I love what I do - I'm a mother to my 2 year-old baby girl named Gemma, wife to my amazing husband Scott, sister (youngest of 6) to my wonderful brothers and sisters, and daughter to my supportive and sweet mother and father (may he rest in peace). I am also a photographer in the Bay Area with passion for people and telling stories.
For 15 years I produced video games, focusing mainly on art, animation and story. Now I'm applying those artistic and story-telling skills to my photography and having so much fun!
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Hello everyone! I wanted to share this photo of a recent engagement session at Muir Woods. Jenna & Randy were so great to work with and can’t wait to share more. For now here’s one photo for you and the blog gods.
Jenna & Randy were such great sports, you can’t even tell that they were freezing, they were just too busy loving each other.
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- Beautiful lighting. I love it!
Hello all my awesome friends & family! It has been way too long since I blogged and reached out to you guys so before January is over, I thought I’d post something.
This past year has been an incredible journey. I’ve meet and photographed so many amazing brides & grooms, families and individuals and have been so grateful for each one of those experiences. And with each time I go out and shoot I learn something about my subject, myself and human nature. Photography is incredible that way! I’ve learned a lot and have learned I have so much more to learn – I’m excited of what more is to come!
I feel so grateful for it all: the hard work, the stress, the joy when my clients see their photos, the little sleep, the new friends I’ve made… everything. And this new year, just one month in, has already started off rocking my world.
The first thing I want to share with you all is my time in Los Angeles with the incredible Jerry Ghionis.
Not only did I learn so much about photography, business and marketing but I made some incredible life-long friends from that week. There is just so much to say about my experience there it really deserves a whole post for itself, well, more like 10. But for now I’ll say that if anyone is at all looking to make photography into a business you NEED to go see Jerry Ghionis. Not only is he incredible on all levels but all the money raised at his workshops goes toward building an orphanage in Cambodia under his Soul Society non-profit. This guy is the real deal with a real big open heart! Cannot say enough great things about Jerry, Melissa (his amazing wonderful awesome gorgeous talented partner and new wife) and all the amazing new friends. Love you guys!
So here’s my first big news. I’ll be changing the name of my business very soon. Inspired by Jerry and many conversations, I’ll be changing my business name to something that is more user-friendly and easy to spell and say. Ironically, when people say it with the new spelling they end up saying my real name the correct way. Any guesses? So you might start seeing new spelling for my name soon. I’m also working with a designer to do my re-branding. So excited!
Next big news! I have the incredible honor to have been chosen to speak at WPPI’s Photographers Ignite. WPPI is the biggest wedding and portrait photography convention held annual in Las Vegas. Last year over 12,000 photographer attended. Gulp!
Yes, I’ll be speaking in front a mountain full of my peers and mentors. Excited, nervous, humbled and a little freaking out. LOL! Riding high from Jerry’s workshop, I decided on a whim to submit a proposal. I actually didn’t think I’d get it, yes, I hoped for it but that is something different. Amongst all the proposals they picked 15 people and I am one of them! Each of us will speak for 5 minutes. Exactly 5 minutes. 20 slides, 15 seconds a slide, automatically changing. So it will be a huge challenge for me and I’ll need to practice, practice, practice,but I’m looking forward to it. My topic “How to sing like Jerry Ghionis” (yes! he’s a fabulous singer as well) – Wish me luck!
Another awesome bit of good news is that I was recently informed that I won Wedding Wire‘s Bride’s Choice Awards for 2011. That means that my studio is ranked in the top 5% of wedding photographers in the nation. Wow! I’m excited and honored. Thank you to my awesome couples for allowing me to capture your awesome memories on your special day. So grateful! Gracias!
And if 2011 wasn’t already awesome enough, I’m just about to embark on a whole new amazing journey with the badass photojournalists of Foundation Workshop the people who run Fearless Photographers. I literally have been waiting for this workshop the entire year. It sells out every year and I signed up right away when registration opened. Now I can’t believe it is time to go! Starting 2 days from now, I’ll be spending a week with pulitzer prize winning photojournalists whose goal is to make wedding photographers better story tellers. How awesome is that? It will be an intense week of learning, critiques, shooting, no-sleeping, more critiques and growing. I expect to be broken down and rebuilt stronger, wiser and more creative. After recovering, I’m excited to use all my new -found knowledge with my clients this year. Yeah! Can’t wait!
Thank you all for your keeping tabs on me, leaving comments, and following my photography happenings. I really love and need the support. Looking forward to a super incredible (bet you thought I was gonna say ‘awesome’) 2011. Love, Light and many Blessings to you all!
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- Love your work!! I know this comment is a year late, but i just stumbled on your website. I had the pleasure of Jerry and Melissa during this year in one of his workshops. I have followed Jerry for the last 3 years and been amazed by his work and passion. It's amazing how Jerry and Mel can change your outlook on life in 5 days with them. Jerry is one of the most selfless people I have ever had the pleasure of spending time with. I would highly encourage any photographer that is half serious about their art to attend a Jerry workshop. Keep up the great work.
- Sounds like an amazing wait to start off 2011! I can't wait to hear how it all unfolds!
