Beach weddings

A stunning day

    We traveled out to Santa Cruz just over a week ago to capture the wedding of Gaby and Paul.  They planned this getaway wedding on a Friday in June.  It had been foggy all week, but the sun came out for them.  They kept it simple with just 25 people on a less well traveled beach.  And I just love the wide angle point of view!  

   I assisted my friend and fellow photographer at this wedding...to see more of her images please go to her professional site www.lunasara.com

Frolicking

   The whole party frolicked in the waves of the warm pacific. No it was not freezing as the pacific can be, on this June day.  The whole party went in, even the photographers…

Something borrowed and something blue

    Gaby’s stunning blue shoes belonged to her mother.  I tried to capture them in various ways, and this was my favorite.  This little girl was carefully watching me photograph the shoes, so I asked her to hold them for me….

Ana and Sofia

Sofia

    And then came Sofia.  She was born on February 11^th.  She is like a niece to me.  She has the most amazing blue eyes, just like her mom, Ana.  She can stare right through you with those eyes.  These are pics from her first photo session in her home. In case you are wondering whose finger she is holding, it is her daddy's (Joel).

Homage to my early models

Homage to my early models   

  I don’t know how many people have helped me get to the point where I am now! I remember asking people, sometimes begging them to let me photograph them. It is amazing how many people are hesitant.  That is why so many of my early models are children.  They have many beautiful traits: soft unblemished skin, bright, eager eyes and a wonderful sense of adventure.

 

 Vanessa

    Vanessa is a natural. Whenever we get together we get out the camera, and she starts out as my model, but she has so many creative ideas of her own, that the sessions become very collaborative.  She just has what it takes.

Gaby, Pablo and Camila.  

I started to photograph Camila as a baby. She has these big beautiful brown eyes that can stare right through you.  Several years later we did a session out at Redwood shores on a boat.  I have always admired Annie Liebowitz spreads. One of my favorites was the one with Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Suri in Vogue.  I think these pictures have just a hint of Annie.

 

 

 My niece and nephew, Jackson and Laney, are all dressed up for Easter.  These shots were taken in the sunroom at my parent’s house, where the light can be unbelievable.  The main thing I learned that day was that some of the best shots are actually captured  before or after the actual session begins.  This one of Laney was my favorite of the 150 shots I took, and I happened to snap it just before we officially started.

Doris, my Nicaraguan friend, that I met while studying in Spain in ’05.  Several years later I went to visit her in Nicaragua, and this was what we got! This was taken in front of her parents house in the northeastern part of the country.