A mini studio set up at the Marriott, a couple of hours, and 21 women getting photographed just for the fun of it.

I have a special fondness for Jeff. He is a repeat client with a kind and beautiful soul, and we have common professional history that led us both to bloom a...

To say doing a photoshoot is out of my element is an understatement. I don't wear makeup. My hair is always in a ponytail. I basically l

I recently did a personal branding session for an industrious entrepreneur called Lukas Resheske who hired me to create a portfolio of images for his busines...

My mother-in-law turned 65 this summer, and we celebrated this lifetime milestone with an in-residence glamour shoot at her lovely home in Graz, Austria. Iri...

In hot pink and full of rambunctious energy, Mary W. is a fiesty, well-traveled, fun loving 80 years young with a heart of gold and an acute sense of humor. ...

I like to give my clients a lot of leeway in terms of what they consider beautiful and glamorous, or what aspect of themselves they wish to bring to their se...

This was my second year volunteering for Beauty Day at the LGBT Youth Center in Los Angeles. It is a celebration created to help make these young adults, man...

A client said to me once about his match.com profile, “Since one photo is worth a thousand words, imagine what 10 great shots of me can say?!" He was right, ...

Once the foray of corporate executives and CEOs, personal branding is now a de facto requirement for anyone seeking to establish themselves and their careers...

In my mid-twenties I remember walking between meetings at a trade show when a total stranger said to me as we crossed paths, "Hey girly! Lighten up!" I guess...

Headshots are the actor’s calling card. But what happens when yours gets lost in a sea of similar-looking types? Budding actors know that if you want to get ...

Father’s Day is in a couple of weeks and I thought I’d make the case for Dads deserving to be cherished and honored through visual keepsakes as much as the m...

After the flowers and cards have been gifted, and the soggy pancakes are half eaten, does your Mother’s Day end up feeling like most Sundays? The kids still ...

A portrait session is a form of pampering that is all about you. I don’t mean that in an egotistical, entitled way. I mean it in a self-loving way. You are i...

Perhaps it is because I am on the cusp of the big 4.0 myself, I find photographing women (and men) who have entered this decade of their lives, to be an invi...

I have three family photos displayed in my home. They are print outs that I've scanned from photographs my parents have managed to keep safe. One is a portra...

When photographers differentiate their work between portraits and headshots, we are drawing attention to two distinct styles of capturing a person's likeness...

When I was 27, my sister Pia - currently our in-house stylist extraordinaire - thought it would be fun and a boost to my self-esteem if we did a little photo...