Official photographer of San Diego Ballet 2019-2023, Canela Photography is a Liberty Station Point Loma dance and portrait studio at Barracks 19, 2690 Historic Decatur Road. Dance photography is the core specialty — a translation of precise, typically-moving stage technique into 2D still imagery — built through years working with performance companies and the student dancers at programs including California Ballet School. The photographer's UCSD Visual Arts (Media) degree from 2004 included advanced-level painting coursework with Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Kim MacConnel, and Barbara Kruger plus a photography and painting double-minor — the painter's background sharpens compositional choices in the dance portraits. The Barracks 19 studio location — inside Liberty Station's Arts District walking block — puts the photographer within steps of neighborhood dance programs including Dance To EvOLvE-Liberty Station, whose student recital calendar maps to a natural demand window for booked portrait and performance photography sessions. The highest-value engagements are full-season company contracts — the San Diego Ballet arrangement being the 2019-2023 benchmark — where a single photographer covers multiple ballets per season across tech rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and performance runs, producing marketing imagery across thousands of frames.