Road Trip Video

One last hoorah about the Road Trip!



Thanks to everyone who helped with the road trip. By housing us, feeding us or modeling for us. We love you! XOXO!

Home Again!

 What an awesome Road Trip! Tons of fun! No matter how great a trip is, it's always so good to be home.
Before we left San Diego we had one last shoot with the sweetest baby girl, Genesis, at La Jolla Cove. Isn't she so beautiful!

We gave her this lolly-pop and she loved it. But she would not put it in her mouth, she just wanted to stick it in the sand!

Road Trip Day 6: San Diego, California

After a long day of driving on Monday we got to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in  Los Angeles, CA.  There we did a shoot with Dallas who was fantastic! She looks so glamorous in the dress yet, off sets everything with all her tattoos. Love it!

After that we still had a 2 hour drive down to San Diego that night. So we crashed last night. We got a late start on our morning beach shoot with Emma this morning, but it didn't really matter because the sky was overcast all day. (Really love overcast for shooting.) 

Wow! Was Emma amazing! Perfect and gorgeous! And such a sweetheart! OK, I'm gushing because Emma just happens to be my cousin - but all those things are still true!

Emma's a California surfer girl and she was awesome to get in this cold water with that dress. (Wedding dresses get really heavy when wet.) By the way, why was the water cold?! It's July, for crying out loud!

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Road Trip Day 4: San Francisco, California

So yesterday I left Reno in the morning and drove into California. The drive over the mountains was so lovely.

 I met the beautiful Stephanie in 'Old Sac' Sacramento, CA for more wedding dress fun and yes, it's really called that. 

So much fun! Stephanie fit that fantastic princess dress from Bonny Bridal perfectly!

Then no rest for the weary. I drove to the San Francisco airport where I was reunited with my assistant Carmen! Ahh, San Francisco. A crazy city so we did something crazy. Today we went to the Golden Gate bridge viewing area and asked random girls if they wanted to put on a wedding dress. Crazy, I know. But we did get some takers. Brave Lisa and Rani from Germany put on dresses in the public bathroom and we did a little photo session. Shout out to Lisa & Rani -'We love you! You made our day!'

Aren't they great!? Love serendipity!

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Road Trip Day 2: Reno, Nevada

As it always is with life - nothing goes according to plan. The plan was for myself and my 2 assistants/best friends, Ashley & Carmen, to all do the road trip together. But because life is crazy I had to make the first leg of the trip alone. But before I completely left the Vegas desert I talked Carmen and Ashley into waking up early to do a shoot out in the desert before I got underway.  And I swear that we did not coordinate our outfits! It just happened like that. See how much we think alike.

So because Ashley is gorgeous we stuck her in the dress.

Then I had an 9 hour drive up to Reno, NV all alone. But I managed to keep myself entertained.

After I got to Reno and visited with my beautiful, long-time-no-see friend, Jessica, she said she was up for some night shooting. So we grabbed her friend Kerrie, who was so classic & lovely, and went into downtown Reno.

And now this afternoon we will be shooting again! I'll have more for you soon.

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Road Trip Coming Up!

So the wonderful folks at Bonny Bridal sent me some lovely wedding dress to take on our Road Trip for fun trash the dress sessions! They are so awesome! (I even pranced around the house in this one for an hour- shhh, don't tell.) And I had to take some pictures. Here's a few sneak peeks.

Wanna wear it?! I still have a few spots left on the Road Trip, so email me at rachel@brilliantimagery.net
to schedule your session. It's totally free and lots of fun!
I'll be keeping you all updated daily from the road so check back to see what trouble we can get into!
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Bonny Bridal Wedding Dress Giveaway

Bonny Bridal is the wonderful wedding dress company that is going to be helping us out on our July Road Trip by donating a few dresses to use for Trash the Dress sessions on our travels.
The wonderful people at Bonny Bridal are giving away a free wedding dress this month. And it's so easy to enter. Check out their blog for all the details.
http://bonnybridal.blogspot.com/2010/06/lets-celebrate-our-first-giveaway.html

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Back Home

I've been back from Minnesota for almost a week and I still feel like I'm playing catch up on all my work. So forgive my lateness in blog posting.
Eric & Sarah's Minnesota lakeside wedding was awesome! I'll have more images coming soon. Here is a Polaroid of my assistant, Carmen, and I playing at the photobooth. Sarah made those wonderful lips and mustache from wood. Aren't they cool?

Even though I am just back from a trip I am already planning for our next one- The Road Trip in July. And I have some great new information for you: Bonny Bridal has offered to let us borrow some of their beautiful wedding dresses for the whole road trip to do some great 'Trash the Dress' sessions all over. So now you don't have to trash your own dress because I have one for you! Again email me to schedule a session or if you have any questions.

Road Trip!

So Brilliant Imagery is planning a photography road trip! Basically that means, myself, and my 2 assisstants will be taking a week long gallivant to do photography session through out Nevada and California. And get this- we'll be doing the sessions totally FREE!!! No travel costs and no session fees. We'll shoot and put up your images on the online gallery where you'll be able to view and purchase prints and products. If you'd like to buy the disk of all your edited images it's only $300. Then you'll be able to Facebook 'em, print 'em at home, email 'em or whatever.

We'd love to do some family portrait sessions, babies, pregnancies, senior portraits, engagement sessions, Trash the Dress sessions or (dare I say it -) your wedding! 

 We've planned out a road route that will have us in 4 different cities over a week. This is the tentative schedule:
       Friday July 23rd 2010: Reno, Nevada
       Sunday July 25th 2010: San Francisco, California
       Tuesday July 27th 2010: Los Angeles, California
       Wednesday July 28th 2010: San Diego, California

We'd be happy to change our schedule or route to fit you in, so let us know! Please email me to schedule a session or if you have any questions. We so look forward to photographing you!


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