day 121: While the newlyweds are on their honeymoon their daughter is staying with Valena & John. We stopped by to show some of the wedding shots I got yesterday and she was painting (and making a big mess). I just had to take the chance to get some more cute kid shots!

day 120: I was so happy today to shoot the wedding of one of my best friends’ sisters. Carla and Leonard had a beautiful wedding at Carla’s mother’s home. I have so many beautiful shots from the day that I couldn’t only post one. Up first is their beautiful daughter.

The happy couple.

Carla was absolutely radiant. This is one of my favorites of her portraits.

day 119: Ben and I drove down to San Diego for the weekend and when we got to my parents’ house we had the absolute best thing waiting for us … our ALBUM from our fantastic wedding photographers Nate & Jaclyn Kaiser. I loved all our photos and I knew that the album would be nice but MAN I was floored when I saw this thing. It’s absolutely gorgeous. The metallic prints are amazing and the book itself is massive (one side is about the size of an 11×17 piece of paper). This photo definitely doesn’t do it justice but I just had to try. I love it!!

day 118: Well I’m still not through being entertained by motion blur flash photography so Ben and I went out on the street tonight to try messing with all the different settings on my flash. This one is rear curtain sync. I’m such a nerd.

day 117: Well you wouldn’t know it from this photo but Ben and I actually spent most of the day and evening at a fun BBQ … lots of people and food and good times… and lots of photo opportunities. Unfortunately even though I brought my camera, I forgot a memory card so I couldn’t use it. Oh well. And at 11 pm after a long day about all I was up for was running into the front yard for a quick shot. Yay for shutter dragging.

day 116: When it comes to word games I’ll take boggle over scrabble any day. It seems like no matter how many funny words I can spell (or misspell) on my little tray, there is never a spot for them on the board.

day 115: Allison came up to LA yesterday for some strategizing and production for Tiny Face and since it was a nice day out we decided to head out to get some refreshing and delicious boba while we were talking. Mmm boba. Only topped in deliciousness by Real Food Daily, which we ate for dinner. A rather tasty day all around.

day 114: It’s summer time, the sun was shining this afternoon, and it was time to take Rita out to the park for a little runnin’ around. We were stopped by the Santa Monica park rangers, who are somewhat ridiculous in their enforcement of park rules (no non Santa Monica dogs in the dog runs) but luckily we were prepared with the necessary …. er… supplies…. and they let us go. I think Rita had a good time.

day 113: I try to limit the number of posts I put up with photos of flowers… otherwise I’d probably just run in the yard and shoot one every day. Unfortunately today I didn’t shoot much of anything so flowers it is.

day 112: Today I helped out a friend and shot with her at a wedding she was photographing. The bride was absolutely gorgeous and she had beautiful flowers as well. It made for quite lovely photos. This is one of my favorites so far.