Confessions of a Crazy Chick | {Personal}

Ok, so I have been thinking about this a lot lately...
Who am I?
Why do I not feel like myself?
Do you ever feel like that?
The past few years or so I have gone through so many changes in life (marriage, motherhood, surgeries, entrepreneurship) and been a on journey of self development and some serious soul searching.  If you read my blog, you probably have seen me posting about this self discovery here and there.

During all the changes of life and the developing of my business I think I lost some of the real me, the fun me.  I feel like I always have to put on my game face when I meet with my clients and other professionals in this industry.  We all do it to some extent because we want to be professional.  But this professional side of me really can spill over into your personal life and it has in mine.
I feel because of this I have become TOO serious and I'm not laughing as much as I used to.
Don't get me wrong I LOVE what I do!
It's not the what I do that makes me feel like this, it's the fact much of the time I have a personal issue of not being able to turn off my professionalism and seriousness when it comes to my personal life.
Well I have to just put it out there...
I can't do it anymore!  I need to be just me!
I'm the crazy chick who laughs at farts, who dances around the house, who says silly and ridiculous stuff, who knows way too much pop culture and who laughs at my own jokes uncontrollably!
I'm that CRAZY CHICK in the car next to ROCK'n OUT to heavy metal or some Billy Idol!
I actually luv to drive as long as I'm rock'n it out... if I'm not then I have road rage.
I like to live loud and large!
So I'm back and I can no longer put on my game face of just being a boring professional.
I'm that CRAZY CHICK
and I want to laugh and live life LOUD!
Rock ON!

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Mauga Family Vacations | PASS Gallery Created by David Jay | Lifestyle Photography

I have had some family travels and I can never find the time to blog about it.  Of course my clients' posts end up being my priority and when it comes to my personal life and travels, the memories captured become so hard to weed through and pic my faves because every moment is a fave!

If you follow me and have seen all the changes to my website this year it is because of ShowIt sites that I now have CUSTOM website which I love! Now David Jay and his team have created something else that delivers customization and ease of use for me and my clients: PASS! With PASS, I can share a gallery my images all to my family, my friends, even facebook!

What is PASS?  Well it's like a Cloud of your pics in webspace you can access and share; it seems to be the wave of our future when it comes to sharing images with family, friends and even with clients!  Yes this is now an option to my clients instead of a DVD (you can the DVD too if you wish) you can have a PASS gallery where you can download images from the web, "pass" to your family and friends and post to facebook without uploading each individual image to facebook.  Another fab thing about PASS, it let's us OWN our images and NOT facebook!  Yes did you know that when you upload directly onto facebook they own the image now and can do whatever thy wish with it!?  As a professional photographer that really URKES me!  

Thank you David Jay and ShowIt Studs for creating such a fabulous gallery for me to share and PASS to my loved ones and my clients!

So check out my personal PASS gallery and see what is in your future!

Click on an image or link as well to see in a larger view and to play them.

Check out the latest page I just posted using Showit: Light Gallery

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Wedding Nouveau Feature | Eco-Hippy Chic featured AGAIN! | Long Beach Wedding Photography

I truly LOVE what I do!  I am so thankful for all the support in this industry and the ability to work with amazing vendors and amazing couples! It's been an exciting time lately.  For the 100th time I have to say how much I love 2011!
Our Eco-Hippy Chic Elopement was just featured again!  Wedding Nouveau came to us and asked if they could feature it even though it was already published and of course would give credit to the original publisher Eco-Beautiful Magazine.  I  was more than honored to have them approach me now for 2nd time to feature one my photo sessions.
Wedding Nouveau focuses and features intercultural brides and weddings; what a fabulous concept!  There are so many resources for couples now available on the web!  I find myself being addicted the e-Zines and wed-blogs (wishing these had been available when I was planning my wedding 10 years ago).
Couples take heed to these fabulous wedding resources; the editor, writers and founders KNOW what's up and have such a keen sense & knowledge for style, decor, planning and resources!
Fri thank you for featuring us on your site and congratulations on your new print publication of  Wedding Nouveau; you are absolutely amazing!



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Stephanie & David {Married} | Malibu West Beach Club | Malibu Wedding Photographer

This was one of two weddings I shot in the same week with Ian Andrew back in May.  If you read the 1st post re: shooting 2 in a row, you know I have know intention doing it again.

But I have to say despite the numbness in my mind this day, it turned out to be an amazing wedding.  How could it not when you are shooting at the Malibu West Beach Club?!
This venue is simply sweet with an amazing view that keeps everyone in a zen moment!

The day started of splendidly with a fabulous gown and ring to shoot!

The men of course are always so much fun to shoot.  Grooms and their groomsmen are seriously giddy!  Brides sometimes comes across surprisingly calm and I think it's their nerves that quites there true excitement, while the men always seem to be laughing from their nerves.

David and his groomsmen of course did not fail me when it came to enjoying every moment!

When we had arrived to the venue, I entered just before Stephanie was about to dress.  She was glowing; she has that soft ivory skin that just perfected her bride-to-be look.

I had not met David and Stephanie together yet but once she walked down the aisle, I could see their love for each other by they looked so lovingly into each other's eyes.

The whole day and evening, David was more than enamored by his bride.  You could tell this day was one of true love and bright future!
Congrats to you both!
Cheers!























Venue: Malibu West Beach Club
Event Specialist/ Planning: Hustle & Bustle
DJ: Music to Go Entertaiment
Catering: Monrose Catering
Cake: Porto's Bakery
Floral Design: The Flower Lab
Lighting: CFS Design

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Some Fave Shots from Eco-Hippy Chic Elopement | Published in Eco-Beautiful Magazine | Long Beach Editorial Wedding Photography

After waiting for 9 mos to have reveal this styled shoot we composed as a "collective" it was finally published in Eco-Beautiful Magazine.  The whole magazine wow'ed me!  I was so thankful to see we got 2 full spread!  I luv it!  The funny thing is those 2 spreads still can't amount to the work we put into this shoot because we truly laid it out like a real wedding (shooting all the scenes amounting up 8 hours!).

So though it's already out there and in print and viral, I have to share more of the day and some of my faves!

Just below is our inspiration board we send to publishers to look over to consider us for publishing.  It takes just these few photos to hopefully grab the interest of a publisher and then it goes to review from there if it's up for consideration.

The wait can be long to get the final product but really it is so worth it!  

I submit 95% of my submissions through Two Bright Lights and they have been a HUGE channel to get my work featured and published!

The rest of the shots are just a FEW of my faves!  I had way too many faves because I worked with such a fabulous team who went above and beyond my expectations.  Because there were to many great moments I created a feature site just for this shoot to share the whole story!

So visit http://ecohippychic.krashingmotions.info

to view the storyline of the images, the process of how this shoot came about plus links to ALL the fabulous vendors who took part in this!

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