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Yearly Archives: 2018

The Kitchen Tribe

  One of my very first photo gigs, and the very first wedding I ever shot was shooting Mike and Mariana’s wedding back in 2007.  It was their “skype wedding” where friends and family skyped in from Brazil to Hawai’i and back again, in a time before smartphones were a thing, so people were dragging […]

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Team Takiue

    Well, they are officially a basketball team with Aven Jewel bringing her bounce on the court (and off the court). Keeping up with these kiddos takes teamwork, lots of it, and Jeff and Erin make it happen, e-v-e-r-y morning, seven days a week. I’m always amazed at how well they hold it down, […]

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The Beemer Girls

  It was just another day in paradise with these Beemer Babes. Big Island was showing off with crystal clear skies, our majestic Hualālai, and snow capped Mauna Loa in the far distance. Winter in Hawaiʻi is by far the best, and Iʻm so glad this mother, daughter triad got to share a slice of […]

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Leiana’s on the Loose

It seems like this beauty was j-u-s-t a little flower girl in her parent’s wedding that I shot, what I felt was just last year–not eight years ago. So when her mom contacted me to shoot Leiana’s senior portraits, I couldn’t believe it-where did the time go?! But then again let’s be real here, if […]

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A Hui Hou Simpson’s

It’s been over a month since we sent off one of our favorite families from their home here in Kona to Alaska, and it has been bittersweet to say the least. So much good stuff has come out of their time in Hawai’i. From meeting each other, falling in love and getting married, to having two of the […]

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