]

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I always encourage couples to choose engagement session locations that represent them.  Places that they like to go, places that play an important part in their relationship, places where they are comfortable.  I think it makes the shoot more unique, more personal and a lot more fun for me!  It always gives me a bit [...]

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  Kristen & Christopher are adventurous.  They are wildly fun and vivacious and up for absolutely anything.  They camp and they travel and they love to go out on road trips… a road trip was actually one of their first dates!  It was also on such a trip that Christopher asked Kristen to be his [...]

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  I am incredibly sad that I have never lived in New York City… when I was young and living in a 200 square foot, four story walk-up would have been a dream!  There’s something about this city that draws me in, makes me feel comfortable.  I love the walking, the food, the cocktails, the [...]

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  Renee emailed me a few days before our shoot, she told me that she wanted to surprise Pat.  Eleven years ago, he bought a 1969 VW Bug and has been slowly restoring it.  It just needed one last thing, tires & rims, before it was good to go.  But, being the amazing fiance that [...]

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  I got chills when John told me how he proposed to Dena… it was such a carefully laid plan, so intricate, and yet so perfectly simple.  They met at UCLA, he saw her down a hallway their freshman year and after a bit of flirting, they became adorable college sweethearts.  Many years later, while [...]

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  Holly & Mike fascinate me.  When I first met with them, they had just returned from a six month trip through Australia, New Zealand, Fiji & Asia.  Travelling, for six months!  I was insanely jealous and completely fascinated that a couple could do that.  That they could have as many wonderful experiences has they [...]

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  In my many years as a photographer, I’ve found that grooms tend to be most interested in three things.  Their fiancees.  Their cars.  And their dogs.  The order of importance often changes, but those three often outrank everything else.  And for Brian, it doesn’t seem that I’m that far off!  There’s Diana, a mustang, [...]

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I’m a Southern girl.  While neither of my parents are, I was raised in North Carolina and definitely consider myself Southern.  So, when Southern Weddings Magazine was created I fell head over heels in love.  So much incredible goodness.  And I was thrilled when they picked up Jenn & Mike’s engagement session for their blog!  [...]

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