Karen Martinez

She is the daughter of my Brother-in-Law's Uncle and her Quinceniera is comming up...
I am the sister of the wife of her father's nephew and I can take pictures fairly well..





The family asked me to take the pictures for her Quinceniera. A Quinceniera is similar to the American Sweet 16. It is a right of passage for most Hispanic ladies. It symbolizes the first steps taken into womanhood and is officiated by a ceremony done in church and a celebration following. She's going to have an enlarged picture of herself for people to sign at the Quinceniera and she wanted the picutes to be done at Balboa Beach.





I learned a lot yesterday. I learned about client-photographer etiquet. I learned about angles and where to stand when it comes to direction of the sun. I learned that due to the limited landscape a beach is a difficult place to photograph people. I also learned that the first 15 to 20 minutes of any photography session will most likely be spent on getting the suject to relax. Karen was very rigid at the beggining of yesterday's session, but towards the end she was more relaxed which made for more natural looking pictures.





She's a nice person and mature for her young age.

Psalm 139: 1-18

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; 

you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue 

you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; 

you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, 

too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? 

Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; 

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, 

if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, 

your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me 

and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; 

the night will shine like the day, 

for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; 

you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you 

when I was made in the secret place. 

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. 

All the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! 

How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. 

When I awake, I am still with you


Intimacy is truely a scary thing.
But under the right context it is so Beautyful