chazthoughts.com / the photo blog of chaz cruz

my name is chaz cruz and I am a photographer splitting time between san diego and NYC. 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.

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June 11, 2011

I’ll be out of town from June 11th through the 20th, the first half of my trip will be to Hawaii for the wedding of AJ and Jelynna then the second half will be to New York City. I will do my best to respond to all emails and inquiries in a timely fashion. But till then, I wanted to introduce you to Refix Magazine, a new online publication created by one of my best friends Andrea. She has been working hard to promote green living and fashion and this magazine is a product of months of hard work! Check out the magazine as I have a spread of photographs starting on page 36 and another one of my amazing photographer friends Emily Sandifer has some of her gorgeous work featured as well!

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June 9, 2011

A few weeks ago I traveled up to Orange County for the wedding of Jomie and Ricky at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Jomie and Ricky rocked the modern and minimalistic venue with the help of Christina of Simply Modern Weddings, who I might add is one of the funnest and raddest coordinators I have had the pleasure to work with! She’s so rad she got us a feature on Green Wedding Shoes, which showcases so many of the great details that were on display. Another person who I want to give a big thanks to is my second photographer Marissa Rodriguez, who rocked the third camera as usual. On to the photos!

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  • Killer job Chaz! Cute ceremony and really personal. Love seeing your work, super motivating. I really like the Star Wars detail too.

  • Whahoooooo! You blogged! hehe! sorry, you know I have to bug you ;) LOVE this wedding! It’s kind’ of annoying how good you are! But really, you killed it. As per usual! Thank you so much for having me along! I can’t wait to blog yaaaaaaayyyyy! :)

  • Your work is amazing Chaz!!
    Not only are the pictures beautiful but you yourself are awesome to work with. You and your staff were so professional and down to earth.

February 2, 2011

From an outsider’s perspective, looking at my relationship with Vanessa and Lee it would seem as if we’ve been best friends for as long as they have been together (which is about 10 years) because of how much fun whenever we see each other. They were the couple with the biggest ideas and the were down to make those ideas a reality, as you will see with how great their wedding turned out. The whole wedding took place at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, so there was a taste of rock n’ roll to go with the wedding day. Their wedding has been featured on Hi-Fi Weddings (which has a whole bunch more photographs) as well as the latest 944 San Diego’s wedding issue. A big thanks to Mel Montoya of Something Blue weddings as well as July Chanthamart, who did hair and makeup for Vanessa and Lee (well not Lee’s makeup, haha), and is also my personal hairstylist. Also at the end of the post is a video of their fun photobooth.

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May 12, 2010

the times online uk contacted me a few weeks ago to use a photograph of mine for their feature on the “40 bloggers who really count” featuring Joshua and Travis from street etiquette. I was happy to oblige and took a screenshot of their online feature. now if someone can pick me up the print copy from the UK, I’d really appreciate it! also, click here to view my blog post from their shoot.

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