...what did I just say?? I repeated it, "This was the year that so many of the 'no's in my life made sense".   The profound gift of that sentence was not lost on me.  I looked at my friend and he smiled and reached out and squeezed my arm.  I swall

It was all things black + white, Chanel, good food, sweet friends, fun music, and celebrating the beautiful birthday girl with her husband and friends! This is the second event I've gotten to shoot at Twenty Eight in Newport Beach, CA.  The lighting,

It was one of those times when I was truly just documenting love.  I gave little directions here and there, but the looks, the laughs...those were all theirs.

Today I ate oatmeal for breakfast.  I'm about to workout as my new month resolution, devotions, edit images I shot in Los Angeles over the weekend, work on emails, plan out my week for Tami Paige Photography, do some writing, and work on a couple des

Intimate.  If I were to give one word to describe this weekend, it would be intimate. 

I was standing in a line that just felt stupid-long.  The kind of line that only makes sense on Black Friday, at Disneyland, and...the post office at Christmas.  I'd been standing there for probably 5 min. and it hadn't moved.

This story is anything but glamorous...because I was 14 years old...and nothing in my life was glamorous at 14. 

Her name was Rachel.  I don’t know where Rachel is at…it’s weird how she left my life as quickly as she entered it. It was a few years ago.  I don’t remember much about where I was in life; living in Chicago, contented, shooting weddings, vis

I think I may have trust issues because of Vanilla Extract.  Well, vanilla extract and oatmeal raisin cookies portraying themselves as chocolate chip cookies. :)

As we were walking to take pictures, Greg (the groom) came up to me and said, "If we could include all the guys into the pictures, like the ushers, that would be great." So, here's the thing...there were a lot of guys.  And when Greg said that t