The JOURNAL

Meet Danyell Weinberg. I first met Danyell eeeeearly one morning in January when she showed up to do hair and makeup for a styled shoot. While we waited for the models to show up, we chatted a bit, laughed at how much we have in common, and well… we really hit it off. Then, a […]

We walked through the grass, chatting away about school, graduation, and the future. I complimented her on her jewelry choices, and we bonded over our ridiculous obsession with 31 Bits. “Buying jewelry to help empower women in Uganda… how could it get any better than that,” we laughed. That afternoon we were girls laughing, chatting, […]

On Monday, Christopher and I met our friends Ernie Castelo and Jeff Hammerstein (all of us representing Skyline Mediacast Productions) at the annual Pageant of the Masters media preview night, where we had the opportunity to interview featured festival artists, go behind the scenes, and get a sneak peek of this year’s array of featured masterpieces. […]

Some people have the gift of learning by hearing instructions, or even by looking at a step by step manual. I, unfortunately, don’t really have either of those gifts… I learn by doing. A lot people ask me how I started with photography, wondering if I went to college to get a degree in it. […]

Every year there’s a gigantic conference for wedding photographers called WPPI at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV. It’s not just any conference… it’s the mother of all conferences and photographers from all over the world fly in to learn, hone their craft, see the latest in technology and products, and to brush shoulders […]

I met Karli and her mom at Casper’s Wilderness Park on a sunny January afternoon. The sun shone through the trees and sparkled on the grass as I imaged it would in any fairytale movie. It had rained heavily the week prior and all the new spring grass was starting to poke through, showing signs […]

After almost 10 months of going at 200%, I took a little mini adventure vacation for 3 days in October. My bestie Betsy Lackey invited me to meet her in Dallas for the Needtobreath & Taylor Swift concert…. on a whim. Usually, I don’t jump on whims that require lots of traveling and uncertainty, but […]

Hello! And Happy New Year! It’s 2012, which means lots and lots of NEW is happening. January is such a fun time…. it’s a time for reviewing the highs and lows of the previous year, taking notes on how to make the new year better than the last, and my favorite… dreaming. It’s an exciting […]

The day was abnormally warm and bright for winter in SoCal (seems to be a theme this year…). I met the Korneychuk family at the beach for some family photos to document their recent move to Santa Monica from Orange County. New chapter in their life means new family photos… and they sure came out […]

It was Christmas time in Southern California when Mercedes dropped me an email asking about family portraits. She explained that this Christmas was different from their usual holiday traditions…. it was different because everyone would be there. Her parents (the original Mr. and Mrs. Cantu) would be coming, all her brothers and sisters would be […]