chazthoughts.com // the photo blog of chaz cruz
my name is chaz cruz and I am a photographer based out of san diego, ca. my specialties include weddings, fashion and lifestyle portraits. this blog is named after my obsession with "the office" and of a lovable character named creed bratton. he writes about his random musings under a blog titled "creed thoughts," so I thought I'd do the same and name it "chaz thoughts." so please, browse around and don't forget to leave me a comment or two.
August 1, 2010

July 27, 2010

Had a gorgeous wedding with Kim and Ed at the New Children’s Museum in downtown San Diego, I had never seen it decked out for a wedding before and I have to say, its one of the coolest venues to photograph in. It didn’t hurt that Kim and Ed looked sharp, so they brought the hotness factor way up.

Venue / New Children’s Museum
Florist / Tesslik Flowers
Catering / Culinary Concepts
Beverage / Best Beverage
Cake / European Cake Gallery
DJ / Joel Bautista

July 16, 2010

Julio is a great friend and fellow wedding photographer, so when he asked me to photograph him and his sweetheart fiance Priscilla, I knew we had to do something different. We came up with an idea of doing an old school surf shoot as Julio is an avid surfer as well, so we hit up the Surf Shack at Windansea Beach in La Jolla and went to work.

July 13, 2010

A few weeks ago I headed out to the San Diego Fair on the Del Mar Fairgrounds for a day out with Katie and Nick. We went around and played games around the fair, we did avoid the crazy fair foods, didn’t want to get a stomach ache during the shoot!

July 12, 2010

July 1, 2010

Fun wedding with Venus and Doug at The Catamaran in Pacific Beach, you have to love when you can exchange your vows in front of a public beach. Enjoy the pictures and the photobooth video at the end.

June 20, 2010

How about a sneak peek of the first half of a whole wedding? Same day edit done yesterday during Becky and Errol’s amazing “619″ (San Diego area code) wedding.

June 16, 2010

Last month in New York, I had a photoshoot with Ruby Veridiano, a media personality from Oakland/NYC. She is one of the most inspirational women I have ever met, you can see it through her personality and all the hard work that she does. Did I also mention that she is one of the top 3 finalists for the head blogger position for Alicia Keys website, iamasuperwoman.com? She’ll find out if she wins the position in a few days, so you can lend her support by clicking on this link and comment on one of her blog posts.

Her idea for the shoot was a “glamour girl in Bedstuy,” so I headed over to Brooklyn and with the help of makeup artist Eileen Lei, we proceeded to go around the neighborhood and make Ruby’s vision a reality. Check out some of my favorite photos.