Melissa Beach Photography

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Shop Sale

Hi everyone! I am having a sale this week.

Spend $50 and get a free 5x7 print!

Sale ends Aug 21st, 2009

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Monterey Bay Aquarium

As a gift for my graduation my sister took me to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  It was so beautiful!  I have lots of pictures.  I hope you enjoy them!

Can you tell I love jellyfish?

Cabrillo Farmers Market - Aptos, Ca

If you ever make it out to the Monterey Bay be sure to stop by the year round farmers market on Saturday mornings at Cabrillo College in Aptos, Ca.  I have lots of pictures so I will keep my words short today. 

Hungry Yet?

Wedding - Jen and Josh

A while back, I posted photos of a wedding that I had taken last year.  The bride liked film photography so I decided to take a few of the photos with film for her.  I recently was able to get the film photos I had taken converted into digital files.   Here are some of my favorites.

New Baby and Pregnancy Portraits

I have been catching up on some photo editing.  I did a mini shoot with a friend's baby girl, Rose.

She loves to cuddle with her mommy!  She was a doll to work with.  We had so much fun!

There was also Chia Pei's shoot.  A soon-to-be new mom who is just about to pop.  She was a bit shy about showing her bare belly so we worked with some blankets.  I haven't done very much pregnancy photography so I was happy to get some practice.

Can you believe that this belly is at 8 months!!  Not a stretch mark in sight!  Lucky Lady!

I have Lizard pictures coming up next!  Pet photography at its best!

All in the Eyes

Another black and white for today.

Sushi For Fish Haters

A quick, easy and healthy lunch for the summer.  I am not a fan of seafood or anything slimy in general so I cheat and use cooked chicken or eat vegetarian sushi.  Its really easy to make and tastes delicious.  Plus the Nori seaweed is really good for you and pretty mild tasting.  We had these with teriyaki sauce from Trader Joes.

I am pretty free-form with my sushi.  Today Tom ate canned crab in his and I had cooked chicken with avocado and carrots from our garden.  We usually pick three of any of these ingredients that we happen to have. 
Carrots, celery, avocado, cucumber, mushrooms, chicken, canned or fresh tuna, salmon or crab, sweet potato.  You can get pretty creative. 

Sushi Rice is yummy and easy to make.  Here is Alton Browns recipe, because Alton's recipes never let me down.

This is another great recipe site that I love which has great sushi ideas.

Have fun!

Cherry Picking

Put these beauties in my shop this week.  My summer series will be focusing on food, eating slowly, and eating rituals.  These are just the beginning.

Summer's harvest season is my favorite time of year!

Loves To Read

I am so blessed that she loves to read. 

That happy little brain gets brighter and brighter every day.