Sandy M . . . ang ganda-ganda niya!

The past year and a half has been tough on Sandy. She has put in fifteen to eighteen credits a semester toward her business major (with a marketing minor), taught Tagalog twenty hours a week, all while working through health problems. Ito ang isang napakagaling at masipag na babae! (This is one super talented and hard-working woman!) I loved working with her on this shoot.

Good Friends and October Birthdays

Adriana and Kortni, long-standing friends and sharers of a birthday month, came to me to take pictures for their joint birthday celebration. They wanted their pictures to reference engagement pictures, while maintaining a "buddies and pals" feel.

Meg and Joe . . . engaged!

Meg is a law student at BYU and Joe is an accountant for the state of Oregon. They met, became friends, and now--at long last--they're engaged! For the pictures Meg and Joe wanted, we decided on two different locations, one up in the mountains with fall colors and one in a more modern setting. Challenges for the shoot: 1) Rainy weather. This was followed by snowy weather. Thankfully, the day of the shoot the light outside was perfect. 2) Incorporating "red" into the images. Meg's wedding colors are black, red, and white and it was important for her to have those colors in at least some of their photos. That's the background-- check out the results.

Chichen Itza

Some pictures I just recovered from several months back. My second visit to Chichen Itza was much different than the first time around. Twelve years ago, the park was not listed among the official "Seven Wonders of the World." This meant that there were no tour buses, no congested queue of tourists waiting out the hours-long line by flicking through images on their digital cameras. I didn't get in the line with the other tourists this time either, to tell you the truth. Instead I came back several hours later and got in free, had much better lighting in much less crowded surroundings. Just a thought for any would-be travelers to this part of the world. Enjoy!