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  • From My Side of the Camera | Rachel Malek Photography

    As a kid, I'd add characters to my Dr. Seuss books, color on our kitchen walls, and one time in first grade I got in trouble for stealing a coloring sheet. I was very passionate about art. As I grew older, I expanded from crayons and coloring sheets, and tried new art mediums like knitting and ceramics. But I knew I'd found something special when I first got my hands on a point-and-shoot camera at 14. Wherever I went, that camera came with me. I took pictures of everything from vacations, to friends at school, to nature. Later at 18, I got my first DSLR, had my first paying clients, and started Rachel Malek Photography.

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  • Graduation Cards 101 | Shining Moments Photography

    Graduation Cards 101

    Tips for Creating Great Grad Announcements

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  • Simple Elegance in Warm Colors By Kim Joya Photography

    Capture the very essence of a moment and immortalize it for years to come

    I have been photographing for as long as I can remember. Growing up in Palm Springs, CA I would encourage my best friends into modeling for me in abandoned houses, railroad tracks, scenic backgrounds like windmills, you know the basic stuff. The desert was my life and it was all I knew. It wasn't until I left to Los Angeles that I really became exposed to a much denser population of people. I became obsessed with capturing random, natural moments instead of posing my subjects. I have always felt that there is a rawness to human emotion when people are unaware they are being observed and I fell in love with that concept so most of my work is based on natural candid moments as well as the occasional posed presentation.

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