{The New Blog Has Arrived}

Hi blog readers, friends and brides! After some long hours and much attention my new blog is up and running. I will be posting there from now on. This blog will still be up so you can access over 100 blog posts of mine in the past 2 years. Please feel free to follow the link below to the new blog and check it out, leave comments and share with your friends!!

See you at THE NEW BLOG www.katelinwallaceblog.com

The old blog address will be http://www.katelinwallace.blogspot.com

{New Blog Under Construction}

Wow, I feel like a broken record when I say that it has been way too long since I have last blogged. I am so sorry I am so behind (about 4 weddings and a gazillion other shoots to be exact)! I am working on getting a new and fresh blog designed and up so please bear with me on the delay. I will be sure to catch up on the blogs I have missed these past couple months once the new blog is up and running so be sure to check back in a few weeks! CHEERS! Katelin

{CA Coast Road Trip Volume 4}

Ok this is the last road trip post, I promise. This trip was just so fun I wanted to post a lot. So we ended up in San Fran to see some of our dear friends who live an hour flight away from us (we miss them constantly!). Jessi and I were lucky enough to stay in our friend Keith's HUGE and gorgeous studio right in Russian Hill in the thick of all the action. We didn't cramp his style because he was off playing in Nappa. Thanks again Keith! I fell in love with San Fran a couple of years ago when I visited for the first time as an adult. The city has so much character and an array of fabulous people. For now I will only visit but who knows what the future holds.

{Ca Coast Road Trip Volume 3}

Ok, so I'm not afraid to be silly nor afraid to share with you my silly pictures so I threw a couple in there. THese photos are all from Santa Cruz and Capitola. These town is AMAZING It was so fun. We stayed there for 8 hours and rented bikes, ate on the pier and went on a ton of rides on the boardwalk. Luckily the bike riding and walking counter acted all the popcorn and cotton candy we ate, right? Oh and check out the amazing blue sky and clouds that rolled in in the late afternoon. I had never seen a sky so bright (I did no color enhancement I promise!).

{CA Coast Road Trip Volume 2}

So these photos are all up the coast and some are from this really neat little town that has all antiques shops. It has the smallest population. We chatted with some cute little old ladies and stopped through to have some lunch. I took some head shots for Jessi too.

{CA Coast Road Trip Volume 1}

So if you haven't guessed by now from reading the blog or meeting me in person... I love to travel, see knew things and meet new people. Sometimes I get bored, I blame it on my restless creative mind. So I haven't had quite enough time to take a trip for more than 3 days so my friend Jessi was on board when I suggested a little road trip up the CA coast from OC to SF. It was so fun and extremely beautiful. We went through Slo, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, SF and a few other little awesome towns in between. So here are some fun pics from our time in San Luis Obispo... we kinda loved Bubble Gum Alley.

A new fresh {BLOG} & {WPPI}

So I just got back from WWPI and it was great! I spent 4 days out in Vegas, mostly working and well a little playing as well :) I had a wonderful time meeting up w/Joan Allen a dear friend and mentor of mine. I was also able to meet many fabulous photogs (Braeden Flynn and Kurt Hilmerson just to mention a few). I learned many new great tips and tricks at the seminars. Tamara Lackey and Jasmine Star were just a couple of the speakers that I truly enjoyed.

In light of the new inspiration and all that I have taken away from WPPI I have set a few new goals for this here BLOG. So not only will this blog be to write about my most amazing clients and share their photos but I will be revealing a bit about myself (EVERY WEDNESDAY) and also sharing some photog tips and tricks of my own and interesting articles, videos and so forth that have helped shape me and and my photog career. Please feel free to jump in and ask me QUESTIONS, leave your COMMENTS or just SAY HELLO!! I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!

So I leave you with one little thing about me to kick things off as well as a little Vegas story to go with it. My favorite # is 33.

