Very excited to share in the holidays and create lasting memories of your wonderful children and your families!
Please contact me by phone at:
805 215 2667
or email:
inamomentphoto@ymail.com
for details or to schedule!
9.26.2012
7.25.2012
Molina Family!
Spending time with the Molina family was such a blessing! I now have a new passion! I am in love with shooting families in their homes, shadowing them as they carry on with life as they would if I was not there. It has been the purest form of love, and life I have seen expressed so far! Can you say bliss?!!
The dynamics and love within this family made my heart feel as if it was going to burst at any moment! Little Audrey at just two weeks old was just amazing, and Aria won me over immediately with her big brown eyes and cute curls. It was very much a joy to be able to share in a bit of life with this great family.
7.01.2012
Gregory gets ready to hit the big time!
This handsome young man is getting ready to hit L.A.! This is Gregory, the son of some great friends I have known for years. Gregory is launching into modeling and acting and his parents asked me if I could do a photo session before he went down south to meet his agent! I am so excited to see where Gregory's adventure leads him, he has a sweetheart and wow seriously isn't his look just classic! I'm convinced Hollywood needs this boy! This photo session was done in beautiful Pismo Beach.
6.22.2012
Noah turns one
June 14, little Noah turned one! I can't believe how quickly he grows and changes.
Each time I see him he is bigger, faster, and cuter! In just the short time it has been since our last session he has grown so much. With a day like a first birthday being so special in a families world, my good friends Brian and Aubrey asked me to hang out with them for a bit at Leaning Pine Arboretum, located on the Cal Poly Campus, and capture a bit of the time they spent together with Noah. Having the opportunity to share in moments with people is always amazing, I smile continuously and my heart is always full when I am behind my camera, but when you are with friends who you have known for years it makes the documentation that much more special. Brian and Aubrey have been more than friends for many years. I could ramble for far too long about how special they are to me, and how instrumental they both have been in my life. Sappy yes, but true none the less. So having known them as a single married couple to now having Noah has been amazing to see. They have transitioned so beautifully into their new roles as mom and dad.
6.04.2012
Whatever will I wear!?!
Soon after we know we are going to have photos taken, doesn't the question soon come to mind:
"What am I going to wear!?"
I just came across this link that gives some great ideas for families.
It shows colors and patterns that coordinate and work well together.
We can very much embrace our individuality and yet still look like we are a group.
If you are looking for ideas, please check out this site and get your creative juices flowing!
6.01.2012
Good morning little buddy
I have come to the realization in a huge way lately that
1.)my child is growing at light speed
2.)He is amazing to watch.
3.)I want to remember so much more of our day to day life together. I also am trying to make sure that i'm spending time with my camera each day. This morning I came in and sneaked in on Jayden while he was sleeping.
5.29.2012
I'm an artist!?!
Hi friends,
This morning I wanted to share a little bit about my journey with photography, and along with that, the bigger lesson learned from photography about embracing your uniqueness. This story does not portray me as a perfect person, it's a real story. I wish to be transparent on this page and in my life in general. I feel more comfortable sharing my imperfections than trying to appear that I do not have any. So here it is.
As you may have read on my about me section, I have always loved photography, basically before I knew I did. After my son was born I realized I wanted to capture moments and I needed a DSLR, as the point and shoot was not getting the job done.
I moaned and whined for what seemed like forever about wanting a camera so I could just capture these visions of moments that floated around in my head. The time finally came last February. Our family came down to visit and my wonderful family had pitched in and come together to get me my first DLSR! Ok, now I could create these amazing pictures! Let's get started.
Let's just say that the "masterpieces" were not going to come together as easily as I had hoped. So the journey began. I began to study and soon realized photography was like a science, so technical! Well technicality isn't fun, reading terminology is not fun. This is not what I thought it would be. I was often convinced when practicing that throwing my camera in the river was a better choice than trying to master the combination of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed! I knew what I saw, and what I felt when taking a photo, I so badly wanted that to come out in my final image, but technicality got in my way, and so the camera sat in the bag more often than being used.
