Keepsake Albums are by far the best ways to cherish your images forever. They tell your story and can be shared like a coffee table album to friends and family for years to come.
I love offering unique professional papers and custom cover options to my clients making your album be about you and your style. Custom finished papers make the images really pop! To me it’s important that my clients take away something breathtaking from their session. I am not talking about just getting images themselves on a disk to throw in the desk drawer and never to look at again, but a work of ART! I DO feel it is important to have a professionally created piece after your session to have at least one awesome piece to go away with. Let me create a keepsake album from your wedding &/or session and make your story be told and come to life.
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Who says the pictures have to stop after the wedding!? Todd & Natalie wanted some images of just the two of them while on their honeymoon on the North Shore of Kauai. I loved these two!! They were so cute and super fun! Congrats to you both and I wish you a life full of love & fun times together!!
Enjoy a few of my favorites from their session…
I was so excited to photograph my friends baby sisters wedding! It was so much fun to get a chance to go back to New York, visit family and work with some old friends. It made me feel a bit old seeing Jess all grown up and getting married to my brother-in-laws best friend.
Jessica and Anthony were so cute and so in love! It made me so happy to be able to capture a glimpse of their happiness in their pictures for their engagement!
Here are a few of my favorite pictures from their portrait session out at Quogue Sanctuary in Quogue, Long Island New York and at the East Moriches boat docks. It was awesome photographing them in my old stomping grounds where I too fell in love with my hubby 14 years ago from West Hampton, enjoy!
I had so much fun with this couple! Kellin wanted beach images and Marshall wanted greenery/jungle…so we chose two fun locations for this shoot! We had a lot of laughs! Despite the rain, they had smiles on their faces and didn’t mind getting mud in their toes and wet when it came time for the jungle! Kellin’s motto “What ever it takes for a good shot! I will do it!” Needless to say I loved her!! I have such a hard time choosing images for my blog bc I always fall in love with every image bc I feel each image captures a different moment. Here a few of my favorite images from their engagement session at Hanalei Bay and a tropical jungle location in Wailua, on Kauai’s East Side! Enjoy!
Marco & Susan from Switzerland were a super fun couple who stumbled upon my studio on Art Night in Hanapepe Town. They came in glowing of new love! I knew immediately they were honeymooners, they had the “Love Glow”. We started talking and I fell in love with their accents as soon as they started talking, I could listen to them for hours! They were so animated and cute, so obviously in love. They left my studio and walked around Hanapepes art galleries and came back to my studio saying “Ok we do a shoot, we like you, you can capture our love and the beauty of these islands!”
I loved their spontaneity and when you see the results of this session I am sure you’ll see how much fun we had. AND….we had a rainbows the ENTIRE session! Just another beautiful day of portraits here on the garden isle!
Eqigi Liebi! Everlasting Love!
Do want your engagement session to be more then the standard ‘pretty beach’ pictures? Here are some ideas to give your engagement session the extra edge they need to be SHOW STOPPER fabulous!
Props
Taking along some props is an easy way to incorporate your personalities and interests into your session. Here are just a few ideas to get your creative juices flowin!
- Instruments. Bring your instrument along to play for each other during your shoot.
- Bring along love notes, postcards etc..or just anything with romantic meaning.
- Use your wedding date in your shoot to make your “save the dates”
- Chalkboards. Can be fun to write each other love notes or fun sayings during your shoot.
- Balloons are very popular in engagement shoots, lots of creativity can emerge with them.
- Make signs and hold them. I have many signs in my studio for use but if there is a certain saying etc…you would like and can’t seem to find just let me know
- Incorporate numbers into your engagement session to make table numbers for your wedding by holding up the various numbers throughout your pictures. I love this idea!
- Sport Fanatics? Bring along your surfboards or favorite sports team jerseys.
- Do you have a favorite book, do you love magazines or technology. Bring your fav. along for the shoot!
- Do you have a special furry someone in your life? Bring your pet along!
- Are you a photographer? Bring your camera or old cameras in your collection. I have some old cameras as well, if you would like to use please let me know before hand.
- FUN FABULIOUS Shoes or hats! WEAR THEM!
- Flowers are simple & beautiful & are easy props to bring into your engagement session.
- Do you love all things vintage? Bring something special from your collection along.
- Are you a antique car lover!? Let’s incorporate your hot rod!
- Have a boat? Let’s do a shoot on your boat!
- I WANT CANDY! Candy can be colorful and fun and playfull!
- Do you love to travel? Bring along some old maps, globes, etc to showcase the travel bug in you!
- Love playing board games together…bring along your favorite game.
Themed Shoots
Themed shoots are often styled shoots. They are fun to create and they also can showcase your personality or play off your favorite things! For themed shot you will need to think of things specific to your interests, personalities and styles to create a unique themed style shoot for your session.
- Have a favorite story, comic book, play, movie or book….why not create a reinactment for your session!
- Artists? Incorporating your love of art can be a super fun, creative theme to work with.
- Family heirlooms or land. Have the location be at a family land, old homes etc. Bring along some family heirlooms to create a beautiful sentimental scene.
- Pictures for a good cause. Why not dedicate your shoot to your favorite good cause, ie: surfrider foundation, american cancer society…etc, etc… I loved this idea!
- Romantic picnics have been growing more popular but can be beautiful and uniquely styled to you by incorporating your interests within the picnic.
- Do you dance Hula? We can theme a shoot around your love for hula.
- Do you ride horse? Rodeo or leasure, let me know we can do a lot with this!
- Surf themes can be fun and prepresent your love for surf!
- Do you have a love for the outdoors? Love camping together or love bonfires on the beach?
Be sure to let me know if you would like a themed shoot and we can talk about your specific details before hand.
Unique Locations
Let’s find a location that is truley unique and fits your personalities or helps re-tell your love story. Here are some things to get you thinking beyond the beach….
- Where did you get engaged?
- Where did you met?
- Driftwood scultures and camps on the beach.
- Old towns are fun to go to like, Koloa, Hanalei and Hanapepe. The old town charm can be truley romantic.
- A beautiful favorite mural.
- Where did you fall in love?
- A colorful truck/shop/stand.
- What about the Local Fair or Carnival?
- Is there a fun place you like to hang out on weekends? Coffee house, arcade, old movie house, bowling alley….
- Swinging Bridges, we are lucky to have quite a few on the island, they can be playful and fun.
- The Sugar Mills can be fun and represent the days of old Hawaii.
- Stables. Farms.
- If your adventure people….why not do an ATV Tour!
I loved this video and thought I could share it for those of you who are like me and like visuals 
Engagement Photography Tips Video Link
****Now remember, these are just a few ideas, if this has sparked your creativity and can think of something I didn’t mention please let me know in your consult. Engagement shoots are supposed to be fun and are to show your personalities, styles and interests. Let’s talk, let’s get creative!
What can I say…these two are awesome! I had the honor of working with these two at Kalaheo Elementary School where I taught part time with Crystal and Richard. It was so fun to reunite with these guys after almost a year. We had some laughs and got those pre-wedding picture jitters out of the way. I was so excited when Crystal called me up to tell me the news of her engagement to Richard and when she asked if I could photograph her wedding I was thrilled and honored. Crystal has always been a big supporter of my photography, I have her to thank for always giving me so much support and encouragement. It’s an honor to be able to now photograph her wedding
Congrats Richard & Crystal…can not wait for the wedding!!
