Families

Sue and I used to exercise together with a bunch of other gals several(ok, a few more than several) years ago. I was thrilled when she called wanting to capture some photographs of her with her absolutely precious grand children, Kylie, Alyssa and Sarah. They were excited to be sharing this memory with Grammy! Enjoy this blog teaser, the rest of the images will be online shortly!

John & Elisha are getting married on July 10, 2010 at the beautiful Fausel Ranch in Placerville, CA. They were referred to me from Gretchen & Matt‘s wedding last August at Fausel last year (apparently they have a groomsman in common). John and Elisha make each other laugh and truly have a zest for enjoying life. John brought along his 13 year old daughter Maddie as well as Trixie, their Pitbull/Boxer mix dog! Trixie and Maddie were fun additions to the shoot not only because of the dogs inate ability to make everyone laugh and feel relaxed but also because…

I photographed Ty and Tina’s wedding back in 2007 – and now look at them! A beautiful, happy, healthy, growing family. I absolutely adore Ty and Tina and their boys couldn’t be any cuter. These two are as in love as ever and it’s always so enjoyable to get to photograph seasoned, comfortable love. Aiden was so sweet in front of the camera… not shy at all. Well, except whenever we called him “Spicy” he’d get bashful and start laughing- it was the cutest thing! Ryland-happy bubbly little guy and super easy in front of the camera. Such an easy…

My good friend Julie referred the Ito family to me and I can’t thank her enough. As it turns out, Sara’s son Logan and my daughter Jaz are in the same 2nd grade class. It is so great to meet yet another cool local family and the Ito boys could not possibly be any cuter. I tell you, it was good exercise chasing them around too! I really enjoy Sara too- she told me to take all the time I needed to get her photographs online(after I explained about some tight senior deadlines I had), but was quick to also…

What can I say – I love these guys! I feel like I have known Tony and Tara forever but it really has only been since their wedding in 2007. When Tara was pregnant with Zoe, they invested in a baby package which includes a minimum of 3 shoots over the course of Zoe’s first year and a super cool custom designed Baby Brag Book album which is a picture story documenting her first year! Zoe is such happy baby- just full of bright-eyed smiles- I think she only got sad once at the end of the session- she was…

My extended family has a beautiful farm up on the Umpqua River in Oregon. We don’t get up there as much as we’d like mostly due to the amount of travel time it takes to get there and back. I wish it was about 4 hours away instead of 8-10 hours- we’d go up all the time! My uncles Tommy and Chris and their wives Cherry and Michelle live on the farm and take care of it on a day to day basis. In order to get to it you have to cross the Umpqua River (best not to arrive…

This year my friend Kristi (Shotgun Photography) and I photographed each others family for holiday photographs. Here are the photos I took of her family last week at Boeger…What I can’t get over is last week it was fall…and now this week it is full blown winter. If any of you know Kristi, she is such a generous soul and a fantastic mom to boot! I think my daughter Ember would like to marry her son Nick some day but I hear there is a line! Enjoy girlfriend ~ no crying…ok?

Negar tells me that this is my eighth time photographing their family(in some variation). I can do nothing but believe her. I have to admit that I lose count after awhile. I’ve photographed Negar, Amir and Shirin (now 4) back when Shirin was still nursing…then Negar when she was pregnant with Kian and then had the honor of photographing Kian’s birth. Then there was a whole mixture of family photos, nursery photos, home photos, park photos, winery photos…and then… I lose track. All I know is that I love this family. Beautiful people, beautiful smiles. I look forward to Negar’s…