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OpLove Christmas Tribute | 2009

2009-12-19T15:26:42-08:00

With our heartfelt and most patriotic wishes to members of the U.S. military and their families - near and far - for their service and sacrifice protecting the freedom of our great country. Have a blessed Christmas! And a special salute to those who will spend this Holiday Season deployed.

Our tribute, featuring the H family - whose daddy (and husband Luis) is now deployed, but who will be home for Christmas ... if only in his dreams.

God bless and keep you safe ... and God bless the USA.

OpLove, sweet love

2009-10-22T00:06:27-07:00

NOTE: With Woggy's (Col. Paul) unexpected open-heart surgery and triple bypass surgery, then emergency hospital re-admission with arrhythmia, this sweet Navy family of three has waited so patiently for us to post their sneak peeks. Thank you!

This bright little guy is quite the live-wire. Your first clue could probably be the cast on his left arm (notice mommy's note - LOL!). As I recall, he got that from an unauthorized couch-bounce just a week or so before daddy returned from his deployment. Oh those boys ... they really know how to make we parents worry, don't they?

But mom Chris is such a sweetie. So serene. She adores her boy ... and ya think the feeling is mutual?

Don't let the little over-the-arm peek fool you into thinking he's shy - just look at the mischief in that boy's twinkling eye. And this is one daddy so proud of his son. We're so thankful he's home from the his tour safely so we could capture these special hugs and smiles.

Marine family makes our hearts smile

2009-07-08T20:44:38-07:00

The H family just made us smile. Four year old Miss L and Mr. M, two, were just too cute. A special portrait for their soon-to-be-deployed daddy.

Is there anything more heartwarming than a mommy and daughter hugging moment?

Well, maybe there is - a daddy and son moment.

A delicious family loving on each other. <3

Beautiful in classic black and white, too.

Time for a little dad and mom sweetness.

A light-hearted time for family bonding.

Travel safely, Marine. And Godspeed.

Tribute to our Defenders

2009-07-04T23:43:16-07:00

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In memorium, in celebration - this is our Independence Day tribute to Our Great Defenders: the men and women of the U.S. armed forces and their families, with gratitude for your service and sacrifice protecting our freedom and independence. God bless the USA!

Sweet Marine Family

2009-07-03T17:03:28-07:00

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The F family is so very special. Wanted to get their vid posted before the holiday. More stills soon!
(be sure to click HQ to watch in hi-def)

The P family rocks!

2009-06-21T22:44:47-07:00

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We had such an amazing time with the charming P family in April.
They have been so patient and understanding while we spent more than a month recovering our melted-down disk with their session images.

So as our gift to you, P family, we hope you enjoy the custom Wizzy & Friends hi-def music video we created for you ... with our appreciation and affection for you being you. xoxo, Nancy & Paul

Meltdown!

2009-04-18T20:03:00-07:00

meltdown (mltdoun) n.
A disasterous or rapidly developing situation likened to the melting of a nuclear reactor core.

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Dealing with unexpected catastrophic meltdown and loss of one of our primary Wizzy client external drives. Only partially backed up. Drive at recovery doctors. First recovery try NOT successful. Approved $$$$$$ "clean-room" de-construction for more serious recovery techniques.

Stress. Distress.
Re-tooling office to reduce possibility of future failures - six drives and back ups.

Dang it! :(

Behind the Scenes

2009-04-16T12:44:10-07:00

Authenticity. It's what we value most, especially authentic connections. When we experience families who not only authentically connect with one another, but also with us as well ... well, it just warms our hearts.

Little apology to the P family. We've had a catastrophic failure of our primary drive this week. The good news is that everything was backed up, tho accessing that and getting it copied onto another disk is time-consuming and tedious. The naughty disk is at the recovery shop as I type this. We had already edited about a half dozen of your session images and would prefer not to have to re-edit - but we could, as our session originals are always kept on a separate drive.

So ... until we get word about the fate of the failed disk, we thought you and our readers would be entertained by a few outtakes. Colonel Woggy is so very good about capturing sweet pieces of our session experience. I'm smiling as I post these. For us, THIS is why we adore our business.

Group chimping ...

Before we shoot, Wizzy usually gathers the kids and does a little location scouting. Altho she usually knows Camp Pendleton's Ranch House well, the scouting adventure helps to engage the kids in the process, as does chimping.

Seven-year-old Mr. W proudly accepted the assignment as the advance scout to placehold our next location. Check out his cute face. <3 And be sure to look carefully at the space under dad Joe's elbow and above his right shoulder. Hint: Can you spot Miss J's red boots?

Our readers know that we usually ask one of our session kids to take the Official WizWog portrait. Darlin' Miss G graciously obliged, while brother W manned the reflector masterfully. Great teamwork!

First, a portrait of our photographer -

And her work, with our gratitude -

Devoted to her Marine

2009-04-08T00:50:41-07:00

What fun we had doing pre-deployment romance portraits for Britney and Nick! They are so in love. And it's always so magical when our Marines are manly enough to be romantic. <3

Godspeed, Cpl. Nick. And Semper Fi from Nancy and Col. Paul.

the B family rocks!

2009-04-06T22:47:55-07:00

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You met the B family HERE.

Now watch them rock:
Once you click the Play >, be sure to click HQ on the bottom tool bar to see the best quality.