Jeth – Senior Portraits – Chatsworth 2010

You know how they say that no-one is actually FROM Los Angeles? I’m one of the few that can actually say that I was born and raised in L.A. I grew up in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley. When I was 10 my family moved to Tucson Arizona. I lived there until I [...]

Tanner – January Arlington Heights Visit

I, for some reason, enjoy traveling. I’m not just talking about traveling to some foreign country, or even visiting family. I’m talking about sitting on airplanes, waiting for hours or even sleeping in airports, traveling by train, or even by car or ship. I can’t explain it, but I have always enjoyed it. Sarah and [...]

Web Traffic Part 1: Why your web traffic sucks.

I’ve talked to a lot of photographers, and no matter how great a photographer, or person they are, there always seems to be one problem: getting and maintaining traffic to their website. Now I know that anyone can go the easy way, and buy advertising through google, but what if there was a way that [...]

Ava @ the Beach

One of the perks of being a Los Angeles family portrait photographer is all the great scenery around town. I can often be seen at the beaches or parks in and around Los Angeles photographing subjects. Now I don’t want to make it sound like just because of a great setting, great portraits will follow. [...]

Kaden’s Photo-shoot at the Beach

I had a mini photo-shoot session with a few other families a couple months ago at the beach. It was a beautiful day, we got some great shots, but Kaden wasn’t having a very good day. From the start he somehow got sand in his mouth and eyes, and was really fussy, and tired. I [...]

Robert & Laura – Wedding at Union Station Los Angeles

This past weekend I shot a wedding as a second photographer for Juan Turcios, a great Los Angeles based Wedding Photographer. Robert and Laura got married at the beautiful Union Station in Los Angeles. Union Station is perfect for hosting weddings and other events, it’s full of character and incredible architecture.
We started out the day [...]

Family portraits at Trippet Ranch

It may seem to you that Trippet Ranch is my favorite places to go for family portraits. I wouldn’t be lying if I said that weren’t true. It’s such a beautiful park. Trees, hiking, grass, and TONS of photo opportunities.
I got an email From Donna a week or so ago asking for family portraits. Jackson [...]

Loren & Rachel – Engagement session at the Block @ Orange: Starbucks!

Loren and I are both photographers… Wedding photographers in fact! We are both members of Pictage(my order fulfillment company.) He and Rachel are having their coffee themed wedding in December and needed some engagement photos. Our original plan was to meet at the Lucky Strike bowling alley in the Block @ Orange(about a half hour [...]

Åse and Stephan – Destination Wedding at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles

Åse and Stephan are from Sweden. They’re a very relaxed easy going couple, and fun to work with as well. They’ve been together for about 17 years now, and have two kids; 7 and 10.  They live in a small town, and have been planning their Los Angeles beach wedding for about a year without [...]

Au Family Portraits – Trippet Ranch

A few months back I held a contest for a free portrait package. a 1 hour portrait session, and I threw in some prints along as well… Pretty much a $450 value.
The Au family won the drawing, and we finally got a chance to take the photos due to some medical problems preventing us from [...]

Arnold & Liz Hernandez – Trippet Ranch Wedding Photos

Liz and Arnold got married July 19th 2009. I was supposed to shoot their portraits the day after the wedding, but stuff kept on coming up, our schedules got mixed up, and they had their week-long honeymoon in Cancún México. So a month after their wedding we finally buttoned down a time for their “day” [...]

Noah Camera Holster – Now taking Pre-Orders

The Noah Camera Holster is now available for pre-order.
I’ve spent the past few months designing this product, and now it’s manufactured, and ready to be sold!
You can pre-order the Noah Camera Holster here on my site. It will be shipped as soon as possible!
If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like to [...]

Bridal Shoot with Sarah at Union Station, Los Angeles

I was doing a little research on locations for bridal or engagement sessions last weekend. I had always heard about Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, but I had never been there, and I wasn’t familiar with the location at all. So Last Saturday, Sarah and I went down to Union Station to take some [...]

Alysha & Edgar 7/18/09

It was a long day, But it was a ton of fun!
Alysha and Edgar Gonzales got married today at Casa Sirena Hotel in Oxnard Ca. The wedding area was beautiful, and I got some great shots. A boat owner even let us get on their boat and get some photos there, we lucked out.
We got [...]

3D Photography

So this last day I spent feverishly figuring out, and hopefully mastering the art of 3D photo editing. Basically I now offer a new service. It’s not cheap, it takes about an hour per image, but it is AWESOME!
Let me know what you guys think, cause I at least think it’s pretty dang spiffy.
Here’s a [...]

How I got into Product and Jewelry photography

It was June of 2008. I had been dating Sarah for a little over a year and I knew that I wanted to marry her. At the time my first business had shut down. I was working at Starbucks par time, and working on my web design and photography more than full time. About 3/4 [...]

Happy Independence Day! Updated

Happy Independence Day!
I hope everyone has a great day full of hot dogs, and cold beer or soda for those of us that don’t like or can’t drink beer.
One thing that I find interesting about the 4th of July is that every year it’s something different for me. I’ve never done anything the same for [...]

San Francisco/Tanner

A couple weeks ago I got the chance to go to San Francisco…. My brother-in-law Ryan, who lives in Chicago, was attending WWDC for his job, and Jenny(Sarah’s sister) and Tanner(our nephew) came along for the week.
Sarah and I drove up in the new Honda Insight to our hotel from Los Angeles on Wednesday evening [...]

Liz and Arnold: Engagement Session

I met Liz at Home Depot, Sarah had just moved into my house right after we got married, and we decided to paint the place. Liz was working at the paint section at the time, and was the nicest and most helpful employee ever. We got to talking and found out that she was looking [...]

Stephen & Sarah Anniversary/Engagement Photos

Stephen has been one of my best friends since we were about 12. I didn’t like him too much at that time since he liked to gleek on me, but he fortunately grew out of that quickly. He met Sarah through high-school and they started dating at the end of their senior year. In May [...]