Family Photos

So for all my family and friends out there I am sharing our family photos for 2009. Man is it difficult to take family photos with a darn timer! Next year I am getting a remote! This is the best of what we got so hope you like them!!!

Session Preview - San Diego Photography - Indoor session

Here is baby "A"! She is 4 months old and a real doll. Mom gets her photos done every month and I came to do the 4 month old shots. Timing worked out perfect because baby "A" was fed and took an extra long nap so she was happy and very good about us changing backdrops/wings/tutu!

Session Preview - Balboa Park

I had offered to do family portraits for the "S" family a few months back and we finally got to it! Schedules are crazy when it comes to husbands in the military! Little Mr. "R" did not like his picture taken...he was playing games and shying away from the camera but little did he know that I got a few good ones!! Daddy is getting ready to leave on a deployment so I hope these pictures are something he can take with him for great memories!

Out of Towners

I had the opportunity to photograph a beautiful family of 4 that were visiting from out of state. It was a warm morning and the sun was shinning bright but I believe I was able to capture a few they might like! The two adorable girls were afraid of the water but they were so brave to get their pictures taken near it! It was hard to get them to smile, but mom said that they were sleepy...those precious girls sleep in until 10am! I guess thats why they are so beautiful :)

So Stinkin' Cute!

So I had the honor of helping out a friend by taking photos of her daughter for her hopeful modeling career (which by the way I think she will succeed!). Little "C" is 3 years old and has got everything! She is so stinkin cute I just can't stand it! She has a cute chubby face, tanned colored skin, freckles, dimples, big blue eyes, and BEAUTIFUL curly hair! To top it all of she is one of 4 sisters, and all of them look completely different! So we set out and took some photos of little "C". She is such a diva and posed in every which way! We also grabbed some of her older sister "A" because she is just as beautiful! I had so much fun and there were so many pictures that were so perfect. I hope to photograph her again and maybe we can get all 4 sisters in the photos! She has 2 twin younger sisters, man mom has got her hands full and I can't imagine what these gorgeous girls are going to look/be like when they grow up!

Homecoming!

This was my first homecoming event. It wasn't a ship homecoming so I really didn't know what to expect. I was just excited that I would be able to give pictures to a well deserved family of their husband and daddy coming home. I am glad they were not the ones trying to capture all the great moments while trying to visit. We thought daddy was going to march in with the rest of the guys coming home. While we were waiting daddy sneaks up behind and grabs "A" the oldest son! Caught us all off guard so I didn't get the "running to daddy" shot or even the "daddy sneaking up" shot. I was bummed. Then the homecoming was held in a big parking lot where it was nothing but sun at mid-day. They had canopys that of course were red, making everyone underneath them red! "A" was so excited to see his daddy he kept talking and talking and smiling, it was cute. In the last photo he just touched his dads face, which is so cute! This was daddy's first time seeing baby "C" their 3rd baby. That makes the homecoming even more special. They had not seen daddy since Christmas time, so it had been about 8 months. The middle baby, "M", was a little scared and was crying. She is almost 2 and didn't have a nap so it was very overwhelming for her. She started warming up towards the end though and I am sure now she is daddys little girl! I did get a few good shots, that even though they are not technically correct, they are cute! I hope the "B" family loves them and will get to cherish this experience through my photos. I hope that it was less stressful on them to not have to worry about photos.

Lollipops!!

So I have always wanted to do some shots of my kids with those big lollipops! Well I found a great candy store that sells them for cheap and so I picked some up and off we went with my friend to get some pictures of them with their lollipops! I think they turned out fairly well! Of course they are my kids so I am partial to them but I wanted to show everyone in case they wanted to do something similar. Most of these were taken in Old Town which had some great backdrops for us to use!

Its been awhile!

Its been awhile since I have posted. I think life has finally got back on track around here. We had a scare that we may not be in the Navy anymore and it was stressing me out like crazy! Plus we had family and friends around (which is nice) but you know takes away from daily life...you do more things when they are around than you do when your by yourself. So now everything is fixed and we are starting to relax. I did do some shots when my friend was out and we had a blast. I also used the timer to catch myself in them! Here are some! I am hoping to get out and do some more shoots, maybe some family shoots would be in order!! Any takers???

Family of 6!

I got an opportunity last weekend to capture a great family on film! They were a family of 6! They were a combined family of Mom and her two boys and Dad and his girl and boy! They were so great, you would have never guessed they had never been brought up together from day one. All the kids loved each other, they were all well behaved through the shoot. The little girl was such the photogenic one and helping us come up with ideas on places to shoot. We shot in the cloudy day but it seems that the photos turned out well. I am semi-happy with the shoot, yet I am a perfectionist so I am not sure I will ever be perfectly happy with a shoot! I hope they enjoy their photos and maybe will get an opportunity to shoot them again!!