Normal Day Dean

I was doing a photo shoot yesterday for A Princess & a Pea and we had a spare 2 minutes while we were waiting for another little princess model to show up.  I grabbed Dean (3.5 years old) who was playing so good over in the corner and took a few pictures of him since it's been a while since I had a photo shoot just with him.  I love the quick spunk I got from him in these couple of pictures.  He is my handsome little buddy and he can't wait to be a big brother sometime in the next 6 weeks!

Favorite Family

One of my very favorite families asked me to take a family picture for them on a sunny sunday afternoon.  I was so happy to have this opportunity!  The sun beat down on us and caused lots of shadows, which had to be creatively resolved throughout the shoot and the editing process.

Just doing some experiments...

...with more editing!  With my cute little subject that now does a corny "CHEESE!" grin when I ask him to smile and frequently knows that he does something cute/funny and says "Mom take my picture!"  I love this little man!

Tyler & Jessie

I had a wonderful opportunity to photograph my cousin Tyler and his beautiful bride Jessie's wedding! Let me just say I loved photographing at the LA temple!  It's obvious that Tyler and Jessie have so much natural chemistry together and they were so playful and fun, I literally took like 500 pictures of them.  I know I always say this (but it's the truth) but I had SUCH a hard time picking the pictures to showcase on my blog because there are so many good ones.  Thanks for letting me share in your special day!

Yellowstone Day 3

Our our drive home from Yellowstone we stopped at the awesome Yellowstone Bear World park!  We LOVED driving up close with the bears and seeing the baby bear cubs play.  Next time I am driving through I am going to pay the extra money and feed a baby bear a bottle.  I just wanted to hug those baby bears! We had a great trip to Yellowstone and saw so much wonderful nature and wildlife.

Baby bear cubs Buster and Angus wrestling - SO CUTE!!

Yellowstone Day 2

On day 1 of the Yellowstone trip, I just brought my camera and my fixed 50 lens because I didn't want to lug around the heavy lens all day.  On day 2, I just brought the 24-70mm lens because the landscape was worth the weight.  As we were driving around Yellowstone, if we saw something cool we just pulled over and got out and took pictures.  At one point we even saw an osprey fly from it's nest with supposed babies inside it (according to the man with binoculars).  The cool misty rain made for excellent weather and picture-taking.

Here is a baby bear we saw from the side of the road. Made sure to keep our distance!

Yellowstone Day 1

I have had a lot of amazing opportunities this summer to travel.  One of the perks of having the summer off!  Karl's cousin just got married and we decided to take a little couples trip over a weekend.  We got a condo up at Yellowstone and spent the weekend playing games, eating, hot-tubbing, and touring Yellowstone National Park!  I brought my camera and took a ton of pictures in the beautiful and picturesque landscape in Yellowstone.  Here are some photos from Day 1.

Old Faithful:


Mystic Falls - a "short" hike but beautiful waterfall: