Santa Barbara.

My hometown.  Born at St. Francis, which is now shut down, youngest of a family of eight, we were a large family of fish in a small town....Everyone knew one another.  Stores closed at 8pm and you played tennis in the street in front of your home,   Tomorrow, I go back to my hometown to shoot a wedding.  The actual ceremony will be at SBCC, where I attended college.  It perches above the Pacific Ocean.  Once, long ago,I remember walking back from an accounting class to where my car was parked.  Wondering in my head, why I was taking business classes when all I wanted to do was be a photographer?  I could see my shadow, falling on the soil ahead of me;  there was no pavement.  Could picture me photographing someone while they were walking and I was documenting.  Tomorrow, that image takes place.  Will be where I'm supposed to be, doing what I was meant to be doing.  Feeling overwhelms  me.  Will have to share this with the couple.  And be grateful that my business administration and marketing classes, that I took on that very soil, have actually taken me to that place where I WANT TO BE!!

2am on Sunday

Really is 2am on a Sunday.  Just shot wedding for Christine and Mark at The Secret Garden.  Soo beautiful!  Forgot to ask them if I could share their images or not, so, guess that will have to wait.  Also shot this week for Native Daughters of the Golden West.  Brought back memories from my growing up in Santa Barbara and Fiesta.   Started shooting seniors for 2011 at Visual Photography this week as well.  Went really well.  Glad people come to have that moment captured.  So much changes after high school!  For me, it was a good thing.  My mom got really sick and passed away, right after I graduated.  She wasn't able to attend my graduation from Bishop High in Santa Barbara, but I have recently discovered people on Facebook that went there and now we can just be ourselves and support each other, even if just over the internet.  Even, at 2am!!!