What a great day with Nicole and Manolis.  Their ceremony was beautiful and took you back to an old European wedding. The atmosphere was filled with tradition, chants, candles, and then the beautiful touch of the crowns on their heads.  Nicole’s flowers were unique and gorgeous.  The white peonies and green roses, yes green were brought in especially by her mother from Oregon.  Check out some of their other photos by clicking on their slideshow below.  I’ve also listed some of their vendors.

www.jilljohnsonphotography.com/slideshow/nicoleandmanolis

www.apieceofcakebakery.com

www.villaragusa.com

www.detailsbylinda.com

www.aclassyaffair.com

www.limostop.com

While we were in L.A. I was able to photograph Gillian pregnant.  Gillian and her husband Ken were one of my past bride and grooms. In fact, on the site they are the couple playing in the rain.  This is their first child and they are so excited.  One of the coolest things is that they are still in to each other as much as they were on their wedding day.  We had so much fun doing the shoot.  Little Eva was born about 10 days after we did the session.  Here are some more of their images.

 www.jilljohnsonphotography.com/slideshow/kenandgmaternity

I have to say I use to really love Disneyland.  When I’m there it just makes me smile.  I guess its the kid in me.  Now that I’m a parent I looooooooooove Disneyland even more.  We are the luckiest parents on earth because our kids take magic happy pills or something because they are awesome when we are at Disneyland. Not that they are not great kids normally they are just fantastic while we are there. I see other kids crying and throwing fits on ours just cruised thru the day.  It really is a magical place.  The only thing my kids would never do at Disney was go up to the characters.  They were petrified. They’ll ride Space Mountain til the cows come home but the characters freaked them out.  This was the first trip we were able to get a picture with any of them.  I love this one with Tigger.  For those of you who haven’t been at Disney in awhile the other thing is they have this great Jedi training center.  Again, we were really luck because all the kids (4) of them we went with got picked to become a jedi.  So they train them in the way of the force and then they have to battle against Darth Vader or Darth Mal.  It was great!

I love it when I get e-mails like this especially first thing in the morning or when I’m having a bad day.  This bride just looked at her album design for the first time.

I am totally in tears - you are amazing!!!  

I was able to shoot this little guy here with his family last weekend.  I love how big his eyes are in this photo.  They make you just want to dive in.  Check out some other stuff from their family shoot.

www.jilljohnsonphotography.com/slideshow/hauserfamily

It has been a incredible busy couple of weeks with a variety of photo shoots.  This was a really fun one and completely exhausting by the time we finished but we got some great images.  I hope to have a slideshow of them in the next couple of days. These were a couple of my favorites.  Rarely do your children just sit and look great for a photo.  I personally know these kids and this is one of my favorites. It just shows so much of their personalities. 

This mother’s day at our house was great.  It was sort of mother’s day weekend.  The guys at my house went all out this year.  We had lunch at the beach, hung out and relaxed, and the best thing was my present.  My husband bought me a little vw convertible bug.  It was such a surprise and it is so cute.  I’ll get a picture up of it soon.  The color of blue is awesome.

About two weeks ago I had the oppurtunity to photograph Rob and Cindy up at Picchetti Winery.  They were so fun and brought a lot of props to play with.  The kite was one of my favorites.  I love this shot because of how Rob is looking at her with such adoration.  Check out the peacock in their slideshow.  He just came up and ate straight from the picnic.

www.jilljohnsonphotography.com/slideshow/robandcindyengagement

Yesterday I was able to attend a Photoshop workshop up in San Francisco.  I have to say these workshops are always good but my head always hurts afterwords.  Learning new techniques and software is a constant in this business. But I have to admit I’m looking forward to trying out all the new techniques.