A lover of the visual arts and the girl who always had a wall of photographs in her bedroom. I'm always giddy with excitement to share these captured moments with friends, family and now my clients. The emotions my photographs evoke is one of life's greatest pleasures for me.
In the last year I have explored my creativity and discovered a great joy for photography. I am both self-taught and also studied at Tri-Community Photo Program in Covina, CA. I shoot in natural light and my style can be best described as photojournalistic. My goal is to capture you and or your families' lifestyle, uniqueness and tell your story. The session time is our play time so fun accessories and snacks are encouraged!
Currently available for photo sessions in LA and Orange County, but I love to travel so please do inquire for pricing outside these areas.
I live in LA with my life partner Kris and enjoy cooking, travel, wine tasting, reading and the beach.
Photo by Trude Ellingsen
Even with the gloomy and cold weather on Friday and Saturday, it was another great weekend. I had a blast on Saturday with Ubaldo and Socorro at the Cal Poly Farm in Pomona, yes, officially one of my favorite places ever to play, shoot photo sessions and get great produce. They were doing a tasting...
I spent last Thursday afternoon with my best friend, Annie in Laguna Beach to kick off her staycation. It was a really nice day and the sunniest day of the week, perfect beach weather. We walked and played on the beach and enjoyed lunch at the El Ranchito , dinner at Bandera’s , oh and there...
I’ve been featured here at lacylike. I virtually met Lacy through another blog and placed an email to her to learn more about getting certified to teach yoga. She was so awesome and shared all her knowledge and experience over a lovely phone conversation. All I can say is that these little things restore my faith in...
I am grateful for the rains this weekend as it forced me to stay in and really have some down time and learn to relax. A lot of cooking, reading and movie watching took place and I was okay with that. It was a crazy and busy week for the both of us and next...
Last week Kris decided to take 3 days off from work since he already had that Monday and Friday off and we both needed some down time and a recharge. We kept it low key and for the first few days just did the everyday stuff and got a few dentists appointments out of the...
Today’s sunset. I can never get enough photo shots of a sunset… I will always capture them and I am okay with that. This winter has brought some of the most gorgeous sunsets in Southern CA and I need to make more attempts to capturing them because it’s a shame to let this...
I just wanted to share some of my photos from this project since recently a good friend inquired, the rest of the set can be seen here. Thank you for the continued support for all those that are my biggest fans, it means the world to me.
Also feel free to check out this...
I just wanted to share photos of yours truly here on Trude’s blog. I had the pleasure of participating in this photo swap and photographing her and Caroline, but I was nervous about seeing photos of myself (first photo session for me) and I must say that I was just being silly, so silly!
I’m blown...
My grandmother Soledad passed when I was only 14 years old and she was the sweetest and most loving abuelita that any girl could have. The other day I was re-organizing my jewelry box (I do this a lot, I’m an organizing clean junkie) and I stumbled upon these lovely gold earrings. They were given...
My best friend, Annie invited me to come as her date for Kooza. Her work had purchased VIP tickets for the show and I was more than delighted to go for obvious reasons , but mostly for the excitement of getting all gussied up and spending “girly time” as I call it with one...
