{Danny & Katie}

So this blog is a little late but better late then never, or so I tell myself just this once. I am usually right on time!! Well this wedding was so much fun. Danny and Katie were so laid back which made it so easy and fun to get shoot. I second shot this wedding with the amazing Eric Slay with Paper White Photography. He is an amazing photographer and so fun to shoot with! Turned out that I knew a few of the groomsmen from back in the high school days. This is the 2nd time this year that I knew people in the bridal party. Small world, small Orange County. Congrats again Danny & Katie.

{Wednesday Wallace #1}

So I mentioned that every Wednesday I would post a new fact about yours truly so that all you readers can get to know me a little bit better. We will call these posts "Wednesday Wallace". So for today, since it is St. Patty's I feel it best to share with you all about my heritage. My middle name is Wallace and my last name is actually Journigan. Wallace is Scottish and Journigan is French. I am about 50% Irish! 25% Scottish! and about 25% French! with a pinch of some Dutch in there too. Somehow I tan amazingly well and I am not sure where that comes from. Everyone have an amazing St. Patty's filled with Irish love! xo Kate

{Tommy & Kelsey}

This engagement shoot was filled with laughs from both the engaged couple and from me as well. I have know Kelsey since high school back to our high school and club volleyball days. She clearly has the height that I was always lacking so naturally she was a middle and I was the setter. I hadn't met her fiance, Tommy, until the day of our shoot so I didn't quite know what to expect. He was just a hilariously and outgoing as Kelsey. i am telling you they are perfect for each other, match made in heaven. I am so looking forward to their wedding in Sept. at the beautiful Nixon Library.

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 :)

{CRUZ}

Umm I think Cruz gets the most adorable little ham award! He is the cutest thing ever and his eyes just draw you in. His Mom and Dad were the best, most helpful and fun to photograph parents. We had planned to shoot some sleeping photos and apparently Cruz is the best sleeper ever, but as it normally goes on baby shoots... he didn't sleep a wink, not even for one second! So we had some fun with it and took advantage of those big brown eyes of his. Cruz gets a high five for not peeing once! i don't know how he did it but he is the first baby to never pee w/out his diaper on during the shoot. Oh, and I couldn't resist throwing in a picture of their unbelievably friendly dog, Lincoln. He was by my side the entire shoot waiting patiently for his moment in front of the camera, so I gave him the spot light on the chair, in his sweater and he soaked it up!!

Here is Lincoln enjoying his moment in the spot light! He cracks me up!

{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

{The Edwards Ladies}

Those of you who know me personally know this fabulous lady and one of my best friends, Chanel. If you don't know her then you should get to know her! Chanel and her 2 sisters and her amazing mother all were in town for the holidays and decided it was time to get some new updated pics so we had a super causal and relaxing shoot over at the park. If you ask me these four ladies look like they could all be sisters!

{A Winter Summer}

God is the ultimate artist.