Beautiful Day Photography’s Weblog

I had SO much fun shooting Dana and Mike and I was glad that we actually managed to fit this shoot in!  I was originally supposed to shoot Dana and Mike the first week of July, but my Bali trip came as a sudden surprise and I ended up flying in the night before Mike had to leave town for a month.  We were communicating via email while I was at the Taiwan airport and I decided to bank on my jet lag waking me up at 6:30am and being able to get up and do their shoot down in Long Beach early…just in time for Mike to be dropped off at the Long Beach airport directly after the shoot!  All three of us were cramming in a lot, but it ended up being perfect.  It was a nice way to send off Mike, since I know that they will REALLY miss each other being apart for a month before their wedding. Also, it was nice to go casually walk around the El Dorado Nature Center and to be outdoors after being cooped up in airports and planes for two days straight…and YES, I was right about my jetlag and have been up bright and early ever since I got back!  But Dana and Mike are SO chill and comfortable with each other.  They both share the same interests and goals in life and spent the first couple months of their relationship traveling around together and camping in New Zealand.  Now after having JUST come back from that magical place, I can’t IMAGINE NOT falling madly in love while embarking on an adventure like that there.  These two definitely are a perfect match:)