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! 

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

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!

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’ …

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!

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!!!)

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

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 for my awesome clients!!!

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!