This beautiful little 6 year old is Jenica, not only does she capture my heart when she is in front of my camera but often in my personal life. I have been blessed to know her since she was a baby and I am so excited to watch her as she grows into a young lady. One of the bonuses to photographing friends is that you often get some goofy outtakes just like a few of these in this blog. Jenica leave a trail of beaming smile everywhere she goes, her personality and smile are one of a kind. Enjoy and be on the lookout for another Silvas on the blog; her big brother is graduating from high school this year!
Yucca Valley Family Photographer
Twentynine Palms Photographer – Dooley Family Session
This family hasn’t had their pictures done in a bit so we set out to the Joshua Tree National Monument to celebrate some life changes and just have some fun. Upon arrival I asked the kids if they were excited to get their pictures taken and to my surprise they both eagerly said yes; not sure what mom bribed them with but it sure did get us started on the right foot! We climbed, we ducked and we photographed, this beautiful family is full of personality and I am thankful to have met them and photographed them. Thank you again!
Twentynine Palms Photographer visits Northern California – Johnson Wedding
Photography has become such an amazing experience for me and then there are times when I get to help memoralize not only a special occasion but also one for someone who means so much to me. Meet my mom and her new husband Kim! When my mom said she was getting married of course I knew I wanted to be the one to photograph this big day. I am so happy for the newlyweds and that my mom found someone to make her smile!
My mom simply had an evil ook on her face at that moment she decided to smash that cake into Kim’s beard! But htey were having fun and didn’t make too big of a mess.
This is one of my favorite pictures from the day. I caught this during their first dance and to me it opitimizes the tender moment when two people come together!

Twentynine Palms Photographer – Beringuel Family
Sarah contacted me to do a family session while she was home visiting her family in Twentynine Palms, we didn’t realize that we actually knew eachother until we showed up at the session. This beautiful new family was a pleasure to photograph. Isn’t this little one too cute in her zebra pants?
There is so much said when a child smiles with delight while they are playing with their parents. These are the moments that I love to capture!

Twentynine Palms Photographer visits Oceanside,CA – Baby S turns ONE!
I have been so lucky to watch this family through out this last year! Our journey toghether began while Baby S was still in momma’s belly. They have allowed me to chronicle the first year through many changes for them as a family. I am honestly a little sad that it is over.
Baby S was so much fun on the beach. He explored the sand and water, he never stopped moving. You may notice for most of my one year old sessions we always have lots of action shots!
Since the Gehris family recieved orders to Camp Pendleton I knew I wanted this shot and I am so glad it turned out even better than I could have hoped.

Twentynine Palms Photographer – Baby G’s Cake Smash
So many gorgeous images from our session in the park. This little cutie literally had me running in cirlcles; everytime I thought my camera was pointed in the right direction we switched our forward motion! So baby G brought the cuteness and some adventure, he did not smash his cake on his actual birthday but at our session he must new what to expect because he dug right in. During clean up the park sprinklers came on to assist. Thankfully mom and the little guy were good sports.
These smiles were amazing and brought out the sight of his big brother! He was in awe of his sibling!
Big sister turned on some music and the dancing began. Baby G was very excited!

Twentynine Palms Photographer visits North Carolina – Kalnicki Family
I could write a thousand words to describe how I feel about this family. After 5 years I was able to visit my dear friend Barbara and her family in Jacksonville. What a blessing this trip was for me! Her beautiful family and I has fun adventuring around this park for family pictures and the girls and I had a couple impromptu sessions that yielded some gorgeous shots! I love you Barbara!!

Twentynine Palms Photographer – Sara’s Senior Portraits
Here is some more beautiful images from my senior session with Sara. She is a Senior Wildcat at Twentynine Palms High School. She plays volleyball for the school and a club team! Her mom and I are friends so it was an enjoyable session hanging out with two great ladies — until the committed a sin and took some behind the scenes photos of me taking pictures, I am behind the lens for a reason. I am glad that Sara wanted to commemorate the session though!

Twentynine Palms Photographer – Victor’s Senior Session
Twentynine Palms Photographer – Destiny’s Senior Photography Session
It’s Senior Year!! I have known Destiny for several years and I have been photographing her for a long while now. This by far has to be my favorite session, beautiful Destiny. These pictures not only shine with her smile but you can see her personality and love of sports; graduation is only the beginning for this young lady!




















































