Archive for the ‘Family & Families’ Category

I’ve been meaning to blog this session for a while.  This little guy grew so much between his newborn and 3 month session.  His family is so beautiful and sweet.  And look at his beautiful big sister!  She did such a good job cuddling her brother on cue for the photos!



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david {happy hearts photography}: cuties! big sis did do well, not always such an easy thing!

Meet T.  I had the pleasure of photographing her as she anticipates the birth of her baby.  She was just a joy to photograph.  I also got to photograph her husband and her other baby–her dog.  Their dog was so funny during our session.  Let’s just say that I think he might have a future in “posing” in front of the camera.  I’m looking forward to photographing her little one after his arrival.


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Dezarae: Beautiful! Love the simplicity of these!

Melissa: What a gorgeous family! She is just glowing and you captured it perfectly! And that is going to be one GORGEOUS baby!!! can't wait to see the newborn portraits!

desi: she's really beautiful. LOVE the last one!

Holly Olsen: Absolutely beautiful! The first one is just perfect!

This session is from a few months ago.  I’m a little late to blog about it, but it was a lovely session on a lovely warm day.  I’ve been longing for some warm beach weather, so I thought I’d put up some images today.  This family is just the sweetest.  Mom is very laid back, friendly and sweet.  And if you can believe it, she was actually pregnant when we took these photos.  Tell me these sisters are not just the cutest!

These are actually some of the spreads from the album she ordered.

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Kelly Mack: What cute girls! Love the white dresses on the beach. Beautiful Susan!

Liz: How sweet! Something about little girls in white dresses! Very pretty!

Barbara Hurst: such beautiful light and location.

Brandi-lee: Gorgeous little girls, love how you captured them having fun and exploring. Beautiful work!

Scarlett: such a gorgeous family!! awesome light, love your work!

Kari Wright: First of all, I am sooo jealous of your beach! These are great, I love the moments that you captured between them.

Kathleen: Looks like you caught some great moments. Beautiful famiiy.

ashley: Beautiful work and beautiful family too. These will be treasured always I am sure!

Julie Delgado: Beautiful girls and love the dresses. Great images!

desi: you captured them beautifully!

Marzena: Gorgeous girls!!! I love how you captured them and their emotions.

Sarah Mansur: Very sweet pictures! So fun and lighthearted! Love them!

Rowena: That looks like such a fun session! Love the location and you really have captured the great moments! Beautiful family. great work!

Gail: Little girls in white dresses! Oh my these are gorgeous images! Great use of light and location!

Amy: Loving the connection. Great session beautiful Family.

Julie Wagoner: These are lovely and make me long for beach weather too!

Tori Piercy: What darling girls! They will love these!

Jackie Jean: these are very sweet, you have captured some wonderful moments!

amy: beautiful family!!! love the ones of the girls looking through the fence rails!

Jen Reif: What a lovely family! You have some gorgeous lieght in these!

Liat Biderovsky: Love these! The white dresses are so gorgeous with the beach as a backdrop and you captured some really beautiful moments

Nicole Z: This looks like it was a fun session! The girls are just adorable! Love your work!!

Taryn Chrapkowski: Love these! What gorgeous light!

kel ward: Absolutely adorable!!!

Sylvia Borgo: Ahhhhh, these are so delightful!

It wasn’t that long ago that I did J’s maternity images when her little boy was in her tummy.  And she’s now just weeks away from having another newborn baby.  This time we did outdoor shots, and the colors were just lovely.  As usual, they were just great to work with.

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Kathleen: What a gorgeous mom! She's just radiant.

Emily Southerland: What a cute mama!! Congrats to her, and nice job to you!

Danielle Frank: Very nice! I love the one of mama and baby!

Jen Gasper: The colors are beautiful. Kind of makes me miss that time in my life. I love the image of the little girl with mom. I so remember the nice little shelf that I carried my boys around on when they were about the same age! Brings back memories. It is nice when a photo can evoke so much emotion!

Deirdre Dunham: Wonderful color in 1 - and what a pretty, glowing mama!

