Mr. and Mrs. Cannon ***WARNING*** these images may make you blush!

Life is beautiful. When two people are destined for each other you never know when cupid will hit. The little man from love happened to fly through a little place in San Diego. She was at the bar counter grabbing a few drinks with her girlfriends when this man came up to the same counter and was ordering a few drinks for his guy friends. They smiled and began to talk. What seem like minutes ended up being hours. Needless to say the guy friends started to buy their own drinks. They were so consumed with another that they talked till they kicked them out. They left with giggly goodbyes and each other's numbers. The next day, the man called the woman and realized they didn't even know each other's names. So with a quick I'll call you back he hung up. She was baffled. He called again and said, "Hi, my name is Keith we met last night." That is where their story begins and the love flourished. Darlene and Keith, I am honored to have met you both and your families, I wish you a life long of happiness.

To see more of their wedding images and slideshow please click on this link. http://cliftonphotography.myshowit.com/darleneandkeith/index.html

Family Session

Being a photographer you have clients that just click with you based on personalities, your work, your sincerity, your creativeness, and you hope for all of the above. You also hope to not only be a part of one occasion, but of future one's to come. This family is just one of those stories. I had the pleasure of photographing the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Slane to a wonderful young man. Even though I was a perfect stranger they made me and my assistant (a.k.a. my mom) feel like we knew each other for years. So with that being said it was nice to catch up with the family for a session at the park. This family has as much humor as they do love for eachother, this session was a little more surreal because their other daughter and her boyfriend are moving to Arizona. Let's just say it didn't take much to make these people laugh... inside joke, they know what I mean! Thank you all for such a great time. Sorry I couldn't get in the picture with you, but I didn't have a white shirt! So I now introduce you to the family: Mom: Colleen Slane, Dad: Tom Slane, Son: Josh, Daughter: Kaylan, Boyfriend: Sam, Daughter: Lacey Crouch, Son-n-law: Tyler Crouch. Oh and Kaylan don't forget to let me know when the wedding is wink,wink!

James and Melissa

There is this thing we all have, maybe it's an intuition of some sort, but sometimes we get this gut feeling. Let me explain. Melissa and I befriended eachother while two of our kids attended preschool. Our daughters are currently in the same class, but about two months ago I had this feeling I needed to ask her if she has ever had wedding pictures done. So I thought to myself... that's crazy, what are you going to do go up to her and say WHAT? Well, I confronted her and my first words were, " I have a weird question to ask." and she looked at me like...ok, "Have you ever had wedding pictures done?" She smiled and said, "That is funny that you asked, because I was getting ready to sell my wedding dress I never wore on ebay!" So with that simple question and my intuition we became even better friends and planned HER day, oh and James too :) James has served our country in the military for many years. So between children and being in the military the wedding they planned never happened until they met me! I believe God gives us a gift and my gift is to capture love, happiness, tears, kisses, emotion, and in general LIFE! James and Melissa here is your story.









Here is the video slideshow and the very special song that has special meaning.

Vintage Wedding Album

One thing I have been wanting to do lately is produce another album to show clients some of my recent work. This season vintage seems to be the look for most weddings. So with that in mind a vintage theme album would be something I needed to put together. Nikki and Chae's Day After Shoot was perfect for the look I was going for. Here is a sample of what the book will look like.