The JOURNAL

Fall has fallen in southern California, even though the temperatures are being kind of bi-polar. Fall means school, shorter days, the race to find that ONE changing tree in SoCal, pumpkin everything… and family portraits. Even though most of my work throughout the year is weddings and engagements, I get to change it up a […]

This summer I had a new face in the office with me. Her name is Megan and she was my saving grace of an intern through the thick of wedding season. I like to think of myself as someone who can do it all…. a super photographer who has time for work, play, my family […]

Styled shoots are pretty amazing to be a part of. We get to be creative and collaborate with really cool vendors, and it’s a really cool experience watching dreams and visions become reality. I sat down with Christin of Christin Wilson Events a few months ago to vision cast and dream up some cool ideas […]

Meet Blake. He was a high school senior this year and recently graduated! It was kind of a wonderfully random connection that brought us to Disney Concert Hall for his senior photos on this summery evening and I think we all had a pretty fun time. Blake is really a fun and wonderful human being…. […]

Sometimes life happens in a way that’s amazingly unplanable (Yup, I made up a word). But sometimes amazingly unplanable happenings are God’s blessings for our futures. For the Clinard and Watson families, life’s amazingly unplanned blessing is that every single one of them is pregnant….. at the same time! Whoa. Let’s get a head count […]

Ryan and Janie have just wrapped up a memorable chapter in their lives together as husband and wife. They relocated to the LA area for Ryan to work on his MBA at USC and during their stay, they really grew fond of the weather, the food, and all that is southern California. While Ryan had […]

The last few senior portraits I’ve posted were all of lovely graduating ladies, but today, I’m excited to share just a few of my favorites from a recent senior shoot with Dylan. Dylan is graduating from high school this year and will be attending Azusa Pacific University! He requested we do his portraits in the […]

I went down to visit Nana a few days before I was set to leave on a life changing trip. As I drove down the coast toward her house, I thought about all the books on missionaries I had been reading earlier that week and tried my best to choke down fear and uncertainty. This […]

My home is currently covered in shredded tissue paper, but I’m okay with it.  I’m okay with it because playing in tissue paper is pretty much the only activity Hugo wants to do by himself…. which means I got work done this week. There are so many new things we’re learning about productivity and priorities […]

What can I say, it’s that time of the year. I have yet another KILLER senior portrait shoot to share with you, and this one I’m particularly excited about because it was so heavily inspired by Anthropologie. Meet Emily Edmunds, a soon-to-be graduate of Azusa Pacific University with a musical degree! And can I just […]