Indian Girl

Have you ever been so excited you had to pee really bad? That's how excited I was about this session. Sorry bad analogy, but I wanted you to also feel the excitement right along with me ;)

I've always been fascinated with different cultures, Indian and Thai on top of the list. When I was younger, I'd come across Indian movies on tv and just remember being mesmerized by the beauty these women portrayed.

Well, they say things happen for a reason. My studio strobe flash gave up on me in the beginning of this session. So we went to my bedroom where it's lit up pretty well with natural light. We shot her session mostly on the bed and in my tub next to a window (big tub, don't laugh!)
I think they turned out pretty darn good and probably more exciting than the studio ones would have been anyway.
I wanted more of a moody look and depending on the mood of the image, I softened some, contrasted some. Have so many but wanted to share some of my fav's.

So without further delay, this is Kajal. I know her from a couple fashion shows I photographed where she was a model. She is b-e-a-utiful!

Share the love pleeeeez! :)













i don't know why i like this one so much but i do.

Hemina

I had a fabulous day yesterday with 3 stunning girls that were easy and fun to work with! This is part 1 of 3.
This was the 2nd time I photographed Hemina, totally love this gal. She's always involved in something and I know she's going places in life. Isn't she model material?

I wanted to process these all differently, what do you think?

The Arizona Desert in February

First off, You are welcome to congratulate me on learning how to upload larger images to my blog...lol. I'm so happy with the result.
Thanks Missi!

You can't beat Arizona's weather in the winter!! ( actually you can't beat Arizona's weather in the summer either. Argh... But that's a different post coming soon) ;)

These pictures are a bit special to me because I took them on two separate trips this month to and from Mexico and shot them thru the truck window on both sides of the road (lighting was different) on a very high shutter speed. Didn't turn out too bad after all. After 400 shutter clicks and annoying my poor fellow passengers, here are just a few! Oh. I wasn't driving just for the record~


I normally don't shoot landscape at an angle, but I'm considering changing my mind. I like this one in particular because I feel like I was standing right there in that spot.

Girls, girls, girls...

They say that photographers have the funnest job...I have to agree.

Photographing women and capturing their real beauty is so rewarding. Every women should feel beautiful, thats really what it's all about...and when they SEE how alluring they truly are, then that's the reward.

The women below are just a handful of the beauties that I had the opportunity of photographing in the last few months or so.
Type of sessions included boudoir, TTD, wedding, fashion show, glamour & traditional.


{some are recaps}.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just wanted to wish all my blogger buddies a great Valentine's Day!

Hope you all do something fantastic tonight.........I'm referring along the lines to a romantic dinner and some flowers, but hey anything else is EVEN better. (wink)


(from my honey) :)

Photography + Vegas = Crazy Fun!

I'm so excited about attending the WPPI conference in Vegas next month!

One of my good friends is flying in from St. Louis and we're road tripping it to Vegas.

You know...we all have that one friend that's identical in so many ways ? Well that's my dear friend Carrie.   Attending the conference together is going to be a blast. :)

Let me know if any of you fellow blogger friends are going! Would love to meet~

Seagulls

These beauties were photographed in Mexico this past weekend. We spent the last few days with some fun family members camping in the trailers near the beach. The weather was gorgeous, about 70 degrees during the day with a little wind. The sky couldn't have been more blue, simply beautiful.

In these particular images, pieces of bread were being thrown in the air and in some of them, I was able to catch the pretty lil birdies with the bread.
Nothing like a fast shutter speed ;)

Didn't realize how much fun I had photographing birds. I was waiting till I turned 80 to do that. Oh well.

Did I forget to mention that I love my telephoto lens :)

Little Natalie

This little girl is my cousin. She loves having her pictures taken, if you can't tell ;)
Her mother visited with me one morning and Natalie, knowing I'm a photog, insisted we take some pictures especially when we told her there was a tutu available. She wouldn't give up....and so here she is.

Superbowl in my town yesterday! Dirty funny.

I took some photos by the stadium yesterday while on the freeway with my husband before the mid afternoon traffic rush.

Now my dear friends, a photography lesson here:
Angles are everything!
same football, different angles.

You be the judge of the better photo :)