Yesterday, April and I did a great camera study of Brittany, Christopher and Nicholas Martello in the living room of their parent's home in Trabuco Canyon. Ben and Jackie Martello's home has incredible natural light, and we created some great portraits of the kids together as well as individually. I was so anxious to look over the work that I got on it this morning, and thought I would share a few of my favorites with you.

The Martello's son, Chris, plays football for Santa Margarita Catholic High School, and back in the fall of 2007, the school had a football fundraising auction to which we donated. The Martellos wanted to update their portrait of the kids since Brittany is now off at USC, so at the auction they chose our studio to create the new portrait.















Don't you love the feeling of these black and white portraits?



If you are going to the upcoming Santa Margarita "Valentasia 2008" fundraiser coming up on February 9th, be sure to see our work in the auction. If you aren't able to make it to the auction, and you would like to know more about a special offer we are making to "get Mark busy" in Orange County, please call us at 949.515.5140.

P.S. If we don't get back to you right away, it's because we are in Nashville for a few days doing a portrait for one of our past clients who shamelessly cashed out of California real estate, and headed East! More to come on that next week.