Little Adam

Adam was a handful, a typical toddler. He cried about 60% of the time he was in the studio. So, I took him outside for a change of scenery, of course. I used my gold reflector for the background outside. I thought it looked great with what Adam was wearing.

Parents are always surprised when their kids are fussy and I still manage to pull out great images. All I need is 1/60 of a second! I have my tricks to get kids to stop crying... I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you. lol

Raphael's Restaurante Mexicano

I finally found my new favorite Mexican Restaurant! We loved our old Mexican Restaurant in Cali and haven't found anything to compare, until now!

Great friendly atmosphere and wonderful food. And, a fun hangout place on the weekends!

They recently hired me to photograph their en tree's and the restaurant for their website and marketing pieces.

Their website is: www.http://raphaelson380.com
26615 Hwy 380 E. #100, Aubrey, TX 76227

Go check it out.

Hawaii!

We just booked our flight and condo for Kauai for the family.

I'm so excited. We have never been to Hawaii, but I've been all over Europe and the US. Go Figure.

The only thing...it's not until Jan. 09.

Photographic Craftsman Degree!

I'm so excited to have earned my Photographic Craftsman Degree from The Professional Photographers of America. PPA is around 20,000 members strong and only between 2-3 % of their members hold some type of Degree.

Terrell was my sponsor, my mentor! Thanks Terrell.

The Craftsman Degree is earned by Lecturing and Teaching to a group of other photographers and by attending School's sponsored by PPA. It took me 8 years to earn! Now I need to start working on my Master's Degree.

PPA went all out. I felt like I was at the Oscar's. No red carpet, but it was pretty darn close. It was a great night, then of course, we all went out and celebrated afterwards! :)

Beautiful Audra

Meet Audra!

Isn't she Beautiful? She has almost finished her first year in college, but never got her Senior Portraits taken. It's never too late...

These are some of my Fav's. It was really difficult to narrow it down to just these few. We had a lot of fun and she was a great model.
She tried anything I suggested. Even the spinning in a circle for Five minutes and flipping her hair up. What a trooper.