Several months ago, I was contacted by Alexandra about photographing her husband’s homecoming. She had asked me about it quite a bit in advance, so I said to keep me in the loop as she got any new information, as I always do. Well, she […]
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family photo session ~ huntington beach
I knew going into to this session that there were five daughters. Five! Can you even imagine? I did the total stupid thing, and asked them how many bathrooms they had…..because I am sure they have never been asked that before. Three, for those of […]
free session giveaway! woo hoo!
It’s almost Mother’s Day, and I am a fan. I am all about holidays that involve me getting gifts and special treatment. Even if the special treatment is slightly questionable breakfast in bed. 🙂 But, I love giving gifts, too. So…for Mother’s Day, I am […]
trampolines are awesome, my dancing is not -family photo session ~ prescott, az
This is another of the Arizona sessions. I navigated my way through this foreign land without the aid of my beloved GPS. I didn’t even get lost….until I got to their actual neighborhood. Had they been looking out the window, they probably would have seen […]
Happy Easter
Spending the weekend doing Easter-y things. Realized that, in her 7.9 years on this earth, my daughter had never dyed Easter eggs. We decided to remedy that. There will also be egg hunting, food that involves minimal effort on my part, and a hike, where […]
the why
As a kid, I never dreamed about being a photographer when I grew up. I never learned to develop my own film in a college class, with a professor that inspired me to create art. I wasn’t a mom that was driven to take beautiful […]
family photo session – prescott, AZ – the ashcraft family
Andrew, you are missed. For Juliann, Ryder, Shiloh, Tate, and Choice Last weekend, we loaded into the car and headed to Arizona for a combination work trip and family visit. I had some sessions to shoot and the kids got to spend some time with […]
choosing a family photographer that is right for you
When I wrote a line in my last post about me not being big on using props in photo sessions, it got me thinking. I had been meaning to write a post about this for awhile now, but wasn’t sure how I wanted to approach […]
family photo session, corona ~ welcome, braeden
I have sort of a love-hate relationship with facebook. It is pretty hateable, for a lot of reasons…..but……how could I not like something that brought me to shooting a session for this awesome family? That adorable face is Irelyn. Cute, right?…but she is not just […]
family photo session – anaheim hills
Another session with someone I went to high school with. Kind of doing the whole high school reunion thing, one person at a time. Which is weird, because I would rather stick a hot spork in my eye than actually attend my high school reunions. […]
welcome home, eric
I met Eric and his family about a year ago, when Jen contacted me to shoot a family session before Eric deployed. Of course, the day that we had to do the session, it was pouring rain and dark, so we had to make the […]
jim & june – murrieta photo session
This is Jim and June. This weekend we walked around in one of my favorite little parks….and not one of us stepped in dog poo….which…can be a pretty big accomplishment for this particular park. Jim and June are pretty awesome. June is a therapist. She […]
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