Tori Piercy: I just adore her belly button! Beautiful family and stunning mama to be!

Gail: Beautiful mom - to- be... she is just radiant! I can't wait to see the newborn session!

amy: What a glowing MOM.. Just beautiful.

Dawn Kitley: Great shots, Susan! You've really captured their love.

Desiree Hayes: Beautiful!!

This family was SUCH a pleasure to photograph!  The parents recently had their 40th anniversary, and their son wanted to give them a gift of family photographs including him and his new wife.  What a great idea. Aren’t they a beautiful family?  And the colors go so well with their beauty and happiness. Glorious, I say.  At the end, as I was taking some pictures of J and his wife, we looked over at his parents with my reflector and scrim with the sun shining through, and I just couldn’t resist getting some spontaneous silhouette photos of them with them.  What fun!   Here’s to 40th anniversaries, and to many more.


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Julie: Lovely family session! And those last two are cute (especially the smooch!).

Julie Wagoner: What a wonderful gift for this precious family! I especially love that first shot!

Lori Wood Habiger: You are so creative! Love these - and great looking family, too - the red really suits them.

ally: Love how happy these shots are! And the red is just gorgeous here. What a thoughtful gift!

Jane Eaton Hamilton: Love the red bridge in behind. Cute family, and they will love these creative photos.

Sandie: Beautiful family and beautiful images - the last two are adorable!

Jennifer: What brilliant color! These are beautiful portraits!

Rhonda Stark: oh i love those shots with the scrim .. very creative and cute!! what a great present .. they will treasure these i'm sure!

We had so much fun getting some wonderful Souther California style beach photographs.  Swinging is what this little one loves.  Can you tell!  This family was just so comfortable doing their own thing, enjoying the beach like I wasn’t there.  What a beautiful family!


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Desiree Hayes: Beautiful! Gorgeous fam and I love the sunset light!

lauri: What a fun session! Adorable little girl too. The closeup of her being held up by both parents' arms is fabulous!

Amy: These are lovely! The lighting is beautiful.

Kristina P: What a beautiful family, love the evening sunlight as well :)

Rebecca: Sweet! Love that golden sunlight and big smiles from a happy baby!

Jenica: oh these are so fun!!! GORGEOUS images!!!!

This newborn little boy is so lucky.  His parents are just so enamored with him, as are his grandparents.  I had such a lovely time photographing baby J.  He’s just beautiful and such a sweetheart!  Mom and dad just moved into their new house, after spending some time decorating it, so I just couldn’t help photographing the family in their gorgeous breakfast nook.  Can you imagine the good times and lovely breakfasts that are going to take place in there?  And I’m really excited that some of these are going to hang big in their home.  What’s better than personal wall art?

ETA: I completely forgot to mention his cute little mohawk.  Doesn’t he have the cutest hair?

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Desiree Hayes: I love these! That yawning image is sooo precious!

Amy: Beautiful work! I love his yawn and the one with the dog is great.

kanchana: i like a babyes

sampath: i like a babyes

I feel like I’ve been ignoring this blog, but it’s not for lack of things to write about.  Lots has been happening, and I’m looking forward to blogging about these things.  One thing that’s been keeping me quite busy is three straight days of shooting from morning until night at a Janie & Jack kids clothing store.  I photographed oodles of adorable children, and I’m looking forward to sharing some images from those sessions soon.  Check back soon!

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I saw this contest today, and I thought that some of my readers who are engaged to be married would be interested in this Ultimate Wedding Contest by Crate & Barrel.  They are giving away a dream wedding worth $100,000.  Oh, it sounds luxurious!  Here’s the link: ultimate wedding contest:  http://www.crateandbarrel.com/ultimatewedding/Default.aspx

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Continuing my blogging on your family holiday photo shoots.  This is another special family to me.  Little Ms. O has so much personality as you can see here.  Her brother was a little more coy the day of our photo shoot, but we still got some fun pictures of him as well.

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Julie: What a cute family! I am partial to freckles myself (having always wanted some!). Great images!