Status Update...

Jamaica Missions Trip...

Hey all! Thanks for following along so far - I hope that you have been enjoying my whole walk through the start of my photo-journey... I'm just writing in to say that I will be away from April 25 until May 5 on a Missions Trip to Jamaica with my church! We will be working with a church down there to help a lot of children and schools in the area... We will be holding Medical clinics, doing construction and building for a school there, and spending a lot of time with the kids down there... It is a really exciting time, and I just hope and pray for a lot of amazing things... I will actually be spending a lot of my time there photo-documenting my trip and when I get back I hope to share a whole bunch...

Take care all! Prayers and encouragement are all things that we could use right now.. so... until then..

Claire, Tina, & Patrick

Featured Shoot 4

Here are some highlights of my most recent shoot with Claire and her siblings… Just a snippet of a gift for their mama for Mother’s Day… Enjoy!

Next – my favorite shot of the day… you gotta love this…

I loved how these next two panoramics turned out – definite drama!

And finally, the shot that I couldn’t help but take (I did have to save this one though)

Hope you enjoyed! Interested in doing a shoot like this with you and your loved ones? Contact me – we can arrange something =)

Thanks Claire, Tina, and Patrick! I hope you guys had fun!

Flandskate Anthologies

Never the types to take ourselves too seriously…

So Ridiculous... I thought that at some point, we were going to put together a shoot because our time as roomies is coming to a close very soon… and well - the day for that shoot is here! MAJOR DISCLAIMER: Although kinda fun and silly in a million and one ways – we, the current flandskaters - are both laughing at ourselves on the inside and very embarrassed to have these photos posted in any public way… We do realize that this can work against us in many ways: Future job interviews, large blow-up sized reprints on our front door, and the internet vehicle in general, just to name a few… but we are never the types to take ourselves too seriously... but, even with that - please… be kind…we would really love that... thanks!

Please don’t take us too seriously in this shoot… we hope that, at the very least, you laugh at us and want a photoshoot just like this one for you! (well kinda like this one…) *wink wink* First: Behind the scenes… Enjoy!

Second: The Olin Mills Portrait Studio dedication - Behind those scenes - the original shots...

Finally: The Olin Mills Portrait Studio dedication – the finished vision of assistant photographer Mark Marcelo… You just gotta love these…

I swear... I'm still laughing at these as I review the post.. sooooo embarrassing and soooo ridiculous.... I really can't stop laughin at the picture just before the last pic/album cover... The Maartes... the all black background, no belts, and hella drama faces... if you know us - you know this totally isn't us - kinda - well you know what I mean... just way too hilarious...

These guys (and David Reyes, not pictured here, moved to Vallejo in April 07) have been my roomies for the past 2 years and really have been the best set of folks to live with that I could have asked for.. the fact that I will be moving in just under 3 months and initiating the final break-up of the legendary old-people household is a bit sad for me… I will have to say that I will look back on these past two years with a great fondness… the best of great memories, laughs, and support, these guys are yet another one of those blessings in my life that I am really grateful for… no matter how embarrassing we are….

Adam & Jasmine - Wedding Invitations

Work party…

So as any good friend/wedding entourage would (haha, wink, wink - Vaness and I are storing up credits for a returned favor, wink, wink) we helped Adam and Jasmine put together some really great looking invitations for their upcoming wedding!! Just know that the entire invitation package is not pictured here – but what you do see is really top quality invitation-type stuff… you know… the kind you find at Papyrus or something… but, really, Jas and Adam did a really wonderful job designing these... they are really really really nice =) and we had a lot of fun (yes I admit it – office/stationary work is kinda fun) and got to spend some time with Adam, Jas, Richard, and Kevin (a fellow Nikonian)… plus, Adam and Jas even let me take some breaks to capture the moments!! enjoy!!

Adam and Jasmine – a couple who has been a blessing in Vaness’s and my life… We have had the fortune of watching them grow in Christ over the years and it is really amazing that we are all so close to each other now… Like brothers and sisters, we have been able to share a lot about our lives, our faith, our struggles, and our successes… but best of all, we have been able to be a set of couples that can ask each other for prayer, guidance, and encouragement – and that is the type of thing that you don’t take for granted…

The Heroine Project

For the complete and final result of the Reyelisa Fashion Editorial Shoot please checkout Heroine