Engagement Session(s) at Pismo Beach

If you live in the San Joaquin Valley, you may appreciate my eagerness to go to the coast whenever possible! After a busy couple of months with weddings, we took a week-end off and went to Pismo to photograph Andrea and Jacob's engagement session, as well as Alyson and Chris! I know on Saturday it was 107 in Clovis, and (eat your heart out) 62 in Pismo. With that however, came much fog. In fact, we never even saw the sun. No worries!

An engagement session is included with all wedding packages. This is the perfect opportunity to get to know the couple better before the arrival of the wedding day, and visa versa. This trip was a treat, and both couples were absolutely charming.

We stayed at "Oak Hill Manor" Bed & Breakfast in Atascadero. If you want to sleep good, have a most beautiful room (we stayed in the Athenian - big bed and bigger jacuzzi tub in our room!) and be pampered - you will find all that and more. This was our 3rd visit - and not to be our last! And of course - we had breakfast in Avila at "Fat Cats"... a great week-end!

Morgan and the Guitar

I had a new experience today - and it was 110% fun! Marc Moran builds custom guitars . He recently contacted me to do some "product" images. After a nice drive to the mountains, I found the home...and some excited young people waiting for me. (Three energetic, young and upcoming music stars from Oregon, and a beautiful young woman named Morgan from the Shaver Lake area who was to be the model for the morning - her job to hold the guitar and let me play!) What I thought would be a fairly standard and possibly uninteresting assignment turned into an amazing session. I fell in love with Morgan and her spirit, and was truly impressed by the incredibly beautiful guitars Marc creates. I know nothing about music, but I do recognize beautiful handwork, and he excels at his trade. I was treated with kindness and country hospitality, all the coffee and smiles a photographer could ask for. The young men were extremely helpful - hauling big pieces of wood up and down the hill and keeping lovely Morgan cool and entertained. To top it all off, at the end of the morning I was treated to a very interesting, entertaining and yes, loud session in the recording room while I did a few candids of the boys singing and playing. A great morning. Thank you Marc, I love the photographs and hope you will as well!

Studio 2 Now Open!

Today was a great day!!! Two new launchings...1) my new website, yeah! and 2) my new studio space at Broadway Studios at the corner of Broadway and Tuolomne (Cultural Art Center). Art Hop is the first Thursday of every month...(today) and with the help of my wonderful husband Dean, who was hanging artwork up at the last minute, my space looked great and we were ready in the nick of time. Thank you Honey!

I met more interesting and fun people than I could have imagined, and received much positive feedback about my space and work. Thank you to everyone who visited, I hope to see you again.