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ACA Senior – Rachel

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:19:40 +0000

Rachel is graduating! Rachel and her family are world class folk. They are super involved with Redlands Christian School, Arrowhead Christian Academy, and The River Church. They are awesome baby-sitters. Our girls love going over to their place to play. And Jill and I don’t mind sending them every so often so that we can get away for an afternoon.

Rachel’s parents won this senior portrait session by outbidding everyone in the silent auction during ACA’s Cirque du ACA fundraiser. We had a great time in our session shooting in some really cool light. Congratulations, Rachel!

Cassidy

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:55:30 +0000

Cassidy is graduating from Redlands Christian School. She’s headed to the big show – high school. I was pumped to get to photograph Cassidy for her 8th grade graduation. I got to do a shoot with Cassidy and her siblings last year at this time when her older sister was graduating from RCS. Cassidy is a natural in front of the camera. As you can see, she rocked this shoot.

Josie – Sooo Cute!

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:44:29 +0000

Josie just keeps getting bigger. It’s really fun to photograph a baby several times in their first year. She’s much chunkier than she was in our first shoot. Her parents tell me she’s off the charts in height – definitely a Wiers.

She’ll be very popular with the boys with this kind of behavior.

Jeff and Carmen – Expecting

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:30:13 +0000

We scheduled this maternity session just in time. Five days after the shoot, their little girl arrived. I’m so glad we got some photos of Carmen and Jeff before the baby came. It’s fun to look back at that cool pregnancy time.

We’ve known Jeff and Carmen ever since we arrived in Southern California from the snowy north. We’ve been in bible studies together, gone to church together, and most importantly we’ve rocked out together. These guys are great. I had the awesome opportunity to go take some photos of their new arrival in the hospital (photos coming soon), and no one could be happier to be a dad than Jeff. Their little girl is very lucky to have these two as parents.

Some photo setups fail, and its best to just laugh.

Solo Session – Brenda

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:45:08 +0000

Lesotho, Africa is a little country that lies in the center of South Africa. 45% of the population is unemployed and 36% live on less than $1 a day. There are people in Lesotho who have devoted their lives to proving that God exists by caring for suffering people, especially children. Our church discovered some of those people several years ago and adopted their mission to glorify God by caring for orphans at the Beautiful Gate orphanage.

Brenda recently returned from Lesotho after spending a year at Beautiful Gate caring for children and using her administrative talents to help the leaders of the orphanage strengthen their organization and prepare for the future. Now that she’s back in the states, she’s working for a handful of mission oriented organizations and needed some portraits for publications, websites, and whatnot. We had a great time roaming around Redlands. If you’re ever in need of a Redlands historian and tour guide, you could do a lot worse than Brenda.

Session Prices for the Rest of 2008

len20 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:05:26 +0000

It’s time to roll out a list of session prices for the rest of 2008. I’m still working to build my portfolio, and my price list will continue to be quite a bit lower than the market calls for to meet that purpose. I’m planning to set a new price list in January, so go ahead and book your session now before prices go up!

Senior Portraits – $65.00
Up to a two hour session
Enhanced images online gallery
all printing is at cost

Child or family of three – $65.00 ($15.00 per additional child)
Up to a two hour session
Individual children portraits
Family portraits
Enhanced images online gallery
all printing is at cost

Couples – $65.00
Up to a two hour session
Enhanced images online gallery
all printing is at cost

Multiple families – $75.00 base ($45.00 per additional family)
Up to a 3 hour session
Any combination of families and children you’d like
individual children portraits
couples portraits
Enhanced images online gallery
all printing is at cost

Please call or send me an email to book a date for your session! My available time is limited, so please contact me soon.

Phone: (909) 583-3045

email: mark@markleonardimaging.com

Happy Birthday, Eva – 2

len20 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:13:22 +0000

Here are a few more photos of Eva for today.

This is one of my favorites of the day.

Barents Family Portraits Finale

len20 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:41:09 +0000

The rest of the session will be on my galleries site.

Thanks for calling us, Barents Family! We had a great time coming out to hang out with you.

A face only a mother could love.

Barents Family – Round 2

len20 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:30:21 +0000

I didn’t get time to do a lot last night, but here’s a few more from our family session on the beach.

I think I asked them who chased whom back in the day. J. made this gesture which I’m interpreting to mean, He chased me like the coyote after the roadrunner. (meep-meep)

More of these love birds and the rest of the family tomorrow.

The Barents – Round 1

len20 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:42:32 +0000

My wife and I were dating when I helped her move out to Southern California seven years ago. G. Barents was one of the first people I met from the RCS community. Jill and I were preparing her classroom and G. came in, sat down, and talked to us about the school and the church. Needless to say, we knew a lot more about the school and the church after our history lesson.

There’s something kind of awesome (in the true meaning of the word) about seeing these kids. I just kept thinking about a young G. and J. beginning a family, and decades later here is what that family has grown into. I was looking at a live family tree.

Even though they were goofing around, I really like this photo. This is a strong family, illness or no illness.

L. put the guns away! They’re covering up your sister-in-law.

I’m pretty sure that they were arguing about who Grandma and Grandpa liked best. L. just about brought out the guns again before everything quieted down.

There are more photos on the gallery site. Be sure to check it out. More on our time with this awesome family tomorrow.