I had a wonderful engagement session with Steve and Lovy at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes last month. They received this session because Steve purchased Lovy’s ring at a Ben Bridge Jeweler store.
Lovy made this adorable Save the Date wooden banner so we included it in our photo shoot.
I am pleased to be participating in the second annual I Spy with My Plastic Eye show with an artists reception, hosted by 5th & Sunset Studios, on April 21. I am also very honored that my Six Flags image (shot with my Diana camera) has been chosen for all the promotional pieces and the cover of the accompanying book.
Please feel free to join this fun evening on
Thursday, April 21
from 7-10 pm
5th & Sunset Studios
12322 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90064
I am pleased to announce that I have partnered with Plum District with this very special offer. Good only through midnight tonight (April 7, 2011 11:59 pm)
$148 Portrait Session (Value $400. 63% Savings)
One 8×10 or 8×12 Print and Three Digital Images
Plum District, a daily deal website geared towards smart, savvy moms. Plum District is unique in that it is solely focused on moms (or the mom in you) and deals that will make their lives easier and more enjoyable.
Click here to view and purchase this very special and time sensitive deal.
Click here for blog entries from some of my family and kids portrait sessions.
The next birthday card I am going to be selling (and of course using myself).
Found the Shakespeare quote today I am going to use with it.
To me, fair friend you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey’d
Such seems your beauty still.
Sonnet, 104
Suzanne and I met through a mutual friend while I was a talent agent (my previous career) many, many years ago. Thank you Suzanne for being so loyal to me all these years.
For the third year in a row Constant Contact has made me one of their All Stars. I love getting this recognition every year.
Constant Contact looked at criteria including the following when selecting this year’s All Stars:
• Frequency of campaigns
• Open, bounce and click through rates
• Usage of social features
• Mailing list sign up tools
• Use of reporting tools
I am pleased to say that I am one of 2010’s top performers and most prolific user of its email marketing and social media marketing products.
Click here to view the Summer 2010 newsletter.
Wednesday was a very sad day for me and for the world. The divine Miss Elizabeth Taylor passed away. There will never be anyone like her. Ever. From her beauty, to her determination, to her humanity.
Elizabeth Taylor once said:
My personal philosophy of beauty is to always believe something wonderful is about to happen.
Ironically I watched the film GIANT for the first time because of James Dean, not Elizabeth Taylor. The film isn’t a perfect film but you cannot deny it’s an epic film. A couple of years ago A&I had an exhibition of Frank Worth’s images shot during the filming of GIANT and an accompanying book of these images entitled AMERICANA. I absolutely treasure this book.
In the beginning of the book there is a two page spread of contact sheets. Oh how I love contact sheets. They tell you so much. The eye of the photographer, how they tell a story, the film they used and in this case one of the cameras Mr. Worth was using that day, a Rolleiflex, of course.
Frank Worth wrote:
Jean-Luc Godard once famously said that cinema is truth twenty-four frames per second, but George Stevens’ Giant is more than this, it’s myth twenty-four frames per second, over three and half hours of playing time. From the first frame to the last, this is fact is simply undeniable; Giant is American myth it its grandest, most operatic, and purest sense of the words.
Thank you Miss Taylor and thank you Mr. Worth.
For information on the book and how to purchase it, click here.
Sometimes you receive something in the mail that just makes your day. My second cousin Becky sent me these books that she knew I would love having. And she was so right. Thank you Becky.
A Soolip Wedding // March 6, 2011 // Los Angeles from Film Foto Fusion on Vimeo.
Sometimes it can be so hard to describe A Soolip Wedding to someone who isn’t from Los Angeles or who has never attended the annual event. The video that Jerry Verdin and Max Young of Film Foto Fusion put together represents what the event is about so well. I now send friends and family a link to view the video on Vimeo and my attempt to use words to describe it just isn’t necessary anymore.
If you blink while watching the video you’ll miss seeing me and if I had known they were shooting me working on talking to guests of the event or setting up my booth trust me I would have hidden from their view. They were so subtle that I didn’t even realize they were there shooting me.
Thank you Max and Jerry.