The Pictured Life of Tiffany del Carmen Robbins. (In Loving Memory)

 It is May, 2010 and I have just starting this photo business a few months ago.  I have been shooting portraits for a while now and am thinking that maybe I would like to get into weddings.  So just as I have done with the portrait side of things, I start looking for an amazing bride.   But the Lord is sending me someone very special.  She is not only drop dead gorgeous, she knows exactly how to to ham right up to the camera.  She should be a model.  Beautiful black hair.  Slender feminine figure. Eyes that sparkle and a million dollar smile.  Her name... Tiffany del Carmen.  She has found my website on the internet and wants to see if I am interested in shooting her wedding.  YES, of course.  She also has me do the engagement session.  When I first meet Anthony I can see how much he loves her.  I mean really loves her.  He plays along for her and all her many many ideas for the engagement shoot.  He does what every will make her happy.  He wants to make her happy because she makes him happy. 

The engagement session is amazing and the photos are unreal. She is soooo beautiful.  She is so happy with the photos and so is Anthony.

I am looking forward to the wedding and its tomorrow.  I am scared to death.  I have a great friend shooting with me who knows the wedding industry and she is a huge help, still, I can't sleep.

Wedding day is here and we arrive at the venue.  I see Tiffany and I can't believe my eyes.  What a beautiful bride.  What and amazing bride.  We get to work and take what will be some of the most amazing photos that will catapult my photography from portrait in to weddings with such ease.  Its easy to sell your business when you have a model like Tiffany.
I look at Anthony and he has a smile from one side of his face to the other.  He is so proud and so happy because he knows that she is his wife now and they will share their lives together and she makes him happy. 

Fast forward a bit and Tiffany is pregnant.  She calls me and wants to do a maternity shoot.
YES of course.  I can't wait.  She once again has some unreal ideas for photos and we get to work.  We drive north to a field and she does her thing.  She knows how to do her thing, and that is being a perfectly pregnant mommy full of joy and life and baby.  Anthony is so proud of her, so proud of his little baby.  He is happy cause she makes him happy.  

Fast forward and Malaya is here.  She is so beautiful, just like her mom and we are doing a baby session.  Two proud parents and a little girl giving me more photos for my portfolio.  Tiffany is so happy because that little girl is her princess.  Anthony is happy because his little girl makes him happy.  He looks at Tiffany and smiles because she makes him happy.
Now Malaya is 1 year old and we are doing another shoot.  Malaya falls asleep with her face in the cake and we all laugh.  Tiffany is so proud of her because she is so big and growing so fast.  Life is more complicated now but worth every minute of it.  We get some more amazing shots and mom and dad are elated with the photos.  Anthony is happy because his family makes him happy.  Tiffany makes him happy.  Malaya makes him happy.

Its been some time since I have heard from Tiffany and Anthony.  Months pass and occasionally I see Tiffany or Anthony post something on Facebook.  I love seeing their life progress.  I look up at the photos of Tiffany that hangs in my office.  It's the photo of her from the wedding that I had blown up just so that I could show it to future brides.  She is so pretty.  Anthony and Tiffany are so happy.

December 28, 2013:  Tiffany sends me a message on Facebook and asks me if I could take photos of her new addition to the family which should be her in a few weeks.  Y-E-S.  and I can't wait to see her and Anthony, Malaya and their new addition, Ariella.  It's been so long.  The girl that gave me a chance when I was starting this wedding photography business, the girl that did an amazing job at her engagemtn session, wedding, maternity, and 2 baby session for Malaya is once again asking me to capture a special time in hers and Anthonys life.  I am so honored and so happy to do so but my happyness is short lived.  

Sunday Jan 12th, 2014 I see one of the maternity photos that I took of her a few years ago and I comment on it without reading the caption.  "what a great photo, I remember it well, thanks for posting" click post.    Now the caption catches my eye.  I can not believe what I am reading.  Wait, let me re-read, I must be mistaken.  Why is my heart pounding.  I can't breath.  No way.  Not her!  Not
Ariella!  I am crying with no control!  

"Oh my poor friend, Anthony.  I am so sorry.  I don't know what to say except to write this short blog about your beautiful bride, your beautiful little girl Ariella.  I wish that I could do something to change it.  I pray for you and Malaya.  I pray that God give you peace and comfort.  I am sorry that she is gone my friend... but as for myself, not forgotten. Never will she be forgotten.   May God's blessing remain with you and the angle, Malaya, he left here on earth to remind you of your amazing bride that if but for a short time she graced you with her beauty, her smile and her Love".  

Her are some photos of the amazing and lovely Tiffany del Carmen Robbins.

Engagement:

Wedding:

This is the photo hanging in my office...

The Maternity:

Malaya's Infant Session

Malaya's 1st Birthday

I wanted to end with these three photos.  
The first:  
When I took it, it was to dark and I almost did away with the image.  But I kept it and I think it encompasses Tiffany and Anthony and how they loved each other and still do.  Her arms draped around his neck for security and compassion, his arms around her waist to show her and all who look on that she is his and his heart belongs to her. The both of them looking in each others eyes as if to say that "I am yours and I love you".  They love each other... forever, even with the parting that may come, no distance is to grand for love like this, not even eternity. 

The Second: 
This one caught my eye becasue it speaks to me as to how much Anthony not only loves Tiffany but loves his little Malaya and how much he loves Ariella. 

The Third:
This one speaks for itself.  She loved both her babies, she loved being an amazing wife to Anthony and most of all she loved being a mommy.  Tiffany; may you rest, just like a child, in the arms of God.