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I love having fun, learning new things, making people smile, and telling stories. I love seeing life through fun angles. I enjoy inspiring others as well as being inspired by others. I have the most supportive husband, best friend, and partner. We enjoy hiking, traveling, our furry kids, snowboarding, weddings, and of course, photography.

I love weddings.  Weddings are filled with thoughtful details and emotions, and I love capturing those precious memories. I love telling vivid wedding stories. I put my heart into every photo, so you will see personality, new perspectives, a great story, and life in my photos.

I work unobtrusively, using my mix of photojournalism, candid, and fine-art portraiture style.  I document those important moments with the most interesting, truthful and beautiful perspective.  I understand how much time and thought is put into each wedding - that’s why it is so important to me that you to experience your big day all over again every time you see your pictures.

The opportunity to capture your memories and tell the story of such a special day is truly an honor to me. I enjoy developing relationships with each couple, which allows me to make each set truly unique & memorable.

This blog is where I will update my most recent photos along with random bits from my life. It is a casual place to get to know each other. If there are specific photos you want to see more of, you can click on the categories at the top to see photos of that category. I hope you find what you’re looking for here. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments!  I’d love to hear from you!


I am based in Los Angeles, but travel and destination weddings are welcome!
I book weddings up to 15 months in advance. 

My wedding
calendar is booked through April 2011.

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orange county engagement photography | donna + virgil

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Back in college, Donna attended a party… as fate would have it, Virgil was the DJ.  They’re both super fun loving and have great style.  For their engagement session, the best way I could think of to bring out their bubbly personalities is lots of color.  We met halfway in Orange County for their session and had so much fun together and endless laughs.  I can’t wait for their big day in San Diego!   Technical note about this session, I shot part of it in film.  Can you identify which photo was taken in film and which in digital?  I processed my digital like how I normally do and my film is how I got it from the lab.  I didn’t try to match them, so I think it should be easy to identify.

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One of my favorite giggly photos ever:

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So many pretty colors!

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And since Virgil’s a DJ and had his headphones on him, I just had to do a few shots with them:

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I’m so in love with the green vines + purple wall!

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We found this cassette tape stuck on a wall.  They both got a kick out of identifying it… but I forgot what it was already.  I’d love it if one of you can remind me what it is, just for kicks.  A nice coincidence since they’re both so into music.

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They each brought an item that represented them.  Virgil brought his headphones and Donna came with a big blue balloon.

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Check out the yellow flowers that are about to bloom!  I’m excited for wild flower season!

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Aren’t they just so sweet?  And stylish too!

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So were you able to identify which were taken in film and which in digital?  In my most recent rolls of film, I used 3/4 of the photos!  Getting better!  When shooting film,  I think it through more before clicking the shutter.  I’m trying to carry that habit over when shooting in digital too.

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March 30, 2010 - 9:41 am Li - These are looooovely. I think the ones with the purple wall are digital, and the ones with the balloons are definitely film. Gorgeous work either way! (film is so beautiful though)

March 30, 2010 - 9:52 am B. Gresham - Love the earphone shot! So cool.

March 30, 2010 - 9:59 am Marissa Rodriguez - The big blue balloon is so fun! Such a beautiful session!

March 30, 2010 - 10:05 am ANh - so pretty .. love your composition and I think you are a MASTER of silhouette shots! :)

March 30, 2010 - 10:50 am Sandy - This last picture is absolutely stunning!! I love the use of the balloons and the purple wall in this e-session! The fun portraits you do are sooo neat too!

March 30, 2010 - 11:15 am jenny - I want to take a guess at the film photos too ! I think the ones in the field are by film, the last couple of images. Sooo lovely the way film comes out !!

March 30, 2010 - 1:10 pm Molly - Yet another lovely collection. I learn so much from every one of your posts!

March 30, 2010 - 1:47 pm Elson - Pictures look awesome!

March 30, 2010 - 1:51 pm amanda - I'm guessing that the last three panels before the silhouette shot are film? Your blog just makes me *happy* - love the beautiful pictures, beautiful colors, and you seriously just have the most gorgeous clients ever. The purple wall is just insane. Love it.

March 30, 2010 - 2:40 pm dorothy - i think the wildflower landscape shots were in film and the purple wall setting was digital. love the contrast of the green vine on the wall by the way! and love her dress!

March 30, 2010 - 6:39 pm Adrienne Gunde - Such a fun & gorgeous session! I love ALL of them, both film & digital! :)

March 30, 2010 - 8:44 pm Jamie - I absolutely love your work! These pictures are amazing and beautifully done!

March 30, 2010 - 8:56 pm Noelia - Another gorgeous session. You are so brave! I would be so nervous to use film for work! I do love the organic feeling of it though, like you can touch it and it's physically there, not just pixels on the screen. I have tried but for the love of me I cannot see any diference, which ones are the film ones??? You're going to tell us, right?!

March 30, 2010 - 9:51 pm Sharon - Ahh, I agree with everyone! I love the balloon and headphone shots and you definitely ARE the master of silhouette shots! I can't wait for August!!! :D

March 30, 2010 - 9:51 pm Marielle Hayes - I love the colors from this shoot. The purple wall is to DIE for! Totally fabulous & fun set of photographs!

March 31, 2010 - 7:36 am lizet - gorgeous coloured backgrounds! Love that purple wall :D beautifull photo's... And yeah. That last photo again; GORGEOUS!!!

March 31, 2010 - 10:25 am caroline - thanks everyone. i just shot more film at yesterday's engagement session. i'm enjoying the change/challenge! so you're right... field is where i shot film. however, not all the field shots were film. :)

March 31, 2010 - 8:48 pm Letty - I love them all esp.. the purple wall It's soooooo cuuutttttttttteeeeee. Gorgeous couples & perfect couples. Can I have a copy (any pics r ok)?

April 2, 2010 - 11:40 am Donna & Virgil - Wow, Caroline! Thanks for making us look gorgeous! Never doubted your skills but this is more than we expected. Our fam & friends LOOOOOVED them. BTW, the casette tape was "Ooh La La I Can't Get Over You" by Perfect Gentlemen =) Took us a while to remember.

April 2, 2010 - 7:26 pm Jay Rockwell - WOW!!!!!!!

April 5, 2010 - 9:47 pm andrea b - GORGEOUS!! I'm in love with this series :)

April 12, 2010 - 9:03 am Kelly - I am so in love with your style. Your shoots always leave me in awe : )

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