WELCOME TO
THE MIDDLE GROUND.
A place to shed light on the people of Orange County and capture moments that go unnoticed.
01 Color Guard of Southern California
02 Inside the Life of Athena
03 Orange County After Dark
Meet The Team
Emeline Beltran
Emeline is a rising creative who emphasizes in creative marketing, social media, and photography for events and performing arts. She loves to search for new ways of using visual communication to tell the stories of passionate people and places. Post-graduation, she would like to work in the communications, development or marketing departments in entertainment, arts, or health and human services before applying to masters programs in business or communications. Outside of school and work, she enjoys playing her ukulele, thrift shopping and discovering new cafes.
Jessica Ruiz
Jessica Ruiz is a photojournalist based in Orange County California. Jessica loves to photograph the overlooked people of California. She is excited to see what the near future brings, she hopes to work for a newsroom where she can use her photography to create beautiful raw stories.
Jenna Ross
Jenna is a photojournalist, street photographer and writer who emphasizes photographing subjects that typically go unnoticed. She seeks out subtlety and the seemingly mundane in her work. She hopes to use her skills to help tell the stories of those who don't have a voice, and her dream is to be a foreign correspondent or a war correspondent for a domestic publication. She also currently makes a mean cup of coffee for a living.