mini holiday session

Whoops, looks like I forgot to post this on my blog... I just had it on my facebook fanpage.
I've got 1 opening tomorrow at 9:45am for a mini holiday session.
9:45-10:15am!



The holiday are upon us - Halloween festivals, costumes, turkeys, decorations, holiday cards, presents...
Feeling overwhelmed? I can help! I'll take 30 minutes of your day to capture your family (or just your kids if you're camera shy). I can put together a holiday card for you that will get raves from all your friends. And I can help you create gifts for you family (no, I won't knit them a hat...I just make newborn hats lol), but I will help you with an album or gift ideas for the family.

I'm pretty booked up for the rest of the year, but I've decided to do one day of mini sessions since I've gotten so many calls this week.

30 minute session (perfect for little kids who can't sit still long anyway)
Online gallery of appx 15-30 images.
2 digital files and a 5x7 print of each image.

You can take your digital files to have cards made on your own (inababycarriage.com, tinyprints.com, costco..) or I can have cards made and printed for you using any of the images from your session.


Added... there's a chance I may open a couple more sessions on Sun Nov 15th. Let me know if you are interested!

Happy Holidays and stay healthy!

happy halloween!

Halloween schedule:
9am Jack basketball
10am Kaylie soccer
10am-1pm 5 year old birthday party
1-4pm party at the rec center
5:30 trick-or-treating
6:30 neighborhood Halloween party we crashed
7:00 more trick-or-treating
9pm bed

Whew! And then almost as a joke, they (who is "they" anyway?) make day light savings the night of Halloween so the next day is the longest in history. lol. Well, we spent most of Nov 1st at the beach enjoying the low tide and company of friends also suffering from sugar-excess and lack of sleep. It actually was a fantastic time. BBQ'd some burgers with Dad and the day was done.

The kids got to keep 10 pieces of candy and put the rest out for "The Great Pumpkin" last night. The eagerly woke up and checked out what he left them this morning. Jack was super excited to find a Fly Wheel (some toy that shoots a wheel out) but Kaylie was not so excited. She remembered that The Great Pumpkin brought her some dress up butterfly wings last year and thought he would be giving her some sparkly new ones this year... The Fancy Nancy tag book was not what she had in mind. I tried videotaping the kids' reactions, but realized as soon as the drama was over, that I had pressed the bleeping pause button instead of the record button. Rats!

Anyway... her are some pics from our day...







power rangers! meet jungle fury









u-c-l-a - fight fight fight!










snarky face

he wooed me! || santa monica newborn photographer

Here's little duke at 5 weeks. I wasn't sure what to expect with a little 5 week old since the newborns I've been photographing have all been less than 14 days old. Well Duke did not disappoint! He peed on us once and even fell asleep for a few photos. He also stayed awake a long time and gave us lots of alert blue steel faces (and I think maybe even one smile).

Duke's mama is friend and fashion designer staci woo. I'm sure you've all seen me sporting her "carefree stylish living" clothes (if it's not than jeans and a tshirt, most likely it's something she's designed)!

I couldn't be happier to welcome little Duke to the world. Congratulations staci and mike!


wooing his mama




For this shot, we put him on the kitchen counter and had someone hold up a white blanket to block out the rest(including the kitchen sink). Oh and I guess when you've got great style, that also means you've got great little vase combos casually sitting on your counter. ;) And a side note... aren't these borders around the photos cute? Check out my post on albums...then envision and album with page after page with these little borders around your little one...so simple, yet so darling!







POW!










staci...thinking he's looking like you here! gas or smile? SMILE!




perfection

it's raining babies!!! || south bay newborn photographer

I had my car all packed up and was ready to head down to the South Bay to photograph baby Asher. BUT I got a call bright and early from his mom saying he was sick. Poor little guy... less than 2 weeks old and already getting junk from his big brother. Luckily Asher's schedule was mostly just sleeping and eating and I was able to shuffle my plans around, so we moved the shoot out a few days (didn't want to wait too long and miss our chance to get those sleepy curly shots).

Asher did a great job and big brother Kellen got a big high five for chilling out with us during the photoshoot. Boy did mom and dad luck out with two gorgeous, well-behaved little boys! Here's Kellen when he was just four months old! Looks like the boys take after their dad in the hair department! ;)


hi mama! hi papa!




love those little sleepy smiles







flaky skin




got to remember how I made this hat...love it!







I wonder why most of the Kellen photos are blurry? lol.




thank goodness we had Mom to scoop him up.




seems like just the other day the little baby was Kellen...

Isn't she lovely...| los angeles child modeling headshots

Isn't she lovely
Isn't she wonderful...
(Thanks Stevie!)

Well, she's smart too! And a character!

Yes, this little girl has got a unique look - she's a Heinz 57, kind of like my kids. Only unlike my kids, she actually listened to me and posed for some photos. We hung around my yard one morning, made a few outfit changes and the rest is history! Don't you just love that red hat?
And that blue backdrop? Well, that would be our plastic swimming pool from the summer that was still propped up against the bbq.

Products and album sample!

Some photographers offer digital files, some offer prints, I offer both and albums too! Actually, if there's an item you've seen that involves photography, ask me about it and I can probably find someway to create it.

It's great to be able to get a cd of the images from your photo session, but how many people actually go out and have prints made? In many cases, the images just sit on the cd (like mine sit on my computer). The nice thing about ordering prints is that it takes out one of the steps... next step of course is popping that print into a frame and getting it up on the wall or desk.

An alternative to ordering large wall prints or your ho-hum 5x7, is ordering an album! I have prints I ordered from our wedding photographer, that I was planning on making into an album for my parents, but don't you know, they're all sitting in the same envelope they came in...6 years ag0. Thank goodness I ordered an album from our photographer so we have something to look through and show our friends.

Just recently I got to make up a really cool family photo album. I use a couple different album companies since I like a different styles. This company offers many different fabrics for the covers - from a high quality black leather, to a tangerine cow-friendly (faux) leather, to this blue faux snake skin. I'm awful at product shots, so please excuse my attempt here...

Paradise Cove... it's paradise unless you wake up at 4am and then get taken out by a big wave

Last month my good friend Sarah came to town with her little man Cooper and au pair Maren. Cooper is the cutest guy ever - sporting a Zac Efron hairdo, ruby red lips and a big Buddha-belly. But on this trip, he decided to wake up when the rooster crowed back home on EST. The early morning wake up calls (think before 4am) combined with nap shortages, made this cutie a bit of an unhappy camper. Oh yeah, and the cherry on top... he got a runny nose too! poor guy. poor mama. poor au pair.

For the most part Cooper was a great sport, so excited to see all the wonders of California and the beach.... until he got knocked over by an unfriendly wave! Anyway, he and his mama were good sports and we did manage to get some smiles and have some good times. I want to give a shout out to the the crew of women singing and playing instruments on the beach at 10am... great way to get that smile back on Cooper's face!







it takes a village right? Cooper's getting handed back to mama after a ride on Maren's shoulders




Oh ladies, look out! I've already got tabs on him for Kaylie (she may like younger guys).