Thank you to Ceremony Magazine for choosing to showcase this gorgeous Surf and Sand Wedding on the California Wedding Wave. Natalie & Phil had  an amazing beach front wedding ceremony and an amazing reception, coordinated and designed by Natalie Good with A Good Affair this past August. Natalie’s doggy was also her flower girl! I loved this wedding and I chose it on my website as one of the “featured” wedding galleries. Click the link below to see my wedding on Ceremony’s website/Blog!

Check me out on California Wedding Wave!
http://www.californiaweddingwave.com/2012/01/30/real-wedding-natalie-phil/

Thank you again to Wedding Wire for awarding me with the 2012 Bride’s Choice Awards for the 3rd year in a row for Wedding Photography! I currently have 63 Reviews at a perfect 5.0/5.0 and in this busy world they are not easy to get. Luckily my brides take the time to fill out these reviews. Wedding Wire acknowledges the top Wedding photographers in the industry and listens to what their brides have to say about the work! It is a great tool for future clients to be able to read what past clients have to say about me. Thank you to all of my clients for taking the time to fill out a review in this busy busy world. I really do appreciate the 5 stars and acknowledgment for doing great work!

I thought it would be fun to share what is in my Photography Bag. A lot of people ask me what I shoot with and what lenses I prefer, so here you go. This is my travel Lowepro backpack, I strictly use this on plane flights as I can never separate from my camera equipment and this backpack fits in the overhead compartments.Getting ready to fly and shoot 2 weddings and 12 photo shoots in 5 days, which has become a usual occurrence for me. So here is how I pack my bag to travel. I will be writing a follow up blog soon on how to travel with your equipment and keep your images safe! Since I have become more of a destination photographer, I have shot in different countries and regularly shoot out of state. Traveling with your equipment and already shot images can be very tricky and you need to be prepared for the worst case scenarios! While shooting I like to use my Kelley Moore bag if I have an assistant, and I prefer my Thinktank which is handy for all my lenses when I shoot alone and have no assistant.

What I shoot With:

Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 5D‘s as Backup
Zoom Lens 70-200 2.8 ~ Most Preferred 
Zoom Lens 70-200 4.0 ~Backup, Used for Travel
Overall Lens 24-105 4.0 ~Larger Group Shots
Macro 100 mm 2.8 ~For rings and close ups
Wide Angle 14mm Fisheye ~Room and Venue shots
2- 580EX II Flashes
Gary Fong Whales Tale~ Have shot with it for years and cant shoot without it.

Not Pictured: Canon 50mm, Think Tank easy shoot waist bag, Kelly Moore Bag, Over 100GB of Chip Space, plenty of camera batteries and chargers

I love this shoot I did of this cute family in Boise!!! I don’t typically shoot to much in Boise as all of my clients are in Orange County, but Kelly with Cherished Images is also a fellow photographer and we swapped family shoots. Neither of us had had a family shoot in years…..We are like Plumbers with leaky faucets. 🙂 I had a great time shooting at this old condemned oil factory off the beaten path and next to the Boise River, so we were able to shoot at both locations just steps away. There will be a follow up blog of Kelly’s images of my family very soon. Thanks for a great time and beautiful images!

The City of Brea in Orange County, California; has a city policy for over the last decade that any new development must have a sculpture or piece of artwork. The city boasts nearly 150 amazing sculptures and works of art from all different artists. It adds character to this amazing “small town” feeling bustling city. I LOVE BREA and lived there for over a decade. I shot almost 100 of these unique sculptures and documented their location for the city of Brea and loved shooting objects for one of the first times. It was a great project and I am excited that the Orange County Register has featured my work. Check out the link below to see the amazing sculptures, and the ones I shot are credited. Thank you to Trinitee and the city of Brea for your write up and featuring me on the City Website and in the Newspaper.

Thank you so much to The Knot and A Good Affair for choosing me to photograph the Knot Party OC 2011. It was a great night full of wonderfully amazing vendors at one of Orange County’s best wedding venues, Rancho Las Lomas. Natalie with A Good Affair Wedding and Event Design. Natalie really out did herself on this event, it was over the top spectacular. David Tosti with Tosti Studios shot with me and we had a great time. I was truly honored to shoot this event and to appear in The Spring Issue of The Knot 2012. I attached the previous blog on this event and the unique vendors that participated. The blogs are really worth looking at, there are super unique wedding ideas!

The Knot Party OC 2011 Blog:
http://jaimeehubert.blogspot.com/2011/09/knot-party-oc-2011.html

The Knot Party OC Unique Wedding Vendors:
http://jaimeehubert.blogspot.com/2011/09/this-is-blog-as-promised-dedicated-to.html

I LOVE the Fullerton Arboretum……maybe I love it so much because I was married there over 12 years ago. This is a 26 acre property with quite a few places to have your wedding ceremony. Congrats to Olivia and Cian who chose to have their ceremony overlooking the lake, where my husband and I got married under a huge arbor covered in purple wistaria. There are plenty of amazing places for romantics, so pad your timeline for your romantics so you have a little extra time to cover this beautiful property. This wedding was after day light savings and we lost the light quickly or I would have had a field day of possibilities! There is a bamboo forest with a creek running through it, a dessert, rose gardens, tropical section….too many cool places to list. This happy couple chose to have their wedding reception at Meridian Club in Fullerton directly on the other side of the 57frwy. This venue is catered by Collette’s Catering and the food and cakes are always yummy! Check out the Fullerton Arboretum if you are looking for an amazing outdoor venue in Southern California.

Fullerton Arboretum Website:
http://fullertonarboretum.org/fr_weddings.php

Meridian Club Venue and Catering:
http://www.colettesevents.com/

Thank you again Orange County Bride Magazine for another published written article and for a 2-page spread of beautiful Yosemite at the historic Ahwahnee Hotel. The historic Ahwahnee hosts intimate weddings and honeymoons for happy couples. Orange County Bride sent me to this majestic hotel to experience the breathtaking landscape and a wedding backdrop that only exists in movies. The Ahwahnee is an absolutely gorgeous hotel boasting over-sized dinging rooms, and perfect for a small ceremony with a waterfall cascading behind you on the ceremony lawn. Below is a link to the previous blog I wrote on this fantastic hotel and landscape with amazing pictures. Having your wedding at the Ahwahnee would result in the most amazing romantic images and any photographer would be excited to shoot there. My husband and I spent two days in Yosemite and experienced a perfect Spring day followed by the valley being canopied by snow. It was truly an amazingly beautiful experience and I was able to capture some of my personal favorite images of all times.

Previous Blog written on Weddings at the Ahwahnee by Capturing Moments:
http://jaimeehubert.blogspot.com/2010/05/yosemite-weddings-at-ahwahnee.html

Orange County Bride Magazine:
http://ocbridemag.com/

The Ahwahnee Hotel Official Website:
http://www.yosemitepark.com/accommodations_theahwahnee.aspx

I have never blogged about my father and since he was passed the gavel last night as his 3rd and last term as Mayor of Buena Park, I found it befitting. Twelve years ago, my Dad and our family went on a bit of a quest to help our city in which the “Dow” family has lived in for 4 generations. We had a steep hill to climb as my father ran against 2 incumbents, and in the history of Buena Park nobody had ever won against an incumbent. For months we worked our hearts out and my Dad won by only 152 votes. We were ecstatic! Since then he has served twice as Mayor, and I am very proud to say that is is my fathers 3rd and final term as Mayor. Despite my father not having come from money, nor does he have a college degree, coupled with very serious health problems, he really has made his late parents proud. I am so proud of the legacy my Father has left his kids and grand kids. I love you Daddy!

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