Lucky me…since day one, I’ve watched this fabulous young miss pass by my house multiple times a day during her neighborhood strolls {parental attempts at getting her to sleep…shhhh, don’t tell her}.  With enough personality and sass and sweet cheeks to match, she’ll have no problem running the world someday.

For now, she’s honing her skills on her folks…and neighbors.

A few months back, in the depths of Oregon winter, I had the absolute luxury of photographing for West Coast Athletic Club in Santa Barbara, CA for their latest branding + ad campaign highlighting their remodeled Santa Barbara Athletic Club.  With a fabulous crew in tow, we spent a day shooting around iconic Santa Barbara locations to create images that will be featured in print as well as in the gym itself.  Below is one of their preliminary ads as well as a few outtakes.

Thanks to the amazing team from WCAC, Krista Treide of Made For Good, Sports Unlimited, and the game-for-anything talent for helping to pull this spectacular day together.

I took a walk with a boy, his dog, and a super fairy girl.

How do you define a family?  Let me photograph the ways…. {and then I’m going to see about getting myself adopted into their fabulous little clan}.

What has become now my earmark for the coming of summer, on a painfully beautiful day last weekend, I photographed once again for the annual Oregon Humane Society Doggie Dash.  Though my task at hand was to focus on capturing the businesses and sponsors that come out to support this amazing event, I couldn’t NOT allow myself to document participants of both the 2-legged and 4-legged variety, who did not disappoint in keeping me well entertained and inspired by their stories.

And no small feat in this browbeaten economy, OHS surpassed their fundraising goal and brought in a total of $394,274!

As they do at OHS, so shall I sign off with…. For The Animals.

Oh…did I mention the *free* mimosas?!Pulling out all the stops for fundraising efforts.“You tell anyone you saw me in this getup, and so help me dog….”