Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday break! Here are a few favorites of a lovely San Francisco family I had the pleasure of photographing this December! These girls were so much fun and so full of energy & smiles! LOVED hanging out with them all!

Enjoy!

W Family, thank you so much for inviting me to capture your beautiful family!

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Who says extended family portraits can’t be fun?!! I had a wonderful time with this lovely group of 8 adults and 7 children a few weeks back! Below are some favorites from the session, or view their full slideshow here.

Here is the classic family image.

And here is the one I absolutely love!

Grandparent sandwich!

Can we bottle the genes that produce this AMAZINGLY gorgeous hair color? Just stunning!

M Family, thank you so much for inviting me to capture your beautiful, beautiful family!

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I love when new, expectant parents call me to capture their maternity & newborn sessions. It’s such a wondrous time, and so full of anticipation. It’s exciting to be a part of something from the beginning, helping to capture these lovely, life-changing moments. Marce called me when she was in her last month of pregnancy, and I am so happy now that she did! Her little girl arrived a few weeks earlier than expected, so we caught this moment just in time! We spent part of the session at their home, then headed out to Gamble Gardens for some lovely outdoor photos.

Here are some favorites from their session, or you can view their slideshow here:

Marce & Alfred, thank you so much for inviting me to capture your beautiful {growing!} family! I can’t wait to meet your little girl!!!

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I love when I’m editing images and suddenly can’t help but laugh out loud. I love that when I’m spending time with families, they begin to relax and just enjoy being together. This was one of those perfect silly moments, and I felt very lucky to be able to capture it!

There are so many pics from this lovely session to share, as it was the full family affair: grandparents, two twin brothers, their beautiful wives and gorgeous kiddos. We shot at two beautiful wineries in the Napa Valley, Nickel & Nickel and Peju. I was blown away by the photo opportunities & can’t wait to shoot there again!

Here are a few faves from the session, or check out their slideshow:

Thank you Baskerville Family for trusting me to capture such important family memories! So great to meet you all!

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Here’s another returning family, with a new baby!  So much fun!  When I first photographed Stella, she was about the same age as her little brother John is now, about just about 10 months.  It’s such a fun age to photograph as babies are sitting up and crawling, and so happy!  John is no exception.  It’s hard not to wear a grin from ear to ear around him.  He’s a super smiley little guy.  Stella is now almost 3, and we had a great time playing with all of her dress-up clothes and pretend play toys.  We had lots of fun jumping on the bed and dancing around in general.  Here are just a few of my faves from the session!

I love how John looks like he is just casually lounging in a pose for this next shot!

You can see where both John & Stella get their beautiful blue eyes in this next shot!

We were also lucky in our timing that we were able to capture some images that day with Stella & John’s paternal grandparents.  Here’s a fave with John & Grandma!

Both Stella & John love to snuggle and hug their mom!  So sweet!

Jennifer, thank you so much for inviting me back to photograph your beautiful family!  To see their slideshow, click here.  Or register to view their images online.

I was so excited to meet Bobby!  I first photographed Annabelle when she was just around the same age (7 months).  I always tell parents what a great time this is to capture – sitting up but not yet crawling.  It’s pretty much the easiest session they’ll ever have with their children!  And children at this age are so excited to be sitting up, seeing the world a whole new way – they smile easily, their skin is perfection and they still have some of the roundness & cherub quality of infancy.  I like to call this the “Gerber Baby” phase.  It’s a great time to bring in the black background for some classic portraits.  I usually retire this for families once a child reaches a walk/running phase.  It’s just too demanding to expect a small inquisitive, explorer to be confined to a “studio-like” setting.  That said, Miss Annabelle was an exception to the rule.  As true to form as her first session, she just sparkles in front of the lens.  What beautiful, fun and joyful children these two are!!!  Here are some faves from the session… or watch their slideshow here.

What a beautiful family!!!

Oh, photographing newborns is so lovely!  It passes soooooo quickly, this little brand-spankin-newness!  And it’s so incredibly sweet!

Clay was such a great baby, so sweet and observant and good natured.  And so darn cute!  He has the cutest dimples – just like his beautiful mama!  To view more of their session, you can view their slideshow.  To register to view their images online, click here.

For our session with Clay, I brought Melissa (my wonderful editing assistant, babysitter and a budding associate photographer!) as a training session.  Newborns can be tricky to photograph, for many reasons, so it’s great to have the opportunity to pass along a few pointers to keep the session relaxed and help create some beautiful images!

I love this one that Melissa caught!  It’s such a great catch, because little Clay won’t fit that way for too long!

And here are a few more faves from the session!

June 24th… the experiment took place.

22 children, 14 families, 8 hours of natural light shooting in the beautiful Blue Sky Studios in San Francisco!!!

Bring it on!!!

It was soooooo much fun!  All of the children & families involved with the experiement were previous clients and good friends.  I was so excited to see and hangout with these cutiepies – even if just for 30 short minutes each.  We had a blast, threw around lots of balls, sat in lovely chairs and soft rugs, occassionally bonked heads (and bravely recovered!), wore tutus and danced around.

And we got some GREAT images!  I’m so happy with the results.  I was hoping that even though we were in a studio, that we’d still be able to get fun, natural, full-of-life images.  I think we got it!

Here is a fun slideshow of the highlights from the day.

Below I’ve also included just one fave of each kiddo!  It was so hard to narrow it down.

Enjoy & look out for more details future mini-session dates!