Red Shoe Party

Had such a great time with the RED SHOE Party (basically everyone wears red shoes). Meggie had amazing MARK demos and the ladies wore fabulous RED SHOES! Can't wait for another party!!!

The jewelry had a lot of POZZAZ! 

Perfumes smelled so good!

You can NEVER have enough lip glosses!

I'm glad my minature shoe collection was put to good use.

The goody bags were filled with awesome samples and a 

wonderful Red Shoe Chocolate from Coco Andre's

Never quite a party without an "incident" lol

Nay you are so red faced! lol!

Let the games begin!

Old School Heel Walking! With a book on your head!

and last but not least our PHOTO SHOOT! Needless to say some ladies did not participate!

All in All it was a SUPER success (;

Colombia Trip

Photography is so important to me because it documents places, people, and time. Every time I travel anywhere I take pictures of what I see, of my surroundings. I'm also like any other mother, I take the billionth picture of my children doing some wacky but it is all important because it is full of memories when you look back at them. No matter what quality camera you have, always try to take them best pictures around you wherever you go. I'm not talking about the self portraits either, (lol) but of something that catches your eye. You'll always have a memory attached to it whenever you look back at it. 

 I love horses, I think they are so beautiful and majestic and this horse was stunning. He had these eerie blue eyes that I've never seen on a horse before.

 I like that in this picture the dog looks like it is bowing down to the horse. I think really he was teasing him.

 This is a restaurant that is directly in front of my parents home (they have really good menudo) and while I was sitting on my parents porch, the sky along with the lit house looked so cool. You never know when an opportunity to take a picture presents itself. 

 This big guy was the daddy horse of all the wild horses around the whole town. That's pretty much how close I was able to get to him before being stared down...

 So I had been taking quite a bit of photos of these wild horses around my parents property and none of the horses seemed to want me there but this one horse came all the way up to me and allowed me to pet her for a while. I think she wanted a close up :-)

 Leave it to my Joey to find something funny to do with some seeds that grew on a tree in my parents yard. 

 I just love the funny stares I got with my camera. This is the same girl that would eventually come towards me.

 These little guys were so cute, they would follow each other everywhere.

 All over the town are all these Revolutionary ruins, I love the structure of them.

 This is in the Central Plaza of the town. 

 This is the goat slaughter house :-(

 Who needs video games, TV, or even dolls when you have a stick and some rope. Love my Sophia's inventions.

 Here is Daddy and Selah watching Sophia play.

 Daddy and Selah after a nap

 Goats having a feast on some nopales.

I like that the line on the street points to the little boy walking.

Every 11th

Babies are the most fun to shoot. They are energetic and have their own unique quality, but as anyone who has photographed babies will tell you, they are very UNPREDICTABLE. Selah gets her picture taken every 11th day of every month. She was born on 9/11 and from then on I document her month to month. Of course, there's a ton a pictures in between. With babies you have to come in real close to really get that special shot. I now focus a lot on the eyes and on her expressions. It also helps that Selah loves to get her picture taken. My friends baby, Scarlett was also born on an 11th day so she gets her picture taken too. It's a wonderful tradition we've started and a lot of fun for us as moms as well. We pick out their special photo shoot clothes and already have planned something spectacular for February. Come back and check them out.

One Photoshoot, many different options in Photographs

 Digital photographs have a catch 22 with me, I love being able to see the image right away to make sure I took the shot I wanted to make, being able to edit photographs to meet the uniqueness of each person but film is in my heart. However, I gotta get with the times and the times call for instant gratification. One can now have a photo shoot, upload the images, make edits and have dinner all in one day. As was the case for this photo shoot. I wanted to show the different images that can be created from one photo shoot. So yes I have to pay my respects to the digital world and I am grateful for it. Pay close attention to the detail of every photograph, there is something different in each one.

New Year 2012

As I'm writing this I'm finishing up "thinking" of my new years resolutions. One of them is definitely documenting through photographs the lives of my children. I know most might think that I already do, being a photographer, but I also fall prey to the busyness of life. This year though, I want to resolve to take more "just because" photos. How many of us have taken that dreaded Olan Mills photo where everyone looks so stiff and "positioned"? And now especially with anyone being able to search YouTube for tutorials, you find more and more super impose backgrounds on pictures and calling it a "professional photograph". I'm guilty of it myself. I'm sure I can dig up the dozen photos I have of my son during his first year of life through studio photos. But I've discovered over the years that children look their best when they just being themselves. That's not to say they can't look polished every now and then on special occasions but I promise you, you'll have better memories of the photographs taken when they were in a more natural setting. This brings me to remember a time when a photographer came to take our family picture. We lived in this small apt and my mom dressed us up and this photographer set up, put up his background, set his lights and positioned us all. Right at the precise moment of the click, my youngest sister decides to throw an epic tantrum, to which we have documented photographs to prove. It was terrible! With all that said, here's a photograph of my children on New Years Day. We just came home from spending the night at my friend's house and I thought that before they got out of their outfits, I wanted my very first photograph of 2012 to be of my most important people. My children. 

not perfect, obviously I wish Selah's hair band was not sticking her ears out but this is the way that they posed. I love the spontaneity. Enjoy your family's photographs, don't expect perfect because at the end of it who's standard are we measuring up to? That's what this photographer is all about. 

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