About IV
Nieves Gonzalez, IV is the founding photographer of Make You Smile® Photography. He is married to his beautiful wife and is the father of two cute smiling little girls. He and his family are parishioners of St. Laurence Catholic Church. Though he has worked in the IT field for many years, he has been interested in photography since childhood and has been shooting professionally since 2005. Please feel free to visit his portfolio.
Nieves, who goes by “IV,” (EYE-vee) uses state-of-the-art Canon equipment including “L” glass, and Profoto studio lighting. He edits all his work with the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom for post-processing on his color corrected monitors with his Macintosh systems.
Make You Smile is a family-oriented business based in Sugar Land, Texas. IV offers a fully equipped studio, or can shoot at a location of your choice, indoors or out. He is happy to take professional, family, candid, or event portraits.
When the shutter clicks, we Make You Smile®! :-)
St Veronica The Patron Saint of Photography:
When Christ fell on his way to the Golgotha, a woman, named Veronica, wanted to help Him. So she took the veil off her head, pushed the soldiers aside and ran through the crowd. Lovingly she wiped His face with her veil. Jesus looked up gratefully and thanked her with a smile. The soldiers pushed her away.
But when she looked at her veil, she found a beautiful picture of Jesus and she kept it as long as she lived.This is how St. Veronica became the Patron Saint of Photographers.
The photo at the left depicts what the image looked like. This incident is all we really know about her, and the relic has become her symbol ever since.