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San Francisco Child Photographer - The Many Faces of Toddler Portraits

I love the days when I get to photograph little faces of growing children who I first photographed when they were only a few days old. I am so intrigued at how the essence of this person was there right from those first portraits, and I look into their faces now and think, "I know this little face. I have seen this face before".  And it tickles me so much to see them laugh and hear them talk. Human beings are simply amazing.  Last week I had one of those days - when Grace came back to my studio in Alameda for newborn family portraits with her baby sister Mia.  Grace is now two years old and both she and Mia did really well in the session. At the end of the session I took the opportunity to shoot some quick pics of Grace alone while they were dressing Mia.  I think I spent about three minutes shooting, and she gave me so many faces!  Now she is a busy little two year old and would not have stayed put for me, but I used a little trick where I put her up on a stool that is too tall for her to get off by herself - so she stayed in one place and entertained me be showing me where her nose was and playing peek-a-boo, and just being her beautiful, funny little Gracie self. We picked favorites from these few moments and created this 6-up collage that captures sweet Grace at two years old.

San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Photographer - Spring Portraits for Toddlers

Finally the warm weather is here and the ground is starting to dry up! This lovely San Francisco spring weather was wonderful for an 18 month portrait session with Laya! It was so warm she was able to run around in rain boots and bloomers!  We also took the opportunity to get some oh-so-pretty-in-pink pictures of her in her spring dress - then on to fun and action with her ladybug rain boots.  Still processing this busy session - but here are a few favorites to ring in the spring!  

We still have openings for our fun, fresh $95 spring mini sessions - call or email the studio to get yours!

510-748-8959 or [email protected]

 

Super Duper Love Sale - Love in 2010, or Lovin' 2010!

Having just come back from a lovely holiday break, we are ready to jump in and get this Decade Started!  In preparation for Valentines Day we have a Lovely Special!

The Love Book

One of our most popular products is our albums – so we came up with a way to offer a special Valentines album at a Great Price that will be Priceless to whoever is the lucky recipient. The album is our ever-so-popular 8x8 coffee table book with your choice from several Valentines themes, INCLUDING your choice of Love Quotes or YOUR OWN CUSTOM Love Quotes. The Love Book can be used for Babies, Kids, Pets, *Boudoir*, even Maternity! 
Or grab someone you adore and come into the studio together - mommy and me, best friends, star-struck lovers - Bring on the Love! Now we know that some people are great at writing quotes, but for those of you that need some help we have a list that you can choose your favorites from.  And for those of you with KIDS – we have an EXTRA SPECIAL way of dong the quotes – we give you a set of questions for the child to answer and the question along with child’s answers are included in the book next to each image. How cute is that?

So here is the deal – for $295 you get a 30 minute weekday session with Anna, an 8x8 Love Quotes book with 6 images from the session and your chosen quotes or you child’s quotes. To make it EXTRA EASY, you bring your quotes with you to the session, and then after the session the images will be uploaded to a 3-day online gallery for you to select the 6 images, then we put it all together and ship your book to you! Additional pages/images can be added to the book for $50 each. Then you will have a fantastic custom Love book to give that special someone for Valentines Day!  But here is the catch – in order to have the books ready in time, we are only offering the Love Book Sessions between 9am and 4:30pm Jan 19th – Jan 22nd, and Jan 25th – Jan 29th .  Full payment of the $295 is due at the time of sign up for your session. 

And talk about EASY – as a special add on you can get your own unique, personalized set of 25 Valentine’s Day Cards + 1 Facebook image for $99!  Now that is some Super Duper Love! 

Call the studio at 510-748-8959 to book your session or email [email protected]!

Two Year Portrait Session - toddler boys and trucks and trains

Over the Holiday Break, I had the extreme pleasure of photographing my step-daughter and her son - aka my grandson - Kingston, who is two and a half years old.  They do not live in the Bay Area, so it is not often that we get to see them. Like many toddler boys his age, Kingston loves cars, trucks and trains - so our photography session was an urban portrait session at the old (abandoned) train tracks.  Along for the ride was his miniature car "McQueen" and Thomas the train, who appear in many of the portraits as well. I approach portrait sessions with toddlers like an adventure - if we make it fun and playful we are guaranteed to get great shots that really capture the essence of the child and the relationship with the parent. For these sessions the parents are an active part of the adventure who sometimes are in focus, sometimes not - but parents are such a big part of the toddlers world that they often are not themselves unless the parents are very close to them.  Using a lifestyle photography approach, it is a very busy session where the parent and child are actively engaged in playing together.   I like to make albums out of the sessions each year with my children and grandchildren, so of course I shot quite a bit of footage.   Here are some of my favorites of this little character Kingston - hopefully I am not too biased!