Sunny California

This weekend I am in Sunny California. Anaheim Hills to be exact!!! Melissa and Adam got married yesterday and it was such a wonderful wedding! I shot a wedding 2 years ago for Annabelle and Jeffry and Adam's parents are friends of Jeffry's parents. When Adams parents saw Annabelle and Jeffreys wedding album they knew that I had to be their photographer!!! Melissa called me not long after and asked if I would come out to California to photograph their wedding! Of course I said yes!!! I love traveling for weddings and I LOVE California!

So the wedding yesterday was wonderful! Everyone was so much fun...seriously a wonderful wedding party! And Adam and Melissa are such a wonderful couple! I felt like part of the family and I had a blast taking pictures.

If you would like to view a slideshow of some of my favorites from the wedding you can go to http://www.michelleallenphotography.com/Showit/foster/

Or you can just look below of a few of my favorites from my favorites!! LOL~!

I'm in Gods Country!!!

Well this last week my husband and I went on a week vacation with my grandparents to Oregon. We have had a blast! I took my camera and have gotten some beautiful scenery shots!! I have a couple to tease you with and more will be coming later when I have a chance to post again!


This was taken at an overlook to show the beautiful scenery of the columbia river. Around this area we stopped at Multnomah Falls, a fish hatchery, and a really neat Dam.


I saw this sign on a tree at a rest stop and I thought it was cool!!


This is grandma and grandpa!!


And then, here is Jamie and me!!!

We are now on the Coast of Oregon and i'm hoping to get some gorgeous shots of the Oregon Coast!! We will see; i'm having so much fun sometimes I forget to take pictures!!

Have a great week everyone!

Laura and Dale

Today Laura and Dale got married at the Villa Siena in Gilbert, AZ !! Congratulations to a wonderful and fun couple!

It was a wonderful day! We started out at Toni and Guys in the mall where I met up with Laura and her bridesmaids. Laura's hair turned out awesome!!! We then headed over to a different salon to get makeup done!! Of Course she and all her girls looked beautiful!!

Dale and Laura were such a fun couple!! I truly had a wonderful day!!! Thank you guys for letting me be a part of it!

Below are a few of the pictures from the day.








I head out now at 9:00 am for Oregon where I am taking our last vacation of the summer! Every weekend here on out there is a wedding.. so get ready for lots of pictures!!!

Gotta Have Some Fun!!!

Well we've been working hard over here at MAP; however, you gotta have some fun every once in a while!!!

Last week a bunch of photographers met together to have some fun... what did we do you ask? Well we bowled... yes my friends... we bowled. Now imagine this... a bunch of photogaphers bowling... camera's everywhere... competition brewing... the heat was on... and we had a blast.

Seriously cameras were everywhere... noone could keep track of their own. Unfortunatly I did not bring my camera with me because I was coming back from out of town and didn't have a chance to go get it, but of course all of my wonderful friends took lots of pictures and I will share some of those with you! Are you ready?




This is our group of photography friends who love to get together and do crazy stuff! The group above is as follows (clockwise from the lower left corner) Melissa Hester (Melissa Jill Photography) Britton & Jared Platt, Jefferson Todd, Isaac Bailey, Marcia Mauskopf, Rebecca Bouck, Stuart Thurlkill and me.


Well the team I was on was kicking a lot of booty... we were all pretty hot, so we jumped in for a team cheer and the other side (JT and Rebecca) tried to sabotage our cheer with loser signs.



Look at that form baby... my husband would be so proud (now only if I could have actually gotten strikes out of it)!



Melissa got a little frustrated with that one... very expressive:):)



And this is just a classic Stuart shot... what a fun guy!

Well I had a blast. It's good to get out and have some fun, and I am so blessed to have some amazing friends in this industry who really help me grow as a photographer! Thanks all!!! I had a blast!