Austin & Stephanie | Sacramento California Engagement

These two were fun to work with! I am excited about their wedding in July :) They were up for any ideas I had and even trekked it through some jungle-like terrain! The mosquito were eating us alive! I think I am still scratching.

I really love how much these two loved to laugh! They have a fun forever ahead of them!

Little Babe

This is my super adorable niece! She is just beautiful! She was such a little doll all during her photo shoot. Such a natural :)

Keep on Keepin' on

I read this quote the other day on the blog The Maternal Lens.The quote is by Ira Glass and I just love it...because I feel just like this! I have all these images and ideas in my head of what I want my artwork to look like and I so often feel like I can't emulate that in the outcome. This inspired me. Keep taking pictures. Keep trying.

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.

But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this.

We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work.

Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through."

Nic & Bri | Portland Wedding Photography

Wow. Just got back from photographing this couple in Portland...pretty much the cutest couple I've ever seen. Look at that darling dress...I had a blast with these two! Thank you, Thank you for letting me come and party!

Everything seemed to go their way that day. The rain that was supposed to come and we were planning for, didn't. About to pay for parking downtown, didn't. (Someone gave us their ticket because they had paid for a full day.) Ate at Noodles & Co. and the girl at the register said, "If I can take your picture I will buy your lunch." Free lunch. Awesome. Tried to sneak onto an old riverboat and when the tour guide came over, we thought we were being booted but he said, "Let me take you up to the captain's cabin..." Well, thank you!

So it was a great day and I can't wait to share the rest!

Oh Happy Day

I hope you all have a very wonderful Easter! God Bless!

All Grown up

These lovely young women go to church with me! I have know many of them since they were just teensy little ones. it's weird that people I used to babysit are graduating, getting married, even having babies! I feel old. And I'm not really.....though my 3 year old son always tells me I am :) These girls are beautiful and I hope they always remember that.

Josh & Kaitlin | Sacramento Engagement Photography

So, it was supposed to rain this day...so said the weatherman...and let me tell you, IT DID. All day it had looked gloomy but no rain until I was leaving my house and it began to POUR. I had the wipers on full blast. But these two had driven up from Stockton and we were going to see what would come of our photos shoot. Amazingly enough, by the time we got to our destinatin the rain had stopped. And there was no rain the entire time!!

Wow. It was awesome...I mean the ground was definitely wet and these guys were troopers hiking up and down slippery rocks nearly falling to their deaths into the torrential waters of the American river...ok I am being dramatic...but they really were awesome and and I think we got some good stuff out of it. All our prayers for good weather were answered :)

Congrats Josh and Kaitlin!

Life is Busy

I've been busy...with just everything lately! I thought I would do better with blogging but yet again I am slacking! I keep thinking, "Oh, once I get past this one thing then I can relax..." Right. The saying, if it's not one thing, it's another...so true. Life doesn't ever seem to slow down. I often feel like John Mayer:

Stop this train
I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't but honestly won't someone stop this train

I especially feel like that sometimes with my kids! Won't someone stop this growing up too fast thing? It is sad to see how fast it goes but exciting all at the same time! I guess we just need to live it up! 

ANYWAY...here are a few things I have been working on...

I was able to take photos for my son's preschool...those kids are SO adorable! The only child who didn't cooperate was my son...imagine that.

Be Inspired

I decided to enter a picture for Jessica Feely's "Be inspired" challenge with the subject being "spring." Here is a recent picture which I just LOVE...I love the green grass poking up through the dead grass and the split-rail fence...and OF COURSE this darling little girl who just turned ONE! She is such a doll.

Spring is in the air!

Even though the trees here have been blooming since February, it is finally starting to feel like SPRING! Though, here in Sacramento that feeling is often short lived, it is amazing while it lasts! I was meandering around my parents yard the other weekend while celebrating my brother's big 3-0 and took these...I bet my mom didn't think she had that many pretty flowers growing in her yard!