My favorites from the shoot...

Makeup by: Katie Mueller

More of Eva...

Eva...

Yesterday I shot a beautiful girl named Eva Card. The shoot went great. Here is a little behind the scenes and a preview of what's to come.


Hair and Makeuo by Katie Mueller

makeshift living room....

Pasadena, CA.

Craig aka wolvesmouth....

Echo Park, CA.

Samus....

Highland Park, CA.

Metz...

While out exploring one afternoon in Metz I met this beautiful young girl walking her dog. I found that the outskirts of Metz was filled with some really unique landscapes and wonderful people.

in 128 days...

WE'RE GETTING MARRIED....here :)


Los Olivos, CA.

I love Big Bear.

Big Bear, CA.

Interviews from France..

click HERE to watch

I miss France...

Metz, France.

Bonjour!

So I've been in Metz, France since last Friday and I am loving it. Metz is an amazing historic city filled with wonderful people. I am here photographing for Juenes Talents, a really great program that sends a select number of recent art graduates to photograph various cities in France. When we return we will have two gallery shows, one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

Here is my beautiful room in Metz:

Abe sitting in his favorite window...

Highland Park, CA.

That's a really tall tree...

Highland Park, CA.

Megan...

Big Bear, CA.

Jourdan...

I did a test shoot up in Arrowhead yesterday.... I am really happy with the outcome. Here are my favorites from the shoot.


Thank you Jourdan for modeling, you are amazing and beautiful!

Arrowhead, CA.

More of our new house...

Highland Park, CA.

We moved!

We are now officially residents of Highland Park. Other than having some lame neighbors we are really loving the place. I snapped some pictures of the ins and outs of my new office, my very own new office, while the light was good.


Highland Park, CA.

TEN...

What does is mean to turn 10? Some of the girls rattled off phrases to me that were important to them like, “double digits”, or “oh my god! You guys we are PRE-TEENS”. I am pretty confident, although I don’t know for sure, that these phrases would never come up at a boy’s 10th birthday party. So, what is it about young girls wanting to look and feel so much older than they are? Is it just me or is the age in which you begin to wish you were older gotten younger?

The 10th year of life for girls is important, to them it's a pivotal time, and I really like the idea of meeting up with these girls and documenting their 10th year.

Here are some more photos of the girls from Friday night. Hopefully their parents will allow me to photograph them again.















(these last four images were taken during a game of "paparazzi", where the girls run around posing and screaming while they pretend that viscous photographers are after them)

I want to be clear that these girls didn't show up to the party like this. They are normal kids who if given the opportunity would probably dress and look like this everyday, but they aren't so they don't. I didn't give them the cell phones, the ipods, some of the makeup and most of the clothing, or the sassy attitudes, but this was a birthday party where dressing up was the main attraction.

Thanks for looking!

Menifee, CA.

preview...

This past weekend I had the honor of spending time with my niece, Chloe, at her 10th birthday party/sleepover. Other than Chloe I don't think I have spent any time with another 10 year old. I planned on taking some photos at the party but was pretty shocked to discover than 10 year olds are kind of insane. They are nothing like I was when I was 10, but I was a tomboy who dissected bugs for fun. They texted, sang Justin Bieber, liked makeup and high heels, basically they are 10 going on 18. Here are two photos from Friday night, more to come tomorrow....

oh ya and they look 18 too...

Menifee, CA.

Chef Farid Zadi...

My second cover for Pasadena Weekly was on this awesome guy who has just opened an affordable cooking school in Pasadena. When we went to photograph and interview him he cooked us a really great meal of calamari, sheep kidney and mussels. Here is a link to the story.



Here are a few images from the shoot...

Reverend Rick...

I just started shooting for Pasadena Weekly and my first two stories ended up landing me two covers. This story was on an openly gay reverend in Pasadena who just started a church with the intent to reach out to gay teens and offer them a safe place to turn to in time of need. Here is a link to the story.



This was my first cover ever and this was really cool to me... haha


here are a few of my favorite shots...

JPG Magazine...

Last month JPG Magazine published my Elizabeth series as their featured photo essay. This was my first multi-page spread which was really exciting for me. They published the whole story behind the series along with images from the house and the portraits I created. Here is a link to the images and the story!

Inn at Morro Bay...

Micael and I went to San Luis Obispo last weekend to look at a wedding venue, which ended up being amazing and perfect. That night we headed up to Morro Bay where we stayed for the next two nights. The hotel we stayed in was so awesome, we had a private hot tub on our patio that overlooked the ocean... amaaaazzzing :)

Morro Bay, CA.

Samus and Abraham...

Echo Park, CA.

The sky over Echo Park has been crazy!

My friend Brian...

Echo Park, CA.

JPG Magazine

My Elizabeth series was published in this month's issue of JPG Magazine!

Samus!

We adopted a kitten from the Pasadena Humane Society last week. Her name is Samus, she is so cute and small, I love her, but Abe hates her so far (we're workin on it haha).

Echo Park, CA.

The final image for grad show...

Last Sunday I shot my final image for grad show, which is August 21st at 6pm @ Art Center College of Design. The Friday evening before the shoot everything fell apart. The WB wardrobe house declined to rent me my reserved costumes due to some ridiculous and confusing policies. The original shoot I had planned was an elaborate cocktail party scene involving eight people total. I had been planning the shoot for over a month, I had an amazing location booked, props and styling all planned out, assistants, hair and makeup and of course excluding me my seven wonderful models, well to make a long story short I found myself with all of this except the key component pulling it all together and that was of course the costumes. In a calm panic I drove to school to see what I could do which unfortunately turned out to be nothing. I had to start from scratch with one day to plan an entire 1960's themed shoot. Luckily, I ran into Alyssa Lavine, we talked things out and a new shoot started to form. From there I had to call everyone and cancel the original shoot, but luckily Megan Mack and her boyfriend Ian agreed to pose in my new shoot. Saturday I got up early and drove all over Los Angeles in search of props and wardrobe. A good friend of mine accompanied me on my excursion and by 10pm on Saturday night I had just about everything for the shoot the next day. Except of course the tablecloth, which was purchased from Joanne's bright and early on Sunday morning. My sister, Katie and Tina arrived Sunday at about 1:30 ready to make all of us over. From there on out everything went great. Without the encouragement of my sister and friends I don't think I could of pulled this shoot off. I am not one who usually deals well with stress but even Micael was impressed at my ability to push through without a breakdown. I really owe a big thank you to everyone that helped out on Sunday, so THANKS! You guys are the greatest. Here are some images from the day...












Echo Park & Silverlake, CA.