Say "I love you", in your own special way...

Pet Portraits

I love photographing pets! I try to capture their personality and bring that out in the photos. I believe that pets are an important part of the family. We at times can have a pet that is with us for up to 20 years, experiencing life right along with us.

I took a series of portraits of this high school couple going to homecoming. They added the border.

A Pirate Homecoming

I attended the Graham High School's homecoming that was hosted on the Santa Maria. The dance was a costume party, so everyone enjoyed posing and "getting into character." Themed parties are a great time to have a photographer.

Me as a baby and my baby

It used to be that every two or so months you dressed up the baby and took them for a posed portrait at Olan Mills or another similar studio. I prefer to have important moments documented. I am lucky, as my partner and I are both photographers. These portraits mean so much more to me than a posed shot at Sears. I have a photo of my son an hour after he was born and I have his birth too...but I will spare you on that beauty. I have a photo of the very first time his brother held him, his first hair cut. I know you can't have a photographer for all of these events, but you can for your birth, first day of school, birthdays, graduations, family reunions, a visit with a grandparent, all of the moments that you cherish. When your children are grown, they can reflect back on that moment and it will be preserved forever. Posed portraits have their place, but there is so much more emotion in the day to day events that we all experience. I will always regret not having a photographer for my first two children's births.

Art in the garden

Portrait of Melissa Vogley-Woods with a group of teens and staff at The Weinland Park Community Garden, behind Godman Guild. What a great day and the photo brings it back!

A guest at a wedding