Justine Ungaro Photography - Modern Weddings & Lifestyle Editorials - Los Angeles, CA - Washington, DC

Well not me exactly because let’s be honest, aside from my family, a few close friends and my dog Oliver, very few people really care enough what I’m doing on a daily basis to actually gossip about me. But I was sort of tickled to receive an email from my friend Jen Stiebel in DC who told me that one of my pictures of Palmdale is posted on PerezHiton.com today. So go check it out when you get a chance, and while you’re at it, be sure to go download some awesome songs at www.wearepalmdale.com!

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By the way, I’m blogging right now during my jury selection break. Gotta send out a big shout out to my good pal Jay Goldman who has been my partner in crime all day.

February 7th, 2010

I had such a blast this week partnering up with my amazing husband Gary to pull together a photo shoot for my dear sister-in-law Kay Hanley and her awesome musical partner-in-crime, Linus of Hollywood. Kay and Linus have a new band together called We Are Palmdale…they are super awesome and with their upcoming release of “Get Wasted” on iTunes, they needed some press photos as well as images for a PDF book that will be a download along with the album. Very cool, right? So Gary had the idea for the two of them to scribble all of the liner notes and credits and stuff all over seamless paper and we would just shoot the whole process. Of course Kay and Linus couldn’t resist the urge to draw dirty little pictures and other nonsense as well which just made it that much more interesting and fun. :) Here are a few faves from our session.


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wearepalmdale11_If you want to check out the Palmdale video blog for some behind-the-scenes looks, check it out here.

September 4th, 2009

Sometimes I like to blog about things other than photography just because living in LA, some experiences are just too ridiculous not to write about. So the other night Gary and I met our friends Lisa & Roey at the Nokia Theater downtown to see our good friend Juan Patino who was on tour with the legendary Hall & Oates.

We had great seats right smack in the middle amongst lots of “super fans”. But none of the crazy dancing ladies could even hold a candle to the guys sitting across the aisle from us in full head-to-toe 80’s style Hall & Oates garb. And they seemed so serious too. People came from all over the theater to take pictures with them. Of course we had to as well. Leave it to a pro photographer to have only iPhone & Blackberry pictures of her own life but maybe one of these days I’ll pick up a new point-and-shoot that actually has a flash on it for this sort of occasion.
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After the concert was over we went backstage to find Juan and in the process ended up meeting John Oates who is a super nice guy and was kindly mingling with all of us common folk. :) At that point Juan escorted us to the back-back-backstage dungeons where we were introduced to Daryl Hall. Now my husband is a huge fan so we had to get our picture taken with him and I must admit it was a little more exciting than meeting the faux Hall & Oates.
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But after seeing those guys we’re now considering dressing as H&O for Halloween…that may even top our Sarah Silverman/ Jimmy Kimmel outfits from 2 years ago…