Thursday, May 13, 2010

theHORNE private jewelry showing!

Today at the store, I met up with my girlfriend Sara Horne to see her newest designs to get for my mom for belated mother's day since she recently lusted after some photos on facebook from a Trunk show of hers. Anyways, I had so much fun going through her recent treasures that we have a date for tomorrow in Reno to shoot some "artist's bio" pics of her in her work around town. Think urban portraits. Then she is taking me to her bead shop where she gets most of her materials...so so so excited! Sorry it's late, mom but Happy Mother's day...Love ya!Here is the designer in her own designs and...here is my necklace I bought for myself! Love It!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Lens Love

My new Canon 85mm f/1.8 is already paying for itself, baby! Here are the jewelry shots of the new Soixante Neuf rings....love em! And this lens made shooting these so much fun + easy as pie. Can't wait to use it at our St. Martin's wedding in a few weeks! Wohoo!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Mona + Pug Portraits

Just got TWO new lenses today and a new Canon EOS 50D so obviously I've been shooting my dogs for the last hour. Very excited!

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Three Amigos

This week, we are dog sitting the poodle Tux and he is becoming fast friends with Bagel the puggle (also known as Basil!). Actually, partners in crime best describes their relationship! He is a very easy going old man except when it comes to the bunnies in our backyard! When his family gets back from Mexico (Hi Rosens!) we need to keep our play dates at Lake Forest beach!

Monday, May 3, 2010

Bath Squared

Here is a photo of one of the chores I did last Sunday.

First Baseball Game

Here are the boys I nanny at Xander's very first Tball game! Go angels!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Photoshop Awards


Got carried away working a little magic on the background...now back to work!

Little Sneak Peek

Here is a preview of the portraits I shot of Hallie while in Scottsdale this past week. She is a model who does fashion shows in the area and we had so much fun while shooting around town with her daughter Megs {who turned out to be the best creative director ever!} Thanks Beridge Nursery for letting us shoot there!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The most pleasant surprise...

Yesterday i was having lunch with a friend at Rosie's cafe in town and as I turned to the Salads page, she noticed a photo I took on the other page! She noticed before me and it's MY picture! How funny! Gotta love life living in a small town! This weekend, I am off to Scottsdale for my bridal shower and I could not be more excited to see my friends and family! I will post photos soon...what should I wear? !The original photograph

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Eating Alive

I'm sure all the millions of followers of my blog (ok, all 18 of you!) have noticed my absence during the last few weeks in the lack of posts as well as the lack of spunk + joie de vivre in the posts I did write and are wondering what's up. I have been struggling with whether to share the reason lately mainly because this blog is mostly for my photography business, but I have lupus. And I've been struggling with rashes on my face lately that really get me down. I'd honestly rather have a huge zit on my nose because then at least people wouldn't be wondering what's on my cheeks. But those are my cards. C'est la vie! So, last week I decided to be proactive about my lupus and consider it a health opportunity instead of a set back. I went to the Optimum Health Institute in sunny San Diego, which is a raw food resort that specializes in detoxing people with health problems or just your average junk food junkie. It is a week long program that includes a 3 day juice fast, classes on digestion, food combining and many more, and raw detox food (not to be confused with gourmet raw food!). As my week is over and I am sitting in the airport about to board my flight back to Tahoe City, I can say that my rash is gone. And my Current Elliotts are falling off. I fully intend to change my life and my eating habits in order to keep feelin' good and I'd just like to thank everyone in my life for letting me be "missing in action" for this last week as well as everyone at OHI who was so kind and encouraging even when I wanted to ditch out and grab an In'N'Out burger (cruelly located 2 blocks away!). Thank you could never express enough how much this has changed my life, self esteem, and body. Merci!
Here I am juicing my own wheatgrass!

Check out my friend's blog if you are interested in OHI, he is a missionary there and has great stories to tell... Jay's Blog