Hola! 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!
enzo and his old lady
November 5, 2009 // families / portraits
Sometimes when thinking of cool names for my blog titles, all you have to do is drop by your clients Facebook page and bam! They already made a cool name for you, haha. So here is Martha and Vincent! We spent the morning together in Coronado playing around in the sand, Vincent was definitely having a blast!

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Emily Sandifer:

Adorable. Amazing as always. :)

 (11.05.09 @ 07:09 PM)
Martha Carver:

You made my day and night, Chaz. Many thanks for the shout out.

Martha (Old Lady)

 (11.05.09 @ 09:20 PM)
HP:

great stuff chaz, but the last image is just amazing great framing and treatmet

HP

 (11.06.09 @ 07:41 AM)
rogue:

The fifth picture makes me teary eyed it's so gorgeous.

 (03.18.10 @ 03:05 PM)
two // sneak peek
October 26, 2009 // families / portraits / sneak peek
Two families, two styles, two blog posts coming up.

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Martha Carver:

Simply stunning, Chaz. You caught my son and his beautiful soul on film. Can't wait to see more! xoxo

 (10.27.09 @ 04:35 PM)
Jennifer Phanhthaly:

Chaz, words could not express what you captured on film. My kids look awesome!

 (10.27.09 @ 11:35 PM)
Marlana:

Great work! :D

 (10.29.09 @ 10:16 PM)
bernice + arnold // baby bump
October 21, 2009 // portraits
Maternity shoots are fun for me because they are just like engagement shoots but in slow motion, haha. But here is Bernice and Arnold, they are expecting Aubrey next month!

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HP:

killer tree shot Chaz!! blew my mind

HP

 (10.21.09 @ 11:43 PM)
rachel:

that tree shot is the bomb. awesome maternity shoot, it's great how you make it more lifestyle.

(11.01.09 @ 07:43 AM)
eileen + christian // engaged!
October 13, 2009 // engagements
Christian flies planes for the Navy, so I pestered him with questions about how to not get airsick. It was a great Q&A session during his and Eileen's engagement shoot, haha. We had an awesome time running around downtown San Diego, we even got invited into a woman's apartment, pretty fun!

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mary:

Love love love! seriously..I want some chaz cruz portraits of scott and I! Love her outfit..love everything! You are my hero!

 (10.13.09 @ 01:55 PM)
Eileen:

OMG!! We can't thank you enough for such a wonderful and fun photo engagement session! Chaz thanks for being so patient with us! Now we have all year to practice our model/serious poses! haha! We are so HAPPY how the pictures turned out. Also thank you again for your time and energy for doing a quick edit so that Christian was able to see the pictures in your studio before he left the following day. You are awesome! Now we are even more excited to be Married! God bless!

 (10.13.09 @ 02:12 PM)
Alberto Nevado:

Lt.,

I like what I see, Top Gun quality. Congrats to both of you!

 (10.15.09 @ 07:05 AM)
nickie s. nevado:

beautiful couple...... God Bless.

 (10.23.09 @ 12:06 AM)
rachel:

i love every single photo in this session. you are awesome chaz. the last two photos are stunning!

 (11.01.09 @ 07:44 AM)
Your Friend...Andrea P!:

I love this series sweetheart! Absolutely gorgeous- you never fail to amaze me! The compositions, color, emotion...you make the world beautiful!

(11.07.09 @ 09:58 PM)