BIG NEWS!

We are so excited at SceneOne Photography because we have some major changes coming!

We have our WASHINGTON office up and running. Make sure you email us to set up your weddings for next year in beautiful Washington State! Remember, June goes quick!!!

We are now Pictage members, which has opened up a whole new world including P3. It is a service that provides you, as the client, with the option of a pre-arranged payment plan. So now that PERFECT album that was only a dream can now be a reality!

We have newly revised packages that offer more products and services. These range in price from $2000 to $5000. We have also added an A La Carte option for those who don't quite fit into our structured packages.

Our Website is about to undergo a major change, thanks to a new web design by BluDomain. The new look will be clean and will have some great new features, including galleries and passworded client access. This will also fix the issues we have had with the outgoing mail server. If you emailed the office in the last few months with no response, please re-submit your email and we will get back to you.

Our growing pains are not limited to the company. As many of you know, Paula (one of our photographers and my youngest daughter) has 2 little ones less that 2 years old. Next year we will be able to say she has 3 little ones less than 3 years old. Yes, she and my oldest daughter are both pregnant and due sometime in May next year. WOW! This will be quite a year for SceneOne and our family.

Megan!

We did some head shots for Megan today. She is a wonderful singer, learning to play the guitar and just having fun going to college. We had a lot of fun. I think the guy at the tractor shop thought we had lost it, but it made a great prop!

Christina and Jeremy

Hi, this is Paula :)

CONGRATULATIONS to Christina and Jeremy. We had so much fun shooting this one, the three of us all made an appearance and they had another photographer besides; it really felt like the paparazzi!

What a busy day with the trash the dress in the morning and the wedding immediately following. I got sun burnt and Pam tore her pants =:) At the end of the day we photographers have all kinds of interesting stories to tell, falling off stairs, cutting fingers, sun burns, black eyes, torn/stained clothes; we'll go through anything to get the shot. Afterall, bruises, cuts and burns heal, clothes can be washed and/or replaced, but the moments of that day can only be captured once (it also makes for great memories for us too).

So thank you, for allowing to make our own memories while we capture yours!

Newport Beach

My favorite photo from the TTD shoot in Newport!

Trash the Dress

What a trooper! Katherine Jones made a great model for our Trash the Dress fun in the sun in Newport Beach! We had a blast! I fell and tore my pants and had to shoot the remainder on the sand dune and wrap a sheet around myself to get back to the car! What a hoot! Great shoot and lots of great fun!

Desiree and Michael

What a nice couple from Fullerton Yorba Linda area. The wedding is the 29th of this month and we are looking forward to being a part of their special day.

Pictage Conference

Tomorrow is the Pictage Conference in Los Angeles. Our whole team is going and I am so excited to learn more. I am also anxious to get to know some of the photographers that I have communicated with on Open Source Photo and just to learn from the best! Friday we are doing a trash the dress shoot and a wedding. The editing time is going to be insane as we are still trying to complete the editing on last weekends shoots (engagement shoot and a wedding!). Fun to be busy and in demand!

Steven and Brittany's Wedding!

Saturday was a perfect day for a wedding in the high desert! But more than that, it was the perfect couple. I remember David Jay telling me that the secret to being a great photographer is beautiful brides. This was a special couple!

Go with your gut!!

This is Michael,

I was doing a shoot for a musician at a set of railroad tracks. After taking a bunch of pictures of him walking up and down the tracks, we began to load up to move to another location. I was waiting for him to put his guitar back in the case and put it in my trunk when it hit me!! "Wait" I said. "lay down on the tracks with your guitar.." He said "What". He thought I was nuts until he looked at the image in my camera.... His response? "That's tight" he said. Even if it sounds crazy, go for it!! You might get a very cool shot.

Steven and Brittany's Wedding Rehearsal

We shot Steven and Brittany's wedding rehearsal last night. The thing that I love most about shooting the rehearsal is the opportunity to get to know the family. What a wonderful family they have. Grandma is 90 years young and travels with grandpa (who is giving away the bride) in a motor home and have done this since the 1980's! The fun and the children multiply the joy in our line of work!

The Happiest Place On Earth!

Yes! DISNEYLAND! The happiest place on earth is made that way through great young people that suffer in hot costumes, in 110 degree weather, for minimum wage and can still smile like this!

Steven and Brittany's Wedding

My mind is on Steven and Brittany's wedding this weekend. I know it will be a beautiful wedding because they are such a good looking and sweet couple. We shot the engagement photo's at Spring Valley Lake and then spent a few minutes winding down at Starbucks (my favorite hang out!). Great couple and CONGRATS Steven and Brittany! Take some time this week to connect and reflect on what brought you to this coming weekend!

Life and Websites are FUNNY!

We had the funniest thing happen at SceneOne today! As most of you know, we have offices in California and in Washington. We have had a common goal of trying to get the website looking a bit cleaner, so today our financial advisor went online to try to make improvements. He would get something changed and when he refreshed the page, it had changed to something completely different! Every change he made showed up, but then disappeared! We definately had Internet Ghosts! It turns out that our Washington office was online trying to make changes at the same time! It was so funny! I hope none of you logged on during our overlapping web design craze! Keep watching the website for more subtle and not so subtle changes.

Yes! We still shoot portraits. We usually do on location environmental portraits, but this couple wanted studio shots. We used natural window light for these.

Brittany and Leo

Two Brittany's within a month of each other! I'm so glad the grooms had different names or I would have gone crazy! Brittany and Leo were married on July 28th and were immediately moved to Florida by the Navy. They had only two weeks to plan this wedding! It was a special treat that Brittany's Grandfather drove them to the reception in an unbelievable vintage car that he owns. That was quite a car!

Trying Again!

We have been very busy lately with engagement shoots mostly. I love to shoot engagement photos because there is always that element of WOW to a relationship that is about to take on a new dimension. Two people in love can make an ordinary day extraordinary! Congrats to Brittany and Steven and we look foward to shooting your wedding on the 8th! It's our next big event.

I am terrible at this blogging thing! So, I am going to try to enter a post every evening. We shall see if it works. I met a very nice family today and I think we will be shooting their wedding April 12, 2008. That will be my 33rd wedding aniversary! Wow!