Meet sweet little Ace, what a darling expressive face he has! I thoroughly enjoyed photographing him and spending the morning with he and his sweet mama. The shot on the brown is a new favorite, what a gorgeous boy.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
I think pregnancy is such a magical time. When I was pregnant, while of course I felt like a whale, I also felt beautiful and very humbled by the amazing thing my body was doing. I wish every pregnant woman could see how beautiful she really is and just embrace that time because she will miss it when it’s over. Yes, if you know me you know I’m a total sap. I’ve never met a baby I didn’t like and I’ve never met a pregnant woman who’s belly I didn’t want to rub. Meet Jessica with her gorgeous red hair. I can hardly wait to meet baby Colette! While in Las Vegas last month speaking at a conference I had the pleasure of being able to photograph a couple of pregnant photographers so I’ll share Autumn and Tiffany’s pretty bellies here too.
I am so behind on blogging but I’ve had a string of beautiful newborn boys I must share. They ranged from 6 pounds to over 10 pounds, one week to four weeks, what they all have in common is an exceptional amount of gorgeousness :) Enjoy Deegan, Michael, Christian, and Ayden.
One would imagine that a photographer’s kids would be perfect little models. I’ve found two camps of photographers, those lucky ones for which their child is their muse and they just can’t seem to snap a bad frame of them, and… the rest of us. I’m not gonna lie, photographing my kids is painful! Each and everyone of them is so difficult to photograph, they are so gorgeous… I would be excited to have them as clients, and yet they’re mine… and, yeah. I have this stunning 12 year old daughter, we are close, we love each other, really get each other… put a camera between us and we are a nightmare :) Forced expressions, irritation, mutually annoying, but as her mommy it is my duty to do my best to capture her at this stage. Not quite a woman, not quite a kid, I am in awe of how perfect she is to me, and yet I can’t seem to catch it all on camera. So here she is, part gorgeous girl, part preteen snark, a lot of really mom??? But, in the end I love them and I love her.
I have the most exciting news to share!!! The Professional Photographers of America and the Professional Photographers of California released competition results this week. I am super proud and humbled to share that I’ve been named the 2012 CALIFORNIA FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! I am also the recipient of the Fuji Masterpiece Award for the state of California. The combined scores of the four images I submitted ranked in the top 20 for the Western District of the PPA and in the top 10 for the state of California. My image of little Freja with big sister Isabel was the big winner. Cassidy and Jake in the heart also received a merit and will be moving on to international competition. The Glover family smooching and sweet little Cassie rounded out my entries for this year. My images will hang at Pro Photo Expo in Pasadena in August and I’ll have some snazzy new plaques and trophies for my office :)
I have so much blogging to catch up on this week, expect lots of posts from me! I’ve just returned from Wedding and Portrait Photographers International convention and trade show in Las Vegas. My website company Showit asked me to come and speak on a panel about finding your niche in the portrait industry and creating a successful portrait business through specialization. What an honor. I was lucky enough to speak with outstanding boudoir photographer Jennifer Rosenbaum of Jenerations Boudoir in New York and amazing high school seniors photographer Holli True from Oregon. We had a great time and hopefully shared lots of useful information with those in our class. I went to plenty of classes as well and nearly ran myself ragged with vendor parties, get togethers, classes, seminars, trade shows, oh my. I brought back so much fantastic information I can wait to implement in my business and I got to see some amazing new products I can’t wait to use as well. Another thing I brought back is the early Beta release of Showit’s HTML5 mirroring, holy amazingness! If you are not an internet geek what that means is my full website is now available in all it’s gorgeousness right on your tablet, smartphone or ipad. It kind of rocks, check it out. Best of all I got to hang out with dozens of amazing photographers and friends. I’m a lucky girl. Here’s a few highlights from my trip:
I don’t think I can have a blog post without babies, can I??? Some of my sweethearts are growing up and came to see me in the last few weeks for milestone shoots. Stella and Jacob are both two years old now and sweet Cassel is 21 months. Time is flying!!!
My beautiful niece Brenna came to see me for new headshots. Such a pretty girl, but just as pretty inside as out.
How about some gorgeous babies? Twins Jake and Cassidy were back to see me for 6 month pictures and sweet Jordan was back for 9 month shots. Jordan brought along her traditional Vietnamese New Year’s garment, stunning, right? These babies are so cute their parents are lucky I didn’t keep them.
