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Michelle Howell

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📸 Southern California Photographer
✨ Weddings | Portraits | Corporate
💼 Brand-ready imagery for people & brands
🤍 “Yes” to milestones
📅 Booking 26–27

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It’s 2025 and we would like to introduce ourselves. We are Michelle and Mike. We have been married for almost 25 years and our mission is to produce stunning imagery and portraits for your weddings, events and portraiture.

Backstory: We hired a photographer for our own wedding, but to our dismay, our photographs were absolutely awful!! We don’t have photographs except for the ones our family took of us. We wished that we would have amazing ones to display, but it wasn’t in the stars.

From this experience, we are here to make sure you are ecstatic about your images and that your memories are properly captured. Always hire a professional photographer. Listen! You won’t fit in your dress, your food only lasts for that day and your decor, unless properly captured will only be a memory. PHOTOS LAST FOREVER!!

Keep your memories alive!! Hire us to capture every moment. We have many ways to create high resolution imagery for both photography and videography. Check out our images and videos on this page.

Message us with all your questions and desires. We can’t wait to meet you!!

Kisses! ~ Michelle and Mike Howell
Your Southern California Imagery Team

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Some people spend years searching for “the one.” Aloni and Ryan met at 15 and said, “Yep, that’s the one,” then never really left each other’s side again. 😏✨

Written in the stars? Absolutely. Sassy about it? Also yes. Because when you’ve been this obsessed with each other since high school, you’ve earned the right to flaunt it.

Rancho Cucamonga turned into the backdrop for the kind of love story people write movies about. Surrounded by family and friends who adore them (and a few happy tears, obviously), these two said “I do” like they’d been planning it since the 10th grade. Spoiler: they basically were. 💍

Every single moment with them was one I got to capture, and I’m still not over it. The laughs, the hugs, the stolen glances, the “wait, I’m married now?!” faces. Pure magic.

Aloni + Ryan, thank you for letting me be part of your forever. You both were always meant to be. 🤍

📸 Photography by Michelle Howell
📍 Rancho Cucamonga, California

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A golden window between the rain days 🌿✨

Friends, the Southern California mountains showed up for the Green Family! We squeezed this family photo session in between the rainy days, and the light, the fresh air, and the greenery were unreal.

Cream knits, denim, and boots, with big smiles and plenty of laughs. These four had me cracking up the whole time, and that’s exactly how I like it. 🤍

Here’s what I believe: your family photos shouldn’t feel like something you have to do. With me, it’s an experience. We play, we laugh, we move, and I capture the real moments in between. That’s what you’ll treasure for years, not stiff poses.

📍 Inland Empire family photographer serving Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Orange County & LA County. Happy to travel for mountain, outdoor, and fall sessions!

📩 Now booking fall & holiday family sessions. DM me “FAMILY” or tap the link in my bio to grab your date before they fill up!

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Elder Veirs is headed to Argentina! 🇦🇷✨

Owen has been called to serve the people of Argentina, and his excitement says it all. His parents trusted me to capture this missionary portrait session, and I’m so honored I got to be part of it. 🤍

A big moment, a proud family, and a smile like that? This is exactly why I love what I do.

📸 Booking missionary portraits, family, senior & milestone sessions across the Inland Empire, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange County & LA County.

💌 DM me “MISSION” and I’ll send you my availability, or tap the link in my bio.

Know a future missionary? TAG them below & SAVE this for your mission call photo ideas!

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Your family photos don’t have to be boring. 😉❤️

Give me the giggles, the chaos, the personality, the upside-down kids… ALL OF IT. 😂

I’m currently booking family photography sessions throughout Southern California, and if your family is ready for photos that actually feel like YOU, let’s make some magic. ✨

📸 Family sessions are now booking!
💌 DM me to grab your date or click the link in my bio to book your session.

Because these moments? They go way too fast. ❤️

Michelle Howell Photography | Southern California Family Photographer

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Watch how much love was in the air at this session 🤍 Luke & Olivia drove in from out of state so I could photograph their engagement at Newport Beach, and that golden hour light? Absolutely perfect for them. The way he holds her, the way she looks at him — this is exactly why I love what I do. I will always make time for couples like this.

Congratulations, Luke and Olivia — January 2, 2027 is going to be so beautiful. 💍

📍 Newport Beach, CA
📸 Booking engagement + wedding sessions across the Inland Empire, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange County & LA County

Engaged and want a video like this of your own? 💌 DM me “BOOK” or tap the link in my bio — 2026/2027 dates are filling fast!

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Big sister energy has entered the chat! 👧🏽💙🩷

The Yorke family trusted me with one of my favorite kinds of sessions — a family shoot that doubled as a gender reveal for their extended family. Everyone gathered together with no idea what was coming, and watching that moment land on all their faces? Pure gold. Baby #2 is officially team… well, you’ll have to see the next post for that. 😉

This is exactly why I love what I do. It’s not just “take some pictures” — it’s capturing a moment your whole family will look back on forever. The anticipation, the reactions, the way everyone leans in for that one shot — that’s the stuff you can’t recreate later.

And friends — heads up: family photo season is HERE, and it moves fast. If you want gorgeous photos AND time to get your Christmas cards ordered and in the mail, now is the moment to book, not December. Sessions are filling up quickly.

