Michelle & Phil Wedding Preview

My dear friends (whose engagement session is here) got married last Saturday at the beautiful Sunset Ranch, and I’m so excited about these photos that I started editing some while I sorted! I have 2076 total photos narrowed down to 750 at the moment, and here are a few samples!

SO much more to come soon…I’m excited!

PS. I’m a bit behind on blogging…currently have three weddings besides Phil & Michelle’s to get posted, including one of my photo partner Mike Carino and his bride, Jenna! I love photographing weddings, but I especially love being there for my friends on their special days!

Meet Zoe!

Meet Zoe, my two-and-a-half year old niece who I just met for the first time! She lives in Colorado with her mom, my cousin (but in Hawaii all small kids call the older relatives ‘Aunty’ and ‘Uncle’, so I’m calling Zoe my niece), but was visiting Hawaii accompanied by her grandmother, so I met up with them at Kapiolani Park for some fun photos.  Zoe is so talkative and full of energy, and doesn’t like posing for photos (though she loves taking them with her toy camera!), so I mostly let her run around and play while I snapped photos of her. Enjoy!

Natassia & Mark – May 28th, 2011

Natassia and Mark, from the previous engagement session post, had the most fun family and friends surrounding them for their wedding day.  Everyone was so full of energy and character, Ed and I had a blast taking photos of everyone! This post is a bit different from my usual traditional shots, because I wanted to share all the fun images of the people at this wedding, especially the bridal party.  From the church wedding to the bouquet and garter toss at the Halekulani Hotel, everyone was awesome in front of our cameras, and I loved it.  Hope you enjoy looking at these photos as much as we did taking them!

Natassia & Mark – Engagement Session

Now, this is a first. Same-day edit AND blog? Well, seeing how Natassia and Mark arrived in Hawaii yesterday, and are getting married this Saturday, I figured I’d expedite this session! We spent a fun, early morning on the North Shore shooting a casual engagement session, capping it off with shave ice from Matsumoto’s! (At 9:00am on a Thursday morning, there is absolutely NO line!)  Sharing shave ice was particularly significant, since these two run their own shave ice catering business in California, Mahalo-halo Shave Ice.  Natassia and Mark were such a cute, fun couple to hang out with, so I’m excited for their Saturday wedding.

Thanks goes out to Jonas for coming to be my backup right after work!

Michelle & Phil – Engagement Session

While my husband was deployed, his friend Phil, also a soldier and a fellow photographer, became one of my deployment buddies, since his lady, the lovely Michelle, was also deployed.  Remember those photos I took of Phil with Michelle’s daughter Aubrey?:) Now, everyone is happily back together, and before their July wedding, we decided to do an engagement session.  It was awesome to spend an afternoon hanging out with this fun couple, as well as Jonas, who played assistant for the day.  Thanks everyone for a great time!

I also wanted to say that I was really loving the grey skies we’ve been having here on Oahu. I know I’m usually all about the brilliantly blue skies and golden hour light, but there’s something so soft and appealing about the grey-weather days too. ♥