portraits

At the end of last year I got the opportunity to photograph a couple of the trainers at Action Potential Personal Training Studio in Pollock Pines, Jessica Miller and Amy Teel. Both are my friends and I’m excited to see this business taking good shape up here in our mountain town. Jessica Miller moved her business up here this past summer from Placerville in order to be closer to her family and to take advantage of a larger and more flexible space. She picked a beautiful location in the old school house where many businesses working in arts and physical fitness…

I love it when I get to give back to someone who is usually not on the receiving end of such gifts. That’s the case here with beautiful Victoria, who won this session at an auction for a charity event held by the Diamond Springs community earlier this year to help the family of one of the 19 fallen firefighters from the Arizona blazes, Sean Misner. His wife, Amanda, who has roots in the area from her high school days, was just two months away from delivering their first child, Jax, when he died. The whole community came together on…