I'm Marisa!
My prounouns are She/Her.
My background is in painting, I am a classically trained artist with a BFA in Painting (I still paint!).
I see the world through an artist's eyes - highly tuned to color, light, composition, shapes and lines.
My prounouns are She/Her.
My background is in painting, I am a classically trained artist with a BFA in Painting (I still paint!).
I see the world through an artist's eyes - highly tuned to color, light, composition, shapes and lines.
I am a semi-retired wedding photographer who specializes in flat lay styling and photography for wedding stationers, calligraphers and designers!
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I also LOVE shooting elopements and portraits with my favorite person, my husband Tim!
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In April 2011, while in between jobs, I was looking on Craigslist and saw a couple in need of a photographer for their small courthouse elopement. Although I had no experience as a professional photographer, I gathered up the confidence to ask this couple if I could be their photographer. I fell in love with the whole experience – getting to know the couple, hearing their story, talking with them about their dreams for the future, and documenting this momentous occasion in their life, and thought, "hey! maybe this is a thing I can do!" From there we started small, with Tim joining in as second shooter beginning with the third wedding.
During the pandemic, there was a drastic shift in the wedding industry and a pivot was needed. Shooting and styling details at weddings has always been one of my love languages, and over the years I would start to greatly look forward to the moment when I would get to style and shoot flat lays for my couples. As I started getting less and less wedding inquiries, I had a growing interest in my styling and flat lays from local stationers here in SoCal. Just like the wedding business origin story, I thought, "Hey! Maybe this is a thing people will want/need and I can do this full time!" From there I decided to dive in head-first and make styling and flat lay photography my (almost) exclusive service and I love it so so much.
In April 2011, while in between jobs, I was looking on Craigslist and saw a couple in need of a photographer for their small courthouse elopement. Although I had no experience as a professional photographer, I gathered up the confidence to ask this couple if I could be their photographer. I fell in love with the whole experience – getting to know the couple, hearing their story, talking with them about their dreams for the future, and documenting this momentous occasion in their life, and thought, "hey! maybe this is a thing I can do!" From there we started small, with Tim joining in as second shooter beginning with the third wedding.
During the pandemic, there was a drastic shift in the wedding industry and a pivot was needed. Shooting and styling details at weddings has always been one of my love languages, and over the years I would start to greatly look forward to the moment when I would get to style and shoot flat lays for my couples. As I started getting less and less wedding inquiries, I had a growing interest in my styling and flat lays from local stationers here in SoCal. Just like the wedding business origin story, I thought, "Hey! Maybe this is a thing people will want/need and I can do this full time!" From there I decided to dive in head-first and make styling and flat lay photography my (almost) exclusive service and I love it so so much.
