HeartsandHorseshoesPhotography

2010-04-22T16:45:00.000-07:00

This wonderful girl, well woman, is my good friend's sister. And when she drove up pulling a huge horse trailer I was immediately impressed! And although Sunshine (the horse) wasn't as impressed with me at first, she came around at the end and started posing! It was a fun shoot!

2010-04-22T15:33:00.000-07:00

I love weddings, obviously! But I especially love weddings of people that I know truly love each other. I love the look in their eyes during their ceremony. I love listening to all the speeches were all their friends proclaim them to be perfect for each other. I love that I almost always cry during these speeches (good thing I'm hidden behind a camera). I love the entire feeling of happiness and excitement in this day, the beginning to their new lives together.

So you can imagine my delight when I was hired by a couple I've know for along time, but how well do you really know someone until you take their pictures. Now I know how they interact and their best sides. And I know how much they adore each other. Here's to a life of happiness for these two wonderful people and their wonderful families!

2010-03-30T17:12:00.000-07:00

It's really is so important to get to work with your wedding couples...before the wedding day. I love watching the love in progress. I love seeing you look at each other and trying to shoot it before you remember I'm there. I probably won't change my packages before the Fall but when I do I will make sure every package has an engagement session included. First off because everyone needs love pictures. Secondly, it's so dang fun!

2010-03-02T23:01:00.000-08:00

It is always quite refreshing to show up to meet someone whom you've never met, well actually a few people you've never met, and find yourself feeling quite comfortable. At the end of an hour you're sure you were friends before. I find myself literally falling in love with the families I am blessed enough to photograph...this family was no exception! I love meeting new families, and new babies! And hip-hip-hooray for a sunny day!

2010-02-27T11:16:00.000-08:00

This summer I shot pictures for a horse show, which is one of my favorite things to do. I spent three 12 hour days in the 110 degree heat of San Miguel trying to shield my poor camera out of the sun. A few times I feared one of us would stop working because it was THAT hot. I have only done a few horse shows, usually weddings and portraits, and so I found myself taking TOO many pictures. I decided instead of selling individual pictures people could just buy a disk of one day or the entire weekend. That way all those pictures I took would find their rightful owners and I wouldn't have to justify to myself why I took so many. It was not so much about the money as it was fun.

Needless to say it was a little disheartening to find out that a person who had contacted me about purchasing the photos but had never actually done so, had instead stolen them off of my website. I very much dislike putting PROOF over all my pictures but now I see why that, or branding, is completely necessary. This person had used the pictures on their website, on their blog and on an advertisement. After a few back and forth emails where the person insisted they had only used the SHARE button and that everything was linked back to my gallery, that they received thousands of pictures and why would they use mine. But an innocent party wouldn't have taken them down quite so fast I dare say.

So the moral of my story is, don't steal. When you get caught its downright embarrassing. Especially since I was practically giving the photos away and I would have gladly let them use them for advertising with my logo on them.

And hip-hip-hooray for Stitch...screen shots are how you get caught in the act of thievery!

Oh HERE piggy piggy!!!

2009-03-28T22:36:00.000-07:00

I have never really been loose with a pig before, and after today I would really like a pet pig! I would like a pet everything, but truely these pigs were great!!! The little ones where a bit forward but hey, I wasn't the one wearing the wedding dress!!! Chris Slater was nice enough to let us come hang out with him and his cute pig friends today, the babies are for sale (805-391-0930) if you too want a pet pig, or fair pig they are ready to go! I love my sister for letting me torture her with my ideas. This is going to be the first of many of my collection "The Country Bride". Yay for piggies!!!

Stanley & P

2009-03-24T21:33:00.000-07:00

I love my cuz P, and her pooch Stanley (Dittee named her baby after him!!!). She says he doesn't drool but oh baby yes he does! I do the love the cheesy monster no matter how he covers me in shoelaces!

Dittee's Birthday!!!

2009-03-19T19:53:00.000-07:00

Grace, aka "Dittee", turned the big 1 today. Not sure if I'm excited or sad. Walking will help with the two monsters playing more together, but officially my little baby is turning into a little girl. It's kinda sad. But...today was a wonderful day at the beach. Presley said "This is the best birthday in the whole world", and it wasn't even hers!!! While Grace was NOT happy about the water temperature, Pnut was delighted. Grace sort of liked the sand but was much more interested in pulling everything out of the bag and examining it all. And FINALLY after 2 years of trying...I got Pnut to touch the sea anenomes!!! A miracle in itself!!! "They can't hurt me!!!" Yay for birthdays!

Oh St. Pattys!

2009-03-18T19:14:00.000-07:00

Without turning this into a "mommy blog" (I should probably make a new one just for that) I have to share the bits of my day which include my little monsters. As you can see Presley is obsessed with tractors and asks "ampa" everytime we are there if she can ride it...today she lucked out!!!

2009-03-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

I love finding random hearts in nature, or in this case paint, and sending them to my hubby.

Ryan & Katy

2009-03-16T20:13:00.000-07:00

I love these two. I had a ton of fun with them and their two dogs Shiloh and Maddie. Katy is kinda like my sister whom I haven’t seen in a very long time. It’s hard trying to find a green field with oak trees that’s not fenced in, it didn’t used to be but it sure is now. Can’t wait for their wedding!!!

Lightbulb!!!

2009-03-16T20:11:00.000-07:00

Today I went to work on this idea I have had for awhile. But, I really never thought it would happen because where on earth could I find a soul willing to let me put there infant child on my monster horse. Well...I did! Kaitlyn was such a good sport and the pic turned out EXACTLY how I imagined. It was the best feeling in the world! The pic is on the home page...my new masterpiece :)

Feb 24, 2008

2009-03-16T20:02:00.000-07:00

Sunday I took my good friend Kathryn’s new baby Kaitlyn’s pics. She is soooo adorable and has way more hair than my one-year old. It was my first little baby shoot and it was quite fun! It’s a little hard to direct a one-month old: sleep, lie still, are you REALLY hungry? She was an angel and stayed awake for the perfect amount of time and then slept for a few shots. Kathryn was a good sport because the kid likes to pee...a lot! Here’s a few of my favs, they
are more on the people page!