Orange County, California Family and Child Photographer
Recently I met up with some photographer friends to check out a new location. This is so much fun, and I wish we could do it more often…like weekly! My friend had heard of a great spot in San Juan Capistrano with old farm equipment painted all different primary colors and pieced together. It is basically fun farm sculpture! It is such a perfect spot for kids, my boys loved exploring and I think I captured some photos that show their personality.
This past Saturday was the first annual Clickin Walk. The event was hosted by the photography forum Clickin Moms. I’ve belonged to this forum for a little over a year, and it has truly been an invaluable resource. When a chance to co-lead a walk with Misty Dayton came up in Southern California, I jumped at the chance. I’m so glad I did, it was such a great experience! It was so nice to meet up with ladies that I have seen on the forum in person, and a chance to meet new people who share my love of photography. We have all started sharing our photos and it is so inspiring to see their takes on the same subjects….these are some seriously talented ladies.
Here are a few of mine from the walk.
Great images, love the b/w conversions and it presents a great feel of the city!
how fun!!! love them!
Looks like you had a great time, thanks for sharing them!
What a fun shoot! Love that first image!
I love that first image and the shoot looks like it was so fun!!!
What a great set – I bet you all had fun on that CM walk!
Looks like you guys had a great time!!
Great images! How fun that you were able to meet people from the forum!
Beautiful grouping on images – love your b/w’s!
I’m so glad you all had a great time! I LOVE the photo of the front of that ship!
These are great images! I love the conversions and the first image in particular!
Looks like fun! Great images!
FUN! Beautiful images! I need to make it to the next CM walk
Wow! I love the ship image. Looks like loads of fun!
These are great! The one with the mirror made me smile.
These are wonderful- love your compositions 🙂 Wish I could’ve been there, too!
These are great! I love the composition.
I bet that was fun! Love these!
So fun! I LOVE the first one! 🙂
Great images! I hope to visit San Diego one day.
Great photos! Love the one with the mirror! Looks like you had fun!
great images- looks like you ladies had a great time!!
gorgeous! looks like a great time!
This are gorgeous. All of them!
What fun images! Great job!
Looks like fun!
Great shots! My sister lived in San Deigo for a while and the statue is one of her favorite locations!
These are great. Lots of fantastic shots and it looks like everyone had a good time.
love your composition- very creative.
This past weekend we ventured up to Kernville to visit Grandpa Skeen. It’s so nice to come up here, it is just so peaceful and beautiful. Before we had our little guys we would spend the day jet skiing on Lake Isabella or rafting the river. Now, we have to get a bit more creative. We went for walks by the river, visited the fish hatchery, and tried fishing for the first time. My boys are little nature and science lovers, so they had a great time exploring. Of course, we also spent some quality time with Grandpa and ate way too much comfort food!
The Kern
Grandpa showing the boys how to get their fishing poles ready.
My big guy was intense and took it very seriously. He did really well! He didn’t catch anything, but didn’t seem to mind. A neighboring fisherman gave him one of his fish, which G dutifully put back in the river (my little self proclaimed vegetarian!).
My little man was more interested in playing around, maybe next year!
Playing around with the noon sun while watching my husband fishing.
Lake Isabella. Both of these were taken from the car!
nice. I would want to come to that place.
Beautiful photos! I want to take a vacation now!
beautiful photos! love the setting.
Wow these are great. The landscapes look like they belong in a photography book.
wow, love the last two photos. Awesome!
I agree with the other comments, these pictures are stunning!
Gorgeous shots! Love the setting and your boys fishing are just precious. There is just something about little boys with fishing poles 🙂
Beautiful place! Looks like tons of fun.
what a great idea. Love all the images.
As I mentioned before, I had a little bit of blog downtime this summer as I was getting the new blog ready. I photographed some beautiful families that I didn’t want to put on the old blog, never to be seen again. I wanted to view them on my nice new blog…the one that was taking a wee bit too long to pull together! So, without any further ado, here is one of my summer sessions of one of those gorgeous families! This is the H family, and they were just amazing to photograph. This little boy has so much personality, he is such a charmer (and being adorable doesn’t hurt either!).
