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Modesto Garden Tour

I was asked once again to photograph something for Michael Hernandes of Simple Flowers…  www.simpleflowersmodesto.com  This time it was a garden at one of the featured locations on Modesto’s Garden Tour www.modestogardenclub.org  Here’s some of the wonderful things Michael planted and arranged at the home of Steve and Jennie Zeff.  I loved the green apples… …and there...

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MARY + KEVIN’S WEDDING

Sunshine, mild weather, St. Stanislaus Church, and a reception in the garden of the McHenry Mansion…makes for a perfect day.  Hope the honeymoon is wonderful…aloha! These photographs of Mary were taken in one of the upstairs bedrooms of the Mansion…gorgeous light…

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Bridal Showers, Simple Flowers

Don’t let that title fool you, there’s nothing simple about being a florist…Simple Flowers is owned by Michael H.  (Michael Hernandes).  I’ve known Michael for a few years and LOVE working with him.  I’m always impressed by his work which is elegant and gorgeous.  This bridal shower is no exception, he covered all the details beautifully as...

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MALLORIE + MATT

We actually hit a warm day for this engagement session!  Spring is wild this year.  I would have posted last week - but the kids are out of school and my time is not my own. (seriously, when is it?  I need a ghost blogger) Soooooo…  Matt and Mallorie, here are a few images.  Your cd and...

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Unexpected Storm

I don’t blog every client.  I can’t.  Time being a factor, if I blog everyone but skip one because I’m too busy that week, then somebody will feel slighted.  I don’t twitter for the same reason – time.  Life is short.  (but it is wide)  I want people to discover how I see the world around me.  So in...

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Endless Summer

When I was maybe 4 or 5 years old, I remember a poster my older brother (a teenager at the time) had on his wall.  From the film “The Endless Summer: in search of the perfect wave”.  It was the mid 1960′s, my brother would hitchhike from Modesto to Santa Cruz to surf, then hitchhike...

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Liz + Ruben’s engagement session

This is a couple I couldn’t wait to photograph, even though it took a while to get to this engagement session.  But I’m not talking about physical distance.  I just knew they were meant to be together.  So here’s a sneak peek!

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Spring has arrived

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”   – John Keats Spring reveals itself, reminding me that the unexpected is always upon us.  Walking up to my mother’s house I glanced to the right and there they were, the first blooms on the tulip tree.  While others are only just showing leaf buds. But spring is...

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Film – Keeping it alive

I am a Renaissance girl….and I’ve been missing film.  There I said it.  I’m pretty sure there are plenty of photographers out there who don’t know what I’m talking about.  Missing film? Maybe because they’ve never used it or don’t know how.  (one of my friends calls them fauxtographers, funny.) Film is not dead, not...

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Field Trip

One of the cool things about having kids is that you get to go on field trips. The other day I went with my daughter and about 60 kids to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park to view the King Tut exhibit.  I knew we wouldn’t be allowed to photograph the artifacts (I...

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