Probably one of our favorite photo merges yet!

Gotta love California weather.

If you love photography, you’ll love this.  

SILVER & LIGHT from Ian Ruhter on Vimeo.

Thank you to all our awesome clients this past year and present!  This award recognizes us as the top 5% of Wedding Pros nationwide!! =)

“..for them these names “Painter” and “Architect”…they weren’t job descriptions, they were ways of looking at the world”

Many of the designers/architects from the post-war era continue to provide us with inspiration.  Can’t wait to see the rest..

It was amazing to be there and see my little sister become a mom…………………wow, she’s a mom!! and see the non stop smile on my brother in laws face…and to see my mom and so happy to have another grand daughter.  I, on the other hand, for the first time ever actually became a “real” uncle!! haha.  Luckily for them, uncle is a photographer so we were able to snap a few shots of this amazing day

We love you M, Ken and little Ms. Kennedy!  Haydn and Zoe can’t wait to meet her!! =)

Last week Lauren and I had the privilege of capturing a story about little Reagan who since birth has been diagnosed with a super rare brain disorder called Holoprosencephaly or HPE.  So rare that only 1 out of 10,000 have it…my spell check is even telling me that it doesn’t know the word!

Reagan Gracie Martinez turned one last week, a feat that not many who have HPE reach and in honor of her and the families with children who share the same disorder, in conjunction with Families for HoPE and Biola University, Southern California’s 1st ever 5k for HoPE was created.  The goal of last week’s 5k for HoPE was to simply raise awareness and support for HPE and the turn out was amazing.  Totalling around 400 people which included participants, volunteers and those that simply came to support, they raised over $14,000 in donations for the cause!!!  Talk about a blessing!

If you’d like more information, please click the hyperlinks above.  It’s also where you can make a donation if you’d like.  You can also check out their Facebook page here. We’re hoping the 5k for HoPE here in Souther California becomes an annual race but that’s TBD.

And in case you were wondering, the yellow balloons were part of the Balloon Release…something that was started by Families for HoPE which represents the infants and children with HPE who are no longer with us.

To the Martinez Family, we love you guys and we were more blessed than you know to have shared in such an awesome day with you, your family and friends.  We’re here for you guys and we hope you love the images as much as we loved being a part of it.

Our hearts and prayers go out to little Reagan and the rest of the Martinez family.  We were blessed to have been part of such an amazing amazing day and we love you guys.  Can’t wait to share the images.

Please visit www.reaofhope.info if you’d like more information on HPE and if you’d like to make a donation.

Exactly one year ago, Lauren gave birth to our beautiful, loud, extremely well-balanced and hilarious 2nd child…Zoë Addison =)

Happy Birthday Zoe and thank you for making our lives so much more meaningful and exciting (oh how we love your sweet crying voice at 3:30 in the morning!!!LOL)!!!

PS – and yes, she already has like 8 teeth!!!

Sometimes the coolest images are the not so “perfect” ones