Carameros Family: Texas and New Mexico Fun!

If you read Mia's senior post then you already know about the Carameros family. They were incredible! I mentioned previously that they live in Texas but had found me at a wedding out here in California. Well... I was very blessed to meet up with them... Continuing on from Mia's post...

That's Gina, Mia's mom, and me at the UTEP tailgate party... my first tailgate!!! They couldn't believe it! ;)
And, yes... I'm wearing a shirt... it's strapless... geez.

After Mia's session on Saturday, Gina, Mia's mom, picked me up from the hair salon where Mia was getting primped for the Homecoming Dance. We went straight from there to my very first tail gate party!!! That's right... not being the biggest sports enthusiast this was a big deal for me! The tailgate party was great... lots of fantastic people and great food. Then, we were off to the UTEP game. I had a great time... I'll admit it could have been about 3 seconds shorter (then we would have won) but everybody made it a blast for me. Afterwards, we went home... I slept (ahhhh... much needed sleep).

Ahhh... the best peach dessert cobbler thingy I've ever had... no... I didn't eat it all... but I wanted to!

The next morning I had a meeting with a prospective client (another relative of the Carameros) for their wedding in July. Then, the fam and I were off to White Sands, New Mexico. If you haven't been there before... I highly recommend it... it's beautiful. We only got to spend about 30 minutes there and then we were off to the airport and I was off back to LA. That was the end of a long and very rewarding weekend. Thanks for all your hospitality Carameros family... I hope to be able to reciprocate some time in the future! All my best ;)... enjoy some favorites from your session below.

This is Tyson. ;) We had to...

The furry friend in the pic is Lola... she's a great old girl and wanted her picture taken, too.

MIA: One Stunning Senior!!!

I'm so excited to finally blog Mia's amazing senior/grad session. We had such an amazing time!!!

So here's the brief story about how I came to know Mia and the amazing Carameros family (whose family session will be blogged next!). You might remember AJ and Mena's beautiful and modern wedding at MOLAA back in August. Well, Gina (Mia's mom and AJ's cousin) loved the images of AJ and Mena so much that she decided she wanted me to take not only Mia's senior session but also their family session (it was her 20th anniversary present... no pressure or anything). Oh... one thing I forgot to mention, the Carameros family lives in Texas! So, we worked it all out and they flew me out to Texas early Saturday morning we shot part 1 of Mia's session upon my arrival and the rest of my fantastic trip I'll save for the Carameros family blog post.

Meanwhile, back to Mia... This girl is seriously going places. She and I hit it off right away... I swear it was like having a cool little sister. Mia is super talented and studies fashion and design. In fact, she headed off to New York the following week after our session to check out design schools out there. And, she even designed and "re-worked" her homecoming dress... TALENT!

What a trooper! I whisked her away in between having her makeup and hair done for her homecoming dance that night and took her to an old mill/homeless mission. Most people might really be wondering if this girl from California was nuts at that point... but not Mia... she just rolled with it. And, we had a blast!!! This place was an awesome location and Mia was a fantabulous model! So, after part 1 of our shoot, Mia did the whole homecoming thing... got home at ???... will just call it late... and then went with me and her fit mannequin for some more shots in a cool alfalfa field by their house (we don't have these at home) on Sunday morning. Then it was off to the fam session (which we shot at White Sands in New Mexico) and the airport and home by Sunday night. Phew... long and rewarding weekend... amazing family... I have THE BEST JOB!!

Well, enough jibber-jabbering... here is the lovely Mia's slideshow and some of my favorite shots of Mia below. The ones with the text are a sample of what we can do with these grad shots... graduation announcements, rep cards, the sky is the limit!!! I think we need to put a book together for you girly... there are just too many fun shots! Enjoy!

PS- All seniors (and all of you who know one)- be on the lookout for a chance to win a grad session... it's part of the kick off for my 2008 : CELEBRATE grad sessions... BELIEVE.DREAM.HOPE... stay tuned!!!