Family Session
Here is a little collection of images from this afternoons family shoot.
Portrait Shoot in Pasadena
I met up with Jennifer for her portrait session in South Pasadena on Friday. Here are a few of her images.
Brian and the Roadster
Baby Pics!
While I was looking thru the photos I took of Erin and James and their <1 week old baby, I got to thinking about these pictures being part of a photo album. This is the best gift that I could have given them. Not that the pictures are spectacular, but this mom/dad/baby combo is spectacular, and these are going to be very important memories in the years to come. Thats a good gift if you ask me. And I always buy the wrong thing anyway.
January 1, 2012
I am supposed to be working on a post about my favorite images for 2011, but I thought it would be easier to blog about my favorite photo from 2012. This is actually the only photo I have taken, after 12 hours into the new year, but I think its a good start. On a beautiful 80 degree January 1st, we took the bike out for a ride and met Brian. Brian had rolled into the parking lot of the Lookout, a popular stop for bikers on Ortega Hwy overlooking Lake Elsinore, just as Debra and I were finishing lunch and getting ready to head back down. Debra couldnt help but take some photos of his 1931 ford roadster. And when I say roadster, were talking the good kind. A dirty, grungy, greasy frame with wheels, and engine, a gas tank strapped behind the drivers stadium style seat, and an old soda bottle wired to the radiator for overflow. I couldn’t not engage this guy and introduce myself. I love the goggles.
Baby On The Way
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ~ VICTOR HUGO
Debra Says…… (About a Family Shoot)
Last week we went to Laguna so Chris could do a family photo shoot. I got to go along as the ILS (Intelligent Light Stand). We found a new location that had nice rocks and easy access. The family was so adorably California, that the little bit of New Jersey left in me, started to hurt. The two little sisters were 5 and 2. That is a really fun age for kids. Getting both girls to look at the camera was the trick. The little one was amazed by the waves and the birds, and her big sister. The older sister, Lauren, was a natural at posing and at coaxing her sister to look at the camera. Singing “Dora the Explorer” seemed to help get everyone smiling, including grouchy old me. It is always fun for me to watch Chris work. He has a plan, but is flexible, adapting to the area and to the subjects of the photo shoot. Quick too, which is handy since the tide was coming in and trying to get all the gear. (although he did check the surf report and it was supposed to be low tide at the time of the shoot) We moved around the area taking over 300 photos in different spots and poses. The whole time Chris was coaxing the kids, and making the parents smile. As bossy as Chris can be (and that is really bossy) it seemed more like he was having fun than working. There was a real connection with the family. I occasionally get to snap a photo of him doing his thing. It makes me smile, because he looks happy, in a bossy sort of way.
Baby Book
When I thought about how to design the photo album from Emily’s first birthday 3 day photo shoot, I thought pink and big. I designed a 10×14 album with PCL West that opens up to a very nice 10×28. When I thought about blogging the pages, I asked Sharon if she could take a couple of pictures of the book. I said, “If you can place the book next to something for scale, that would be great.” I think she did a fantastic job.
Baby Emily
I had met Sharon and Rick on their wedding day at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. About a year later, I got together with Sharon again for her Trash the Dress session with a couple of 11,000 pound African elephants. They live in Michigan and Sharon and I became dear internet and phone friends when she took up photography. I was very excited for her when she told me she was expecting child, and I flew back to Michigan in February 2010 to take some baby pictures. I spent a week out there taking pictures of Emily and Sharon gave me a photo tour around Detroit. Have you ever been?
Baby Ella
I have to confess, when I became a photographer, or at the very least a photo enthusiast, there were 2 things I said I would never do. One is shoot a wedding. Well that didnt go so good. The other thing I said I had no interest in shooting was babies, with the exception of my own of course. That only lasted till Lisa and Joe came home with Ella. The night before this shoot I surfed the web for baby picture ideas and tips. So my first baby went good enough for me to come back for 15 month photos. Here is a little of both.