If you’re on the fence because you’re not sure it’s “worth it” — it is. This is a moment that happens once. You get what you pay for, and when it comes to memories like this, don’t skimp on the experience. Invest in someone who’s going to capture it right, while there’s still time on the calendar.

Ready to lock in your family or reveal session? Send me a DM or hop on my website (link in bio) — let’s get you booked before the calendar fills up.

📍 Inland Empire | Riverside • San Bernardino • Orange County • LA County
✈️ Travel sessions available

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Aubree Michelle Gonzalez turned 15, and her quinceañera was pure love, laughter, and togetherness from start to finish. From the breathtaking, quiet moments in that stunning red and gold gown to the tears and tight hugs on the dance floor with her mom — every frame tells the story of a girl becoming a young woman, surrounded by the people who love her most. Family came from near and far to celebrate her, and being able to capture it all — first on video, now in these photos — is exactly why I love what I do. 🌹👑

Aubree, congratulations on your quince! Here’s to the beautiful woman you’re becoming. 🥂

✨ Michelle Howell Photography is your photography AND videography company for quinceañeras, sweet 15s, and every milestone worth capturing — serving the Inland Empire, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Orange County, and LA County! Call or DM me today to book your date before spots fill up. Link to book is in my bio. 📲

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Watching them hold onto each other, honoring their culture and their families, reminded me exactly why I do this work. As a Southern California wedding and portrait photographer, I don’t just photograph “one kind” of love or “one kind” of family — I get to celebrate all of it. Every faith, every tradition, every beautifully unique way people choose to say “I do.” Because here, we get to be fully, freely ourselves — and that deserves to be captured with so much love.

If you’re dreaming about your wedding day, an engagement session, or any milestone worth treasuring, friends, I would be so honored to be part of it. Come tell me your story — DM me or head to the link in my bio to book your session.

Let’s make something you’ll cherish forever. 🌸

📍 Wedding & portrait photographer serving Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Orange County & LA County — and happy to travel for your special day.

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🌍✈️ HE’S OFFICIALLY CALLED, FRIENDS!

Meet Jared Jorgensen — the baby of the family, the heart of every room, and now… an official missionary headed to serve the people of Layton, Utah, speaking Spanish! 🇪🇸💛

I am SO honored I got to be the one behind the camera for these missionary photos, because let me tell you — this family’s excitement was contagious. 🥹 Jared’s parents are already feeling those bittersweet mama-and-papa feels (because yes, sending your youngest out into the world hits different), but they know something powerful: serving the Lord is about to teach Jared more about himself, his faith, and this life than any classroom ever could.

Watching a young man step into this next chapter? That’s the kind of joy I live for capturing. ✨

📸 Missionary photos aren’t just photos — they’re the beginning of somebody’s story. If your missionary is getting their call, DON’T wait until the last minute — my calendar fills up FAST and I want to be the one to capture this moment for your family too.

👉 DM me or hit the link in bio to book your missionary session before the spots are gone!

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Life has a way of shifting all at once. 🤍

This family session with the Williams family was so much more than photos on a staircase — it was a moment frozen in time before everything changes. Their son is leaving to serve, their youngest is stepping into senior year, their eldest son is happily married, and their eldest daughter is out there living her dream as a Pilates instructor. Big transitions, big love, and a family that wanted to hold onto right now before it becomes “remember when.”

They asked me for the most beautiful family photos they’ve ever had — and after years of trusting me with their story, that request means everything. Inland Empire family, I see you growing and changing, and I’m honored to be the one capturing it season after season. 📸

Here’s the thing about working with me: once families hire me once, they don’t go looking for another photographer. It’s the consistency, the quality, and the experience they keep coming back for — session after session, milestone after milestone.

Going through a season of change in your own family? Let’s capture it before it shifts again. Message me here on Instagram or head to the link in my bio to book your Inland Empire family session. 🤍

📍 Inland Empire | Riverside County | San Bernardino County | Orange County | LA County

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Okay friends, I still cannot get over this one. 🥹✨

Last week the Torres kids hit me up with the sweetest request: photograph THEM — no mom in the frame — as a birthday gift for their mama. Just her babies being silly, being loud, being exactly who they are, so she could hold onto that forever. 💛

We took it up to the canyon for golden hour, got a little wild, laughed way too hard, and I turned the edits around fast so they’d be printed and ready for the big day. On her birthday, she messaged me and said these photos made her heart so full and one of the best gifts she’s ever received. And I told her straight up: I was just the artist. Her kids were the creatives. They thought of her. I just made it happen 📸

That’s what this work is really about, friends. It’s never just “a photo.” It’s someone saying I want to remember this, exactly like this, forever. Your family. Your kids. Your favorite person’s face when they open that gift. Life moves fast, and one session can freeze a moment you’ll have forever.

So consider this your sign 🚨 — you need that Michelle Howell Magic in your life. And I already know what you’re thinking: “Michelle, I don’t have time right now.” Friend, make the time. Because I promise you this — even on my busiest weeks, I will always find a way to fit you in. Always. 💅

📩 DM me “SESSION” or tap the link in my bio to book your family, portrait, senior, or surprise-gift session today.

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