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Published in Bodas USA La Revista!

July 1, 2010

I remember my first day in Advanced Art Class in high school … the first thing the teacher wanted us to do is to stand up, introduce ourselves, and let everyone know where we were ‘displayed or showcased at’.  Yeah…. where our art was hanging!!! I sat there suddenly sweating up a storm… I was so confused, embarrassed, and stressed out all at once.  I didn’t know that ‘being displayed’ was a requirement!!! otherwise why would I have signed up!?!?!  I was so upset at that moment with my councelor… who insisted I would truly love that class.  So while these fabulous kids stood up and said what art galleries their works were being shown at … I sat there about to cry! I mean… insecurities and shyness have always been huge road blocks for me… but this was beyond just being shy! lol!  So here was my turn… “my name is Aurora, I love art, I love to draw, and my pieces can be seen at (insert my mom’s address here) hanging on most of her walls”!!!! That’s all I could think of!! lol!!!  I mean, they should consider themselves lucky that I didn’t say they were proudly being displayed on her fridge! HAHAHA!

Anyways… everyone got a big laugh… and moved on, but the rest of that semester I somehow felt not so great.  Everyone talked about being in this gallery or that gallery.  I couldn’t even figure out how the heck someone got into one of those local galleries. 

So now 13 years later … I want to stand up and say: ”Hi, my name is Aurora, I’m a photographer, and I’m published!!!”  LOL!!! Then in my little fantasy all of you stand up and cheer for me, even though it’s really not that biggie! haha!!

I feel so blessed and honored to be a part of the latest issue of the latest issues of Bodas USA Magazine!!! 

Thank you for publishing my article as well as some of my images!!! YAY!!!!  The article starts on page 31, and my images are on page 35  :-) >  Warning… the magazine is in Spanish, but trust me, the article isn’t half bad! lol! 

Snow Trash the Dress Wedding Photographer

This was one of the images featured in Bodas USA La Revista

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Alice in Wonderland inspired photo shoot – Murrieta photography

June 8, 2010

So every weekend I shoot my fabulous clients… we laugh, we have fun, and we create beautiful images together – and I LOVE it.   I shoot for them… to create capture beautiful memories for them.  I know that my images will forever be a part of their lives – and that is an incredible and amazing thing!  But you know… I love love love to shoot just for me every once in a while too :-) .  To shoot just for the creativity… just to see where an image might take me… to see things from a different perspective.  It’s great to shoot without having to think… lol! 

Last month I was honored to be a part of a fantabulous Alice in Wonderland inspired photoshoot that my great friend Elizabeth Luna organized  (yes…fantabulous is what the cool kids are saying these days… lol!). I met some amazing photographers, beautiful models, and best of all I had a fabulous time – what more could one ask for!!  Thank you everyone for making the day so fantastic, so fabulous, and so much fun!!!

Organized and Lead: Elizabeth Luna
Event Design, Coordination and Florals – Amador Events
Linens – BBJlinen.com
Rentals – persianoevents.com
Stationary Design – Lou Liebau + lou@scratchandsniff.com
Make Up Artist: Crystal Roberts
Hair Stylist: Jessica Hale
Hair accessories: Rachel Larraine
Gowns: Elyse Reuben
Guest Speaker: Ming Chien (Off Camera Lighting)
Thank you to all the awesome Leaders!
Harmony Ayala Ruiz
Rita Clifton
Duc Duong
Alicia Salcedo

I had the hardest time picking images to post… so this will be long – but if you’ve visited my blog before you know I always post tons of images – I just can’t bring myself to pick only a few pictures… lol!

Alice in wonderland photo shoot Murrieta photographer

Murrieta Wedding Photographer

Southern California Wedding Photographer

Destination Wedding Photographer

High Fashion Wedding Photographer

Temecula Wedding Photographer

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Destination Wedding Photographer

Southern California Wedding Photographer

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Designer Shades….

May 17, 2010

So this past week I was completely swamped and overwhelmed with work (that’s the last time I overbook myself in one month alone! LOL!)… I had a Sassy budoir session, a super cute engagement session, and 2 weddings (yes. two weddings!), and an amazing Alice in wonderland themed photoshoot –  all in a 2-week time period.  I know.  what was I thinking?!?  So needless to say I’ve had a ton of images to process in one week! haha!  So… after a whole week of no sleeping, I finally finished! YAY!!!!!!  let’s all do a happy dance together! 

so in the next few days I’ll be sharing some great images with you… but in the mean time – I have had this song stuck in my head for like 2 weeks straight!  No joke!  I wake up signing it and all day long it plays in my head. now let’s all do a happy dance and sing together!! LOL! 

Mike Posner – Cooler Than Me -

you got designer shades,
just to hide your face and
you wear them around like,
you’re cooler than me.
and you never say hey,
or remember my name.
its probably cuz, you think you’re cooler than me.

And here’s my little guy strutting his stuff beeing ‘cooler than me’ …

Destination Wedding Photographer

Califonia Wedding Photographer

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Oh So Fab new photo packaging!!!

February 24, 2010

Today was like Christmas in February again… I got a much expected visit from the oh so fab Lisa (my FedEx delivery gal).  I received the last item that I needed to finally complete my new 2010 photo presentation!! YAY!!! I had never been so happy to receive a box of tissue… Let’s all do a happy dance together ;-) .  Speaking of happy dances, Jovanni (my 2 year old son) loves it when mommy does her happy dances, he even joins me – we’re quite a sight!! LOL!

