Happy New Year! Enchanted Forest Fairy Portraits - Dixon California

Happy New Year everyone! I'll be spending some time on here (0ne of my resolutions) catching up with many of the postings I missed over the last half of 2009. We had some great clients and shoots that I need to share.

To start with, some of the Enchanted Forest Faeries we worked with last year. These sessions are so magical!

Magical Fairy Portraits - July 26 , Dixon California

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.

New Virtual Background Scene Machine

So, I have gotten way behind on the blogging again. I received my new Virtual Backgrounds Scene Machine and was busy trying to get it all set up so I could play. I was very excited that it was finally here as I ordered it when I was in Las Vegas at WPPI (Weddings and Portrait Photographers International) convention. Then I managed to catch strep throat yet again so I was down for about a week. Now I am playing catch-up on everything.

I had a chance to do some work on it over the past week so this is going to be a long post with most of the first images I captured. There are a few more that I will add in the next couple of days. (Beth, don't worry, yours will be posted soon!)

Without further ado, here are some of the incredible people I photographed on the VB Scene Machine recently:

Emily, all the way from Oregon:






Little Lola, such a sweet angel. This image is entered it the National Charity Model Search benefitting the NILMDTS (nowilaymedowntosleep.org) foundation. If you would like to donate to a wonderful cause and vote for Lola to win, please click *here* to link to the voting site.


The lovely Shannon, my office manager:




Miss Natalie as a fairy and a ballerina: