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Love Light Images has a New Look!

Love — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:47:41 +0000

It’s a new look folks! New year, one year old babies, it’s time for some big changes. Yes, I wanted to have this whole thing done by January, but hey, that’s life with twins I have to give a giant shout out to Morgan at Adrenonline for doing an awesome job on my new logo. Be sure to check out his work, he’s so talented. It’s very exciting for me to start with this new fresh and clean look. Out with the old and in with the new. I’m ready to start this wedding season off right! Head on over to my website for the full look.

Venice Beach Boudoir

Love — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:27:15 +0000

I need to remain a little hush hush on this boudoir post. The bride has a professional position who doesn’t necessarily want her clients to see her half nude Because of this, I’m not going to mention her name, but only talk about her as a person. Bright, beautiful and so, so in love with her man! He’s a firefighter and I just love all the little charms and such she has in his honor. A location for the shoot fell through, so these pics happened to be at my own house. We made it work and she rocked her bad little self in these photos. She also has such great captivating eyes, rawr! I especially love the ones at the end where she’s wearing her man’s reliefs, so hot!

Some of my fave two photos here

LOVE IT! Smoking….

Featured on The Indie Tot

Love — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:28:53 +0000

So fun to have Kat’s Surfing maternity session featured on The Indie Tot today!
Baby Zander has since been welcomed into the world and has the absolute best head of hair. Maybe has something to do with ocean water

To see the full feature click HERE

Featured on Borrowed & Bleu!

Love — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:16:48 +0000

Thank you Borrowed & Bleu for the great Feature of Rachael and Nick’s engagement session at Will Rogers State Park!

To see the full feature click HERE to go to Borrowed and Bleu’s blog and leave some comment love!

Carats and Cake Wedding Planning Boards

Love — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:26:29 +0000

I was contacted by Carats and Cake to help build their web content while they’re in the beta stages of creating their new site. The concept is pretty great, it’s kind of a mix between Pinterest and Facebook, you can browse wedding boards created by past brides from their own weddings and get ideas and advice from them. They have broken down all different categories from venues, to dresses to DJ’s, it’s very comprehensive. I just love this idea as it’s so hard to not only compile all the fresh ideas you have while wedding planning, but also to know what vendors you can really trust or not. What makes this site different is it’s interactive abilities. First off, a recently married bride can build a board with all the great images from their wedding featuring their favorite things. Then brides to be can search through the site, see these great images, get inspired and are even able to ask questions. It’s a great way to get personal references and advice. You can ask brides questions about their wedding or get details references, what worked, what didn’t, etc, etc.

Being a wedding photographer I am told many times by past brides that they’d love to continue to live out their day over and over. The Carats and Cake site offers a great way for newlywed brides to do just that. They can continue to share all the joy, all the great aspects and even the things that didn’t work with brides to be. It creates a great networking source for those veteran brides and those still planning.

As I mentioned they are still in the beta phase of the site, but feel free to look around and check it out. I think it’s going to be pretty awesome!

Here are a few screen shots of the boards to get you interested:

One from Rachel and Rick’s wedding:

The full link is here: Rachel and Rick

And here is another example from Rachael and Nick’s wedding:

The full link is here: Rachael and Nick

Sasha & Zack Maternity Featured on The Poppy Cat

Love — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:37:52 +0000

So fun to see a childhood friend of mine featured on The Poppy Cat! Click on the link at the end of this post to give them some blog love.

For the full feature, click here: Sasha and Zack featured on The Poppy Cat

Featured on Delightfully Engaged I Malibu Wedding

Love — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:25:06 +0000

So excited to have Rachel and Rick’s Malibu Wedding featured on Delightfully Engaged’s blog!

To see the full feature, go to the link here: Rachel and Rick’s Malibu Wedding

Featured on Style Me Pretty!

Love — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:35:54 +0000

What joy, what bliss to be featured on my favorite wedding blog Style Me Pretty today! Rachael and Nick’s wedding was one of my faves from this year. I am beyond ecstatic to have them showcased as my first wedding on Style Me Pretty – California Weddings.

To see the full feature, go to the link here: Style Me Pretty – California Weddings Be sure to give these two plenty of blog love, they are fabulous!!

Surfing Maternity Shoot I Surfrider Beach Malibu

Love — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:58:51 +0000

How badass is a surfing pregnant lady?! I am just so lucky to know one myself! I met Kat at Surfrider Beach in Malibu to document this awesome feat. Kat and I are trading services, she is a talented designer at her own company Katavision. She’s helping me with a new logo design, in exchange I’m documenting her growing belly. She carries it oh so well, and how absolutely impressive to be able to hold her balance with a growing belly and still shred out in the water! Kat almost chickened out from surfing one last time, but I’m so glad she changed her mind as I was able to document her amazingness. And I think the cheers and applause from the crowd on the beach is something she’ll never forget. This post is a little longer than my usual maternity shoots, but I just couldn’t decide on my favorites. Cheers to you Kat, you look absolutely stunning and are crazy glowing! Look forward to meeting your little man.

Oliver August & Macy Jeanne

Love — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:28:25 +0000

It has been a long journey to this point of today. Of course when a new baby comes into your lives, things get turned upside down and a whole new range of experiences and emotions are felt that were never before experienced. Now times this all by two! My sweet little loves Oliver August and Macy Jeanne were born on February 18, 2012, 5lbs 7oz and 4lbs 15oz respectively. With a much anticipated natural birth as the plan, this momma came down with preeclampsia at 37 weeks and had to be induced. After 29 hours of labor and a constant balancing act between pitosin and magnesium, these little ones were born out of an emergency C-Section. Oliver ended up being a big brother after all! Their birth was a perfect first lesson in parenting, you can’t control everything, patience is a virtue, expect the unexpected, but most importantly, love is really all the matters. No matter how these little ones came into the world my love for them is the most important thing. And oh what love it is. I feel forever changed. Every commercial, book I read, people I see out in public makes me thing of these littles. How proud I will be (and already are) of them, how exciting it will be to watch their first bike ride, dance recital, school play, soccer game, etc. Such little lives, so sweet and innocent, so docile and fresh. It’s fascinating to think about who they will become, what personalities will be shaped, what ambitions they will have, what struggles will be overcome. It all starts here and I get to nurture these little ones. What a responsibility and what an honor. It has taken me 6 months to get this post out about them. But looking back it’s almost perfect. I get to see how far we’ve come. My sweet peas. As crazy as life is with twins I am so very thankful that they are both happy and healthy. There was no NICU needed, no jaundice, just perfect little muffins. I am so looking forward to watching them grow and explore and for the adventures that we will all be taking.

These are just a few words to describe them

Macy- Our little bean, big brown eyes, analyzer, mini, cruiser
Oliver – Giggler, kicker, active, so happy, smiley, mama’s boy

As a photographer I was so excited to have my own models for photo shoots. This thought was during pregnancy. The reality of life with twins is that a scheduled photo shoot is pretty dang hard. So the majority of my photos are from my trusty iPhone. They say once the kids reach 1 year old things start becoming much easier, maybe then I can break out my real camera…….

February 18, 2012 Day 1 Day 6 bringing babies home Day 6

1 month 2 months 3 months

4 months 5 months 6 months