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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Taylor & Gavin

It was Taylor & Gavins day to get married on May 10th! What a beautiful day! We couldn't have asked for nicer weather! Brenda and I caught some very fun images, emotional moments with the family and some amazing images of the awesome couple!
I had such a wonderful time with you both, thank you for letting me capture your amazing day!
Enjoy the slideshow!
Your images will be online with pictage by friday!
leanne

Friday, May 02, 2008

Joanne & Matt

I just love them! I had such a fun time last night photographing their engagement session! They are so relaxed and so in love!
Enjoy this sneak peek of thier images..... the rest will be online at pictage on Monday!
leanne

Thursday, May 01, 2008

How long have you been photographing???

I get that a lot. A lot of my clients must think I am younger than I actually am (I used to think it was the other way, I looked and acted older than I was!) but I will take that as 30 something is not so young these days!
I picked up my first camera (a bell and howell 35 mm) in 1990. My dad bought it in vietnam in the 70's. I was stuck taking a photography class as an elective my freshman year in highschool. Come to find out, I really LOVED it! I so enjoyed taking the images, developing the film and then printing the B&W image.
2 short years later I was asked to exhibit my images at a photography exhibit at Ispo Facto in Fullerton Calif for a month with 2 other local photographers. What an amazing opportunity! In 1993 I sold my first images at the age of 17.
My mom came across this letter a few days ago that I wrote to them.... so appropriate as I am now working on my next project in photography. Its kinda a personal letter, so if you can get past all the sappy stuff, you will realize its a letter to my parents thanking them for their support at my first photography exhibit in 1993! (yes, my maiden name was Schwartzmeyer)
15 years later new adventures are on my horizon, that this was so perfect to read today!

And don't worry..... YAY for spell check, as I am a horrible speller and writer (still!) Ha! Thank goodness you don't have to be able to spell to be a successful photographer!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Your Carbon Footprint

Happy Earth Day!
Another year has gone by.... what are you doing to reduce your carbon footprint on our planet?
Since having children, we have focused a lot more on setting examples for them in reducing, reusing and recycling.
We do our best to by organic (my husband loves to shop at the local farmers market) and we grow our own garden each year with produce that we use a lot of. Zane is really into it this year, having fun planting seeds, watering them and watching them grow! Just last night we picked the first of our chives to use in our dinner! Zada just likes to play in the dirt and eat it.
We recycle everything that we can. We have a sperate container in our kitchen to place the recyclable items in it (AKA zada's other toy box) We have to be very careful since she is quick and loves to snag the plastic containers out of it and play with them.
Reuse... that is our weakness.... its hard to get into the mind set to reuse on the scale of buying second hand, passing things down, but we are getting better. When we do buy new its in our mind set to keep our purchase for many years verses repurchasing new furniture/ household items etc every year or two.
One of the biggest differences in our lives was the switch 3 years ago to all natural/ organic soaps. A HUGE difference in how our bodies feel. We are not infecting our bodies with chemicals to wash our bodies, hair or lotions to protect our skin from the Sun or moisturize it. We also use about 80% all natural cleaners on our home.
We are not perfect. Life with children and working full time is HARD and we do take easy ways outs. One regret I have is that we didn't attempt to cloth diaper any of our children and took the easy way out to diaper them.
What can you commit to this year to help reduce your carbon footprint on our beautiful planet???
The average footprint for people in United States is 20.4 tonnes.
The average for the industrial nations is about 11 tonnes.
The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 tonnes.
To combat climate change the worldwide average needs to reduce to 2 tonnes.
Mine was 14.093 tonnes
Take the online challenge here http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

Monday, April 21, 2008

The Boudoir Divas!

Take a peek at their blog to see some fun images from their presentation at www.cippa.org last monday!
I had fun posing for them, showing the crowd of 50+ photographers how to pose the "diva" way!
Marissa and Kimberlee are so much fun. They are full of life, inspiration and just love what they do! They are very passionate about celebrating woman and the message they bring to their business helps breaks down the expectations society has on what a woman should look like!
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to share your knowledge of Boudoir Photography with CIPPA members!
http://www.theboudoirdivas.blogspot.com/
www.theboudoirdivas.com