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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Ivana Chubbuck- Magazine

I was asked to photograph Ivana Chubbuck, for the newspaper I work for, and so I got to her studio in Hollywood and met with  Ivana, who is sweet, funny and a totally willing participator in the photoshoot…Ivana was thanked by Halle Berry at the Oscars (at minute 4:11 but totally worth watching the full…

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D is for Daddy

and for Derek and for Drake. It was very confusing to photograph Derek and Drake and I kept using my sweet nice tone for Derek, instead of Drake and and vice versa, so Derek is the Dad and Drake is the not dad (the kid) and the entire family has the most amazing blue eyes you’ve ever seen,…

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Class photo

I have 2 kids, and in all their years (ok, they’ve only been to preschool ) I have managed to avoid the dreaded class picture, which it doesn’t matter what year they were taken, always look from 1983 ( it used to look like the 60s, but since it’s in color now,  it’s 80′s) I…

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Studio

so we set up a studio at a friend’s party and got some studio shots, instead of the “tilt the heads together and pretend like we’re having a really good time and want to bury these photos at the bottom of our old shoebox” I thought we’d try the ” look straight ahead, give me…

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Saturday Morning

in the beginning of 2008, my husband and I realized that it had been YEARS since  either of us had gotten to sleep in. Since there are two days in the weekend, we decided to split them, so that I get to sleep in on Saturdays, and he, on Sundays. Very quickly, not surprisingly, Saturday…

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