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Earth Day yay! { News } . April 22 .

Earth Day Yay! Even though I am not in orange county my handy iPhone is letting me make posting a blog possible... I'll make it short.

Do something to show your apprechiation for nature and the planet we live on. Take a picture, plant a tree, pick up a piece of trash...

Peet's coffe (my favorite coffee shop along with Keans) is showing their apprechiation by planting trees into old tea tins and using coffee grounds as soil.  If you make an Eco friendly purchase you get a free medium beverage!

I'd love to hear comments on what you did today for our greener tomorrow :)

Also check out this 20% off coupon for your new snack box & case from ToGo Ware!
'Don't Miss Our 20% OFF Earth Day Sale!'

Isabella {14 days} . Newborn Baby Portraits .

Heather and Jeff are one of the few couples that really went out of their way to make sure they did what they could do to make little Isabella's first portrait session go smoothly.... It helped that there was a special on that day on the TODAY news show that talked about newborn portraiture.

When I arrived at their home it was 70 degrees outside and almost 86 inside, Jeff had just left with Isabella to take her for a spin around the block to get her to fall asleep in her car seat.  Sure enough by the time I was done setting up and they came back she was sleeping and ready to go.


Newborns change SO quickly and I love capturing and being a part of those first days of life. I have also started a new package 'Baby's First Year' which is a 4 part photographic session spaced out over the baby's first year.  If you would like more information or to start booking and planing your 'Baby's First Year' package please contact me.


If you are expecting a baby and would like to book a newborn session plan ahead. I book sessions months ahead of time around the baby's due date.  6 days - 14 days for newborns is best before they become less flexible, more alert, & develop baby ache or any skin irritations.


Isabella loved playing with her tongue and had the cutest little expressions!

Heather had EVERYTHING pink for Isabella, including this really cute pettie skirt.

Heading Down To The Lone Star State

The Texas bluebonnets are the states flower and are suspose to be in a marvolus bounty this year!

I just purchases my tickets for a trip to Houston Texas at the end of this month.  The entire Treybig side of my family (with exception of my immediate family) reside all over the state of Texas.

This will be a working vacation, and I will be on a photographic trip with my aunt Cynthia.  My aunt Cynthia is my inspiration for following my dreams in my photographic career, and although we are very different (she uses Cannon, I use Nikon... she photographs for nature magazines, calendars, and books.  I photograph weddings, and people for personal uses)  We still enjoy photographing nature and being outdoors, in fact she is going to help me submit my work for publication.

SO what will we be doing their exactly?! WELL I planned my ticket around the Texas state flowers peek.  My aunt has sent me forums and countless links to photographers anxiously awaiting this photographic opportunity.  Here are some snap shots of what I am talking about:

Wildflowers Around Mason Texas!

Final Gallery Day { Rutabegorz } . May 1, 2010 .

If you have not made it into Rutabegorz in old town tustin by now, you should before the end of this month.  I will be taking down all my images May 1, 2010.

If you have made it down to Rutabegorz then make one more stop by.  I just added a few new images to replace the ones that were sold this past month.

I am looking for more places that will feature local art, if anyone would has any information for me that my help please let me know.  I am looking forward to hosting my personal works at other locations including this one again in the future.

Thank you for everyone that has made purchases & showed their support!

Macro Flowers in the Early Morning

This morning I work up early to catch some of that morning dew and rising sunlight.  I rented this amazing 55mm Macro Nikon Lens that I absolutely love, hopefully it will be mine soon :).

Since I primarily photograph people, I tend to use this lens for little details during a wedding (hands, invitations, rings, etc) and Babies! they are tinny right... and they have lots of cute little lines on the bottoms of their feet that I love to capture.

Well this morning I used the lens to capture pollen and ants crawling on some beautiful spring flowers some soon to be fall fruit.  I never realized how difficult it was to get the subject in focus (since I have a very very narrow depth of field) and the plants are constantly moving in the wind, I can't get myself stabile enough and the ants keep moving! haha all in all I had fun and it was not really that successful with the ants. Maybe next time.. they are kinda gross close up anyway.

White climbing roses

Lavender

 

Valencia Oranges

Ilyssa & Alex {The Getty} . Couple Portraits .

I love being a morning person,  I woke up before the sun did this Friday to go photograph a couple portrait session at the Getty Museum in Los Angels.

I am a born and raised southern California girl, and I have never been to the Getty Museum!  Well thanks to Ilyssa & Alex that all changed today.  It was Alex's birthday and Ilyssa was surprising him with a trip to the Getty and a 5 star lunch.  I might steal that idea, even just to get myself back there.

Ilyssa has the most beautiful eyes, smile, and hair (so long and she recently cut it 8 inches, wow!).  It was really nice to get them both together at such a beautiful place even though the Getty is a little strict with what they will allow camera / equipment wise. Alex has these stunning light blue eyes ... and with most fair eyes they were very sensitive so I tried to keep him comfortable.  Not to many 'stare into the sun' &'blind you with the reflector' shots.

Ilyssa showed me their matching pair of shoes that she got for Alex when they first started dating, so naturally we had to have a few detail shots of these lovingly aged shoes.

UPDATE 4/5/10 - NOTE TO PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Just a note to let you know that commercial photography is not allowed at the Getty Center without advance written permission.  We are unable to allow wedding, engagement, or other similar commercial photography at all, due to the overwhelming demand we receive, and the disruption it creates for visitors.  Thank you.


Julie Jaskol
Assistant Director, Media Relations
(310) 440-7607 office
(310) 613-4246 cell
http://www.getty.edu