Through this time the moments did not stop appearing in my head, I still wanted to create. I did do some photo shoots here and there, and I saw that I was learning, gradually. Each shoot I improved. This was good, and encouraging.....enter Mr. Comparison. Mr. Comparison is your worst enemy, he is sneaky and will overpower you before you realize what happened. I spent alot of time looking at other photographers images, which started out as inspiring, but soon led me to believe that everyone created a better image than me and there was no place for me within this field. Mr. Comparison had me believing a lie.
I have came to a realization that has blessed me greatly, it has helped me defeat Mr. Comparison and move forward. I do not consider myself a "photographer" but have come to a place where I now see myself as an artist, as opposed to "the girl who is trying to be a photographer" If I am an artist then I am unique, I should be unique.
If you are an artist, your uniqueness is your greatest asset. Artists create their own niche. We each create out of our unique hearts. How amazing is that!
This is now me, I'm an artist who uses a camera. This view has allowed creativity to once again flow in me as it should. I am not stiffled trying to re-create someone elses style or worried so much about composition. The best artist knows the "rules" yet is free to break them. Don't we love those artists the most!? The ones that are not held back by anything.
While I do spend time looking, and admiring others photos, I now do not want to imitate, but want to allow my heart to take over, and to show others through my art, what my heart sees. It's me, its true, and it's authentic.
Embracing our own talents and uniqueness allows us to be free, we will be blessed and in turn bless others. Each of us was created as we are for such a special specific reason. We were created piece by piece, with precision and reasoning behind what lies within. Let us dwell on that, and be thankful. Embrace what we were given, what was put in each of us, and run with it. :)
This morning I wanted to share a little bit about my journey with photography, and along with that, the bigger lesson learned from photography about embracing your uniqueness. This story does not portray me as a perfect person, it's a real story. I wish to be transparent on this page and in my life in general. I feel more comfortable sharing my imperfections than trying to appear that I do not have any. So here it is.
As you may have read on my about me section, I have always loved photography, basically before I knew I did. After my son was born I realized I wanted to capture moments and I needed a DSLR, as the point and shoot was not getting the job done.
I moaned and whined for what seemed like forever about wanting a camera so I could just capture these visions of moments that floated around in my head. The time finally came last February. Our family came down to visit and my wonderful family had pitched in and come together to get me my first DLSR! Ok, now I could create these amazing pictures! Let's get started.
Let's just say that the "masterpieces" were not going to come together as easily as I had hoped. So the journey began. I began to study and soon realized photography was like a science, so technical! Well technicality isn't fun, reading terminology is not fun. This is not what I thought it would be. I was often convinced when practicing that throwing my camera in the river was a better choice than trying to master the combination of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed! I knew what I saw, and what I felt when taking a photo, I so badly wanted that to come out in my final image, but technicality got in my way, and so the camera sat in the bag more often than being used.
Through this time the moments did not stop appearing in my head, I still wanted to create. I did do some photo shoots here and there, and I saw that I was learning, gradually. Each shoot I improved. This was good, and encouraging.....enter Mr. Comparison. Mr. Comparison is your worst enemy, he is sneaky and will overpower you before you realize what happened. I spent alot of time looking at other photographers images, which started out as inspiring, but soon led me to believe that everyone created a better image than me and there was no place for me within this field. Mr. Comparison had me believing a lie.
I have came to a realization that has blessed me greatly, it has helped me defeat Mr. Comparison and move forward. I do not consider myself a "photographer" but have come to a place where I now see myself as an artist, as opposed to "the girl who is trying to be a photographer" If I am an artist then I am unique, I should be unique.
If you are an artist, your uniqueness is your greatest asset. Artists create their own niche. We each create out of our unique hearts. How amazing is that!
This is now me, I'm an artist who uses a camera. This view has allowed creativity to once again flow in me as it should. I am not stiffled trying to re-create someone elses style or worried so much about composition. The best artist knows the "rules" yet is free to break them. Don't we love those artists the most!? The ones that are not held back by anything.
While I do spend time looking, and admiring others photos, I now do not want to imitate, but want to allow my heart to take over, and to show others through my art, what my heart sees. It's me, its true, and it's authentic.
Embracing our own talents and uniqueness allows us to be free, we will be blessed and in turn bless others. Each of us was created as we are for such a special specific reason. We were created piece by piece, with precision and reasoning behind what lies within. Let us dwell on that, and be thankful. Embrace what we were given, what was put in each of us, and run with it. :)
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