I recently attended an event for the L.A. Shoot This! photography event which was held at Studio OC in Fountain Valley, CA and hosted by Joelle Leder. The theme for the event was Valentine’s Day – Red, White & Pink with a twist of sweetness, vintage and love. Kerry Garrison from http://CameraDojo.com/ and http://blackbeltlighting.com was at the studio [...]

I recently had a pleasure to work with Anjannet and her family for a maternity session. They are seven months along and are expecting a girl! To see more photos from this session, click here to visit.

“The most important things that a photographer should carry are her/his feelings and emotions, because you can make a great picture with your soul, not your eyes. You can’t make images that affect others if you aren’t in some way affected while making them.” ~Brenda Tharp That is one of my favorite quotes. It was [...]

I would like to thank everyone who participated in a charity portrait session and donated to Red Cross to benefit the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief. Because of your generosity and contributions, $350 was raised. I have met many great people in the process and it was a fun journey.

I attended the Riverside & Inland Empire SmugMug meeting this afternoon in Rivserside, CA where the topic was on Studio Lighting. It was more of a photographic educational workshop than just a meeting. One thing I learned from this workshop was that “cowboy studios” (a type of wireless flash/light trigger) were incompatible with my hotshoe converter (thanks to [...]

Kellie and I had been friends and talked about doing a photo session together for awhile now. We finally got a chance and recently went to a train station in Fullerton for a photo session. We had fun and talked non-stopped. Click here to view more photos from the session.

As we all know, Japan was recently hit by an 8.9 quake followed by several tsunamis and aftershocks. After the 8.9 quake, Northern Japan was hit by a 7.2 quake! This makes me want to cry for them. It’s very devastating and heartbreaking! I’m offering 30 minute portrait sessions to those who donate $25 to [...]

After the mini-photog shootout at Irvine Park on Thursday evening, we moved onto the OC Smug meeting at the Outdoor Education Center that was within the park. The speaker was Matt Saville and the topic was “Key Elements That Make Up A Beautiful Portrait”. This was a fun and very interesting topic to listen to. [...]

On Thursday evening, I attended a mini photog shoot out at the Irvine Park in Orange, CA. There were several photographers and models who broke into several small groups. I was only able to photograph Everlyn because I was having a nice time working with her. In this group with Everlyn, we were working on natural light [...]

I would like to take this time to wish everyone a happy new year and I hope 2011 is a great year for everyone! Perhaps, you do not know that I am a runner, but I started the new year on the “right foot” (excuse the pun, haha!) by going for a morning run. I [...]