I happened to have really bad luck and lose the majority of the time. Roulette is my fav game out there and from time to time I enjoy a little black jack and slots as well. My fav # is 33. It my all time favorite. My dad's old football # and my old soccer # and it has stuck with forever. It has proved to be quite the lucky # in the past but this week it was doing me no good. Until... I was heading out of Viva and on my way to hit the road home and I stopped w/some friends to check out the new "City" in vegas and had some lunch at Aria hotel. FYI check out Aria, it is beautiful, modern and sexy. I plan to stay there in the future. Anyways back to my bad luck, I had $40 left and decided why not give it one more whirl at #33. So I hit the roulette table, meeting some fine lads in town from Manchester, England, and lost $30 and in one last attempt threw down my last $10 on #33 and what do you know, IT HIT!! So I made $350 and cashed out and went straight to my car to head home :)

{Love Day}

Hope you all had a Happy Valentine's Weekend! I made these amazing Sprinkles cupcakes from their DIY (do it yourself) cupcake mix

and recipe!

{Sorry for the Intense Lack of Blogging}

Wow, I apologize for my lack of blogging!! It has been way too long and just down right unacceptable! Unfortunately, January has been a slow month for me and not to mention the rain and dark weather have kept me in the house way too often when I should have been out and about exploring with my canon in hand. I promise to share some more of my personal art projects that I have been working on... photography and mixed media paintings are both in the works and they just may cross over from one to the other.

Lately I have been extremely inspired to get back to my mixed media art that I fell into while at The University of Arizona. I was there getting my Bachelors of Fine Art Degree w/an emphasis in photography. Many of you may not know that photographers usually take pictures because we can't draw (hehe) or maybe it is just me who is worthless with a pencil in hand. So I was forced to take a few other art classes among the bazillion photo classes I was taking. My last semester I had to choose between watercolor 101 or painting 101... so naturally I thought watercolor (I had done watercolors when I was a kid) how hard could it be right? Well let me tell you I wasn't very good and our first assignment was to paint four lemons and mine didn't depict the perfect shaped and lovely shaded lemons that the others had. Mine were kind of long and skinny and bumpy and bright yellow and I threw a turquoise one in there too. My professor got to me durning the critique and I was terrified and then she said... wait for it... "I like your lemons, they have character." I was pleasantly shocked and I think she was too! So from there on out I did every assignment however I wanted to and although my paintings weren't always a realistic portrayal they had their own character. From there I stumbled upon different mediums and techniques and now I continue to make all sorts of things. One of my favorite artists is Robert Rauschenberg and his combined paintings and love his work.

Here are a couple of my old paintings from that original Watercolor 101 class!

{The Wedding Chicks Blog}

Ok so hopefully most of you brides out there are in the know when it comes to the The Wedding Chicks Blog. It is a fabulous blog with endless resources for the bride-to-be or should I say the wife-to-be! You have got to check it out. I also, recently had a wedding blogged on their site by the fabulous and talented wedding coordinator Lindsay with LVL Events. Please take a moment to check out our post!

Wedding Chicks Real Wedding post by LVL Events and Katelin Wallace Photography

Castle Anyone?

So I don't know if many of you know who Nathan Fillion is but he just happens to be on one of my fav new shows, ABC's Castle! Any-who I was assisting and helping with production on a shoot with the talented photog and my dear friend, Joan Allen. We did a shoot for Nathan and it was so fun, he is the nicest guy and our crew was a blast. Just thought I'd throw up a few pics for you all :)

[Gus]

So this is the one and only "Gus" I wish he were mine (since I have dreamt about having an all white English Bulldog since I was about... well 5!)  He belongs to my dear friend Kirstin.  Gus is only about 8 months old, a thriving adolescent with plenty of energy to go around!  He has two specific loves... food and his soccer ball.  He chases his soccer ball around everywhere and when he is not playing he has it at his side, between his paws, under his chest etc... He won't let anyone get a hand on it.  It is the cutest thing ever. I couldn't resist snapping a few pics while I was over there making dinner with Kir.    

Gallery 104

I had the privilege of photographing the Grand Opening of The Eco Projekt at Gallery 104 a couple of weeks ago.  It was a huge turn out and the art was amazing.   There were many different mediums of art and it was all so eclectic.  The artists were so kind and welcoming and it was great getting to know many of them.  The show will be up for awhile so you all should go check it out. It is off of Del Mar street in San Clemente, which is such a fun part of town!