wedding! a & c over at the moana & leahi park

good morning! a fabulous wedding i attended last week... wonderful people, lots of champagne, laughter, and love. they started out at the moana and rode trolleys over to leahi park, where they had a great little ceremony under the archways... and returned to the moana surfrider for drinks & dinner at the beachhouse restaurant. and might i add what an awesome little place that is... food is great, view is spectacualar, and with the wedding party in full swing with dancing- the place was festive and loud!
my sincere thanks for letting me be a part of the day. i had a great time.

stroller strides- kapiolani park

happy wednesday
a few photos from the stroller strides grand opening last friday at kapiolani park. it was a big success and a great turnout! congratulations to michelle- head on out to visit them.... it is a good workout and there were even a few ladies there who didn't have strollers! check out their website for class times. strollerstrides.com

ok! hope you have time to get out and workout!

thank YOU!

i just wanted to say thanks to everyone who's entrusted their photos to me. I LOOVE taking photos- and every new shoot is a great opportunity to be creative & have fun with new friends (YOU!) so, thanks a whole lot. Please keep the photo sessions coming! Refer a friend, a wedding couple, a family... extras for you included!
Happy monday.
Photos coming from C & A soon....

cats!

a friend of ours was housesitting about 7 baby kittens from a animal shelter where they volunteer. i thought they were so cute... had to take a picture or two. problem was, kittens don't like their pictures taken! (kinda like kids....)
but i liked these.

old couches opportunities

hope you all had a great weekend. we got to spend it camping out at bellows... and i have never seen so many centipedes ever! it seemed like they were everywhere... but this isn't about camping or centipedes.

i've had an idea for a while now, and was hoping you can help me out. i love all the retro couches and fabrics you see at stores like macys, cole haan, nordstroms- and i know lots of you have great couches or single chairs out there too. i think they would make great backdrops for family or wedding photo shoots. so bring one along to our next shoot- or let me know if you have an old single one in still good condition that i can borrow occasionally (it can't be heavy, and its gotta fit in the back of my passat)

we found this one down the road and i had to get the kids to take a photo with it....
so if worse comes to worse, we can just cruise before bulk pick up day and find some great scenes to shoot along side the roads of honolulu!

stroller strides- kapiolani park

great morning to you-

i am so pleased to announce that i am business of the month for stroller strides. for those of you who don't know what i am talking about, stroller strides is a fitness group that goes around kapiolani park, (there is even a group out in hawaii kai) with their strollers & babies and they get a great workout in, while meeting other new moms, and get to get out in the sunshine for a while to melt all the stress away. michelle, the new owner, is having a grand opening on friday, september 18, 10am. the class is free, i'll be down there taking some photos, and there will be prizes and giveaways and all sorts of specials. come down even if you aren't a mom!

here is some more info:
stroller stride classes

if you want more info, contact michelle
or go to www.strollerstrides.com

eat local hawaii

so i am working with a friend of mine who is very interested in getting hawaii to be more sustainable and to grow our own foods.
the new blog site is www.eatlocalhawaii.wordpress.com we would love for you to take a peek- and give us any tips, recipes or advice on how we can all eat locally.


the site is a newborn, so check back often & weigh in. lots of other great sites we hope to link up with in the near future.
happy tuesday.

the p family at the fountain at kapiolani park

so here is a super cute family- and i had a lot of fun taking photos with them at the beginning of this labor day weekend. trees are an excellent source of fun & photographs! maybe i need to get my kids to climb, so i'll get more smiles...

i was also interested in the history of the fountain. i found out that it was dedicated to walter dillingham's wife, louise gaylord dillingham- who once lived where la pietra school for girls now stands. way too much info to put into this post, but for some great background history on the area-
check out wikipedia (here) or another great version for hawaii history-
a site by local artist gaye chan- downwind productions (here)


hope your holiday weekend was grand. have a great week.

north shore- matsumotos

so we couldn't leave the north shore without the famous matsumoto's shave ice... and a couple photos.
we now get smart and eat our shave ice first, when heading out there- the line is only to the door at 10am, as opposed to down the street at 1pm... of course, kids are all pumped up on shave ice, but then to get to the beach and let them swim it off is great.

have a great labor day weekend.