Orange County, California Family and Child Photographer
I love this family so much! I just thought I would start this post with that declaration:-). The boys are more fun every year I shoot them and it is so fun to see how much they have grown. I love watching their family dynamic, these are some lucky boys for sure.
I purchased the Canon 100/2.8L macro lens last winter, and I am just now dedicating myself to learning it’s full macro capabiities! It is a beautiful portrait lens, and I am excited to learn how to use it to it’s full potential on macro subjects. I decided to give myself an extra push and do a macro post at least once a month. We had two gorgeous garden spiders in our front yard this month that were perfect subjects! My boys were just fascinated with them, and it was perfect timing with Halloween right around the corner. We identified them as a Banded Garden Spider and a Black and Yellow Striped Garden Spider. Aren’t they beautiful?
The last time I photographed this family they were a family of four, so it was very special to photograph them with their new baby girl. Baby Madyson is such an easy going baby and she did great during the session, as did big brother and sister. They are such a sweet family!!
There has been a challenge going on for a few months now on my photography forum Clickin Moms called the Camera Shy Challenge. Most of us on the forum are moms, and we want to capture as many day to day moments with our kids that we can. Luckily for us, we have so many options at our fingertips to do this, like our smartphones. It is tempting to break out the big camera, but a little intimidating to do so as well. This challenge is about respectfully photographing our kids in public places. A popular shopping trip my boys love is Petsmart and Barnes & Noble, we can’t visit one without the other! They love Petsmart because they can watch the dogs in the daycare playing. I was able to take a few photos that I love in both places – so glad this challenge encouraged me to do it!
This past weekend I had the pleasure of leading Clickin Walk 2012 with my partner Allison Jacobs. Clickin Moms is a wonderful photography forum that I have been a part of for over two years. I have learned so much there, both from the forum and workshops. It was great to meet some of our fellow photographers in person! It is also so much fun to view everyone’s photos after the walk. It is very inspiring to see different takes of the same places. Here are some of my favorites from the walk.
Awesome photos!!! LOVE the llama 🙂
Love!!! Love that you were able to meet up with the CM gals and LOVE the photos you ended up with. Great job!
Beautiful images
Beautiful work! I especially love the shots of the church.
Absolutely LOVELY. I love the bright colors, and it looks like it was a beautiful day! 🙂
Love these! I love the angles, the architecture and especially the llama 🙂
I love the diversity of the images – I’m having a really hard time picking a favourite – but love the first 3 especially!
I lead my first Clickinwalk this year. It was so much fun. Love your photos 🙂
It’s so beautiful there! Thanks for sharing!
How beautiful! I bet you ladies had an amazing time! Wish I could have made my local Clickin Walk, but it was pushed back due to rain and I had a session the day it was moved to 🙁
Very cool pics! I want to try one of these “walks” they look like fun!
Great shots. What fun.
lovely images, can I move to San Juan with you?? 🙂
These are great! Wish I had been able to make it to my local Clickin Walk this year!
Awesome job! I wish we had a Clickin Walk here!
I so should have done the Clickin’ Walk near me!
beautiful photos, looks like a fun walk!
Beautiful!
How fun! I love these images – great perspective!
These are so cute and fun! I love their serious expressions in the last one:)