I just landed in DC a few hours ago for what is sure to be a whirlwind trip. 2 weddings and 5 engagement sessions is going to be plenty of fodder for the blog. But before I get to any of that, I'm going to continue to play catch up. This year I've had a wonderful new family come into my life and I have already done 2 portrait sessions with them since early March. Hilary and James and their delightful 6 year-old daughter Astrid asked me to come over to photograph them while James' family was in town for a visit...which also coincided with Astrid's birthday. Here are a few faves from the session. This is my favorite from the whole shoot...such joy! And how quickly that joy turned to utter despair when she realized that her favorite stuffed animal was missing. I wish I looked so beautiful when I'm miserable...I usually
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Tags: family portrait, malibu, paradise cove
Gary and I have been babysitting for our niece and nephew this week so that's left me with little time to blog but I do want to continue to catch up with all of the portraits and weddings that I never got around to blogging. Today I wanted to share a few images from my shoot with the beautiful and delightful Smith girls. This was definitely more of a "lifestyle" session where I photographed the girls doing things as opposed to posing for the pictures...although they were certainly little hams at times. These girls love to bake so we figured why not make a chocolate cake... Classic big sister/ little sister stuff. :) At the end of the shoot, we thought it might be fun to jump on the bed a little. It became even more fun when their mom let us cut open a feather pillow to make it a little more
I am way behind in blogging all of the portraits sessions I've shot in the past few months so I'm going to make an attempt to catch up at least a little. Back in January I had the pleasure of photographing our friends and neighbors, the Behrendts. A little over a year ago, when Gary and I were still living in Los Feliz, we spent one morning scoping out the Tujunga Village area of Studio City. We ran into Greg over at Caioti and shortly thereafter moved into the neighborhood. Little did we know that we actually moved in just around the corner from Greg and Amiira. They have the two most delightful little girls and I just knew I would have to photograph them at some point so I was thrilled to finally get the chance. Here are a few of my faves from our session. All kids love to
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Good morning and happy Monday! Ellen and I (with the help of our wonderful and extremely tolerant husbands) spent literally all day yesterday setting up the new studio and assembling IKEA office furniture. For the record, I did not actually assemble any furniture myself...apparently I'm just not very helpful in that capacity. I do think I did a pretty good job of opening the boxes and laying out all of the pieces though. :) In a few minutes I'll get my act together to head over to the studio to do some more work and start breaking in my new awesome assistant (& future studio manager) Franny who is just the most delightful, lovely person you can imagine. I look forward to turning the camera onto her and introducing her on here very soon. But before I pull myself together, I wanted to direct you to some websites to check out
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Lorinda and Kawika are an adorable couple from Hawaii who happened to meet one another in DC of all places. They are planning what is going to be a beautiful wedding in Hawaii this October and somehow managed to find me for some engagement portraits in the DC area. This one was shot during the cherry blossom festival a few weeks ago.
Tags: cherry blossoms, engagement session, jefferson memorial, tidal basin