This stunning creature of a girl is a natural talent in front of the camera!

Sabrina was born to be a model, an actress, someone who needs to be on stage to show off her extraordinary comfort to perform.

At the same time it’s not really a performance since all of Sabrina’s looks, postures, and expressions are displayed with spontaneity and versatility. No trying. No effort. She’s that good!

Add her exuberance and vivaciousness to it, and she’s nothing but a pleasure to watch, to be with and most of all to photograph!

It’s almost all the time that I see my subjects’ personalities and characteristics during a shoot… It’s not very often though that I get to see a soul of a person coming right towards mine…

Nina’s love of math, playing the violin, her belief in religion, and that stunning, playful smile to save the world was all in one genuine package in front of me. What impressed me the most though was this particular word she used describing herself to me: humbled.

I’ve known for quite a while what it’s like to feel humbled all the time, but a seventeen year old?… It must take a very special upbringing to evolve into someone Nina is. A beautiful, sprouting young soul.

What a wonderfully unique look Bailey has! I immediately became intrigued when I saw her at our meeting location!

The shiny black hair with stylish bangs gives this adorable young lady even more character. Her smile and intensely big eyes with her entire world shining through them held my attention every time I’d look at her! It was a real treat to get to know such a fun girl, a dancer for many years.

I have to say though that what I admired about Bailey the most is that she talked her parents into joining us at the end to have me do a little family portrait session as well. And I’m so glad they got to be part of making the memories of their daughter’s senior year!

High school senior Caranina with beauty and grace that took my breath away throughout the portrait session. She was nervous at the beginning, but then she forgot about the jitters and just had fun. It was incredibly easy to capture her persona, adorable as a little girl, but at the same time feminine as a young woman. Smiley and bubbly, a joy to be around. I enjoyed watching her through my lens as we talked about things. I saw the 17 year old high school girl who loves to be with her friends, loves to be happy and has ambitious plans for college next year. Then at the end of the session when she changed into her ballet attire and laced on her pink shoes, a real ballerina appeared in front of me with focus and composure of her movements. It was beyond exciting to combine her wonderful presence with the equally wonderful grounds of Tallac Historic Site.

More coming soon on Michael’s portrait session to show off his wonderfully brilliant smiles and handsome features!

Karina, a high school senior traveled all the way to Lake Tahoe from Battle Mountain, NV to have her portraits done. We’re talking 400 plus miles.

So I went for the most variety I could get out of one little spot on the lake at Kiva beach. She had lots of ideas for poses and I enjoyed seeing that she knew exactly what she wanted. I definitely noticed some practice behind how she wanted to look! I always encourage that!

This was another fun shoot on the North Shore of the lake with plenty of energy flying about among adults and children equally.

The family portrait attire trend nowadays seems to be denim and white, which I love to see for the simplicity of it. It allows the moment an expressions to shine through…

Like this…

These group of children were the most engaging, vibrant, stunning proof of young and pure human life I have ever seen in front of my lens! It was a true joy to capture the fun time they had with each other.

These images needed no retouching, no special effects… They were perfect. Just like these beauties enjoying themselves. What a spectacle of colors! The colors of life…

Lisa needed photographs for casting and auditions. She is aspiring to be an actress… How wonderful! Something like this is the perfect kind of project for me and always exciting! I was looking forward to meeting a woman my age to see how I was going to be able to capture her persona best. I wanted to be able to take photos of her that would instantly give the impression of a talented artist.

I had a great time seeing how her personality unfolded in front of my lens and different expressions and languages of her body represented a beautiful woman I certainly would love to see on stage or on a movie screen!

Good luck Lisa, I hope these photos will help you get your foot through the door!

I could tell an hour before sunset that it was going to bring drama of light, colors of brilliance. So I grabbed my tripod and camera and headed down to the not just most convenient, but most impressive sunset spot on the lake, the beach at Edgewood.

I set up, focused, and the rest was easy – I snapped away. The stages of a sunset is always fascinating. It’s simply art the way the light changes from blue and yellow, bright glows to orange, red an pink soft radiance. I just sat there and watched in awe.

I love photographing people for the reaction and feedback, for the intensity… Nature can certainly offer the same only without words, only the soothing sound of the waves. Silence is good sometimes…