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Music Performance: Cameron Ruffin

February 12, 2012 4 Comments

I did an interview with Cameron a few weeks ago and noticed he didn’t have many live performances on his youtube channel. I emailed him and told him that we need to put a video together.
Here in San Bernardino, there are creative people but we lack a collective creative community. I enjoy seeing others going after their dreams and every so often we need a little bit of help to encourage us that we aren’t alone in the journey.
Now he has a video of him performing a song he can share with others.

I also took a few photo.

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Morning Shoot: Krista

February 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

Krista and I went out shooting this morning to a field that seemed to be owned by the local homeless men and their dogs. I changed up her outfit every few shots to bring out a different side of her personality.
Krista is a mother of three, a dance studio teacher and one of my greatest friends. She kept laughing at herself for “pretending to be model” but I kept reassuring her, she was doing a great job. Now she can add” blog star” to her resume.

Filed under Photography Tagged with 85mm, clothing, fasion, field, krista, magazine shots, monica briano, photography, photos, spring

Photos: David and Jacob

January 23, 2012 Leave a Comment

How boring life would be without these two boys in my life. My youngest nephew, Jacob turned a year old yesterday. To allow my sister to get ready for his party, David spent a night at our house. I somehow tricked him in to coming outside with me to do some photos. He decided he would give me a variety of expressions to choose from…which I loved.

David: 3 years old

Jacob: 1 year old

I can’t wait until Jacob learns to talk. I’m so curious to see what he will say. I can tell he is going to be the one observing everything. During his party he needed a nap but instead wanted to stay up to watch everyone.

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A List of my Favorite Things

November 28, 2011 3 Comments

Favorite Song: Fade Into You – Mazzy Star

Guy Friend: Daniel, my neighborhood, 1990

Type of Drink: Chai Tea

Time of Day: Sunset

City: Sydney, Australia

Bookstore: The Devonport Vintage Bookshop, New Zealand

Coffee Shop: Bauhaus Books and Coffee, Pine Street, Seattle

Fav Lens: 85mm

Movie: Splender in the Grass

Fav Movie Scene: Classroom

All time Album: Parachutes – Coldplay 2000

Fav Non-Date: Ridding bikes at night in Newport, Ca

My favorite Aussie: Nick Khoo

Book: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Message: “Your rejection is your direction” by Paul Scanion

Fav Photo shoot set: Miranda

Fav. Pastors: Pastors Jim & Deborah Cobrae

Holiday: 4th of July (United States Independence Day)

Fav music friend: Jonathon, 2009

Fav Cousin: Sonia, 1995

Fav Photo: My parents, 1976

Place to eat in LA: Molly’s Charbroiler, Vine St. (Closed down), 2011

Holiday Trip: Puerto Rico, 2009

My favorite blog post: “Monday”

Soundtrack: Friday Night Lights Movie Soundtrack

T.V. Show: The Wonder Years

Best Friend: Veronica, 1999

Fav. Date: “New Years Bash”, 2011

Traveling Friend: Anabel, Empire State Building, 2010

Thrift Store: Redlands Thrift, Alabama St. Redlands, Ca

Conversation: Mark Larratt, “The appearances of happiness”

Sister Trio: The Jimenez Girls

Time to go to church: Sunday evenings

Social Network: Twitter

Podcast: Back to Work

Favorite type of Journal: The Composition

Text message: Dad, “I forgot to tell you, I love you and you make me a proud dad, and I’m proud of all your achievements you made in your life. ” 9.08.11 9:48am

And those are a few of my favorite things..

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Children Photography: My Nephew

October 8, 2011 4 Comments

I’ve been taking photos of my nephew since the day he was born. He use to hate me chasing him around with my camera, but now that he is three, he has grown to enjoy being in front of the camera.

I have never done a proper photo shoot with David. To my surprise he let me take photos of him for a good twenty minutes. This is probably the one shoot I will save all the outtakes and raw images. Each photo he came out so darn cute… As you can tell, I’m a very proud aunt.