Daily Inspiration

Summer Family Portrait at the beach

What a whirlwind couple of months in the new Studio location!  I am loving it here, with the open lofty feeling and bright walls.  And, what perfect weather we’ve been having! I have been blessed by some lovely families that I’ve gotten to create portraits for and can’t wait to share some of their images. The Poutier family had just a small window of time before everyone was going different directions for college. We had the perfect evening!  The weather and light was beautiful and the love they have for each other was so apparent to me and I think comes out in their portraits.  Here are a few of the images they chose.

 

Westlake Village award winning Studio

Whew! I'm in!  I'm so pleased with the new studio and wanted to share some images of it.  It feels much more lofty and industrial than the old studio and it's really inspiring.  I love having a studio space - to show sample portraits, be able to project my client's sessions and have a camera room to shoot in.  It's great for Senior Portraits, Publicity Headshots, babys and even dogs!  I'm next to Paw-fect, a great Dog Groomer and have seen amazing dogs come from there :)

Family Portrait Outdoors in Thousand Oaks

The weather has been beautiful and with the past rains, we have wonderful fields of grass dancing in the breeze.  I have been photographing these teens, since they were small and loved creating portraits in such a fun, vintage inspired, natural way!  Nate and Kendall were great and it was really hard to pick only a few to post.  

 

Publicity HeadShot Portraits

Great Business and Publicity Headshots are imperative in effective marketing.  You want to have the viewer get a true impression of you.  How do you feel about your current headshot? Do you feel that it represents the best of you?  That is why this summer I am offering to my clients great Headshots at a value price - $35 off!  Give me a call and we'll create an image that will be an outstanding first impression.

 

New Little Angels

Here are some of my recent newborns! It takes patience and mamas need to stay relaxed like they have nothing else in the world to do (somehow babies know), but sooooo worth the time!  These precious portraits can only be captured in the first couple of weeks and then they grow so quickly that we won't remember how tiny they were.  Really, I will never cease to be amazed that, days before, these little ones were safely in their mama's tummy - miraculous! 

 


   

Dads and Babies

I love dads with their new babies. The tender expression, the strong and fragile ... it is the beginning a a precious relationship.  The best time to capture this is in your baby's first month.  We have a new session that is for NEWBORNS and it is $200 and includes 25 beautiful, custom designed announcements.  And, it is a great gift from a new grandparent or girlfriends!

    

Wahoo!

I love ALL of my family portraits and honestly create them with the same vision and care to make them worthy (in my judgement) to hang with the best of them. But, there are a few that I have created, that I have a gut feeling will make the Professional Photographers of America, International Print Competition judges happy also.  The judging is stiff and to get a merit is exiting and satisfying, but to have an image "go loan" is a wahoo! moment.  That is what happened with the Dahl girls portrait I submitted for 2009 ... loan :)  It's going to be published in a beautiful coffee table book with the other Loan prints for 2009 and sent with a traveling International Loan Exhibit around the world.  Thanks girls!