Chris and Katie Humphreys

1st Place WPJA

Katie and I are totally humbled and honored to have placed 1st place in the most recent WPJA (Wedding Photojournalist Association) contest for Ceremony images!

Not only did we place first in that contest, but we also placed 10th and 11th for Creative Portrait contest!

Thanks so much Mike and Janelle (top image), as well as Nicole and Lee (second image) and Chris and Vanessa (final image) for allowing us to play a role in capturing their days and giving us the creative freedom to create these images! 

Livebooks Webinar

Photographers, mark your calendars for Tuesday April 21st.  Katie and I will be doing a webinar on our topic of Everything Watched Improves.  It's totally free, but you have to register in advance. 

The webinar is graciously being hosted by Livebooks who did our site. 

Look forward to seeing you there!

Denise and Ray

We are always honored when our clients refer us to their close friends and so we were thrilled when Denise and Ray contacted us and told us that they were referred to us by their friends Jesse and Christina.  Since we did Jesse and Christina's engagement pictures downtown and at the at beach, we decided we wanted to give Denise and Ray a completely different experience!  We took them up to Knapps Castle in the mountains above Santa Barbara and just loved shooting at the gorgeous site up there!  We've had friends telling us about Knapps Castle (basicaly the ruins of an old mansion built in the early 1900s) for a little while now but Katie and I just discovered it for ourselves a month or so ago and decided it would be the perfect spot to do some engagement session pictures!

Here's a couple of highlights from the session:

Kevin and Angel

Although we look forward to all of our client's weddings, Kevin and Angel's wedding is particularly  special to us because not only do they go to our church, but Kevin is our priest's son.  So you can imagine when we got the call from Kevin asking us to document their wedding day, we felt particularly honored!

Towards the end of February, we got together with them and did some fun engagement pictures- they are such naturals in front of the camera! :)  Here's a few of our favorites-

Thanks so much Kevin and Angel!  We can't wait for your wedding in Santa Barbara this September! 

Kery and Stacie

We have a whole bunch of catching up on posting some our latest shoots to the blog!  Here's our first of 3 engagement sessions that we've shot over the past month. 

We met up with Kery and Stacie while we were in Vegas last month for a photography convention.  We had a blast meeting with them - they were immediately so relaxed and easy to work with which was great and we are already looking forward to their wedding in May!  We had so much fun together!

Here's a few of our favorite shots from the session!

Pictage Ask and Learn

Hey Photographers!

Two things!  One you can check out an interview of with us on the Pictage Blog.  We talk a little bit with Sara France about the topic of "Everything Watched Improves," as well as other random things such as our thoughts on why we bit the bullet and joined Twitter.  (Here's my Twitter page by the way, and here's Katie's.)

Second, if you're a Pictage photographer you can join us on the Pictage Blog for an Ask and Learn.  We'll be there to answer questions on any topic you want.  Please don't ask about the bachelor, Katie will be thrilled but I might log off.  :)  We'll start answering questions at 4PM (Pacific Time) and go till 6.  

See ya there!