A 5 Year Old Took These Photos:

Hey! I'm a professional!

Welcome to the new and improved Love & Photo BLOG...it dawned on me yesterday that I needed a new header for this blog which is about me as a professional photographer. So my friend Lo and I headed out on a walk around my neighborhood with two cameras. We ended up at the beach where there are beautiful Fall leaves and I loved how it turned out!

Here is a photo of me taking a photo of Lo taking a photo.... :)

Wedding Video: Leah + Michael Spano

I can finally say the Spano wedding video is finished!!!! Below is the short version I made for the web, here is the link to the photo gallery, and here is the link to order prints online! This video was very trying for me to produce because there was soooo much footage from the week to sort through and of course my iMovie decided to act funky which forced me to completely REDO it in Final Cut Pro. Also, I'm very hesitant to even say Love+Photo does video because I'd rather focus on the photography, but since we fortunately got so much footage I decided to make a video... Enjoy!

Leah and Michael's Wedding Video (small) from Lauren Brown on Vimeo.

Bam Shazam

Rather proud of my Homepage I shot and photo shopped for shopfinenfunky.com and thought I'd share. Happy Monday! Oh yeah, and please follow the blog I write for finenfunky's fashion files! Enjoy!

Photoshoot From My Bday

Here are some photos I took at my birthday photo shoot the other day at my friends Jessa's house on the lake! It was such a fun location to be at, with endless thing to shoot like cool boats, rock work and old sinks outside! We all had so much fun styling all the fab fall clothes we have in store...so check it out and I dare you not to shop!

Ghetto in the Meadow

Yesterday's shoot for Fine"n"Funky went exceptionally well and fast!
We had planned on shooting near the loading dock by the Boatworks mall, but couldn't because Tahoe City was a zoo due to the Farmer's Market. In a haste, I said "let's shoot in my neighborhood, there are some interesting walls around there" and we were there in a split second. We parked right across the street from Bacchi's {my fave Italian joint} and Sara my friend just brazenly changed in the street {maybe it was the mimosas!} which made the shoot go by in a flash! I've been having alot of fun on shoots lately and trying to take things to a different level, more like a look book. Maybe more portrait, less fashion. Anyways, so we are shooting a few blocks away from my house and there were cool walls, wood stacks, bright colored paint and old beat down cars galore and that's when Sara says "Yea that's why they call this the ghetto in the meadow" and it dawns on me...
I live in the ghetto.

Surprise visit from my besty

Yesterday, my besty Matt passed through Tahoe City on his way to Burning Man and I got to spend some cherished hours gossiping, kayaking and cheersing with him! It was so nice to hear about his life in New York, his new 4,000 square foot apartment that he's fixing up all by himself, and his photography career...but it makes me miss our life in Santa Barbara when I would see him multiple times a day. Wow how things have changed, but at least our friendship has stayed the same. See you again soon, buddy! P.S. my dress is Ella Moss.{Here I am making a delicious taco out of my huevos from Firesign!}

{Taking the kayaks to Star Harbor}

Photo of the day!

Here is the photo of the day I shot at my Fine'N'Funky photo shoot today! Our model Maddy was such a great sport and even helped us schlep our rack of fashion over dirt and rocks. Hilarious. And cold!

Wait what I live where bears live?

Today, as I was running errands in Tahoe City, I saw a crowd forming by the lake behind Safeway so I went to see what all the commotion was about. There was a bear in a tree that looked to be about a teenager. Like medium size. But what do I know, I'm just a girl from Scottsdale. :)

Love + Photo Facebook Contest

As an end of the wedding season here in Tahoe we are doing something special... we are doing a promotional contest on facebook to gain more "fans" so we are offering a FREE wedding photography package worth more than $900 that includes full event coverage by two photographers! Click here to see details and to "like" us and be sure to suggest us to your engaged friends!