- here's to an amazing 2011! it couldn't have started any better! <3
- Gayla! Wishing you all things amazing too in the next year and beyond! Thank you Gayla!
- Barbara! Muchisimas gracias, amiga! :) :) :)
- Apresh! Thank you so much my friend. Can't wait to hear how you 'Jerry' experience went! Will you be at WPPI?
- Wow, what great news and lots of it! Wishing you all the best in 2011!
- Pa'riba Rosie what an amazing way to start off the year! Congrats!
- Well done and well deserved my friend! You've worked very hard!
Meet Susanna & Robert.
They are so sweet with each other it is a blessing to be around them. During our session, they were either giggling, cuddling or just full on cracking up. Oh, and sometimes sleeping as Susanna had to wake up @ 4am to get hair and makeup done in time for our early session (good practice for the wedding day). They love to go for bike rides or hikes, snuggle while watching movies, visiting museums, going to bookstores, perusing bike stores, site-seeing and taking pictures, one of Robert’s big hobbies.
I love what they said about themselves as a couple, “We see each other as a “diamond in the rough” and know that we found a treasure in each other.” Don’t you just love that?! They are also one of the first couples that I’ve seen to have their own wedding blog. They are a cool and sweet and savvy couple for sure!
I feel super honored to be their photographer as Robert is very into photography and did lots of research before deciding on me. I am so excited to shoot their wedding in 2 weeks. Thank you Susanna and Robert for a great day hanging out at Fremont’s Mission Church. Can’t wait to see you soon to celebrate on your wedding day!
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- Super nice! The last one is killer!!
- Beautiful session! I especially love the first image - the very definition of intimate, without being imposing!
- Lovely! I especially love pic #3. Your use of textures is great, very subtle yet brings out so much more emotion to the photo!
- Gorgeous Rosie! Love your images. Here is to a wonderful 2011. Wishing you continued success. Love ya!
- I love the feel of these images, so warm, and emotional. The angled one is my favorite!
Hi everyone! Just wanted to say ‘hola’ and that I’m still here even though I haven’t blogged in a while. I’m thick in wedding season processing and feeling the pressure of getting all my work finished. It has been really enlightening this year on what it takes to be a wedding photographer. So much more happens before and after the shutter stops clicking. It is _a lot_ of work and I’ve been heads down just trying to stay on top of it. So I’ve been in a little hibernation mode but I’ve missed everyone. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE what I do. I love bringing out the best in people. I love capturing the honest real moments, both quiet and rambunctious, that arise in every situation and person or couple or family or group. I’ve just had to really concentrate and fill orders and haven’t had much time to blog and being social. But that will change soon! 🙂
I want to share this amazing video with you. It makes me smile and sort of explains why I love to photograph people. Hope it makes you smile too. Let me know what you think! 🙂
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- Thank you, Rosaura, for taking such beautiful pictures of us! We are so blessed to have you as our awesome photographer!
Meet Lizette & Rafael. These guys are so good together. We smiled and laughed throughout the session and had a great time getting to know each other. Rafael is really into art (and soccer) and wanted to hit the Mission murals. So we started there and then ended in Yerba Buena Gardens for some night shooting.
I’m so excited to shoot their wedding this weekend in wine country at the very romantic Paradise Ridge Winery. Below are a few of my favorites from our engagement session. Enjoy!
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- I love this E-session! The color's are punchy and high contrast. And your night pictures are awesome as well. I love shooting at night.
- Beautiful work!
- Beautiful Rosie. Great romantic shots. I love the connection you captured. :-)
- Oh Rosaura! What spectacular work! Looks like you are rockin the tilt shift! The last two engagement sessions are fantastic!! I really love them. You have definitely mastered the night shooting! I love the emotion that you captured in these night shots! Very dramatic and beautiful! Great work!
- I love the lighting in the last photo! Nice work!
- Photographs three and four are my favorite. Beautiful use of light and color Rosaura. Beautiful!
- Can't wait to read about this one Rose! Apurate! Me gusta el corazon y el "casi un beso"
Meet Tianna and Michael.
They met their Jr. Year in High School. He sat next to her in English class and they’ve been together ever since. They both like watching and playing sports. Mike loves the 49ers, Tianna doesn’t but still joins him at the games. She’s super organized and he’s more laid back. They love to travel to all sorts of places but also spend time cuddling at home with their new puppy. They are a mixture of so many things and opposites in a lot of ways and they go together so well.
We had so much fun hanging out in San Jose and at one point even rolled round, literally, in the grass. Their awesome puppy, Coco Puff, joined in on the fun too. Looking forward to photographing their wedding next month.
This was shot just after rolling down the hill. Love how happy and relaxed they are here! 🙂 One of my favorites.
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- You certainly light up a room curlfriend! LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog! Congrats and can't wait to see what's to come!
- Every one is a classic. You are obviously a star at allowing couples to be themselves and enjoy the process of the engagement session. I think I subconsciously measure blog posts by how many of the shots I wish were mine. In this case every single one!
- Love the last two! I'm a sucker for laughter! :D
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