I love what I do - I'm a mother to my 2 year-old baby girl named Gemma, wife to my amazing husband Scott, sister (youngest of 6) to my wonderful brothers and sisters, and daughter to my supportive and sweet mother and father (may he rest in peace). I am also a photographer in the Bay Area with passion for people and telling stories.
For 15 years I produced video games, focusing mainly on art, animation and story. Now I'm applying those artistic and story-telling skills to my photography and having so much fun!
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Enjoy life! Enjoy my site! Gracias!
Recently I had the pleasure of working with Katia & Eli on their post-elopement engagement photos. They were both really nervous at first but we had so much fun working together and letting them just be them. We shot into the night and were able to come up with the photo below.
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Her are 2 takes on the same photo taken by the Bay Bridge and Ferry Building in San Francisco. Which do you like better?
- PS- I love both versions, the first one I like just a tad bit more because it brings out the City lights and makes you feel like you're in the pic!
- Aside from the fact that the lady in the pic is my sis- I think this is a gorgeous shot! Looks like a magazine ad selling fabulousness! Great job as usual Rose, it's nice to see how you're progressing from great to greater! Keep up the 'great' work!
I’ve been thinking a lot about my life priorities. My big life priorities. Digging deep and really asking myself tough questions. Making decisions on how I spend my time and with whom I spend it. At the same time, really cherishing every moment and every interaction I have with people, be it my family and friends (old and new) or the folks bagging my groceries at Trader Joe’s. Life is short and I want to be present and aware of all the good things that surround me constantly or be brave enough to make the changes to make it so.
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Being this present has made me really be painfully aware of how quickly Gemma has been growing and growing up! I’ve been taking the time to love her even more fiercely than ever before. Enjoying our hugs that last so long, enjoying the silly songs and games she makes up, telling her ‘I love you’ several times a day and loving her say ‘i lub you too’, dancing with her, making her belly laugh, looking deep into her eyes and smiling, holding her sweet little hands just because… I have so much hope & love for her and so much I want to share about being a woman, a caring person, a grateful person, an independent and strong person…
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I recently came across a blog post by Deb Schwedhelm that displayed a video created by Katherine Center for the Mom 2.0 Summit. The words really resonated with me about being a mother and woman. It says the things that I would tell her one day…:
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WHAT I WOULD TELL HER:
(If I knew what to say.)
You are a miracle.
And I have to love you this fiercely:
So that you can feel it even after you leave for school, or even while you are asleep,
or even after your childhood becomes a memory.
You’ll forget all this when you grow up. But it’s okay.
Being a mother means having your heart broken.
And it means loving and losing and falling apart and coming back together.
And it’s the best there is. And also, sometimes, the worst.
Sometimes you won’t have anyone to talk to.
Sometimes you’ll wonder if you’ve forgotten who you are.
But you must remember this: What you’re doing matters.
And you have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.
The truth is, being a woman is a gift. Tenderness is a gift. Intimacy is a gift.
And nurturing the good in this world is nothing short of a privilege.
That’s why I have to love you this way. So I can give what I have to you.
So that you can carry it in your body and pass it on.
I have watched you sleep. I’ve kissed you a million times. And I know something that you don’t, yet:
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.
And my greatest hope for you, sweet child, is that I can teach you how to write a good one.
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To my Gemmita, I look forward to all our great conversations and experiences together as you write your own story. Thank you for the opportunity to be part of it all. To life, to love, to the balancing game!
I also want to take the opportunity to thank my friend Catie Ronquillo for being inspirational to me and helping me spur on this recent introspection with her blog Project: Joie de Vivre.
- Thank You Baby Sister. I'm in Happy tears ... just woke up and read this... I Love You and I Love Gemma Maria lou and Scotty and all the Krotz"s ...Gemma Makes everyone around her happy and that is a reflection on you! I'm honored and thankful to be your brother. And I wanted to thank you for being you and for being there for me as well... All Love and Light to you Forever and ever!
