I've been a photographer for over 20 years now. I have been running my own business shooting primarily products and Jewelry. I've always had a secret love for capturing landscape but never thought I could ever earn a living with it. During this time I gave birth to my two beautiful sons. Of course I spend half of their lives taking photographs of them.  I found myself at a bunch of sports events and being the passionate photographer I shot tons of those throughout the years. When your child is on a team there is the inevitable team photo shoot and then the individual shoots. Neither of them were ever spectacular... But as the doting parent I purchased just like everyone else. I never inspected the quality. Instead I was just glad my son didn't ruin the picture and it was a bonus if he was smiling nicely. However, I did notice that I eventually stopped purchasing the actual pictures and only ordered a plaque and trading cards. I wondered why. Well to be truthful, I was not in love with the generic backgrounds. The lighting was flat and the images really never captured by sons beautiful blue/green eyes. So I thought - How can I do better??

I knew it would be difficult to capture every player on the perfect night with no wind and the sun just setting with the lights in the field twinkling just right... So I thought... I can capture amazing landscape shots. And I'm a seasoned studio photographer. I need to blend these together. Oh- I forgot to mention that I am also a photoshop expert. There is not too much I can't accomplish with photoshop and I teach Photoshop at FIT, NYC as well. Ultimately I shoot the field, gym or venue of the league. Then I shoot the portraits on green screen and composite the two together. 

So I decided to give it a shot. Long Beach is the neighborhood that I live in and where we are raising our family. I started here with the leagues my children participate in. I've been very well received. Partially because I'm familiar with the parents on some of the boards and partially because people recognize that I am the author of the Visions of Long Beach book which is a book primarily on the landscape of Long Beach. Although the book was published in 2008, I have been running the Visions of Long Beach Facebook group which has over 500 local members. 

So here I go - Wish me luck!