Thanks Commentors

Is that a word, a weird one...commentors??? Well I just wanted to say thanks for all your comments on my post below. As you can see if you scroll down to "Comments Please" I updated the picture. I was able to get the bright one with all the pretty colors with my logo on. I guess the trick is to never "save photo for web page" but just to "save it". And thanks to Aja for the suggestion about Totally Rad Actions. I've seen their stuff and heard about it from an inspiring photographer, Jessica Claire...you can check her work out at www.jessicaclaire.net and she is amazing. But don't get too addicted to her blog, that you forget about mine! Thanks again!

Photo Party

Photo Party Details

What is that? A few hours of fun with you and your peeps! The cost is $20.00 per person/couple. Each guest will receive a free 5x7 photograph and may purchase a CD with all of their images for $105.00. The hostess will receive their photographs for free...a $125.00 value (actually priceless), with a minimum of 10 guests at his/her photo party.
These parties are perfect for a mommy and me group, a girl's night out (maybe some sassy shots for hubby), a group of friends, social club, birthday party, bridal shower, etc.
This slideshow has some of my favs from my photo party last week in Mission Beach. I had so much fun doing this and I love soooooo many of the pics! Enjoy!!!

Comments please...

Okay, I need comments on this one. Besides the fact that this is an adorable picture (and no, it is not my daughter...I do have real clients) I am wondering what it looks like to you. The first one looks amazing to me, love the colors and brightness. The second one where I added my logo (YEAH), once I did that my computer made it look way too dark and dingy to me. But I also noticed that my pictures look way too bright or washed out on my sister and my SIL's computers. So please, how does it look to you on your computer, thanks in advance for any comments.

U-un-huh...I'm all shook up!

Meet baby Elvis, well that is not really his name, but he looked just like him. This is the most handsome baby I've ever seen. I've seen cute, adorable, precious, and alien babies, but never have I seen a little guy so handsome, his hair, oh!

Thanks

I want to give a big shout out to this wonderful family for braving the location choice on this one. I love to just hop in my car and drive around until I find the perfect spot. Sometimes my clients think I am crazy, but then after they see their pictures, they are thrilled (or so they say)!

Sweetness

Babies are pure sweetness, I had such a wonderful time photographing this little one. Even though she was sleeping most of the time, everytime she heard her moms voice she would smile, it was really precious.

Stop, Don't Look

Alright, close your eyes! NOW! Now that your eyes are closed, feel around for the keys, okay there you go, now hit escape, or grab that mouse and magically find the way out of here!
Whatever you do don't look. I have no idea what I am doing, I am trying to get my posts to look right and they are all wrong. I just want those dang pictures to be bigger. And the alignment is all screwy. Anyways, I know you aren't reading this cuz' your eyes are closed see peace out!
Meaning get the heck out of here and check back another day when I figure things out.
Thanks, Erin

Mission San Luis Rey

I took these images at the San Luis Rey Mission in San Diego. Such a beautiful place for photographs, I am a sucker for anything Rustic.

Happy 4th of July

This year we went down to Oceanside for 4th of July. We had the most wonderful time and enjoyed all the usual things on America's Birthday.

We headed down there a bit late after taking a dip in Kristen's pool, much thanks to her. So we raced to make sure we wouldn't miss the fireworks. So after a VERY leisurely stroll through some SoCal 4th of July traffic, there was so many roadblocks, no matter which way we went we couldn't get to our hotel. A couple cops told us, "Too bad, you'll have to park somewhere else and walk a mile or so with your 4 kids/babies to get to your hotel". So we tried a few other cops and finally found one with the spirit of patriotism, or at least kindnesss. He moved a few cones and off we were to the hotel. We had no time to check it out so we just threw the kids in the strollers and started making our trek down to the beach as fast as we could. It was AWESOME...the second we found a spot and set our towels and chairs out on the sand, we heard the first BOOM! And there we saw it...the most anticipated fireworks show all the kiddies had been waiting a week to see.

I love the ones that spiral down like that.

And these colors....so beautiful. The kids were jumping for joy.

Oh wait, that is not a picture of fireworks....that is FOG!

Oh my gosh, the fog rolled in and everybody started rolling out. That is right, you coudn't see a single firework through the whole show, the fog was just too dense.

Oh wait...

Oops, sorry kids, thought I saw some fireworks, but it was just a street light!

Well, it seems that no matter what, kids know how to have a good time. So we stayed at the beach for a bit, while they played in the sand...we had to drag them away finally at 10pm or so.

So we headed back to our hotel to have a good night's sleep after a very long day. The bed was so comfortable it reminded me of sleeping in a bowl...

And we didn't have to worry about leaks because they did a really thorough job on the caulking (Jake pointed out.)

And of course we didn't have to worry about peekers with these lovely curtains...

One last note, all of this is much prettier than in real life...I can't help it that I take such nice photographs. He, he, he...

Happy 4th of July