Monday, April 9, 2012

HOLLY | MARCHING TO HER OWN BEAT | ALTA LOMA HIGH CLASS OF 2012

A few weeks ago, I had the most incredible opportunity to work with Holly!  One of my closest friends gave Holly the gift of a grad session with me, for a graduation present, and I was super thrilled and honored!!! (thank you Marti!! ox).  I met up with Holly her mom and her big sis, that was on break from UCLA (where Holly had just found out, that day, that she also got into UCLA!!!  yay – although I think she’ll have a few choices beyond that to ponder!!) in downtown Pomona.  Holly is the drum majorette for Alta Loma High School marching band and all around quirky and fun girl that LOVES movie soundtracks, alternative rock, origami, studying about dinosaurs, AP Biology, and of course playing her very cool instruments, the basoon and the flute!!!  They were all so much fun to hang out with and we laughed a lot!  I really thank her sis for helping with lighting and putting up with my excitement!  Holly is absolutely beautiful and kind and I can’t wait to see where her future leads.  She has done a lot of community service and her favorite trip was to China.  In the summers, Holly has worked as a tutor and I think any young person would be so lucky to have her helping them with their studies.  In her future she sees herself in a biomedical engineering lab!  wow.

Thank you for the opportunity to get to know you, for a few hours, Holly!  I wish for you all of God’s blessings now and always!  Congratulations to you and job well done:)  oxox

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Baby’s First Year | Kairi | 1 Month

Still catching up a bit here!  A few weeks ago, I was able to go back and visit with one of my clients, Kristen, (engagement to wedding to maternity and baby) and take some pictures of sweet baby Kairi at 1 month old.  I got to see baby Kairi, for the first time, at 5 days old, with Kristen’s mom, Charmaine, (a good friend of mine) and it was just so nice to catchup and see this little miracle and my friend as a new grandma!  Kristen has become such a sweet friend, in my life as well, and we decided that it would be very cool to document Kairi’s first year.  So, in May, I will go back and capture 3 months, then 6 months in August and onto 9 months, in the fall,  and then one year.  Time flying right before our eyes!  I hear she’s already much bigger since I went over there!  On this day, Kairi was somewhat grumpy and Kristen, being the sweet, sweet mommy that she so naturally is, spent most of the time comforting Kairi and calming her down enough to grab some images here and there.  We let her just be and I think we got some decent, and natural images.  Troy stuck around for the one shot below and I’m so glad he did.  It’s been so special to work with them from the beginning of their life together and to photograph Kristen pregnant and then to see this sweet little miracle and this sweet little family grow.  C.C. or Cupcake, the family dog is so funny when I come over.  She follows me everywhere, parks herself near my equipment, is a total camera hound,  and has taken to baby Kairi, like a concerned sibling!  She loved to be near Kristen’s belly, during the pregnancy, and she is hysterical to watch around Kairi, especially when she was crying.  C.C.’s ears twisted back and forth and her eyes went from side to side and she just laid there, wanting to be near Kairi and kiss her.  It will be fun to watch this relationship grow too:)  I can’t wait!

I love you guys and thanks again for this opportunity!  oxox

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

REDLANDS BICYCLE CLASSIC | BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF CYCLING | ANNUAL TREK

 

To see a full gallery of my cycling images, from Stage 2, men’s and ladies pro crits: CLICK HERE!!!

So, I’m playing catchup on my website here and thought I’d start with posting the gallery of just some of my cycling work over the last month.  My husband and I have enjoyed hosting the women’s pro team, Primal | MapMyRide, in our home, during the San Dimas Stage Race (March 15-18) and this year was no exception.  These ladies are amazing.  Kind, generous, smart and full of life.  They are fascinating to be around and they are professional cyclists, chasing their passion for sport.  I initially grew up very involved in the world of dance and this beautiful sport has the feel of such beauty, color and movement to me.  I hope I was able to show the ladies in a passionate light, as the men usually get so much more coverage.  During the San Dimas Stage Races, I posted a bit of work on my Facebook “page” and I ended up getting to shoot for the men’s pro cycling team Kenda 5/Hour Energy Pro Cycling, during the Redlands Bicycle Classic the weekend after SDSR.  I covered Time Trials for them and mostly workout stuff, showing sponsor gear and then covered the Crits, Stage 2, on Saturday March 24th.  As a result, you can see a lot of that work spread all over Kenda’s Facebook Page, including their timeline banner image and their newsletter/website and it was truly quite the honor.  I also just had an image picked up, commercially,  by another brand new team, being introduced next week and hopefully I can talk about that later!  I worked pretty hard, learned a lot, and wished I was much younger!  But I think I kept up with the best of them on my 2 races, out of several, for those circuit shooting pros!

