The Jessica Claire Workshop

After three trips to Home Depot and still not having the proper parts to install my new dishwasher, I’ve moved on to more pleasant things, liking blogging my recent Jessica Claire Workshop!  Yes…..much better.  I really haven’t seen anything like what she had set up for us to shoot.  It was AMAZING!  Because it rained all morning, the location had to be changed a few times and we ended up shooting at the community club house.   There were roughly six scenes set up that were set up FULL of super cute details.  I’ll post the details in another post but here a few of my favorite images of the Troy and Aimee Grover who modeled for the workshop.  Troy’s blog  is:http://blog.troygrover.com/

All of the people who made this happen:


Event Design, Production, Vendor Coordination, Bride & Bridesmaid Styling, Graphic Design: Lollipop Events & Designs (www.ilovelollipops.com; www.ilovelolliblog.com)
Floral Design & Groom Styling: Isari Flower Studio
Hair & Makeup:  Vivian Tran, All Made Up:  http://www.allmadeupteam.com
Rentals: Fete Accompli (www.feteaccomplievents.com)
Dinnerware, Flatware, Flutes & China: Bloomingdales (www.bloomingdales.com)
Gowns: Joan Shum Bridal (www.joanshum.com)
Groom Suits: Bloomingdales (www.bloomingdales.com)
Cake Designer: Erica O’Brien Cake Design
Upcycled Vintage Bridal Jewelry, Accessories & Heirloom Jeweled Bouquet:
Bridesmaid Dress: Swoon (www.swoondress.com)
Bridal Headpieces & Bridesmaid Bolero Jacket: Alisa Benay (www.alisabenay.com)
Message Box Favors: Lucky Bug Handmade Paper Delights
Other thanks to Be Inspired Public Relations: (http://www.beinspiredpr.com/)

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Nicole & Matthew

Nicole and Matthew were my last wedding of the year.  They had quite a group of friends and family at their wedding.  I think everyone had a good time including all of the grandmothers who had their own personal dance partner all afternoon!  You can see the slide show here.

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Praveen

Blogging is a one sided conversation.  I guess it’s not totally one sided because I usually have a conversation with myself as to what I should say in my post.  I start thinking about little things that happen during a shoot and begin weaving them together with other thoughts to try express something that I would like to remember.   Sometimes the conversation spills  out and my husband will ask me who I’m talking to.  Well….myself, of course!  Isn’t that obvious!   Rashmi called me to come to her home at take some pictures of her two children, Praveen and Uma.   As it happened, Uma had taken a nap that day and was sleeping when I arrived so I spent quite a bit of time with Praveen.  When Uma did wake up,  she wasn’t interested in having a stranger follow her around taking pictures.  I really can’t blame her.  It’s hard to wake up after a good nap much less be excited about being photographed.  Instead of forcing the issue, Rashmi just let it go.  Refreshing.  I only made two images of Uma that day with her tentative permission.

Here’s Praveen.

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The Galangs

For the last 2 years, my friends, the Galangs, let me create whatever type of image I have in my froggy brain  for their Christmas cards.  This year, I had them out on one of those cold windy nights that we get here in the desert.  I was disappointed that it was so windy.  It’s hard to do a painting with light portrait with balloons going crazy in the wind.  It did make for some funky portraits.  I love these walls we have in our neighborhood.  They’re so…basic.   Maybe a  little grungy but not in a cool way… just a regular way.  I guess I like them so much because I’m always trying to photograph regular things in a way that makes them an interesting part of the image.

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I thought it would be fun to post last years images of the Galangs.

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And here’s the image that I made of Tracy last year at the corner of our neighborhood.  I know that I’ve posted this image last year but I love this image and I wanted to share it again.

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Woods Family

I photographed Elisa and Jimmy about this time last year when they were pregnant with Alisha.  Now, Alisha is a whole year old and is ready for her brother.

Love this image!!  So cute!

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Here’s Elisa.  Beautiful as ever!

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