Thank you to Dylan and Mrs. Gail for coming out for a fun photo session with me for such a special milestone.

We had alot of fun and she wanted to do it at this gorgeous park, Jardim Botanico. We got to see the beautiful landscape while walking around through the session. 

Here are some of my favorites. Thank you Antonia! (Your CD will be mailed off soon!!)

Before we left to Rio, we bought a Lensbaby to take some photos over our vacation and for me to have for work as well. It was so much fun, and just a tad bit too addictive! We kept shooting with it the entire way to Rio, AND our entire afternoon that Saturday. It's a wonderful toy to play with but we knew we shouldn't leave it on for the whole week or every damn shot we took would be all crazy and make you guys vomit after just a few! 

We were way to trustworthy immediately taking so many photos - but we could feel tons of the locals really "watching" us - I figured it was because we were white, American, and all happy touristy..... and then a few people told us we should be careful with the camera which I figured was normal. Later that evening, I brought it to take photos of a street carnival that we attended and you could feel eyes burning into us! We then realized we couldn't have my fancy camera just hanging around and snapping away - so for the remainder of the week, we left it in our "bag" and used the tiny camera for most of the week! :-( We did take some snapshots, but not as much as we did with our smaller camera so this blog is the big "show" where we took alot with the fancy camera, and the lensbaby lens. 

These are from the airports to the first day being in Rio in the early evening. We have tons more of photos to show but that will come soon!

Enjoy :-) Thank you again to everyone who voted for me and made this wonderful trip possible! It was a nice vacation away from work (the last one I took was years ago if you say "no work, no emails, no nothing" to me). Purple, Thank you for covering this trip - it was wonderful!!!

It was so ironic because this restaurant's name was La Maison (it's right outside the hotel we stayed at, and we frequently ate there) and our home's name is Maison Looziana! Fate!

More to come! :-)

Check out Christine and Craig! Leave some comment love for them!

Thanks Christine & Craig!!!!!!!

They look so close knit and that's such an important thing for a family to be. Thanks y'all for having me do another session for you guys.

Leave some comment love for the Bourgeois gang!

Check out how amazing they came out. I loved the fact they thought to do some with his kayak in a pond - I think it's one of my favorite guy senior portraits done to date.

Thanks Taylor! Best of luck to whatever you do after high school.

These are only a few of my favorite shots!

Thank you once again for having me do these!

Groovy family. We did her family, Tony's (Melissa's bro) family, their parents, all the kids, and all the above! Tony has five kids and Melissa has one - they're all an adorable bunch as shown below in this entry!

Enjoy the photos, and leave some comment love for them to read!

Thanks to the Burton & Bourgeois family for having me do such special photos!

Enjoy these snapshots for now at least!

The two photos above were taken by our new friend, Pedro Bentes! 

Below, here's a snapshot I took of Jesus from Antonia's bathroom! I love this one.

More to come as soon as we can!

Thanks Margo!

I love the fact her "bloomer leggings" are out of whack above. Gives it personality!

I love how we got these captures! The weather was really overcast but that usually works for me because I have more control around the area.

I can't wait till their big day arrives in March - it'll be so wonderful photographing their wedding.