Erik Struve Photography

10/06/2016

Maricris Lapaix is a person who I have photographed in the past. She is in the Miss CA USA pageant. She needs your help. Please donate (big or small) to help her make her run for Miss USA!!!
Please see the link:
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Hello! My name is Maricris Lapaix and I am the new Miss Orange County USA 2017. I'm so excited to be honored with this opportunity to spread my platform on the importance of health and fitness. Let me share my story about my journey to this title. On August 19th, I read that the Miss Universe Or...

08/23/2016

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Make-up: Keely Maroney
Model: Madeline Hill
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07/29/2016

Over the course of my photographic career, I have had the pleasure of working with some wonderful and talented people. I have enjoyed most of my experiences in photography. However, none of those experiences compares to my experience yesterday. While I am mostly a portrait photographer, I do some event photography from time to time. Yesterday, I was hired by Your Grateful Nation (“YGN”) to photograph two different events for them. YGN’s mission is to help retired Special Forces operators transition from military to civilian life.

The first event was a luncheon discussing the big geo-political threats facing the US. The speaker is a retired Commander from Navy Seal Team VI who has briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other very important people in our Government. During the course of the lecture, there was Q&A from the audience, some of which were former Special Forces operators including a former Lt. General in the Army Special Forces; in short, some very serious people. Although I was working and not paying close attention to what was being said, I did manage to learn a few things.

The next assignment was a cocktail reception and speaking event to help raise money for YGN. The two main guests of honor speaking were former baseball manager Tony La Russa and Rob O'Neill, the navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden (“OBL”). Let’s just say Rob is a gifted public speaker. He talked about his Seal training and gave some funny stories about it. He also spoke about the OBL mission and gave the audience insight to what actually happened that no press release or movie could give. Overall, Rob’s speech was very informative and entertaining.

After the event was over, I was fortunate enough have my photo taken with Rob and another with Tony. Overall, it was a pretty good day at the office.

Please check out YGN, they are a very worthy cause.

07/14/2016

Today I had the absolute pleasure of doing a photo shoot with the very beautiful and talented Ms. Elizabeth Ferraris . We did a lifestyle shoot on the beach in Malibu. The theme of our lifestyle shoot was yoga. I have worked with Liz on a couple of prior occasions and I have always gotten great results. This time was no different. I cannot thank her enough for this shoot. I look forward to the next opportunity I have to work with Liz. Thank you again Liz!!!

05/24/2016

Here is another throwback photograph from my session my lovely and a first time model Liubov Y. I want to thank her and my very talented make-up artist Lana D. for a wonderful shoot. I had a lot of fun on this shoot. I look forward to working with both of them in the near future.

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05/03/2016

Over the years, I have had the pleasure of photographing people who have never modeled for a professional photographer before. However, this was the first time I photographed someone being a first time model whose first language wasn’t English. Let’s just say her English was better than my Russian. :-) Fortunately, we were able to overcome our language barrier to create some beautiful photographs. I want to thank my beautiful Liubov Y. and my very talented make-up artist Lana D. for a wonderful shoot. I look forward to working with both of them in the near future.

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12/15/2015

I would like to thank my and makeup artist Lana D. for a wonderful shoot. I hope to work with her again in the near future.

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11/12/2015

As I mentioned yesterday, I had the honor of photographing the very beautiful and talented Leah Cordova today. I also had the opportunity to work with make-up artist Jared Sparkle for the first time. I was very impressed with his work and willingness to help with things on the set other than just doing make-up for the shoot.

Thank you both for a great shoot! I could not have done it without your respective talents. I look forward to future collaborations with both of you.

Here is another photo I took of Leah earlier this year: https://instagram.com/p/0qhFqwEA9z/?taken-by=leahvioleta

Here is a little teaser “behind the scenes” photo of Leah and Jared from today’s shoot: https://instagram.com/p/990Qmxotue/?taken-by=jaredsparkle

I will post some of the finished results from today's shoot in the near future.

“Grrrr. Photo credit: ”

11/11/2015

I am looking forward to tomorrow's (11/11/15) photo shoot with the very lovely and talented Leah Cordova. Here is a photo I took over her earlier this year: https://www.instagram.com/p/0qh-llEA_f/

I will post some photos from the shoot in the near future.

“I loved this dress Photo credit: ”

10/20/2015

This is from my second shoot with my lovely Elvia Medina. I would like to thank my very talented makeup artist Joanna Alvarado for all of her hard work. I hope to work with both of you again in the near future.

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10/17/2015

Today I had the pleasure of working with the lovely Ms. Madeline Hill for the first time. We did her head shots. I had a lot of fun on this shoot.

I would like to give a special thanks to my very lovely and talented make-up artist Ms. Keely Maroney. You did your usual great job! I would also like to thank Mr. Doug Forsyth and Ms. Roxanne Captor of the SMC Theatre Department for their recommendation.

I will post some finished results in the near future.