Mexico

Did you know that not everyone in Mexico speaks spanish??? I found this out three years ago when I was able to visit baja for the first time. This year I was able to return and spent some time with the mexican, mizteca, and triqui people. Feel free to ask me more about my amazing experiences there through my email or FB page, but for now I am going to concentrate on the beautiful colors of Mexico!

I am a sucker for fabric. I love blankets, scarves, curtains and spools of fabric. It was all I could do to not buy every blanket I would never use. Good thing my husband was there! I ended up only buying 1. But aren't they beautiful?

My family and I are mexican and every once in while we joke about our "mexican showing", basically whenever we do things very unique to our culture, like wanting to paint our house bright blue! I would totally have a house this color if I didn't think the neighbors would start a petition to re-paint it beige. This was my favorite house we visited. It was overlooking a beautiful valley and I loved that it matched the sky.

We were also able to visit the beach and it turns out that even the sand in Mexico shares its love for color. The beach was speckled with greens, reds, and blues and the sand was a mixture of white, black, and specks of gold. It was wonderful.

I had a fabulous time in Mexico. The only thing more beautiful then the colors where the people. Everywhere we went we met people full of joy and hospitality. I can't wait till I am able to return.

Aquarium

I love visiting aquariums. I feel like I am entering a different world, filled with creatures I wouldn't see anywhere else. The different rays are always my favorite. I love seeing them gracefully "fly" through the water and smile back at me with that goofy grin imprinted on their underside. My second favorite are all of the colors you find beneath the water. It's amazing! Blues, greens, pinks, yellows, every color you can think of and then some are found under the sea. I'm always in awe.

Thanks to all of you who went with me to the Aquarium. Especially for being so patient with me as I photographed all the sea creatures and even pointing out some amazing shots!

Ismael and Mary

Any day is a great day to go out and shoot, especially when living in sunny California! I love being able to take someone up to the mountains, into the city or in this case down to the beach and see if we can capture some amazing memories. The portraits below are of my cousin Ismael and his beautiful wife Mary.

 ...A little insight into my life, family is very important to me and this particular cousin comes from a family who couldn't be any dearer to my heart. Our dad's are identical twin brothers and our moms are sisters and if that isn't enough we grew up living next door to each other. So it makes me so incredibly happy that he has been given such a wonderful wife that loves him dearly. Just being around these two makes me smile.

LOVE YOU BOTH!

Michelle

I was very excited when Michelle called me up to plan out her Senior Portraits. Michelle is an amazing girl whom I've known for about three years now, she is truly beautiful on the inside and out. Due to some crazy circumstances our shoot had to be within the week she contacted me and between our two schedules we had about an hour of sunlight to spare. She met me at work and we walked over to a hill that was bursting with wild flowers and the shoot began. We had so much fun finding the beauty that was all around us and the results were some amazing photographs for her to keep and share with loved ones.

Thank you Michelle, it was so much fun working with you!! Congratulations on Graduating!