Posts Tagged ‘mike larson’

Vina Robles Winery Wedding | {Jake + Carly}

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Great cuisine, original food ideas, good wine, family and friends with a bottle of coke.  This is Jake & Carly.  From Santa Monica, and as sweet as the summer, this fun couple chose my favorite region in California to wed.  The warm day and rolling vineyard hills made a great backdrop for their ceremony.  Enjoy.

 

The amazing vendors for this event:

 

Getting ready Bed & Breakfast: Hotel Cheval Bed & Breakfast

 

Venue: Vina Robles Winery

 

Event Coordinator: Melanie Kuderka

 

Flowers: Denise Benda

 

Caterer: Epic Weddings

 

DJ: Kramer Entertainment

 

Cake: Lauren at Two Little Birds Bakery 

 

 

 

Engagement Shoot | Spring Casual Portrait Session (teaser image)

Sunday, May 1, 2011

This is the time the hills are bursting with green and the sun warms your skin and beckons endless warm evenings with the sounds of crickets and wind gently breezing through the tall grass.  The other day I headed out with Matt & Alison. I’ll be posting more next week.

Las Vegas Speaking | WPPI 2011 – “Defining your style” + Panel Discussion

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

I’m excited to announce my talk at WPPI in Las Vegas this year.  The exciting part about this talk will be that the 2nd half of the 2 hour presentation will be a panel discussion with special guests: Photographers - Mike ColonJose VillaJesh DeRox, Stylist - Summer Watkins, and Bloggers – Heather & Kimberly from Style Unveiled & Amanda from 100layercake.  I’m honored to have such an amazingly talented group of people on stage, you won’t want to miss this!

My talk (the 1st hour) will be discussing “Defining your style”.  Photographers will walk away with a deeper clarity of why and how to choose their style.  First, I will be sharing how we’ve decided to simplify and choose a more narrow speciality  and how thats really helped free us to become better at what we do and love the direction our style is heading.  Second, will share how we’ve helped our couples to explore themselves deeper by using stylists and the effect this has had on our shoots.  In this, I will discuss the process of researching, planning, & finally executing the shoot.  Thirdly I’ll be talking about how to educate & enable others who want to share how your different with others. If you can google your unique selling point and you get a 100 pages with other businesses who have duplicate selling points, its probably not very unique enough.  I’m excited to see you there!

Make sure you sign up or pre-register if you want to guarantee your seat! you can do this here!

Ivanhoe, CA Wedding | Highlights – Rainy Day Wedding {Dustin & Chelsea}

Thursday, December 30, 2010

In order to feature more weddings on my blog, I’ve decided to start doing highlights, they are easier to put together, short & sweet.  Here is the 1st. I’ve shot so much this year and have so much I’ve wanted to share, its been hard to make a production and publish them all!  Over this winter, I’ll be showcasing a lot of work from the last few months that did not make it on the blog as of yet.  So stay tuned for that!

Here we go…

Dustin & Chelsea, you guys are one of the sweetest homegrown, honest, genuine and madly in love couples I’ve worked with this year!  I love the simplicity of the day and how easy you were to capture.  Here are my fav 13 images from the day.  There were more, but this is what I’m posting here. Enjoy.

You might remember them from the shoot we did this spring, Dustin & Chelsea.  Their engagement shoot at  UCLA was quite dangerous with the riding of skateboards inside the school library.  Needless to say, this couple is bold and original.

Mike Larson Wedding Photography ©MikeLarsonInc

The proud look of a father who loves her daughter.  I’m going to be doing this someday.  I think I counted 25 people crying as they walked down the isle.

California Wedding Photography ©MikeLarsonInc

California Wedding Photography ©MikeLarsonInc

Chelsea works for Toms and they even posted a blog post on this!).  Her shoes are not going to be released until Spring of 2011 but she got a hookup for her wedding!

Toms Wedding Shoes Photography ©MikeLarsonInc

California Wedding Photography ©MikeLarsonInc

An hour before sunset the rain started to pour down, enough to get a rainbow and it cleared for a beautiful sunset!

Rainy Day wedding photography ©MikeLarsonInc

Orange Orchard Wedding Photography ©MikeLarsonInc

Reception Dancing Photography ©MikeLarsonInc

Ending the night, with dancing, I loved this frame of her proud father again dancing with his little girl.  The (flash) lighting was perfect and I loved how this turned out.

California Central Coast Wedding | Kurt & Heather (teaser)

Thursday, October 28, 2010

My last wedding in my hometown for the year this one, a great way to end the season here. It was a warm night and a truly very sweet couple.  Kurt, Heather, you’re going to love the rest of the images!  Stay tuned for the release next week!