Events are us! All over the place
This has been a really crazy month since we got back from Washington DC!I have been shooting quite a bit this month for the community. i am a big believer in giving back to our community. I shot a bunch of ribbon cuttings for the Woodland Hills Tarzana Chamber of Commerce and their Wine Event and luncheon. One of the ribbon cutting events was for me - a Mix and Mingle with Champagne and Nibbles from my neighbor - Nicola's Kitchen. Since we were in the French Quarter - I thought we should not take ourselves too seriously and as they saw in Nawlin's "Let the Good Times Roll" - so we had Mardi Gras Beads and Feather Boas to go with the Champagne and Smiles!

It's in the blood
Well, we've arrived in Washington D.C to celebrate my husband's birthday. He hadn't been here since he was 7 or so and I thought it'd be a great surprise to bring him here. I love this city - vibrant and alive and filled with history. Being here, no matter your political affilliation just makes you proud to be here and be an American.I have been here on business twice before and both times it was part of my duty as President of The Ventura County Chapter of The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).  As President, I was invited to participate in discussions on Small Business issues with Pres. Bush's advisors at the SBA and we were invited to The White House.

The Race for The Cure
Well, not really the race for the cure but my mind has been racing all day with ideas for all kinds of things. I guess I am on a bit of a roll.I got an invitation from The John Wayne Cancer Center's Annual Membership Luncheon at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel. I donated a session and framed image to them last year for the fund raising effort and I was very happy with the amount of money that was raised for my effort. So my thoughts were, well - that was only one session. Maybe there is a way I could donate a day for more sessions when someone had a link to http://www.imagesforacure.com/ - exactly what I was thinking.So, wh

Kinds of Photography! Headshots, Portraits, Commercial Use, Personal Use!
True or False?If you hire a photographer to a photograph your wedding, you order a disk of images and make prints for your bridesmaids and parentsIf you come to the studio to make a portrait, you can use it for your website for your small business.If you do headshots, you can print them up and frame them for your honey's deskIf we do a commercial shoot for your brochures, you can print images for your office and the one of you can be displayed at home.If you buy a print from your photographer, you can scan it and make prints or put it on Face-bookNo! The answer to all of these is generally no.  In the days of film, you went to have photog

In my heart and mind
I hate it when I take time off to play...and every where I look I see a photograph in my mind's eye. And I have no camera to record the scene or moment.This weekend was Labor day. We had plans to visit with Dorene and Barry - our good friends, who have a little spot to spend weekends in Santa Barbara. So yesterday we went up to hang out, play bridge (we met them in a bridge class on a cruise and play cards with them and take lessons regularly!). We walked the art show, had lunch on State Street at Holdren's who has a great menu with lots of good choices, we relaxed and walked a few miles of Cabrillo Blvd. which lines the beachfront. I also made a trek to Samy's Camera and bought