The JOURNAL

Last time we saw Melissa was waaaay back in 2009 when I was just starting my business, Christopher and I had just started dating, Melissa was 2 years out of high school, and the world was a little simpler. The world, my business, and Melissa have changed SO MUCH SO QUICKLY it kind of makes […]

This is the year Katie graduates from Azusa Pacific University. All her hard work is almost done, and to celebrate, we took some fun portraits around Orange County. I love her smile and her sweet quiet nature. I love her sass and sense of humor. She’s got a heart of gold, and I admire her […]

I’ve been pretty absent from my blog the past two weeks…. sorry. But the good news is, we’ve gotten a blog facelift! It’s been a few years since my last revamp and I thought it was about time we get some fresh design and features up in here. What do you think? To celebrate, I […]

Back when Jesus got his disciples together for a final meal together, He knew this last supper would mean so many things to so many people for millennia to come. I think He was, in everything He did, the epitome of intentional… but He was especially intentional in the way he spent his final moments […]

I got an email the other evening from my sister’s friend Michaela. I’ve known Michaela since she played waterpolo with my sister back in high school and she’s one of the sweetest and most caring people ever. Her email was buried under my daily pile, but as I scanned it, I had to stop and […]

Isaiah just turned 1 year old and he’s one of the cutest and happiest babies I’ve ever met! Ruth and Steve made the trek down from the Seattle area to celebrate this little guy  and wanted to get some portraits done of their new family on this happy occasion. Isaiah LOVES balloons…. if you can’t […]

I was talking with someone recently about living our dreams and about our art. We talked about what our dreams are and were… and we talked about why we’re still hopeful. We talked about the personal liability there is as an artist…. putting our heart and soul into our work and allowing the masses to […]

Every year, my family has the tradition of waking up super early to stand in line at Peltzer Pines to find our Christmas tree together. We run through the pine tree groves searching for the fullest, greenest, best smelling tree we can find, trying to beat out all the other tree-seekers doing the same. Once […]

Meet the Davidson family… a fun loving, beautiful group of people!  We met at Irvine Regional Park to take some holiday family portraits on a beautifully sunny winter morning. We explored around the park, found lots of acorns, pretended to be archers with sticks as our bows and arrows, and ended our time gettin’ our […]

November was a month of family portraits for me. I got to spend the late afternoon hours running around and documenting the love of moms and dads and kids! When Amber asked me recently to photographer her growing family, I was SO EXCITED because I had seen the adorableness of two year old twins through the […]