by Laura Cottril | Jan 18, 2016 | Children, Costumes, Quinceanera
It has been truly amazing watching my clients grow up as my business has grown up. I photographed this beauty when she was two or three and I was just starting out in business trying to find myself. I’ve photographed her through the years watching her turn into...
by Laura Cottril | Mar 19, 2014 | Children, Costumes, Family Portraits, Personal, Portraits
Not too long ago I was looking for a local store that sold baby gifts. Many of the stores I used to go to had closed and so I was hunting online when I found Wish, Walnut Creek on Yelp. They had such amazing reviews I had to check it out! Little did I know what was in...
by Laura Cottril | Oct 8, 2013 | Costumes, Vintage
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Excitement for the Gatsby Summer Afternoon bubbles like a sparkling summer brook, escaping like...
by Laura Cottril | Oct 1, 2013 | Costumes, Vintage, Vintage Dance
“Oh, it was easy to see why people had whirlwind shipboard romances, for it was a temporary journey into fantasy, where dreams could come true–if only for the duration of the cruise.” — Patricia Hagan (Ocean of Dreams) It has been a year of crazy...
by Laura Cottril | Aug 26, 2013 | Costumes, Portraits, Vintage, Vintage Dance
the dance from Laura Cottril on Vimeo. “Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I shared this piece with a...
by Laura Cottril | Aug 24, 2013 | Children, Costumes, Personal, Portraits, Vintage
I have a group of photography friends with whom years ago we decided we would “go for our Master’s” together. In our local Professional Photographer’s of America group, it was hard to keep the Masters interested in coming to our meetings, so we...
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