- Oh Rosie, they do grow up so fast. Remember when you met the C-man, he was only 2 and now he's 11! So much truth to that poem. I still watch him sleep and still kiss him at night, when he's asleep because time flies and one day he will go away to live his story, one that he's been writing these 11 years but I hope he does think back to what I've tried to share with him, in talking about things and also by being an example to him. No easy task, that's for sure but we do the best we can. Gemmita is lucky to have you as her mommy as I am lucky to have you as my friend.
- Beautiful Rosuara, just beautiful! Gemma is adorable and she has such an amazing mother!
I had the great pleasure to attend Jeffrey Neil’s fantastic first ever workshop with the amazing Elisea Johnson of Photogen Inc. and fabulous Jonathan Metcalf of MetMedia. It was a jam-packed day filled of inspiration, branding, photo critiques, laughter, music, awesome live shoot in small groups and great food provided by Jason’s Downtown Restaurant in Santa Ana.
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And on top of all that, the awesome ladies at Utterly Engaged and Treasured Petal created a super beautiful table scape for us to practice our detail shots on. The setting was very unique and made with the males in mind and will be shown in the March edition of Utterly Engaged E-Zine. Check them out if you haven’t already. For a sneak peak of the table, see either Jeffrey or Elisea’s blog, we’ve been asked not to blog them until the magazine comes out.
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One of my main goals for this workshop was to conquer my fear of the tilt-shift lens, and I’m happy to report that I DID! :) For the couples shoot, I forced myself to shoot only with my 45mm TS. Tons went wrong and some went right. I really appreciate Jeffrey & Elisea’s one-on-one feedback and advice working with the TS. Thank you guys. Also, thank you Jonathan for your encouragement during the shoot and tips on post process. You guys all have such big hearts and I’m so happy to have met you.
Below are my fav photos from my day with the TS at the workshop.
One of the other great things about the workshop is that I got to meet some really great people and fellow photogs: Gina Zeidler, Cami Poblete, Lara Holmes, Jon Dunning, Robert Tran, Maya Tasaka, Melissa Oholendt, Lindsey Besthorn and Kelly Aguilar. It was a super cool mix of people and I loved meeting each one of them. Thank you guys for making the workshop that much more enjoyable! :)
- Beautiful Boca.... Beautiful Focus ... Beautiful People... and Beautiful Photography!!!!! Rock It!
- SIMPLY AWESOME ROSAURA! :-)
- SO HAPPY to have met you!!!
- You rocked it Rosaura! It was great to meet you!
- cool! rockin the TS!
- Conquered! good stuff lady ;) clean too
- Excellent work! Way to conquer the tilt/shift.
- SEE! Your shots are amazing! Way to ROCK your T/S! LOVEe
They met and they instantly had a connection and fell in love. Who knew that you could find the love of your life just across the street? As part of their courtship, Page started making these hearts out of all sorts of materials (flowers, seeds, beads, pencils, buttons, veggies, metal shavings… you name it) for Madalene. Every Sunday night Page would proudly and loving place her newly created heart on Madalene’s doorstep so when she woke up to go to work, she’d have a beautiful reminder of how much she is loved.
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7 months into the relationship Madalene was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. 4 months later after a difficult and painful battle, she was gone. Before Madalene passed away, Page promised her to continue to make Monday hearts for the rest of HER life as a way of saying she would never forget Madalene. It has been 4 years since Madalene left this earth and Page has kept her promise.
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On a suggestion form a friend, she started photographing her works of love. One day she sent it out to a friend. And that friend sent it out to others and it snowballed from there. Well, one thing lead to another and now the collection has been made into amazing book. I encourage you to check out the book, Monday Hearts for Madalene and visit Pages website. You could even get a new heart sent to you every week by subscribing to Page’s email list. Oh, and a percentage of the proceeds to the book go to the Woman’s Cancer Research Center. How fantastic it that? There is so much love and creatively in this little book, you can really feel the power of love through each of the hearts. Do yourself a favor and check it out. Page, thank you so much for being so couragous with your love and sharing it will all of us. Madalene will never be forgotten.
by rosaura
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