I always mourn the loss of the long days of summer when we shift to fall and evening starts to creep up earlier and earlier. I think it’s left over from growing up in the northeast, where the end of those long days meant real cold was coming. But I have to admit, as a…
Can we talk about joy for a minute? Unbridled, bare feet in the sand, flying through the air on a carnival ride, joy? We don’t do enough of it, but we were lucky enough to spend a day in December with visiting family at the Santa Monica Pier and I just can’t keep the photographs…
There’s something super special about being able to take pictures of the parent who is usually the photographer in the family. Capturing them playing with and loving on their spouse and kids. Making sure that they’ll have these family photographs to look back on. Rachel had told me that was the dynamic in her family….
When I walked in to Devin and Shawn’s apartment, Devin already had her shirt off and was settled in on the couch with her dog, Noodle, cuddled up next to her. She had asked me to come over just two weeks after she had had preventative mastectomy surgery, to capture what this time in her…
Jamie and Emily carried their son to the bed and the two dogs were only moments behind them. The little dogs immediately situated themselves between the humans and my camera and proceeded to make hilarious faces at me, like the two grumpy old men in The Muppet Show, which led to some of my favorite…
There are really no, “what should we do now?” moments in a family documentary session with a two year old. Kids always lead the way. They haven’t learned yet to be shy of the camera, and more importantly, they have a natural drive to play and nothing gets in the way of that. Being with…
Let’s talk about babies, ok? Brand new, fresh to the world, beautiful little creatures. Let’s look at the exhaustion and wonder and euphoria of the dizzying change that happens when people are suddenly parents with a tiny person to learn to take care of. I absolutely adore photographing fresh 48s – sessions taken within the…
Sometimes a child charms you. You show up at just the right time and they are just delighted by you, the camera, the attention, and they shine. That’s what happened when I arrived at the apartment Hal lives in with his two dads. Don’t get me wrong, I love the challenge of warming up a…
Documentary Family Photography for the Holidays and Beyond New Year’s Eve used to be one of those fraught holidays for me. I found all of that pressure for it to be THE BEST NIGHT daunting. To be doing the right thing that would somehow set the perfect tone for the whole year. It was all…
You first saw a glimpse of this family in my post introducing my series on Los Angeles LGBTQ family photography. I love the range of emotions that came out in this session and that they elicit in me when I look at these photographs. The ones of Amanda nursing her son are some of my…