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Pictage U: Something New

San Diego, CaliforniaI have a ton of photos to share from Pictage U’s first workshop: Boudoir & Lighting. I love learning techniques I can use every day. I adored Kitty Maer’s Photoshop class. There’s so much that can be done with PS – Kitty keeps it simple but good – that’s my kind of PS. And […]

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California Dreamin’

Laguna Beach, California Erica and Michael came all the way from Atlanta for their engagement portrait session. (Well they really came for Mackenzie and Allan’s wedding, and decided it was also the perfect time for an engagement shoot.)  Erica grew up in Orange County and wanted their photos on the beach for a California look. […]

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Family Portraits on the Beach

San Pedro, California I was excited when Cicely called me about photographing her family. I shot Cicely and Robert’s wedding the year before and it was fun to see their family again. We decided on taking the portraits on the beach. All the girls in the family… The older cousins… In a class of his […]

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Photo Holiday Cards

I love cards, all cards, Christmas cards, wedding invitations, birth announcements, birthday cards. I get excited when I see a card in the mail. It’s almost a ritual from admiring the handwriting on the envelope and seeing which stamp the sender chose, to carefully opening it, feeling the weight of the paper in my hand, […]

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