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Welcome to the Sonialena Photography Blog!

Thanks for taking a moment to visit my blog!

This blog chronicles my adventures as a wedding and portrait photographer. I'm based in Southern California but will happily and gladly travel to other parts of the universe.

My blog is also a place for me to share some of the personal photography that I do, as well as sound off on various topics that are tangentially related to photography.

If you're inspired to write a comment or send an e-mail my way, I would love to hear from you!

Category Archives: general

Website All Klabooey!

I’ve been having website issues for the past 24 or hours or so. It’s awful! None of my slideshows will load, and everything else seems to be on again, off again. Yesterday the company said everything will be online again soon – this was at 4:30 in the afternoon, after the server had been down...

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Accepted into the WPJA!

I’m very excited to have been accepted into the Wedding Photojournalist Association. The WPJA is an international association whose members specialize in capturing weddings in a candid and unobtrusive style. And it’s not the type of organization that any photographer can join. Photographers must undergo a portfolio review before gaining acceptance, and must adhere to...

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Sonialena Photography Has Moved!

Please take note of our new mailing address, as the post office WILL NOT forward mail from my old address to the new one. Why must they be so evil?
Sonialena Photography // 1308 E. Colorado Blvd. #319 // Pasadena, CA 91106
Telephone number is the same.
I’m working hard to post some new events on here!

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New Website Coming Soon!

I have been squirreled away working on my new website. The new blog colors are a sneak peak of the new website. The website won’t be super different – different colors, yes. But the layout is basically the same – slideshows of my work, and links to other slideshows showing different work.
I’ve ditched my much-loved...

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New Business Cards

Just one of those things that is incredibly mundane for most people, but incredibly exciting for me. I received my new business cards in the mail and couldn’t be happier with them. They have foil printing, which you can’t really appreciate by looking at a computer screen. But the logo and the squares are glittery...

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Sonialena Photography Joins the Cloud

I’ve finally finished setting up my online client access system. Now clients can electronically sign their contracts and make payments online, all from their personalized client access page. I’m using a web-based studio management system, rather than software that runs from my computer. And I’m looking for even more ways to join “the cloud.”
A few...

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New Facebook Page

I’ve finally created a page for Sonialena Photography on Facebook. I’ve had a personal page on Facebook for quite some time but did not want to mix my personal and opiniated rantings with the photographic work I do. The Facebook page has nearly all of the photos I’ve posted here on the blog.
I’m also trying...

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Blog Back To Normal

Apparently a little slash here and there makes a big difference with web programming. For other people in need of a nice WordPress theme for showing off their photos, the good people at NetRivet are super helpful and helped me get everything back to normal in a very short amount of time.

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Technical Difficulties

I don’t know what happened to my blog, but whatever happened has made my very unhappy! As I write this post, all of the formatting has disappeared from my blog. I’m looking at a plain white background, no banner, no logo, no colors. And all of the text and pictures in my posts are jammed...

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New Blog and New Website!

I’m very excited about my new website and new blog. I now have a custom-designed html site that makes use of Flash slideshows but is not an all Flash site. This probably doesn’t mean much to non-techy people – and a year ago I couldn’t have cared less about html vs. Flash sites – but...

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