by mphotoadmin | Jan 30, 2018
I met miss Bailey a few years ago while photographing her family for a magazine. I instantly felt connected to this family. Not only were they fun and adventurous but they loved spending time together. Bailey right away struck me as a model. I put her in front of my camera and she knew what to do. When it was time to create my first senior model program I was so thrilled when she applied to join. She was exactly the kind of girl I was looking for. One who valued the art of modeling and photography but also valued being genuine. I have gotten to know Bailey pretty well and am so impressed with the person she is becoming. She cares so deeply about others, fills the room with this contagious energy and sees the value in gaining knowledge from the people she surrounds herself with.
Her senior session was exactly her… sweet, funky and adventurous.
This image above won me my very first award of Top 25 up & coming senior photographers! Thank you Bailey for being such a graceful, thoughtful and poised women!
Can you believe her eyes in this one!! LIKE WOW!!!!!!
It is always interesting to me which images mom decides to choose as their larger prints. This one in the middle was the one they printed big!!! Beautiful!
I’m pretty sure this one on the left belongs in a magazine!
Those eyelashes!
I am so glad Bailey risked getting in the water for these shots! This last one is my favorite. She has got the dancers arch for sure here!
HMUA: Lea Beauler
by mphotoadmin | Nov 6, 2017
Guys you know that dream you have when you oversleep and completely miss a very important event, meeting, appointment? Well this happened to me with the Walker session. I had one, overslept and two, written the time down wrong! I didn’t completely miss the session but was a half hour late to it. Thankfully it is a family that I have been photographing forever and they have become like family. We also would have never found this gorgeous location with all these amazing flowers. They drove around for a bit while waiting and came across this location.
We then moved onto to the original location and had some fun with apple donuts for the kids and apples for mom and dad!! love these parents faces!!
I love getting to try new ideas out with families that I have been working with for a while and are up for anything! Thank you Walkers for another amazing session!
by mphotoadmin | Nov 2, 2017
I photographed my best friend’s beautiful family last week on their property in Auburn. This family means so much to me and I was so honored to photograph this new stage in their life! These two little guys are the world to me. Rachel and I grew up next door to each other so when she was one of first of my friends to have babies I was so jazzed. They call me MiMi just like my nieces and nephews do and it makes my heart melt every time.
This property is a piece of heaven. Are you jealous because I sure am! They are working so hard on developing it into their own. It was so much fun exploring with these little guys as leaders.
by mphotoadmin | May 19, 2017
I find any excuse to go into downtown Sacramento, it is one of my favorite places to be! So when my reps had the same enthusiasm about the idea of having their spring shootout there I knew I had selected the right girls! The fun thing about shooting in downtown is that you can just drive around and find the location. This first location Grace actually picked out! The texture of the leaves contrasted well with their bright spring colors!
Jessica has the most stunning eyes and sleek straight hair! When she looked at the camera it was breathtaking.
Miss Bailey and her perfectly pouty lips! She is such a naturally at creating the perfect pose.
Grace had such a playful vibe about her one she found the perfect brick wall to go with her jumpsuit!
The girls were so excited about their Good Vibes team shirts I made for them we had to incorporate them in to the session. Another location we just happened upon with more green ivy! Green is my favorite color! Another indicator that these girls were meant to be my reps!
Right next to all the green was this killer old Italian car repair shop that had these great Vespas that they let us use. The owner is so sweet.
With the sun setting on our session we took a moment to get one last see you later shot! Had a great day bonding with these fabulous girls.
HMU: Lea Buehler B Gorgeous
Location: Barber’s Shop
by mphotoadmin | Aug 31, 2016
I love getting to do destination sessions! Getting out of town and discovering new locations, being in a new environment really gets my creative juices flowing! When TJ said Lake Tahoe I thought for sure he wanted to shoot at the lake! But when he said he wanted to shoot in the dense forest I was super excited! We drove around for a bit and as we were turning around to look some more, I saw it!! It was the perfect location for my vision as well as TJ’s! He knew exactly what he wanted for his senior portraits! He was more of a perfectionist than me and I appreciated it! I love that we captured all the sides of TJ, his charming personality, his sports, his faith and his addiction to Red Bull. I think he might be the next model for them!
You can find TJ hanging out with his friends at youth group, playing one of the many sports he excels at or hiking and taking pictures with his new Go Pro. He also enjoys a nice relaxing siesta on his hammock. More recently TJ has been learning about hard work at his first job, Pieology. TJ is graduating from Folsom High and is excited about the possibility of going away to school and playing lacrosse. As of last week his top choices are Oregon State and Humboldt State! So excited to see what this guys future will be!
Enjoy his senior session below and if you want more information on senior portraits click here!