As I mentioned in a previous post, my photo presentation/packaging had always been basic black boxes with black tissue.  Now that I am working on re-vamping the studio ‘look’, I also decided ro re-vamp my packing.  It’s very simple and elegant, I think…  but I think it really suits my look of modern romance. 

You can see here my new CD sleeves along with the cute little stickers that I designed!  Oh so Fab!! LOL!

New Studio Packaging for portrait and wedding photography prints

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So psyched with new toys!!! – buttery goodnes!

February 22, 2010

Friday felt just like Christmas to me…. I came home to find a bunch of neatly arranged boxes outside my front door! (you gotta admit we all love to get visits from UPS or FedEx … even if they were all things that we purchased ourselves, so technically they are not ‘gifts’… but it’s awesome to finally receive what you ordered online!).  Have you ever waited for something so anxiously that once the delivery guy/gal comes by to drop it off, you just want to jump up and down, give them a big hug, a big kiss, and a big cookie!!! That was me on Friday :-)

Well… among the packages that were delivered to my front door on Friday, was my bran-spankn’ new totally fab new lens: the Canon 50mm 1.2!!!! This deserved a happy dance with an extra dose of happy!!!! LOL!!!!  I have been soooo excited about this lens… I couldn’t wait to see the buttery goodness that makes this lens ‘oh so absolutely fab’ -  and to make things even more fun, I got it just in time for my Saturday wedding! 

So I know I don’t usually post sneak-peaks… but why not start now? Right? So here’s a little sneak peak of the buttery goodness that IS the 50 1.2! J

This lens definitely deserves a ‘woop-wooop… OH SO FAB!!!’

Jill… your wedding rocked, and you looked amazing (wind and all!!! LOL!!!).  I’ll make sure to blog the rest of the wedding in a few weeks too. (check out that buttery background…. LOVE my new lens!!!)

Desert Princess Palm Springs Wedding

Jill looked absolutely fab even though the winds were insane!!

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Fab new CD sleeves… Megasmiles CD Sleeves- oh so fab!!!

February 20, 2010

Yippeee… I’m about to make my first woop-woop Oh So Fab post… yay!!!! (doing a happy dance for myself now!! hey… If I don’t cheer myself on, who will?!?! :-) )

For the past few months I have been revamping my entire studio presentation … basically to make everything ‘puuuurrrrty’ for my clients J.  My presentation for the past 5 years has been elegant black boxes, black tissue, and black CD sleeves… which I still think is a very elegant look – but a little too basic for my taste I think (and definitely NOT a reflection of my personality AT ALL!!! LOL!!!)

I really want my clients to know how important they are to me, and I always believe that cute little special touches are really what it’s always about. I mean… don’t you always love receiving a little gift in a cute little box!?! Opening up the box is half the experience… right?!?!

So now that I revamped my site with some new, more elegant and rich color combos, (the browns, mochas, lattes, and pinks) – I thought I would try to find some nice CD sleeves.  I needed something creative and artsy… so I knew Etsy was the place to go (gotta LOVE LOVE LOVE etsy!!!). 

I was so excited to have found Meg from Megasmiles!!! She rocks!!!!   

Check out my super elegant and chocolaty-rich CD sleeves that she made for me!!! I almost did a cartwheel when I opened up her package this week!!! (of course, then I remembered I’m totally uncoordinated and would definitely break something… my back at the very least… if I actually did a cartwheel!! LOL!!! So I just jumped up and down instead!! Haha!)

Love ya’ Megasmiles!!!

New CD Sleeves

New CD Sleeves for my awesome clients!!!

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Woop-woop – oh so fab!

February 17, 2010

So while washing the dishes yesterday (which is, I have to say, one of the most annoying house-keeping tasks!!!). I was thinking about some cool new products that I want to introduce to my clients this coming year.  Now before I go any further, I know some of you are thinking who the heck ‘washes dishes’ anymore. I know… I know.  I did not grow up with dish-washers… my mom always made us wash the dishes, and to this day I just don’t feel comfortable with dish washers… how do I know they scrub as well as I do?!?!  So my dish washer is just another storage compartment in my kitchen! – and a very expensive one at that!!! LOL!

So back to my dish-washing moments of deep thought (some of my best ideas come to me as I wash dishes! Haha!)… I decided to do introduce a brand new category to my blog – it will be called “Woop-woop!!!! Oh so fab!”.  Yes… I tried way too hard to think of that name!! You don’t even want to know how long it took me to figure out how to spell that… seriously! I mean I sat there telling my husband and doing the hand motion with it… I kept telling him “I’m going to call it woop woop pages (insert dorky upward hand motioning here!)” – which only made him roll his eyes while telling me I’m a nerd! Haha!  I had to look up the ‘correct’ spelling of woop-woop on UrbanDictionary.com – I kept wanting to add an ‘h’ somewhere in there.  See – I’m a total dork and nerd… who else obsesses with the correct spelling of ‘woop woop’?!?!? 

So… this new category will be for me to add any reviews or introduce fabulous new products and to review cool new things that I tried out. I was thinking of keeping it strictly photo related.. but then I thought what the heck… if I’m opening up my blog to introduce my world, then it can be about anything.  So I’ll talk about the album companies I use, new profession photo products that I’m introducing, a cool new lens I tried out, and even what new eyeshadow I’m diggin that week!! LOL!

I’ll have no excuse not to write about something… at least that’s what I’m hoping!

Now I just have to think about what to write about first!!! Haha!

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