Karey Michelle

Jeshica & Brian’s Wedding Featured

Karey Michelle — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:10:40 +0000

Jeshica and Brian’s wedding at Shutters On The Beach in Santa Monica was featured over at Elizabeth Anne Designs today, CLICK HERE to take a look!

Have a great day

iPhoneography

Karey Michelle — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:01:01 +0000

some of my favorites: light, places, and fun moments from this last year…

i’m addicted. and i’m also on instagram now, if you like you can find me: Karey Michelle.

Hello 2012

Karey Michelle — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:28:27 +0000

Goodbye 2011. Thank you for all that you gave me: I got married to the love of my life, we bought a lovely home in San Clemente, our families are like friends we would choose, we went on an incredible honeymoon in Fiji, we are happy, healthy and thankful for each new day. I really don’t know how it gets much better than this, but we’ll keep dreaming up a storm while we can. I feel so blessed and excited for what is around the next corner…

so, Hello 2012!

I am quickly approaching my first anniversary as a married woman and am asking myself where has the time gone?!? This time last year I was approaching my wedding day, putting in offers for a new home, and stressing out over such crazy random details that I can’t even remember what they were right now. It’s funny how that works. I’m terrible at New Years Resolutions by the way… as a creative person I’ve always felt a bit intimidated and intrigued by the practice, where I want to join in with everything I’ve got and go for the gold, but then my list turns into a reminder of all the areas I’ve failed in getting done. No fun in that light. But I also know that you can’t hit a target you can’t see so this whole resolution thing is probably important. The biggest lesson I’ve learned these past couple years is that I can’t do it all on my own. I have to share with others what I’m aiming for so that they can help keep me accountable, no matter how scary or ridiculous it may seem. So that said, I want to share some of my “goals” with you for this next year since I heard that making them public can be a form of accountability. So, I’ll take what I can get and hope whoever said that is right. *Some* of my 2012 resolutions are as follows:

1. Quiet time in the morning for 20 minutes before I start my day.
2. Launch my new website with my new branding. (it’s in the works and i can’t wait to share. but getting it FINISHED is, well, you know… ugh.)
3. Blog at least three times a week, as a regular thing, in practice by the end of the year.
4. Portrait business launched. Did you even know how much I love doing portraits?
5. Get more personal on my blog. [*Started as of this post!]
6. Get an office manger. (DONE!!! I can’t wait to introduce you to Andrea!! And how can it hurt to put something on my list that I’ve already done?… I call it encouragement.)
7. Plug in to San Clemente and my new Talega neighborhood. I want to be known and give to those I live in community with.
8. Go primal/paleo all year long. Don’t worry, my husband is in on this so I have a chance.
9. Shoot for the stars… there are a lot of dreams I have for my business and I love that my dad is always telling me to dream bigger. So if you ever take me out on a coffee date I’ll probably spill what some of my stars look like, but in the mean time I’ll keep working on the getting-more-personal-on-my-blog part… which means I’m still shy and have most of the details in my journal for now. But yay for me for getting this far right now

2012, I can’t wait to meet you, thank you for a new beginning! I love new beginnings. I need them.

And since all posts are better with a picture, here is my husband with MY camera in my face as we hiked Multnomah falls with the fam over Christmas. I like how he see’s things I don’t see.

He’s my favorite.

~Karey

Wong/Kidder/Wallace Family Photos!

Karey Michelle — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:52:43 +0000

I look forward to this shoot with them every year… and I got to meet baby E this year and she is ADORABLE! Check out her cute santa suit

Can’t wait for next year!!

MJ 2 Day Workshop!

Karey Michelle — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:36:22 +0000

I’m so excited to be hosting the FABULOUS Melissa Jill for her 2 Day Workshop next August here in Orange County, its going to be so much fun and you should come too!! I first met Melissa at Zach Arias’s One Light Workshop a couple years ago (which she hosted at her super cute house in AZ) and she is so sweet, down to earth, kind, sincere, and one of the most genuine friend’s you could ask for. It’s hard to find quality people like her. And then to top all of that, she has incredible business savvy and photo skillz to match the best of them, and I think it’s such a gift for our industry to have someone like her willing to teach the rest of us how to raise the bar.

If you want to raise the bar in your own photography business, I would *HIGHLY* recommend signing up. Melissa will be covering everything from shooting to the behind-the-scenes business topics so whatever it is you think you need help with, chances are it’s covered. And it’s going to be FUN She just had her workshop website redone and it’s so awesome! Check it out:

The dates for the MJ 2 Day Workshops are:

Annapolis, Maryland — June 11-12, 2012
Orange County, California — August 6-7, 2012

I hope you’ll join us!

Jessica and Kenji ~ Part 3

Karey Michelle — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:03:49 +0000

Time to check out the killer green dress…

These two rock. Such favorites. Hope you enjoyed looking at them as much as I did taking them!

Jessica and Kenji ~ Part 2

Karey Michelle — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:53:27 +0000

It’s been awhile but it’s time for the second installment of one of my favorite couples ever… these two are just so much fun, SO in love with each other and we were blessed with some super awesome light… and now they’ve talked me into road biking! I’m so thankful for clients like them! Enjoy

Part 3 is next! Watch out for Jessica’s killer green dress. I love green dresses!

Ruffled Feature!

Karey Michelle — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:44:08 +0000

This is so fun… my wedding was featured on Ruffled recently! Just had to share. I’ll add some more posts about the details of our day sometime in the future, but until then.. CLICK HERE.

Happy Wednesday!

Jessica and Kenji ~ Part 1

Karey Michelle — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:30:45 +0000

I had so much fun tonight with these two that I just couldn’t wait to share some favorites. Enjoy!

That was just the first outfit. More to share soon! For now it is time to prep for a fantastic Dana Point wedding tomorrow with the fabulous Jen Disney.

Stay Classy. (I just finished watching Anchorman.)

Recap of this summer!

Karey Michelle — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:19:27 +0000

Ok so it’s suffices to say that things have been pretty busy around here this year and I have completely failed at keeping up on the blog train. But that is where I give myself some grace and remember that we had a wedding, I moved twice, we bought our first home and then fixed it all up ourselves, and we re-located my office to work from home too. I’m tired just thinking about it all! It’s finally starting to feel like home around here since we moved in this past May, and needless to say I’ve been super obsessed with every design site out there! I’m sure you probably know about these but just in case you don’t here are my current faves:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

http://www.centsationalgirl.com/

http://decor8blog.com/

http://www.designsponge.com/

http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/

http://www.twigandthistle.com/blog/

http://www.younghouselove.com/

Someday I’ll share some pictures of our new place (whenever I can clean it first!) but I have a lot of shoots and the like to share first, so I thought to get started I would post a favorite from some of my work this summer that is pretty much all over the map from San Diego to St. Louis…. these just make me happy:

And summer isn’t over yet right?!?