Jenna and Greg Sneak Peek-Pure Awesome

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! I know I had a great time hanging out and working with totally awesome people! More to come later this week!

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Alex and Gina-Pure Love

Alex and Gina were our winners for our Summer Giveaway-Day after Session! Fawn and I could not have asked for a cooler couple to work with! Honestly Alex and Gina were so awesome and fabulous that Fawn and I barely had to work, we just followed after these lovebirds and snapped picture after picture!

She is a Salon Owner and Hair stylist (if you’re in the Santa Cruz Area check out her salon- Glam! Beauty Studio) and he is working towards becoming a music teacher. They are best friends and utterly in love with each other! We had a blast hanging out with them and getting to know them, they even brought their puppy Kiki, who is the cutest little puppy in the whole world! I nearly died from her cuteness! 

Alex and Gina recently got married in South Lake Tahoe and had an intimate ceremony with close friends and family but were unable to have a professional wedding photographer to document their special day. Here is an excerpt from the e-mail Alex wrote us, “When I struggled to get through things emotionally she has always lifted my spirits and made me love her more for being the happiness in my life. With or without money Gina has never been pretentious or fake and will make the best of any situation. Gina has always been a picture person ever since the first day we met. She loves scrap booking and sharing photos. She never leaves home without her digital camera and loves taking photos of us everywhere we go. I feel so bad that I won't be able to hire a professional photographer as I barley got by taking care of all the other wedding expenses. Although I know photography was the most important to Gina, I was still hoping we could get pictures in our outfits. Then I saw your contest and became hopeful I still had a chance to make her dreams of having beautiful photos come true. If you choose us for the Day after photo shoot I know Gina would be extremely surprised and beyond happy. All she wants is beautiful lasting memories of our beautiful day. Please choose someone like Gina because she is someone I love and admire for genuinely being a kind-hearted person.”

With such a heartfelt e-mail and Alex’s love for Gina expressed in every word he wrote Fawn and I felt they were a perfect fit for our giveaway and us! Thank you Alex and Gina for being SO awesome and letting us document your love for each other! 

 To see more of these lovebirds watch their webshow!

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The Creative Wheels Are Spinning

And the winner is…Andrea! WooHoo, please e-mail us at prizes@purephotographyreno.com to collect your Starbucks Giftcard! Thanks to everyone who left us a comment and from everyone's responses it would appear that BBQing over the 4th of July is the thing to do!
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Things are in the works and my creative wheels are spinning!

Fawn has graciously lent me her 16mm 2.8 Fisheye lens for some upcoming projects I have and I’m pretty excited about them! I’ve used this lens before and really had a lot of fun with it! To be honest I love shooting lenses that give a completely unique perspective!

One of my absolute favorite lenses is my 20mm 2.8 wide angle lens, I love how I’m able to capture images in a unique and fun way…this lens adds a whole new dimension to the images and that’s why you will find me shooting with it, A LOT! Both of these lenses are also really great for pushing me out of my comfort zone and really helping me to see the world in a new and creative way!

Fawn and I are working hard at getting some of our recent adventures up on the blog so keep your eyes peeled! 

Happy Wednesday All!

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