Just the Way You Are

More portraits of my super cute friends 

{well, now I guess I'm just bragging...}

  

Trying to capture people the way I see them is a challenge that never seems to get old to me. 

As much as people may think that their smiles are cheesy, their eyes are too small or don't like their smiles...when I manage to catch them in a moment where I see aspects of their personalities shine through,  I just can't help but show them off. During a weekend of being with some dear friends (is friends the right word? Maybe I mean sisters?) these shots really captured how I see them. In the way that I see them,  I think of it being like catching a ray of light off an angle of a prism. Sometimes its a side of them that not everyone knows at a surface level. Whether it's Janet, the universal sweetheart, Naomi's growing gentleness, Anna's sophisication, Sarah's sweet side, Jen's hilariousness and exasperation with all our teasing, Joyce's adorable side, Andrea's goofiness and Becky's tender and protective love, I see it all. 

And hopefully they would agree that I see them.

Summer Red, Summer Rad

These were just some test shots, as we were setting up for a portrait session...

but I was just reminded of how my sister totally ROCKS 

the camera. Don't mess with this girl. She has all the confidence in the world.

And some pretty awesome red hair.

the best of us

Our littlest cousin is probably the smartest (and obviously the cutest) out of all of us.

a coffee&parchment afternoon {preview}

playing in the leaves.

burning daylight

This post should have been called burning the midnight oil. It's actually 1:21 am and I'm here blogging. I started editing around 11:00 and just...kept going.


I was on a roll going through what is easily my most favorite shoot ever {joyce+peter} and found another shot I couldn't wait to share.

andrea & ben's rainy day // balboa park, SD

Andrea and I grew up together. in LA since we went to the same church through elmentary all the way to high school... and when I went to Balboa Park with her and Ben, I just kept thinking "Andrea is A GROWN UP." :) It was a pleasure to reconnect with her since we both are living in SD now and to meet her husband for the first time though they had been married for about two years now.

It was all thunderstorms for the two days before our trip to balboa park and with the holidays quickly approaching, we were short on time....so to the park we went. I was a bit nervous at first, but little did I know how much I LOVE shooting after the rain.

And here's a secret...I LOVE the way ben looks at andrea. :)