Heather and Sean are two amazing people that I met this past Fall. When I got Heathers email inquiring about shooting her wedding I got sooooo excited! Honestly the world as I know it is getting smaller! Heather knows some of our past clients, and she lives in the area. It's crazy how everyone seems to know everyone "some way or another" in our area. Well after meeting with Sean and Heather over a cup of coffee, I was convinced that we needed to be apart of their wedding! They are so sweet, cute, and soooo in love! We feel honored that we get to be apart of their wedding... here are just a few of our favorite engagement images!

NOTE: if you are looking for an amazing massage therapist, Heather is your girl!!! Email us for her contact info!!!

One of our favorite types of shoots are our "post wedding shoots".... on the wedding day we get awesome images, but during the post wedding shoots, it's so fun to take our time and really capture some rad images that might not be available on the wedding day. When we meet with clients we like to mention that each image we take should be able to be used as a "piece of art over your mantel"... post wedding shoots are just that.

Last week we got to rock Kate and Franks post wedding shoot and it was soooo much fun! Kate and Frank are two amazing people that are so in love. We were honored to be apart of their entire wedding process, so seeing them again was awesome! Here are just a few of our favorite images!

A bunch of my friends are Pregnant, wahooooooo! I have known Amber for almost 10 years! I met her when I was in High school and always looked up to her as one of my high school church group leaders...Our friendship has continued over the years through Bible studies, walks, and being our awesome neighbor... Amber and her husband Paul are such a amazing people, and I can not wait to meet their new little guy in the next few weeks/month :) Here are just a few photos I snapped of her last week :)

Wow, I feel a little guilty that we have not blogged in two weeks! We have very good reasons! Two weeks ago mark was HUNTING pigs in texas (random), last week we started building our new studio that is going to be in costa mesa... and lastly, we have a bunch of weddings ready to post but they are being featured on wedding blogs so we needed to wait for them to be featured all at once. Wow, excuses, excuses, I know :)

Well, the good/aka excellent news, is that today we get to share Alysa and Adam! Alysa and and Adam are amazing people and could not be a better fit for Mark Brooke Photography. I will honestly never forget the first time I met them. I secretly wanted to be Alysa, she was so cute and so full of energy. Adam and Alysa are seriously perfect for each other and we are sooooo excited to share their wedding with everyone!

Here are just a few of our favorite images :)

Here is some info about their awesome wedding!

Two very awesome people found our blog in a far away land called Norway!!! I was thrilled when I saw their email come in a few months ago asking about our wedding photography services. The minute we started our email conversation I knew they were the perfect Mark Brooke fit! Elin and Ruanr are such an amazing couple. You can tell they are perfect for each other in every way! They came to California to get married. It was the two of them on the beach, a minister, and a few beach spectators that were enjoying the California weather that day.... It was beautiful. Here a just a few of our favorite images!

Shereece and Doug are two awesome clients of ours! We got a phone call from Shereece a few months ago, which lead to us having the privilege of being apart of their special day. Doug and Sheerece are such a cute couple. You can tell they just "get each other" in every way! Their wedding was at the Biltmore Hotel.

Photographer tip: don't take an "ok" photo and turn it black and white, just because you think that will make it an "awesome" photo. You should be thinking of how you want the shot to look as you are taking it. We call it shooting with "the End in mind".  Use black and white photos to your benefit by expressing the emotion of the shot, or the art.  :) -just a thought.

This past week Mark and I spent a few days in NYC! We worked, shot, and had some great family time! NYC is great in a lot of ways, but our favorite thing about it is the great food and style! I bought 6 pairs of shoes, which is a little embarrassing, and ate enough for a lifetime :) We love traveling! Unfortunately we dont have any photos to share of our NYC trip because the rain completely killed one of our cameras (its at canon now)... But even with out the photos, I will never forget how much fun we had :)

Kristine and Josh are two awesome clients of ours! We are so thrilled that we get to work with such amazing people! Kristine and Josh are seriously perfect for each other. They met through a coworker, and their first date consisted of Josh trying to teach Kristine how to drive stick shift.... which later lead into a full time, AMAZING, dating relationship! After 5 and a half years Josh popped the question on Hermosa Beach right after Kristine had ran the Turkey trot.  They got married at La Venta Inn (a personal fav), and everything was so perfect! Here are just a few of our favorite images :)

Can I first start this blog post off by saying... "Thank God for Mothers". Every Wednesday my Mom and Dad come over and baby-sit our little boys, Oslo and Wyatt. Then they spend the night at our house so we can have a date night, followed by another work morning.... Side note: last night on our date night we saw the movie "Bad Teacher". Both mark and I give it two thumbs down!!!... Any ways,  I didnt have a local set of Grandparents that could come over and hang out with me once a week when I was growing up. My Grandparents and Mark's Grandparents both live on the east coast. Holidays were always great because we got to spend time with them, but I do wish I had some good quality time with them all growing up on a regular basis. As I type this blog post I can hear my son Wyatt cracking up in the living room while my mom makes funny noises (and probably funny faces) at him. I hope I can do the same thing for my children when I am older. I just wanted to share this simple moment and this blessing with all our blog readers. I hope everyone has as good of a morning as I am having... we love you all!

Last week Sasha and Laura had their "Post wedding shoot", also known as a "Day After Session".  Sasha and Laura are two of our awesome clients! Every shoot we do with them I can't help but want to buy the outfit Laura is wearing!!! They are both super fun and so cute to eachother. We have had such an amazing time being apart of thier wedding. Here are just a few of our favoirte images!

Photographer Tip: Many people ask what photoshop action we use to get the colorful editing style in our photos (like the first one on the blog). The answer is none! We use object like leaves, sticks, fabric, and other items in front of our lenses to get different fun color effects :)

You know those people that have been in your life for a LONG time? They are the ones you confide in most, they know almost everything about you, and you feel so comfortable around them you can actually be your nerdy self? Well JoAnna and Patrick are "those people" for Mark and I! Patrick and Mark are in a band together, and have been in the same band together for years. We knew Patrick far before he met the woman of his dreams, JoAnna. Patrick and JoAnna are so awesome together! When we hung out with them last week, you could tell that the wedding and the idea of spending the rest of their life together was on the top of both their minds. They are such great friends and we could not be more excited to be apart of their wedding!

Here are some of our favorites from the shoot ;)

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Mark and I are headed to Vegas tomorrow to shoot our last wedding of 2009. We have had an awesome year being apart of over 50 weddings. We really feel like we have become great friends with all our clients, and we can not wait for all the rad couples we are going to meet in 2010. Complete side note but I have to talk about it... vegas... I love it. Most of our friends are big poker players, well I am a roulette player. Roulette is my game (Jeff norwood please dont bring up the last time I was in vegas, I was rusty, get over it :).... There have been very few times in my life that I have lost to the game of roulette. There is just something about putting alot of $ on red and waiting in anticipation to see if I lost it all or doubled my mullah. Ahhhh Im so excited. Last time I tried to get into craps, but I just couldn't fully grasped the concept. Well any who, I will keep everyone posted through twitter on how we do this trip.

A few weeks ago Mark Brooke Photography was able to be apart of an awesome wedding. Nate and Kristen are great friends of Mark. Mark met Nate back when he use to play in a band at Hume Lake Christian camp. Its always fun when we get to be apart of weddings where we know almost half the guest list. Nate and Kristen are seriously perfect for each other. We met with them over frozen yogurt to talk about packages. When we left both Mark and I could not stop talking about how great they were as a couple. They are seriously such amazing people, and we could not be more lucky to be apart of their wedding. Here are just a few of our favorite shots.