Los Angeles Wedding Photographer | Chelsea Elizabeth Photography | Westlake Village, Santa Barbara

It rained on Michele & Kurt’s wedding day so we couldn’t get most of the portraits we had planned on.  They got engaged underneath the pier in Manhattan beach so we planned on doing the first glance underneath the pier.  Unfortunately, it was entirely flooded.  So here we are, a month later, and walking around Manhattan beach like it’s the wedding day ;)  I sure had fun!!!  Michele & Kurt were such troopers running around in the sand & stopping traffic on the street. I think it was worth it :)  Best day after session ever!

{ view all of Michele + Kurt }

Every year I get together with some amazing photographers and good friends for an annual photography convention.  We listen to some amazing speakers during the day and have great networking functions at night.  Sometimes we even manage to squeeze in some portrait sessions.  This year the conference was in Carefree, Arizona.  The landscape was absolutely beautiful!  We headed out into the dessert with some video lights and pocket wizards and had fun experimenting.  I didn’t take my flash with me so all of these are taken with natural light.  Here are just a few of my favorite images.

Here’s the beautiful Kris McElligott

Gorgeous Leslie Gilbert

I love this, we were just standing on this dirt road and I saw UPS drive up.  I asked Kris to stick her thumb up… the next thing we know he’s pulling over and Kris is jumping in.  It was hilarious!!!!

Here’s a behind the scenes view of David Pearce and Joe Gidjunis

This is where the lights come in. You can see how dark it really was when we were shooting.  The sunset pics that David and Joe got were AMAZING!

Here we are back at the hotel. I took some fun pics of Kris in front of our room at the Carefree Resort.

Kim’s amazing shooot with her horse Stetson made “Trash the Dress”. How exciting!!!

To see more go to trashthedress.com! It was posted on 11.11.08 :)

View Kim’s session on our blog :)

Kim brought her horse to Paramount Ranch for a day after session with her wedding dress. I was so excited to do this session and I’m so glad I did. I loved photographing a bride on her horse. He did so good! No bucking the bride off with this shoot ;)

Leaving Las Vegas was a big hit! I have to give Mark and Jason big props for putting it together. Red Rocks was an amazing place to get some brides together and shoot. I want to go back ;) Could you imagine if I could take engagement pictures there? That would be cool. I can’t wait to see everyone’s pictures from the session. Hopefully you enjoy a couple of mine ;)
Watch the Video from the shoot. They did a great job.

Chelsea Elizabeth was just featured on Trash the dress.com :)

I shot my last “Trash the Dress” session in Tampa with Roz. We had so much fun in the row of trees. I love the variety between all the sessions. Roz definitely knew how to work the camera.. she was awesome!
it’s also good to note that none of these dresses were “trashed” in these sessions. Just some good, clean fun!

Rosemary was really fun to shoot. We got some shots of her tucked away in some plants. I love that they totally give off the tropical Florida vibe. :)

I’d like to introduce you to my new friend Karen from Florida. It was a blast shooting with her. She let me borrow the sweet 85mm 1.2 lens. So much fun!!!

While in Tampa I had the pleasure of photographing Krystal’s Trash the Dress session. She was so beautiful. I loved the jewelry that she picked out too! Really amazing! The hotel was so fun to shoot with that I almost didn’t go outside… but then when we did I was so inspired by the pond. We got some fun shots!

I had the best time photographing Ashley’s day after beach session. It’s always fun shooting in new places but I was really excited to shoot in Florida. We did our session at the Sirata in Florida. Ashley was so much fun and so sweet. She gave JC and I lots of inspiration. It was so hot I can’t tell you how badly I wanted to jump in the pool with her!