month: January 2009




Orange County Wedding Photographer Christine Bentley

My son is so adorable, no really, he totally is! LOL, he had the opportunity to be in Jennifer’s wedding last weekend and was determined to be called the RING MASTER…a little lord of the rings but I’ll take it! He looked so cute and it was so funny to watch him being pulled around by the super sweet flower girl. Can you see why I had my camera in my hand all day??? XXOO





Orange County Wedding Photographer Christine Bentley

My husbands niece was married last weekend. Family weddings are always fun and it gives me another chance to practice my craft! If you know my work, you know my favorite place to be during a wedding is on the groom’s side facing the bride. It’s her face I want to capture every minute of, her expressions that I think are worth a million. Well, her husband has them too and that’s what second shooters are for! It’s just my favorite place to be if I have a second. Anyways, this was not my wedding and it was nice to be at a family event and not feel responsible for the photos, more fun and relaxing, more enjoyable. All I can say is that Jennifer was CRAZY with emotion and I loved capturing it! I stayed in one place during the ceremony because I didn’t want to get into the “real” photographers way. But as you can see, these are great, her emotion is spectacular, I’m sure you can feel it! XXOO





Laguna Beach Critters

So the last thing that we expected to see today would be a critter in Laguna Beach like this! He was sitting on this branch over all the crowds enjoying the hot summer day…LOL…I know it’s only January and my friends on the east coast and midwest aren’t too happy to hear that today it was about 80 degrees! I really don’t like birds…they aren’t my favorite. They are right up there with fish, but I was sad for this little guy. He was obviously injured as you can see from him holding up one of his talons. GORGEOUS bird! Anyways, myself and a lot of tourists gathered around him, just to see him in all his splendor. Hopefully he’s fine???? Thought I would share!