Archive for the ‘Headshots’ Category

Have I told you recently how much I love my church? We feel so blessed to have found such an amazing home church and we are so thankful for our Pastors and staff. Thank you CCSC for entrusting me with your head shots for the new website.  If you are looking for a church, or just want to come and visit, we’d love to have you. Click here to check us out.

Rev. Harold Y. Kim-Lead Pastor

Rev. David H. Choe-Executive Pastor

David Ha-Worship Leader

JooWon Choi-Women’s Ministry Director

Lester Kim-Pastoral Intern

Prairie Park- Children’s Ministry Liaison

 

Michelle Mo-Office Administrator

 

Sun Hi Kim-Nursery Director

Christy, owner of Simply Audrey, contacted me to do another fashion shoot for her website. She wanted to do an urban chic shoot, set up on a roof top. Her brother-in-law lives in Brentwood and gave us permission to use his condo to get the girls ready and shoot up on top of the building. Unfortunately, after a very short amount of time, we were told to get off the roof. Sometimes when you are faced with challenges, and one overcomes and adapts, the greatest results are manifested. We moved into his super modern condo, where we began shooting. We pulled together, moved our stuff back into the condo, and finished up the shoot. He had this one empty room upstairs that ended up working like a studio, with the white walls. Thank you Ernesto for allowing us to use your space and being such an incredible host. Thank you to Beautiful Faces by Denise for helping us out once again and making the girls look amazing. Hailey and Tomi, you did an amazing job and looked stunning in all the looks. They are both dance teachers at Impact Dance Studios in Los Alamitos. Christy’s daughter has been attending their studio and she loves it. I’m excited to enroll my little one soon.

 

Mary and I have known each other now for 14 years. We met through our husbands many years ago. We’ve both seen our hobbies evolve into businesses, and have also watched our families grow. When we started talking about her amazing, custom, handmade beanies, and getting some pictures done I knew it would be a fun project. MairWear is Mary’s business, and her hand knitted beanies are amazing. I can’t wait for winter so I can wear mine and see my girls in them. We decided to run a contest and choose two families to wear these amazing creations. It’s a win, win. The families won pictures and they were able to pick out their favorite hat to wear.  Thank you everyone for being involved and making this happen. A special thanks to Brianne, with {Bre} Style who did all the set designs and displays for the hats. You were amazing!

 

 

Look at all these cute beanie clips, or could double as a hair clip. I love them. They come in small, medium and large.

Little boy hats. So cute!

I love the variety of men’s hats. They are so awesome.

Little girl hats. They are just perfect.

Here’s Brianne’s little girl. She has the perfect hair for hats, so I had to take a few pictures of her wearing them.

Our first family. I’ve known Suzanna since college. We met at school in Pennsylvania. They moved to California last year, and this is the first time we’ve seen each other since she moved. It was a pleasure shooting their family.

Here’s our second family. Mary and Krista went to college together too!

{Fashion} Simply Audrey

July 29, 2011

Christy, owner and creator of Simply Audrey contacted me about helping her with a shoot. She recently launched her on-line clothing boutique and wanted to use models for a lifestyle type shoot. It was so fun collaborating with her. Her clothes are so fun, chic, and fresh. I love the look and how wearable they all are. Denise, the make-up artist, did an amazing job on Hannah. It almost looked porcelain like, and she was able to see the clothes and pick the perfect colors to compliment each outfit. I can’t forget Hannah. She recently graduated from High School, and has never modeled before. We all thought she did so amazing. A special shout out to my assistant and friend for the shoot, Nicole. She helped me so much and I couldn’t have done it without her.

Styling and clothing provided by: Simply Audrey

Simply Audrey Blog

Make-up: Denise Van Arsdale

Model: Hannah

Denise, you did such a beautiful job on the make-up. That coral pink lipstick was the perfect color against the dark blue.

