Did a maternity session with my cousin Geraldine, her boyfriend Chris, his daughter Kayla and the dude in the belly Jordan. Since she's my cousin, I had to enforce the "no nudity allowed" clause. Special thanks to Wilma of Lovely Jubilee for styling the shoot and Eugenia of Petit Plume for the hair accessories.
Yup, this is him, cute ain't he?
I jokingly asked if I should write the blog post for our family photos as a "guest blogger" and Chaz responded with a sure, whatever. Ummmm, I think I was just kidding? But he must have known that I have no problem chatting away during any chance I get. So here I am. In Chaz' studio listening to cool music that I'm not hip enough to know about on my own surrounded by beautiful pieces of art while I try to find the words to explain how pleased, no, how thrilled I am with the result of these photos. *deep breath* Here's the short version of us, the Flores family...my older brother and his wife moved to Hawaii about a year and a half ago and had a baby. We are all completely in love with said baby and longed for their visit to San Diego this year. Perfect timing for updated family portraits to include baby Eliana since she wasn't around last year. We wanted the photos to be completely out of this world amazing so we can show Eliana when she's older that we were in fact, pretty cool at one point. We wanted to stay away from anything traditional. With lots of color. Lots of laughs. And as much realness as possible. Enter, Mr. Chaz Cruz.
Enjoy!
-M
Marissa writes too much. Enjoy. - Chaz
The next two shots are taken by my amazing assistant, Mr. Kim Marcelo.
I traveled up to Dana Point for a family session with amazing wedding photographer Ashley Rose, her husband Jeff and their little dude named Crew (oh what, J + Crew! Ashley doesn't work in this joke). We headed down to Salt Creek Beach and proceeded to get attacked by the sun, I think I did more crying than Crew did. But we had a blast and I am now witness to Crew's famous blank camera stare which I so happily captured. Enjoy some of my favorites from the day.
Before I get back into the mass engagement and wedding posts, I wanted to post a maternity session with one of my favorite wedding couples from last year, Katie and Nick. We started off their maternity session at their home, then went off to Torrey Pines State Beach to catch the San Diego sunset.
I'll be in Puerto Rico from May 5th through the 10th, so I'll return all emails and calls when I return. Until then, here's a pic of photographer James Law that I took a few days ago.
