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Camera Basics Application workshop

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On Sunday, eight of us met in the Orange Circle for an hour.25 of camera clicking fun. It was the follow-up Applications workshop to the Camera Basics class presented a few weeks ago and I think it’s safe to say we all learned a lot!

I am the hands-on type of learner and know so many of you are too. After several years of people saying ‘you really should teach a class, Jackie!’ I finally sat down to develop a simple class system for my kinda hands-on learning. Topped with some Jackie sauce. It started as an in-class presentation with slides and notes and open conversation and wrapped on Sunday’s sunny afternoon while we applied all we learned by shooting together. It was so awesome to see all the smiles and light bulbs going off as everyone began to understand more about their cameras. Rewarding for all.

Stay tuned for the next class/workshop as it will be scheduled in the next month or two. Sign up for my email newsletter to be the first in the know.

This is some of them shooting/learning/awesoming…

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And this is what they were shooting! Thanks, Angela for sending me this rad shot to share! And thanks Gavin for volunteering to be our jump model. 🙂

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Little Leather Lovelies by Lovato (Images)

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Sometimes a few enlargements mounted or framed aren’t enough. Sometimes you want your images to remain private and not displayed on the wall. Sometimes you want prints on-the-go to showcase your event. Sometimes you just want a bangin’ book of Lovato Images to share!

I know these things. This is why Lovato Images offers our Little Leather Lovelies: custom designed books with your photographs printed beautifully, bound in luscious leather to keep safe forever. The images are printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Pro Super PD Lustre paper (aka, awesome printingness) and mounted into black matte board for easy endurance (aka, awesome strengthness). The design is custom and you get to choose your favorite images to be included! How fab is that?! Then you choose the size of the book, 5×5, 8×8 or 10×10. So many choices of awesomeness, I can’t handle it.

The most common Little Leather Lovelies are designed for my boudoir/nude portrait clients to keep their images private. Then runner up is the young lovers’ engagement sessions to be used as a guest book at their weddings. Little Leather Lovelies (I just came up with that name right now and I love it, can you tell?) are also fab for events like baptisms and bar/bat mitzvahs, or portrait sessions like newborns or high school seniors. Really, the possibilities are endless. How lovely.

For pricing, inquire today. For awesomeness, inquire always.

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Kanchana & John with Arya on the way | Dana Point Maternity Portraits

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The eldest of five Indian children raised Hindu in Thailand, Kanchana was the first to refuse the role her family laid out for her. Arranged marriages are typical in Hindu culture, but she fell in love. So against her family’s wishes, Kan left her country and life as she knew it to follow her heart and develop on her own.

She married John and started Sweet Basil Inc, a small business bringing traditional Thai cooking to local kitchens by private instruction. Her lessons were so fun and fabulous! She balanced the roles of wife and business owner beautifully and I have to admit I was disappointed to hear she was giving up the business when she got her own bun going in the oven.

But I can’t tell you how happy I am that Kan and John are pregnant and will soon be delivering their daughter Arya! Kanchana is one of the most beautiful women I know. She’s sharp. Articulate. Attentive. Generous. Comfortable with who she is and what she brings to the table and I know that as good as she is as a wife, business owner and friend, she’ll be tenfold as a mother. She was born to do this and I can’t wait to watch her shine as she develops even further in the most important role she’s taken yet.

Thanks Kan and John for trusting me with the task of documenting this precious time in your lives. So glad to know you. I look forward to knowing you and your family more in the years to come.

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Take Control of Your Own

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Sometimes things happen that are beyond our control. In fact, most often things happen that are beyond our control. We can control so little really, except for our reactions and attitudes towards all those uncontrollable things.

In late adolescence, I went through a lot of crap. Didn’t we all? I found myself in some rough situations and let them weigh heavy on me. I let things beyond my control control the way I felt and acted. I became a product of the situation and acted in ways that didn’t sit right with me. It wasn’t me. But I realized it finally and began to work on change. This is how we learn.

Since, I’ve always tried to focus on not letting my ill emotions or foul feelings affect the solid human I want to be. Act how you want, and so you will become. So I try and stand strong. I try and laugh and love. I try to treat every situation with humility and respect and grow from it no matter how rough it may have become.

It’s okay to cry and get angry or sad or mad. It’s okay to get upset. But the point is to rise above it just as soon as you possibly can. Stand strong in who you are, and let that Who be positive and happy and full of Love. Don’t let anyone or anything fence you into negativity. You control your limits and boundaries. You control who or what affects you and how. And really if that’s all we can control, we might as well take some control.

Open your own gates. Lock your own fences. Take control of your own.

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image shot in Venice, Italy, October 2011, on 35mm Kodak 200 Color Print film

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March 7, 2012 - 5:53 pm

Abigail - Jacqueline… I have known you since we were 15, I have watched you blossom and grow into the most amazing woman. Your photography is out of this world, your writing has become so poetic and real, your connection to yourself and others is so raw and beautiful. I consider you family, my sister, and I could not be more proud of you. You are a blessing that I’m not sure I deserve, but I accept it with the most humble gratitude. You are such an inspiration to me, and to everyone you touch. I love you Jackie Lovato.
xoxoxoxo
March 7, 2012 - 5:58 pm

Jackie - wow, Abigail. Thank you. THANK YOU. from the bottom of my heart thank you. :*)

Laguna Beach Engagment Portraits | Christine and Ben

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Sometimes I sit in front of a set of images, completely compelled to write an amazing love story to match. Other times, the love story writes itself. Even other times still, I’m at a loss for words that could possibly come close to describing all the awesomeness that love already is.

Right now I face all three. Christine and Ben’s story was revealed to me during our engagement portraits in Laguna Beach last week. I saw glimpses of glances and a leaning in stances and all the chances these two took to make it together. I saw effort next to effortless. I saw a seriousness between the laughs, an understanding between the fun. I saw all that they were in that moment, and all that they had come from.

You see, I have the best job in the world. People share their lives with me. They share their love and hurt and joy and pain and sometimes they don’t even mean to, but they do. They let me in, slowly mostly, sometimes unwittingly, but always more in than I was before. I’m a professional observer. A professional life lover. And I’ve become a professional story teller along the way.

Christine and Ben’s story is a lovely one, full of embraces and honest faces and all the places you’d want a love story to go. I feel compelled to tell you more. Then I feel these images tell you enough. And then still I feel tiny and useless trying to describe all they have. So instead just observe a bit yourself…

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