Magical Fairy Portraits - July 26 , Dixon California

Valerie Stevens Portrait Session at the Davis Arboretum

It took Valerie and I one and one half years to make this session and it was awesome. We had a great time with Valerie and Dolan. They were married January 2008 and were given a gift certificate for a portrait session. These are, in a sense, what Valerie called "her engagement pics".

Dolan was such a sport even though he thought we were gonna torture him on the onset. However, as the session went out he started busting out with the jokes and coming up with ideas for locations and poses.

Here are some of our favs:

Mason's Portrait Session

Friday night DJ and I went over to Jill Orr's house to photograph her grandson, Mason. Mom, Alyssa, was there to baby wrangle and it went great. Jill has an awesome backyard which gave us several locations to use. It was very hard to limit myself to these few images.

Announcing the Enchanted Forest FAIRY PORTRAIT DAY

Sunday, July 26 (one day only)

Creation Fee of $45.00 includes the session and 1 - 5x7" print. We have the wings and props, you just bring the magic. Perfect for little girls ages 1 to 16.

Call the studio at 678.1071 to reserve your spot.

Arianna's studio fairy portrait and more....

I have known Arianna since she was a "little" girl, since she was about 12 I would guess. We used to live out in the cuts as neighbors. Those were good times with bonfires and BBQs. We even had a concert once with a band from Benicia! Needless to say, I have been taking photos of her for it seems like forever.

Anyways, I did Arianna's senior portraits in February 2006, photos and slideshow are here,
and haven't really seen her since then. We had a chance to get together the other night at the studio to play around with Arianna modeling in some different sets for me.

As you can see, she has grown into a lovely young woman and made a gorgeous fairy.


We also did some Hollywood Glamour type sets.


This is so Bridget Bardot to me, don't know why.


Thanks for coming by Ari, can't wait for another session.

Join us on July 9 for our open house

Heather and Blake's Wedding in Dixon

Heather and Blake were married on June 27, the hottest day we've had this summer so far. Despite the heat everyone had a great time and the celebration was rockin'.

Alisson Lowrie let us use her house for a few images of the girls before the ceremony. Her porch works awesome.

Meanwhile, at Bre and Robert McGrew's ranch (location of the ceremony and reception) Ryan was working with the guys.

It was interesting to see when editing the images that at just about the same time I was taking this image,

Ryan was taking this one:

We thought the reflection of the wedding party in the canal was pretty nice.


On to some shots of just Blake and Heather.



Blake was all smiles.

On the way to the reception.

The cake was awesome!

The rings.

Heather.
First dance.


On the front porch at sunset.

Slideshow to follow shortly.....

More Yuma Arizona Photos

I'm feeling kinda photo-e lately. I keep taking breaks from editing to go through some other personal images and am finding lots of stuff I like. I posted these on the Facebook fan page for the State of Arizona just now. I really, really, love the sky there. I do not miss the heat though!

All images were taken by my i-Phone and edited in Adobe Lightroom. The first three were done in September 2008.



This image was done in June 2009 about one week ago.

Just another random post with a super cute Pug

I recently found this photo I took of old neighbor of mine, Patti Sousa's, precious little pug. It was taken at the first Dixon Downtown Farmer's Market in 2007. I just posted it on Facebook for Patti's page so thought I would share it here as well.

Senator's Wash - Yuma Arizona

On September 8, 2008, one day after my wedding, DJ and I drove out to Senator's Wash early in the morning. The wash is just outside Yuma and really close the base DJ lived on, Yuma Proving Ground. We used to hang out here during the summer as teenagers. However, I don't remember it being as pretty as it looked on this particular morning. One thing I love about Arizona is that the sky is always beautiful.

Monica and Armando's Wedding - June 20, 2009

Since I used to be next door neighbors to Monica and Armando it seems as if I have been involved in their wedding since they first starting planning for it. This past Saturday was the big day and it was awesome.

We started at St. Peter's Church in Dixon. They had mariachis for the ceremony who then also followed us to the reception.


We stopped at the state capitol for some photos with the bridal party and their "baby", Mikey.






Monica and Armando have been together for ten years this month. Armando showing off his ring.





The rings on a sombrero from one of the mariachis.

The reception took place at the Masonic Temple in Sacramento. A beautiful historic building downtown.

On the way to their first dance as husband and wife.

Congratulations Monica and Armando. Have a terrific honeymoon!

The slideshow will be coming soon....