{"id":1045,"date":"2011-02-02T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T21:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog2\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2025-04-27T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T02:20:21","slug":"rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/engagement-portraits\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodeo Drive \/ LACMA Engagement Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing Marja and Noel&#8217;s engagement portraits at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rodeodrive-bh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rodeo Dr., Beverly Hills, California\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)<\/a> made for a great collection of classy, urban engagement pictures, which suits them well.  I was lucky to be able to spend the afternoon with such a great couple.  Less than three weeks after this engagement shoot, I photographed their wedding in Newport Beach.  It was especially nice shooting at LACMA because my father worked as a foreman on the recent renovations and additions to the buildings there.  This was the first time I&#8217;d been there since the changes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_01.jpg\" alt=\"Beverly Hills Engagement Portraits - 01\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_02.jpg\" alt=\"Beverly Hills Engagement Photos - 02\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_03.jpg\" alt=\"Beverly Hills Engagement Pictures - 03\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_04.jpg\" alt=\"Rodeo Drive Engagement Portraits - 04\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_05.jpg\" alt=\"Rodeo Drive Engagement Photos - 05\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_06.jpg\" alt=\"LACMA Engagement Pictures - 06\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_07.jpg\" alt=\"Engagement Portraits at LACMA - 07\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_08.jpg\" alt=\"Engagement Photos at LACMA - 08\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love how obvious it is that Marja and Noel are totally in love and 100% comfortable with each other, even in front of a camera with plenty of people around.  The next shot exudes genuine love.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_09.jpg\" alt=\"Engagement Pictures at LACMA  - 09\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marja and Noel&#8217;s clothing choices and coordination were perfect for the environment at LACMA.  Dressing up a bit for your engagement session can make the photographs that much more special and different from the casual photos you have together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_10.jpg\" alt=\"Engagement Portraits at LACMA  - 10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_11.jpg\" alt=\"Engagement Photos in Los Angeles - 11\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_12.jpg\" alt=\"Engagement Pictures in Los Angeles - 12\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_13.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Engagement Photos - 13\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_14.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Engagement Pictures - 14\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rodeo-drive-lacma-engagement_15.jpg\" alt=\"LACMA Engagement Portraits - 15\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing Marja and Noel&#8217;s engagement portraits at Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) made for a great collection of classy, urban&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[943,526,596,597,598,945,946,1901,599,940,695,947,761,764,775,942,948,941,841,892],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engagement-portraits","tag-beverly-hills","tag-california","tag-engagement","tag-engagement-photographer","tag-engagement-photography","tag-engagement-photos","tag-engagement-pictures","tag-engagement-portraits","tag-engagement-session","tag-lacma","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-portraits","tag-rodeo","tag-rodeo-dr","tag-rodeo-drive","tag-southern-california","tag-wedding-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6519,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/6519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracelifephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}