Luminaire Images

Family Portrait Shoot: Pacific Palisades, CA

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:43:56 GMT

Holidays are a great time to do family shoots, because if nothing else—everyone is present and accounted for!

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Best-Of 2009: Alternative

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:13:30 GMT

A wide variety of subjects and styles, locations and situations—these are the photos I took this year that deserve honorable mention but wouldn’t fit in my wedding and portraiture sets.

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2009 Best-Of: Wedding

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:20:33 GMT

Today we’re looking back at my picks for the top wedding images I shot in 2009!

I’m already looking forward to 2010…it’s going to be a wonderful year to get married!

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2009 Best-Of: Portraits

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:22:09 GMT

Ah, the year in review… it’s extraordinarily difficult to select my favorites from my favorites out of ALL the photos I took this year, but here’s what made the cut!

Wow. I totally didn’t notice until posting them how many of my favorites included pets portraits. <3

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The Felix Kids (and SO’s)

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:26:44 GMT

Who wouldn’t want to know them?? Seriously. My kind of family. Happy holidays, you crazy sibs!

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Nicole: Senior Portraits

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:51:27 GMT

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Puppehs & Kittehs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:25:23 GMT

All I want for Christmas is a tub of darling puppies, and a basket of fuzzy kittens!

You could probably hear me squealing for miles if I found this kind of preciousness under my tree Christmas morning.

Find a furry friend for Christmas at the OC Humane Society this winter!

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Dachschund Portraits

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:06:49 GMT

Colette’s Catering event goddess Natalie was so taken with the portraits I’ve done for the Orange County Humane Society that she commissioned me to photograph her doxies 1-yr-old Piper and 2-yr-old Maggie for the holidays.

SO cute. Piper is a very dainty doggie who doesn’t like spending a lot of time in the cool grass, so a wee little cushion was necessary. I think they look like calendar models in this shot! Weenie pin-ups!

Avert your eyes before the cuteness melts them!! Maggie giving Piper an affectionate nuzzle.

Silly-ears Maggie (L) and Little Miss Piper (R)

Maggie is such a diva. “I’m ready for my 8,000th close-up now!”

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Family Portrait Session

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:43:09 GMT

Ten-year-old Miles was determined to play it uber-cool. This kid should be a pre-teen catalog model, seriously.

Twelve-year-old Emily and fifteen-year-old Karina should also be models. Stunners, fo’ sho. Instead, they are all about volleyball and fashion, respectively.

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Wedding: Angie & Rob

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:32:20 GMT

Angie & Rob were married at the Vellano Country Club in Chino Hills. Matt and I were subbing for Happy Photos.

Are discarded hair extensions funny?

Angie’s facial features really reminded me of a young Goldie Hawn.

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Sunlight

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:42:54 GMT

“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.” (William Arthur Ward)

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Band promotional imagery

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:25:42 GMT

A promotional photo I took for the band Opus Dai is now being seen worldwide! …And by “worldwide,” I mean Japan (heh heh). The following is a promotional poster for the band’s Japan tour with my photo on the far right:

A pre-poster-ized version of the picture:

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Family Photos

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:26:01 GMT

Harvey & Harvey, father and son

This family is so fun it should be illegal.

Veronica & Jessica, mother and daughter

Jessica is a stellar professional makeup artist, but I think her secret to eternally youthful looks is how much she laughs.

See? Illegal.

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Indian Bridal

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:39:09 GMT

Many thanks to Jason Meyer for inviting me to help him photograph this brilliantly-colored wedding. Here are a few of my favorites from the bridal room prior to the ceremony:

Haha, the “modern bride.”

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OC Humane Society: October

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:58:00 GMT

The Orange County Humane Society is up to their ears in bunnies! I can personally testify that once you realize they are NOT like cats or dogs, rabbits make for excellent pets; they are quiet, low-maintenance (compared to a dog), and excellent for folks living in apartments or other small living quarters. Do your research, however—rabbits need space to run and rooms with open cables and wires need to be bunnyproofed!

The lonely Natasha

Harley, striking a pose

Mocha II

Candie’s eyes really are that pretty!

Mamacita is a shy lover of all humans.

Saturn

Dewey the doxie; boy, did he ever work it for the camera!

Tango

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Bring the Rain

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:05:16 GMT

It’s funny how us Southern Californians (who live in what is technically a desert) welcome the winter rain like how people everywhere else welcome the summer sun.

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Autumnal

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:57:00 GMT

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FULL removal of Carbonite from Mac (OSX 10.6)

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:12:29 GMT

Not that most of my regular readers care about this, but I figured out how to get rid of Carbonite completely from my computer…all by myself, I might add. Instead of signing up for posting privileges in forums I never frequent, I’m just going to post what I did here and with any luck someone searching the web for this solution will find it via Google.

