Engagement portraits of Kara Hanson and Dean Fox taken last month at our favorite park, Glen Arbor in Murrieta. Be sure to watch the slideshow at the end of this post to see more of Kara and Dean’s beautiful pictures!

To view the entire collection of images from Kara and Dean’s session, please visit www.pictage.com/1248435 and fill out the guestbook.

On Sunday, March 31st, we were in Laguna Beach at one of my favorite spots just behind the Montage Resort, to photograph engagement portraits for Jill Kovalcin and John Petrizzi. Their wedding will be held June 30th of this year at Wiens Family Cellars in Temecula.

As with many of my wedding clients, Jill and John told me that they are not particularly fond of [...]

Chelsea and Joe are both outdoorsy type of people. They love to hike, and run, and ride bikes together. So, when I suggested nearby Santa Rosa Plateau as the location for their engagement portraits, they loved the idea. Rachel and I met them at the Visitor’s Center on the plateau and hiked around one of my favorite trail loops to capture them enjoying nature and [...]

2011 was a great year for Loren Scott Photography! We were busier than ever and had the pleasure of photographing weddings and engagement sessions for a bunch of really awesome couples. Rachel and I have selected some of our own personal favorites from 2011, and we also asked our happy couples to pick out some of their own as well.

So, here they are, from the [...]

On Sunday, December 11th, Loren and I photographed a beautiful engagement session with Jennifer Dominguez and Sergio Gutierrez at Glen Arbor Park (aka The Dog Park) in Murrieta. Despite the chill factor, it turned out to be a pretty good day for an engagement shoot. The weather was cooperating (as we’d just had heavy rains the week before), the early afternoon lighting was perfect, and [...]

On November 16th, Loren and I had the amazingly fun task of photographing an Old Town Temecula engagement session with Sarah Williams and Jeff Arbuckle. Sarah is a bit of a laugher…actually, that’s putting it mildly! Sarah laughs all the time and her laughter is infectious! It was quite fun watching her interact with Jeff while trying to keep a straight face. The resulting pictures [...]

On October 16th, I was at my most popular beach location for photographing engagement portraits — Laguna Beach, just behind the Montage Resort. On this occasion, the happy engaged couple in front of my lens was Vi Ly and her fiance, Steven Aranda.

Vi and Steven are doing a great job of planning ahead, as their wedding is not until next July 8th (at [...]

As I mentioned in the previous blog post, this winter is unusually busy with weddings for us, and Jill Liggett and Aaron Maurice are another of our happy winter wedding couples, with their wedding coming up next February 4th at the Wedgewood Wedding and Banquet Center in Fallbrook.

During their initial consultation with us, Aaron was telling me that he maintains the private wine cellar for [...]

Usually, the main “wedding season” runs from March through October. However, this year has been our busiest ever with weddings scheduled in November, December, and next January and February as well! Greer Wayland and Scott Sheldon are one of our happy winter couples and will be getting married at Wiens Family Cellars this coming January 14th.

So, on October 9th, we met up with Greer [...]

On Thursday, July 21st, we were at the home of Alex Ashforth and Chris Forney in Escondido to photograph their engagement portraits. It is not often that I photograph engagement portraits at a couple’s home. However, in this case, I’ll be back there on September 24th to photograph their wedding.

Weddings held at private residences are becoming more and more popular. [...]

On Saturday, July 30th we were at Glen Arbor Park in Murrieta to photograph the engagement portraits for Mary-Alice Welshon and Clint Navrkal. I will be photographing their wedding on September 3rd in the Murrieta community of La Cresta.

Mary-Alice and Clint were one of those couples that started out initially wary of the camera. But, as usual, after the first series of shots (in [...]

I truly love my job. I mean, it is almost cliché these days to hear a photographer swooning on their blog (or the About page on their site) about what “passion” they have for photography, or how they love what they do. However, at the risk of sounding cliché, I will say it again — I do truly love my job. At the beginning [...]

On Sunday, June 26th, we were at one of our favorite locations to capture beautiful “woodsy” engagement portraits — Glen Arbor Park in Murrieta (also known to locals as the “Dog Park”). Today’s portrait session was for Charlinn McCuiston and Chris Watkins.

As is the case with many people, Charlinn and Chris consider themselves somewhat camera-shy. And, as usual, within 10 minutes of starting their [...]

On Sunday, June 19th, we were back in what has now officially become my favorite location to photograph engagement portraits — Old Town Temecula. On this day, I was photographing Jennifer Williams and Shawn Percival, whose wedding I will be photographing on Friday, September 30th at Wiens Family Cellars in Temecula — which also happens to be one of my favorite weddings venues.

Jennifer and [...]

I had such a fun time photographing childhood sweethearts Monique and Randy Smith for their engagement session in Old Town Temecula. Technically, they’re already married, but they never had the ceremony they wanted when they married at the courthouse almost a year ago.

So, this July 9th — on what is really their 1st anniversary — they will be having a wedding ceremony and [...]

Here are some highlights from Cassandra and Robert’s engagement portrait session at Crystal Cove. I’ll be photographing their wedding on May 21st at Coyote Hills Golf Club in Fullerton. Stay tuned!

Courtney Campora and James Carter love their dogs. We love dogs too! So, when they gingerly asked about including their dogs in their engagement portrait session, we quickly said, “No problem!” We set up a split engagement portrait session for them on March 27th. The first half was in the morning at Glen Arbor Park in Murrieta. We’ve photographed there many times [...]

It’s engagement portrait season! On March 6, 2011, we photographed the engagement session of a beautiful couple, Kelly Keprios and Tim Jiannino, at one of our favorite locations in Laguna Beach.

Here are just some of the amazing shots from the session that Kelly and Tim selected for use in their custom Photo Guest Book that we’re designing for them. And, check out their cinematic [...]

On Sunday, February 5th, I was at the Mission San Juan Capistrano to photograph an engagement portrait session for Kimberly White and Tony Checchia. I’ll be photographing their wedding on May 1st, 2011 at Etiwanda Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. I have photographed at the mission a couple times before, so I already had some specific spots in mind that I was looking [...]

I had previously posted a blog entry with photos and info on the engagement portrait session that I shot for Joe Emery and Cherina Hardiman on August 29th (HERE). Well… during that session, on the spur of the moment, we decided to also film some video snippets and see what we’d get.

I didn’t have my good off-camera mic with me, so I ended up just [...]

On Sunday, August 29th we had the pleasure of photographing engagement portraits for Cherina Hardiman and Joe Emery in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles.

Joe and Cherina are such a fun and lively couple. They are truly a perfect match, as evidenced by their many years of coupledom! We can’t wait for the wedding on October 31st (Halloween)!

Certain dates are very popular for weddings. For example, I have photographed weddings on 07/07/07 and 08/08/08. On Monday, August 16th we were in Beverly Hills to photograph my 10/10/10 wedding couple, Yoko Tsuchihashi and Sammy Shakerchi, for their engagement portraits. They were both so photogenic and affectionate with each other that it was easy to catch natural smiles on their faces and love in [...]