Still to this day I am so proud of you. Such a stud you are, Lieutenant Colonel Dean McDavid. You’ve served the USAF well, and you’ll always ben my hero! I love you, Daddy!

Buckley Air Force Base, CO, 2010.

And a BIG thank you to all who have, are, and will continue to serve our country!

In September of 2010, I got my first camera, a Canon Rebel.  

Soon thereafter, I did my first portrait shoot with a friend of mine, Morgan.  She is naturally stunning, so, of course, taking pictures of her was an honor, and they turned out great!

It is crazy to think how far my photography skills have come since then!   I hope to continue to improve, and I hope I get to do another shot of this beauty.  

Click here to view the entire gallery from Morgan’s shoot.

When I was in Monte Carlo, Monaco this past summer, in June of 2011, I came across this sign attached to a light pole.

No, it’s not edited to look that way.  Considering French is the native language of Monaco, and since this sign reads “LOVE” in English, it took me by huge surprise.

Apparently these signs actually do exist, unedited.  

You heard it right, I am a farmer’s daughter.  In 1996, when I was 4, my parents purchased 97 acres in Paso Robles, CA.  

Our farm is a vineyard.  Yes, we have a tractor…it’s red.  Yes, we have a shed, plow the rows and fields, and is located 20 minutes from the nearest grocery store.  We have a 3-bedroom triple-wide on property, as we don’t live there full-time.

Although we have a ranch-hand, if you will, my dad has pretty much done a lot of the labor on his own.  Talk about blood, sweat, and tears.

We have a .32.  There are quail, owls, ground squirrels, and deer.  This is a farm.

The morning fog over the vineyard from the porch of our triple-wide.

After the fog has lifted some.

Here’s also some of my photography of Emerald Hills Vineyard.  You can visit my photography page here, or the vineyard’s website here.

Check out the new banner for McDavid Photography!  

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As a photographer, myself, I am constantly on the look-out for inspiration.  Something that defies the boundaries or ordinary, and leaps into the realm of extraordinary.  

Often times, in photography, we possess the ability to take something ordinary and turn it into the extraordinary.  But what if you start with something extraordinary…what does that become?  Unfathomable?  

Regardless, thanks to Pinterest, I can keep my ‘inspirations’ in one place.  Enjoy.  

Photography Ideas for Photographers

My favorite picture I took from Jordan & Josh’s wedding, July 2011.