So. Carbonite is still relatively new for Mac users and I downloaded the software for a trial run, and decided I didn’t want it. IF ONLY uninstalling it were as easy as right-click-delete like how it is for other apps.

After following Carbonite’s own instructions on uninstalling it, I saw that the icon was still appearing in my navigation bar, a dialogue box for the service still popped up when I tried to restart, and Carbonite’s data-daemons or whatever they were were still appearing in my activity monitor. SO annoying!

(The little “lock” icon is Carbonite’s)

After looking through forums that described solutions that didn’t apply to me (possibly because I’m running Snow Leopard which at the time of this writing is still pretty new), I went back to ActivityMonitor [Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor, and make sure "All Processes" is selected] and noticed that while some of the applications were running under my user name, others–including Carbonite’s shiz—were running under “root.” No wonder I couldn’t seem to get rid of it.

So I enabled the root user for my computer and logged in. Once in the root account, I went to my main hard drive (”Macintosh HD”) and looked into both the “System” and the “Library” folders. LO AND BEHOLD, despite zero traces of Carbonite in my regular user account, the program still had a full folder in the Library here in the root account! I threw it in the Trash, opened ActivityMonitor (again, I am in the root account) and quit the Daemons that were running. Once they were quit, I was able to empty the trash and that troublesome app is gone for good!

I should add that I am not a programmer or hacker. I merely have a spotty, Google-educated handle on all things programmerly and I’m probably not the best person to answer questions regarding anything besides what is exactly (and I mean EXACTLY) in this tutorial. Good luck!

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OC Humane Society: September

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:36:23 GMT

YES! Time for more furry faces from the OC Humane Society!

Mia has an adorable snaggletooth!

Tooti and her luminous eyes

The Humane Society has an unusual number of rabbits right now, likely due to bunnies bought as babies during the Easter season and promptly dumped during the summer as they grew bigger and their owners lost interest. Look at those curious ears!

Poor Chloe II hates living in a noisy, scary shelter!

The OC Humane Society staff tells me that sadly, cats and rabbits with black coats are generally not as popular as their lighter-colored cousins :\

Dylin’s picture makes me laugh. Sitting so pretty and so eager for a photo!

Costello the kitten

Pola and his heart-melting eyes

Sweet “Cherry”

“OJ” has the same markings as my cat. So pretty!

Hannah. Doesn’t she have a rockin’ hairdo?

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Andrea & Zach: Trash the Dress

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:23:07 GMT

Matt & I photographed Andrea & Zach’s wedding in April; when Andrea & I first began discussing her proposed trash-the-dress session, she initially requested that it include her new puppy, Sugar the papillion. The irony here is getting the dog washed means getting the dress dirty, OH YEAH!

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Andrea & Zach: Trash the Dress teaser

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:28:43 GMT

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Linda & Toneka of BWell Fitness

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:38:25 GMT

This week I had the pleasure of photographing fitness and nutrition experts Toneka and Linda of BWell Fitness. These ladies have summer bods year-round, and are brimming with pro advice on how to slim down and shape up without drastically altering your diet or lifestyle. While other personal trainers act as support for an hour or so while they work out with you, Linda and Toneka focus on how you can maintain a healthy body 24/7, regardless whether they are there or not, or whether you’re working out or just doing your normal thing!

The ever-cheery Linda

And the stunning Toneka

At Muscle Beach in Venice, CA

Toneka = skillz

What a couple of sweeties! Be sure to check out their blog for current and future contests and giveaways, particularly for brides looking to get in shape before their wedding day!

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16: Moments

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:05:11 GMT

Will Hoffman’s video “16: Moments” illustrates what attracts so many people to photography, I think. It’s absolutely beautiful:

I advise watching only if you can spare five minutes to watch uninterrupted.

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Breath of Elegance showcase

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:58:55 GMT

A special thanks to Nancy for inviting us to participate, it was fun (and yummy!)

Silvia Soler does her thang

Our booth

Mars Resendiz gets face time!

The best….my parking spot!!

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Luminaire Images is Five-Star!

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:25:44 GMT

Received yesterday from Joseph Wong, Margaret Wong, and Srinivas Panguluri, Founders of Project Wedding:

“Congratulations! You have received a perfect 5-star rating on Project Wedding! Your clients love the impeccable quality and service that you provide, and we are excited to award you with this elite distinction…testament to your talent and professionalism.”

See more reviews of Luminaire Images (Molly Ann) on Project Wedding.

My thanks to my client Chrys for her glowing review! Check out Chrys’ interior design company here!

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