Finally, here is the full post with lots of photos from Jessie’s awesome Campus Oriente session!

I am also going to consider this the grand unveiling of my new blog!!!! SO excited about all these changes I’ve been making lately. The blog design was done by the lovely Allie from Mexico or Bust. YAY, I finally have a custom header AND a wide width column. And the amazing and very talented Amy from A Boring Photo, made me a SWEET logo!!! She’s a great graphic designer and photographer so check her out.

Anyways, there is a massive amount of photos in this post so I better stop typing and start uploading. Enjoy!

Meet my new puppy Papito. 8.5 kilos, 7 month old mutt.

I did a session with Jessie at La Universidad’s Campus Oriente location…hands down the best session location I’ve ever been to. It was AMAZING. Everywhere we turned there was another cool nook and cranny begging for us to set up a shot. So here is a quick sneak peek of the lovely and beautiful Jessie’s session. Expect tons more photos soon!!!

I went exploring with some friends throughout Santiago. We visited Barrio Concha y Toro, Barrio Brasil, Santiago Centro, and Barrio Lastarria. Here are some of the photos I shot with my new 40d!!!

Location: Santiago Centro, near Metro Universidad de Chile.

It’s a huge historic red church. I believe the name is Iglesia San Francisco de Asis but I’m not sure. I took this while my mom was here. We were driving past so I rolled down the window, looked up and started snapping away. Yes, I have fantastic photographic technique

For Tamsin and Anibal’s engagement session (I would say their Getting To Know You session, since that’s what I call the pre-wedding shoot with all my other clients, but I already know Tamsin and Anibal pretty well. We go way back…although to last Jan. hahaha!) I was really looking forward to getting some cool urban shots in a location in Santiago Centro in an area called Paris/Londres. There are these old buildings and cobblestones roads. Unfortunately, we arrived and the cobblestone roads were being completely torn up. There was construction EVERYWHERE. So we took a few shots, and moved on to plan B. Cerro Santa Lucia. Here are just a couple of my favorites from the pictures that I’m finished editing. I’m still only about halfway through, so there will be more to come soon!

Funky processing and playing with textures…who me?!? NEVER

Showing off that bling!

Look really hard, there are some soon to be newlyweds in there, I promise! I just had to get one shot with the whole church in the background, because it’s so historic.

How am I so lucky to have such beautiful friends/clients?!? It’s amazing really…

I died when I saw this one, it’s SO romantic!

I did a shoot today with the lovely Tamsin and handsome Anibal, so I wanted to post a quick sneak preview. Lots more to come soon!

Goal for this session: Don’t take boring Sears portraits. Mission accomplished! It was really cool to do this session and see all four kids’ individual personalities coming through. They’re all so different, yet they really seemed to get along great and just have fun with each other.

While I was out shooting a photo with all four of them, my husband used that zoom to grab these great individual portraits. Love them all!!!

And here was the end result out of my camera.

Last, but not least, here are my three absolute faves from the session! The first one just reminds me so much of my childhood and having fun with my brother with the way they are all giggling.
And plus I got the composition spot on how I wanted it!

On this one the background was begging for me to texturize it, so I did, and I love how it came out. Playing with textures is becoming one of my favorite post processing techniques. Only problem is that it’s time consuming, but the results are always worth it.

Aaaand, I am SO crazy about this one too! Now I want someone to take a picture of me and my husband in that thingy so we can have a cool circly portrait too.

Thanks M. family for coming out! I hope you love the pictures as much as we do!

YES. I am obsessed with this location No matter how many times I shoot, I am always discovering new little nooks and crannies that make for interesting backgrounds.

A little textured and vintage processing.

My new 20mm 2.8 lens gets really cool bubbly light flare. I love it!

A classic portrait.

And another classic portrait with not so classic post processing and light flare!

And last but not least, just a snapshot on the escalator as we were leaving the park.

More to come later!  I have so many photos just sitting on my computer right now that I haven’t had the chance to edit and blog!