Winner Editors’ Choice Awards 2012!
Excited about winning Two Bright Lights Editors’ Choice Awards! As a testament to my outstanding clients, and my commitment to producing the best-of-the-best wedding and portrait photography, I am thrilled to announce that I have been selected as a winner of the 2012 Two Bright Lights Editors’ Choice Awards! The award is given in recognition of the those whose number of published features in 2011 placed them among the top 5% of all Two Bright Lights members. Winners were published across many of the most respected lifestyle, wedding and other print and digital publications in the United States and worldwide.I am honored to be part of this group of talented photographers and creative professionals. My features this past year have enabled me to increase exposure for my work, and I am thrilled to have been recognized for my endeavors.In 2011, I had the privilege of being published in the following publications:The Indie Tot
Sparkle & Hay
Done Brilliantly
Baby LifestylesThanks to all of the other creative professionals who made these features possible!
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Family Session: The Fisher’s
Meet my cousin Kayla and her family! We’ve been trying to meet up for a while now so I could take their family pictures and we finally found a perfect day when they were traveling through our area in California. We went out to Castaic Lake for a family session by the lake. Their oldest son Mason was a little stinker when it came to getting him to look at the smile but such a cutie at the same time and Owen was just full of smiles the entire session. They make such a lovely family and it was good to see them while they were passing through.
Family Session: The Neavitt’s
The Neavitt’s had me come down to their house for a little front yard session while everyone was together for Christmas. I enjoy every time I get to photograph this family and I love how little Ayla has so much personality. Beautiful family!
Featured Work: Adriano Maternity
Featured on the Baby Lifestyles blog today! I loved this maternity session with the Adriano’s! You can see more photos on my original post here and you can see baby a little more grown up in their most recent family session here.
Family Session: The Adriano’s
I enjoyed seeing the Adraino’s again to shoot their family Christmas photos. The last time I saw little Owen he was a tiny newborn and now he’s almost walking around! I also took Elizabeth’s maternity photos back in April and you can see the photos from that session here. One of the things I really enjoy about being photographer is being able to see a family grow year after year. Elizabeth and Michael are both teachers and keep busy with being involved in school activities. They wonderful people and I’m so happy for them and their new addition to the family.
Newborn Twins: Caylee & Carter
This shoot was my first newborn twin shoot and I was extremely excited for it. Patricia contacted me originally to take her maternity but as things tend to not go how we plan she ended up needing to wait until after the twins were born for pictures. These two precious babies truly are Christmas miracles! Caylee and Carter are a boy and girl, and Carter’s lungs are not healthy enough yet so you’ll see him with oxygen on in the pictures. I say he was being a good big brother and giving his sister more nutrients while still inside mommy. 
This family is beautiful and if you think of them say a prayer as Carter is still having some health struggles that they are learning more about and continuing to manage.
Family Session: The Neavitt’s
I met Julie through a friend sending her my way and shot her daughter Ayla for the first time at a pumpkin patch. You can see the Pumpkin Patch session here. Julie is a beautiful and very sweet woman and I love photographing her family. As usual Ayla looks adorable in her romper but we did have to keep Daddy (Jim) from sneaking orange candy to her in fear of having some orange slobber smiles.
This year when I started looking into Christmas orientated picture ideas I decided to go a little out of the box for myself and shoot indoors but still use all natural light to light my subjects. Christmas lights are one of my favorite parts about Christmas so when I saw this background ida on Pinterest I decided to give it a go. I love how the images turned out and you’ll be seing a super cute twin newborn session and another family session using this background as well. Thanks for reading!