continuing kamran and leila's san diego engagement session in balboa park and harbor island

and now, the rest of the story. kamran and leila's engagement photo session in san diego story that is. i can't tell you how thrilled we were to work with kamran and leila. it was during our very first meeting with kamran and leila that they asked us if we had ever shot a persian wedding before. knowing this might be a very short meeting after my response, i said no, we had not. i then added confidently, "we would love to."
i do not know why, but whatever the blessed reason, kamran and leila looked beyond our lack of experience with persian weddings and hired us to shoot their persian wedding in san diego. it would be our first, and it would be an amazing experience.
more on that soon. i'm puting the horse before the cart.
before we could do their wedding, we wanted to do a sweet engagement session for them, so bang, we hit the city baby, dead on! with the awesomeness of san diego at our disposal, our first stop was the aprapos House of Iran in Balboa Park.
kamran and leila, everyone. everyone, kamran and leila.

for fear of leila's smoking hotness burning down the house, we didn't stay by the house of iran too long.
moving on. cut. print. check the gate.

as much as i'd like to, i can't take credit for kamran and leila's fashions. when scheduling a photo session we tell all of our couples to simply wear something that's you. then we remind them that they are not hannah montana or one of the power rangers :)
we love kamran and leila's outfits. they go together without looking like they're wearing uniforms, and the colors are awesome! project runway contestants, take note :)

anyone know what time it is?
oh yeah...
it's sexytime!

don't. cover this up. it's not sexy. it's ani-mal. :)

kamran picked the prettiest flower in the garden.

double-fierce bonus points for this one. they are... HOT! (said with emphasis on the T to drive home our point.)

for this part of the session we tried out our new telepathy recorder that we've been developing. it's still in the r and d stages, but here's what we were able to record from kamran's mind during this sequence.
get out of my dreams...

and into...

my car. :)

as the moon was tucking mr sun in to bed we stopped at a bench on shelter island, the place where kamran asked leila to be his bride.

it was a beautiful ending to an awesome session.

the man in the moon is smiling, cause they're in love.
thank you kamran and leila. we really enjoyed walking around some of our favorite spots in san diego with you and talking about your big day.
speaking of which...
check back soon for pictures of kamran and leila's persian wedding in san diego california. it was amazing!

also, before i go, i want to thank Leila's makep artist Itzel Ceballos for doing such a wonderful job. She is a pleasure to work with. Please contact her if you ever need an awesome makeup artist. Her email is: itzel_ceballos@msn.com and her cell is: 619-250-5448

kamran and leila's san diego engagement session peek

i'm short on time tonight, but i wanted to throw out a sneak peak of the uber hot kamran and leila's san diego engagement photo session in balboa park and harbor island. can you handle the hotness? check back soon to see more.

something super is about to happen

the larsen ohana - a san diego portrait session

when we are not shooting a wedding in san diego, we are often shooting a family portrait session in san diego. sometimes we do a portrait session in balboa park. other times we go where the turf meets the surf for fun family photos on the beach. this session however, was different for us on many levels. sure, it was a family, and it was in san diego, but it was so much more than that. it was shot in a quiet home. a home with a lot of family memories, old and new.
these are the very first professional photos of our good friends masen and jen with their freshly hatched first child elliott (that were not taken by masen himself). they were taken in the home masen grew up in. the same home elliott will grow up in. being there, i couldn't help but to think of all the family history this home holds, and is still to witness. i'm just corny like that. i guess it just stirred up happy memories of my grandparents house. but i digress :)
to this day we are still completely humbled when awesome wedding photographers, like ma5en, hire us to do portrait sessions for them. we are even more blown away when they ask us to take photos of their family. this... this was just a whole new kind of honor. being asked to take masen and jen's first family photos with baby elliott was just awesome. we are so happy for them, and so proud to have been a part of this.
please join us in congratulating masen and jen as we introduce you to their ohana.
on a side note masen and jen, i hope you don't ever plan on trying to say "NO" to these big beautiful puppy-dog eyes. we wish you the best of luck.
she is going to play you like mario bros :)

haaaave you met elliott?

masen and jen, we can not possibly thank you enough for hiring us to do this for you. it was a HUGE honor.
elliott is a beautiful beginning to your ohana. that's right, i said beginning. not end. i believe i speak for everyone that loves you when i say...
get crackin on making more beautiful children like elliott! :)
we are going to love watching her grow with you, and seeing lots more pictures!

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