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Lauren Hurt Photography | BLOG – West Coast Wedding, Portrait, and Actor Headshot photographer based in Los Angeles California, serving Southern California to Oregon, and beyond bio picture

Welcome to the BLOG!

Here you'll find updates on my current work, clients, ideas and musings. Hop over to the PORTFOLIO SITE for more information and work.

My goal as a photographer is to highlight your unique personal style while capturing images that evoke emotion. I have a fine art photojournalism style and aim to put you at ease while having fun at the same time. To me, life is a grand story unfolding and I get to tell my part of it through images.

I specialize in senior potraits, actor and buisness headshots, bridal, and engagement photos. I shoot weddings all over Oregon and California including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Fransisco, Portland, Salem, Eugene, Canon Beach, and Hood river, to name a few. I travel regularly for bookings up and down the west coast and am available for destination weddings. 

I would love to meet with you and take part in
the telling of your story.

Jen and James | Santa Monica Engagement Photography

02.05.2012 Posted in Engagement

Yay! My blog is fixed! Some of you noticed that my blog posts were down for the last week (I screwed something up when updating the site) but my good friend and techno-ninja Chris came and fixed it today so I can continue posting. The internet drives me crazy sometimes but I don’t know where I’d be without it (actually I do… probably on an island, living off the land and reading a lot).

Anyway, I’ve been itching to get this session posted! Jen and James got engaged in November and we’ve been trying to get this session together for a while. Let me just say, it was worth the wait. Jen has been a dear friend of mine for a couple years now, always a voice of hope and encouragement in the midst of big life changes and hard/good times. She is truly a special one. I love her. So does James, A LOT. This man loves her A LOT. I loved watching the way he looked at her, not just as a lover, but a partner, a best friend, a help-mate. I’m so happy for them as they journey into this new and exciting frontier of life together – even if this Spaniard steals her away from me to continents far away. I hope you enjoy their pretty faces!


















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Emma and Ely’s Tubac Arizona Wedding

01.06.2012 Posted in Wedding

I’ve had this post ready for a couple days now but haven’t been able to put it up because I just didn’t know what to say about this wedding. It was…. aaaa! I can’t figure out the right word to capture how special it was! Maybe… splendor! Rich, Joy-FULL (and even that’s an understatement), it was monumental. First, road tripping to Arizona with some of my best friends (including the Bride’s two brothers), being unabashedly welcomed into such a fantastic family, and then traveling to the PERFECT wedding location – Tubac Golf and Spa Resort in Tubac Arizona. It was such a fantastic hidden gem in in the middle of the desert a few miles from the Mexico border. This was also the place where Tin Cup was filmed. The coordinators at Tubac were amazing and I would highly recommend the resort to any Arizona bride. Second, Emma and Ely are just the best. Emma planned the wedding in 3 months (whhaaaaat!) and had the most patient, carefree, fun loving attitude about everything. And everyone who was at the wedding loved these two so much that the entire experience was one huge joy fest. I think that is what a wedding should be. Notable moments : Me getting to drive a golf cart around all day, Emma and Ely’s 1 goal of taking pictures with the cows (!!!), the boys lifting the Bride up on a chair, not realizing that her head was going to smash into the ginormous chandelier above her (yikes!), and of course… DJ Johnny rocking the face off of the dance floor – He was ahhhhmazing. Anyway, you should probably look at these pictures… enjoy















































And they lived happily ever after!

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January 9, 2012 - 6:29 pm Stephanie Conn - The 41st photo, the horizontal bw one of the couple under the tree... that image deserves to be large and on canvas! Beautiful shot!

January 8, 2012 - 12:07 am jessica w. - Oh my gosh, seriously Lauren, you're are amazing!

January 8, 2012 - 12:02 am Angela Watts - Beautiful job, Lauren! Absolutely love the black and white one of the couple under the tree.. Amazing!

Sophie and her Little One

01.03.2012 Posted in maternity,Portraits

A few weeks ago I had the extreme pleasure of photographing Sophie for the second time this year – once for her headshots (she is an amazing dancer/instructor/choreographer here in LA) this time for her maternity portraits! Sophie is one of the most beautiful expecting mothers I’ve ever had the opportunity to photograph. She is someone who sparkles inside and out and she’s going to be such a great mom! I can’t wait to meet little Mr. Jumpy… Come soon little man!





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Happy New Year!

12.31.2011 Posted in Personal

Hey everyone, just wanted to wish you all a happy new year. I hope you all have a wonderful evening tonight to ring in the new year – whether it be dressed in your finest (or sparkliest) or in your comfies snuggling on the couch. May the reflections of the last year be warm, and the hopes for the next year be joyful. It’s going to be a great one!

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December 31, 2011 - 3:45 pm Linda Amedo - Best wishes to you and your wonderful husband Casey! You are both great professionals to know and work with as well as wonderful people to call our feiends. Linda