See what I mean?
Love the one with the guitar and the last one. Gorgeous work!
Looks like a fun family to work with, beautiful images!
This session is really beautiful! I’m in love with the first one… he’s a totally charmer!
looooove the first one and the one with dad especially– beautiful photos!
What a beautiful family! Love the last one. Great session.
Wow…such a gorgeous family. Love the first one!
LOVE that first one!
These are gorgeous! What a beautiful family – I really love that last black and white one of them all together, but these are all fantastic!
These are absolutely perfect! Beautiful photos for a beautiful family…
love the last one! Awesome!
Looks like such a fun family. And they are gorgeous! Beautiful job!
Really beautiful and unique family, and you’ve captured them well.
I love this session. The photos are fabulous and interesting and what an adorable little boy. Great job!
Great looking family!! Beautiful captures!
What a gorgeous family!!! I love everything about these!
Gorgeous family. I LOVE the first one and the last one, really beautiful shots.
These are beautiful. Nice looking family.
That last one is beautiful! Gorgeous session.
Beautiful! I looooooove that first image. Just stunning. Great job.
Beautiful images!
What an awesome location!! Great set of images. 🙂
Stunning family!
Absolutely gorgeous session! I am sure this family is over the moon!
These are simply beautiful! I love so many of them, especially the family on the beach!!!
Joelle is going to be celebrating her Bat Mitzvah soon, and I am beyond excited to be photographing it! I met up with Joelle and her family in San Juan Capistrano to take some images for the event and announcements. I used to teach middle school until my first son was born, and it made me realize how much I miss this age. These days I am pretty much surrounded by the 4 feet and under set, which I love, but they are a bit more challenging to photograph of course! I also captured a few of Joelle with her little brother. I could immediately tell how much fun the two of them have together. I’m looking forward to photographing the Bat Mitzvah in a few weeks!
She looks like such a fun and sweet girl! Great job on these Kimberly. I’m sure the Bat Mitzvah will be great!
What a beautiful young woman!
I love the last one!
I love how warm and golden these are, just lovely! And she is just so comfortable looking in front of the camera (and I totally want her hair!) 🙂
So stunning love the light in the 2nd shot!
What a beautiful girl! I love the lighting in these, and that last sibling shot is just too cute!
Kim,
I love your website!! and you know how I feel about Joelle’s and Ethan’s pictures 🙂 LOVE them!!
There are some amazing pictures in your portfolio – and your work with babies is incredible…
Good luck and all the best!
Looking forward to working with you REAL soon!
That really IS a fun spot! What great images you captured!
Seriously?! That place looks super fun and colorful! I love these!
What a fun location! The bright colours are perfect for kid sessions!
That looks like so much fun. Those bright colors do make a perfect session location.
What fun!! I love the color you have put together along with the images!
Your boys are adorable! Looks like you all found a great new location. 🙂
What a cool location! Your boys are super cute 🙂
Love the location! How fun! Your boys are super cute :).
Outstanding location! Outstanding images! They just make you smile and want to have fun!
Oh my! Little boys’ paradise! This place looks so fun!
Love it! You can just feel the fun, plus the colors and processing are so bright and perfect!
What a fun location! Love the colours!
Yay. I’ve been waiting for these! How did I guess you were going to use a picture of the laughing contest with Kenzo? You’re photos are gorgeous!
So colorful! Great shots!
I love the colors!! So bright and cheerful. Great pictures!
oh i love the first one especially– such a cute shot and fun colors!
What fun, I love the clarity and vivid colors!
Great photos- love the colors 🙂
love these fun, bright colors! well done!
Ohhh, I love the color and emotions in all of these. Fantastic job!!! Seriously, love them all.
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CUTE! I love the fun, bright colors in these!