One blessing of being a photographer is seeing a family change and grow. The kids have really grown up since the last photo shoot 2 years ago. Beautiful family!
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." -Dorothea Lange 1895-1965
I recently had the privilege of taking some fabulous portraits of a very talented man, Randal McGee. I met him in 2010 at the Solvang (located in California) Danish Days Festival. Solvang, meaning "sunny field" in Danish - was founded in 1911 and is celebrating its Centennial this year. Besides great food like medisterpolse (danish sausage) and aebleskiver (light and airy pancake balls dusted with powdered sugar and served with raspberry jam), I love the Hans Christian Anderson Museum, honoring the multi-talented Danish father of the modern fairy tale. It is filled with originals and copies of of Anderson's books, sketches, paper cutouts, silhouettes and collages. Randal does an amazing impersonation of Anderson. He performs each year in Solvang at the H.C. museum & at the Elverhoj Museum of History and Art.



This was performed at the Cultural Center in Vacaville. The Academy Performance listed below was performed here as well. If you never attended one of their shows, you should! They always have an ad in the Grapevine for their shows in Spring, Summer, and Christmas. Wizard was fun photographing. They are not only talented dancers but they have great acting skills as well. See all the photos: http://www.christinelarsenphotography.com/client-login.html




I had the pleasure of photographing these talented young women and men. Beautiful performances! You can visit my Client Login to view all the photos.
The Vacaville Visitors Bureau (a non-profit organization) just released their first official publication. I was please to find out that they choose one of my photos for the cover (Maia's Happy New Year's photo) and another inside (Carissa & Maia at the opening of the Nut Tree Park Plaza licking lollipops). You can get a free copy by visiting their office which is located in the Nut Tree shopping center (E. Monte Vista Ave.) across from Border's book store and next a sport clothing shop.
Here is the beautiful model in the "Happy New Year's" photo. She is wearing a traditional Vietnamese dress from Vietnam. We are part Vietnamese too! I'm half and she's a quarter.
Won 1st place for the Dixon Fair photo category. My daughter won Best of Show for her Barbie Collection, "Meet Me At The Ball". She was so happy to win the big purple ribbon!