Erica and Shaun - engagement

often i mention that it is our couples that treat us to experience their lives only the way they can share it...by inviting us in. erica and shaun invited me to "their neck of the woods" and boy was it nice.


they live just outside a beautiful community in valencia ca called bridgeport. it is an amazing community right out of a charles dickens novel or somewhere near nantucket. with a lighthouse and everything.


every home had an immaculate garden with wisteria, jasmine, cala lilies, a winding and romantic man made lake with canals branching off and grabbing homes by the dozen.



what a peaceful place. so, erica and shaun invited me to share with them a piece of their life that was a gesture that i gracefully thanked them with an engagement session that i truly enjoyed.

Gabriel's Bar Mitzvah

there is something about a father and his sons love that can illuminate an entire room when witnessed together celebrating a young mans bar mitzvah.

speaking from a father's point a view, images like these bring pride to all fathers. the pride from both father and son is soooooooo priceless. as parents we sometimes forget that our children mirror us so readily so being able to capture the relationship between gabriel and his father only strengthen my love for my son. it so made me smile when i photographed gabriel's father planting a BIG smacker on gabriel's face.


i was privileged to be gabriel's photographer at his bar mitzvah and i enjoyed every minute of it. i often find moments that define an emotion that just stops me in my tracks...the image of an elder of the family reading during the ceremony brought me to tears. this was such a moment..."a defining moment".


there was a time during the party that the dj pulled out a guitar hero "playoff" that gabriel ROCKED the house. this shot happened without any setup. toooooooo much!



the last photo was a of gabriel hitch hiking down the road after the party. something of an inside joke within the family. do you notice that the photo is two separate images?



mazal tov gabriel...enjoy the journey.

Laci and Brady - engagement

i photographed a couple a few days ago that, again, showed me why i really enjoy being an artist photographing weddings. laci and brady loved our style now they wanted to see our photography in action.


i took them around the calimigos esquestrian center in burbank, ca to unveil not only some beautiful and unexpected location shots but really to peel back the layers of their relationship.


i often talk about the relationships in our photography because i feel that it is the backbone of our photography. judging by the beginning of the session to the end it would be safe to say that laci and brady no longer considered me just a photographer.


rather, someone that photographs their relationship on film and tells their story from a friends vantage point...up close and personal.

Quote of the Month

herioc!

in the 1950s art critic harold rosenberg described the archetypal "action painter", jackson pollack, an artist who transformed his canvas into a modern-day arena wherein an epic struggle between man and material might unfold. process was paramount. with grand, heroically scaled gestures, the action painter created an art of confrontation and catharsis. nearly half a century later, contemporary response to the rhetorical excesses that helped establish action painting as a "heroic" art form has been tempered, and the view of abstract expressionism as the triumph of american painting has fallen out of fashion. there is, however, no denying pollock's monumental impact on the history of american art.