ALOHA darlings!

Welcome to the elle rose photo, that’s me there with the camera. I’m Laurie – the elle – is for the L. Now that we’ve got that all cleared that up… onto the good stuff! 

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“Hey, What’s Up, Hello”

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I’m Laurie. I created elle rose photo in 2010 while living in my glorious, glittering hometown: the one and only, Chicago. While my heart will always be in the heartland, ocean winds and green adventures have called my name. (They were like, ‘Hey Laurie! What’s up hello! Let’s live this life, girl.’ Or something like that. The music was loud and the impulse was strong.) So I now can be found strolling theKailua beach or exploring the lush greens around Oahu. Really just chasing the light from the mountains to the ocean. I’ve always got a toy film camera tossed in a bag just in case – and somehow always have black and white in when the sunset is epic… 

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that’s me, laurie...

thats me laurie

(you thought I was going to say elle didn’t you? Fair.)

Elle Rose Photo is here to catch the magic of this moment so you can live in it. Forever.

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Wherever Your Love Story is Happening, I Can Be There in a Flash.

hey now! photography jokes are jokes, too.

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Things I Love:

  • Craig + our babe my lovest love
  • Diane Keaton + everything she does
  • A good wine with good friends
  • My contax G2, she fun
  • TV, on the real – how else do photographers edit?
  • My passport, duh
  • A full table of friendly faces
And All of This.

This isn’t just a thing I say. It’s the realest. I love capturing this living instant so you can live all the way in your life.

Helping you create timeless forever memories — that legacy, well it’s everything to me.

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This must be

The Place

If the stars align, and we connect, it might feel a little something like this…

Have you ever felt like confetti caught on a summer wind?

like a perfect pink ballerina, slowly spinning to infinity in a velvet box,

like fireworks above a ferris wheel just before a storm,

like the flash, the camera and the circumstances

could all just vanish – poof! –
but the feeling of this moment would last f o r e v e r,

because – snap!

you are still here

in the center of the universe,
glittering beneath the twinkle lights of this very moment.
where you live completely, deep-clear-water-up-to-your-lips

in your life.

We’re here for that.
For bang! pow! big,  a-close-your-eyes moments.

For the spectacular and the sacred.

For the top-of-your-lungs! and the whisper-in-her-ears.

We’re here to catch lightning in a bottle.

So you can save it and savor it and revisit the feeling –
magnificent or mini-mini-mini, dizzying and dazzling –

like a tourist rambling about in your own miraculous life.

the stars marvel at you

and so do we.
keep spinning, we’re here to catch you

and the fleeting magic of this moment.

and this one.

and this one.

and this one.

live.

live.

live.

live. 

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