Contest Rules:
- You must be a family with two or more children.
- You and your family must be available the evening of Tues, August 9th for the photo shoot. You also must be willing to travel to Fullerton.
- You and your family must be willing to model MairWear Beanies, Hats, and Flowers for advertising purposes.
-Contest ends July 31st

What you get:
- A 1/2 hour photo shoot of your entire family complete with all digital pictures at a low-resolution (4×6 printing) on a disc. (valued at $300) + 8×10 of your choice. This includes styling for the family by http://www.brebuskey.blogspot.com/ and make-up for the Mama.
- A MairWear beanie hat for each member of your family plus 2 flower clips for each female in the family (valued at over $70).

To Enter the contest:
- Post the following to your status on Facebook, “Help me get a free photoshoot by Mia Marisa Photography and free MairWear Beanie Hats for my whole family! Click on the links and “like” both FB pages. Then leave a comment on their FB pages saying you nominate me! THANKS!”
Click here for fan pages:

Mia Marisa Photography Fan Page

MairWear Fan Page


Last year, a young man walked into my ESL classroom, quiet and sweet, and sat in the back. After weeks of teaching him, I slowly began to get to know him, his story and why he was living in the United States. Enrique is a young man with a heart of gold and wants to serve God through music and worship. He’s a very talented musician that plays guitar, sings and writes all of his own songs. I was so excited when he called me  to help him with his project, his very first album. It’s amazing to see how God has provided for him every step of the way. He’s moved in faith, and has seen the money come in that he has needed to produce his first album.  Please become his FAN on FACEBOOK and support this up and coming artist.

Congratulations Enrique! You deserve the best, and I wish you well on this new journey. God Bless You!

Click here to hear some of his tunes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It has been awhile since I had time to put a shoot together. The idea started when I was casually looking at InStyle magazine.  I saw a page that jumped out at me about fashion week and the 70′s inspired clothing. The day before the shoot the shutter on my 50D stopped working, so I had to rely on my trusty ole’ Rebel XT to do the trick. I’m thankful for back-up equipment, that’s for sure.

The stylist and make-up artist were so amazing. I loved the looks and how it all came together. The stylist came up with four different looks for the girls that blew me away.

Models:

Angel Farwell

Hawanatu Macauley

Stylist:

Kelsey Lovatto (She’s my best friend’s cousin and getting a double-major in Fashion Design and Merchandising.)

Make-up Artist:

Carla Hille

Photographers:

Me :) ~

Noah Ciccanti

Merissa Garcia

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I’ve been a busy girl launching a new brand, a new business and working alongside and partnering up with the awesome Mia Johnstone.  Yes, we have the same name, which is great, and we are moving all of our wedding business to our new joint venture,  (click here to see our new website) Sweet Mia Photography.

We decided to put together a bridal shoot with Mia J’s friend Molly and her husband of 5 years Aaron. They were so cute, in-love and great to photograph. We had the best time working together. Enjoy the photos and don’t forget to stop by our Fan Page and new website.  We’d love the support.

 

Imagine for a moment, that you move to a new country, forced to learn a new language, and instantly feel homesick, missing your family and friends.  For most of us, we’ve never experienced this, but for my ESL students, they’ve experienced this first hand. So, when they come to learn English for the first time in the United States, they often bond with their fellow classmates that are sharing in the same experience as themselves.

My two students, Liz (from Mexico) and Shilpi (from India), instantly bonded over this shared experience and loved getting to know each other and sharing their lives, culture and customs with one another.  They bonded quickly, finding many things in common, and both recently married.  Shilpi is getting ready to move back to India to finish  her PhD in mathematics, and these two are going to miss each other tremendously.  I brought my fellow photographer buddy with me Tiffany, from Ellie Photography. You’ll be able to check out her photos on her Facebook fan page here. We had so much fun and as you can tell it was hard for me to narrow down the photos. I loved so many of them.

Shilpi did the henna on herself and on Liz.  It looked amazing.

It was a cold, brisk, Sunday afternoon when I met up with my sweet co-worker Brenda and her family for their shoot.  Brenda asked me a few weeks ago if I would take some pictures of her family because they didn’t have any of them all together. I was so happy to do this for them. Her mother Ellie was excited to have her kids Brenda and Ron together, along with with Brenda’s fiancé Sean for some pictures.