By the way, Kenda won the RBC, overall, protecting their yellow jersey, Phil Gaimon, the whole way!  Congratulations Kenda 5/Hour Energy Pro Cycling!!!!  It was such a pleasure working with you:)

 

Jade Wilcoxson, Team Optum and Megan Guarnier, Team Tibco, held onto their jerseys and finished at the top.
Famous American cycling legend, Davis Phinney.  Honored with the Redlands Classic Legend Award for a lifetime of cycling and overcoming some amazing obstacles.
Kenda pulling the locomotive most of the way…
Emily Kachorek pushing for her team, Primal | MapMyRide
Jim Stemper, from Kenda,  giving it 200%
Alison Powers riding for NOW!  (Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Race on CBS, and co-founder with partner Louise Keoghan of No Opportunity Wasted (NOW), teamed up with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to create the first of its kind pro cycling team, “NOW and Novartis for MS”)
Joelle Numainville, of Canada’s team Optum Pro Cycling, screaming to the finish line!  Her team placed her 3rd overall and she held on as sprint leader!  Fantastic!
My husband, John, a wonderful guy and avid hobbyist cyclist, took this picture, knowing I would not have a lens this big in my hands very often:)(that is the awesome new Canon 300mm, f/2.8 and I almost ran with it, never to be seen again…)

Kenda’s Phil Gaimon, taking it all in, at the end of a very tough and hard fought race….. holding onto that yellow jersey and handling all the adoration for his team.                 ahhhhhh…  onto the next race…..

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Beautiful Melissa | Passionate Foodie | Thoughtful Writer

As some of you might know, Melissa is my oldest son’s sweetheart of 6 years.  I could say “girlfriend,” but she is truly his sweetheart and like a daughter to me.  They met, while in high school and then ended up at San Diego State together, without really knowing that, until they were there.  I wrote all about this very cute story, on my old blog site, in 2009, when I went to San Diego State to photograph Max and Melissa, just before graduation.  In fact that was the first and only time I took just a handful of images of Melissa by herself.  She has been using one of them as her bio pic, for her wonderful food blog, For the Love of Food, and I believe for her writing job with Patch, (San Diego) the country-wide “community specific online newspaper.”  So we decided she needed some updated images that somewhat express her quiet, often quirky and “old soul” spirit.  I think that when I look at these, I see a beautiful woman who is still growing and searching, yet has reached that wonderful place of knowing what she loves to do in life.  Melissa has a great love of her family and cooks for them often.  I salivate over her blog recipes and I encourage you to follow her!  She has been probably my single most greatest fan and her encouragement of my work, that has also spread to her sister, Stacy (who just hired me to fly to Colorado, this Sept. to shoot her wedding), has honestly kept me going for these last several years.  There’s nothing like having a few people who believe in you and who take the time to remind you of that almost every week.  Melissa is one of those thoughtful and caring people.  She’s full of life and has thee most infectious laugh EVER!  I can’t help myself but laugh along when she and Max are laughing out loud about something that I have no clue about!  She is fun, kind and honest and I’m glad to call her a friend.  Melissa is a good friend.  I’ve affected her so bad (good? $ ouch?), she recently picked up a nice DSLR camera to learn how to take better food shots (yay!!) and I can’t wait to get together to show her  a few pointers!  She already has the eye for exactly what she wants to do with that yummy food – and I’m thinking that if I can help with the camera, maybe I’ll get to eat too?  It was great to spend an afternoon with you Melissa (finally!) and I’m really thankful you put up with my new “boom/light crap!” ha ha!!  What a pain!!  But for some shots is was absolutely worth it and you definitely saw where the light was heading!!  lol 

Love you always,

deb  ox

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

LAUREN | STEPPING IT UP | VANGUARD GRAD ’12

Stepping up my game this past weekend with the beautiful and very smart Lauren.  In a few months she will graduate, from Vanguard University, with a BA in Political Science and History and a minor in Psychology.  Crazy to think you can do all of this in 4 years and she’s almost there.  Lauren has enjoyed living by the beach, hanging out with friends and she especially LOVES photography.  That is something I love too.  ya think?  I also love working with people who love photography.  They usually have no problems with the way my mind works, and that really makes it easier to shoot.  I can get a bit excited.  Lauren’s plan is to go on to law school and possibly work in the criminal area.  As you can see one of Lauren’s big passions is her love of fashion and all that goes with it.  I loved her jewelery especially!  She’s trying to figure out how to possibly break into modeling and I said that that would be a fun way to pay for law school !  One of the lessons she has learned in the last 4 years is that “you can’t control everything that happens and to roll with the punches and trust God.”  I wish I had learned that earlier in life.

I really enjoyed working with you Lauren and I loved your sweet nature.  It was so much fun to get a little crazy and I’m sooooooo extremely thankful we went into L.A. to explore.  I really want to push my work harder and you gave me the chance to do that – so thank you for rolling with me on things.  Also, having your best friend, Marissa, along to help, was incredible!!!  Talk about helping!!!  We “caught” some awesome light:)  I wish for you good health and peace as you approach the downhill slide towards graduation and many blessings in your future.  ox

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