April 11th, 2013:

Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative

Close to 20 years ago I started high school as a plump little freshman and within a few months I had joined the drama club and auditioned to be in the spring musical Annie…. and no, to your (and my own) dismay I wasn’t given the title role.  I was cast as a street urchin (and about 5 other parts) and during that time, I first met Michelle.  We became friends over the next few years, ran amok as you should in High School, went to prom together, and even spent our first year at college in the same general ed classes.  Eventually I went into the university theater program full time to get my B.A. and Michelle made her way up to Chico, CA for the next few years.

We fell out of touch for a number of years until the advent of Facebook, when we started “liking” each other’s posts.  A few months ago Michelle hit me up and to check which dates we still had available for her summer wedding, then went venue hunting to find a location on one of the dates we still were available.   Felicia and I are thrilled and humbled when clients put photography first, then hunt for a venue: a huge reversal in the wedding industry.

Anyhow, everything worked out, and all is set for their wedding in July.  For their engagement session, Los Angeles traffic on a Friday afternoon necessitated a change of plans, so we ended up at Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks after Felicia did some lightning fast research on her iPhone. But the impromptu change was just fine: we had way too much fun saying wildly inappropriate things that cannot be retold even on this blog, laughed a lot, and had a wonderful time photographing there. Wildwood Regional Park turned out to be a really cool venue to shoot at, minus the fact that Michelle was eaten alive by mosquitoes as soon as the sun set.

Thanks guys for a super fun shoot!

Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative
Wildwood, Regional, Park, Engagement, Photography, Thousand, Oaks, Photographer, Session, Los, Angeles, California, Unique, Alternative