>Cullen Family

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Jackie is one my favorite clients to work with. Not only are her kids adorable, but she always has a ton of ideas for the shoots. There is a fine line when collaborating with a client. Other photographers have fell victim to this I know as well as myself. Before you know it you realize you are just taking photos that the client would take except you have $3k worth of equipment in your hands. (actually had a client ask is he could just take some photos with my camera halfway through a shoot.
Jackie and her family are exactly the opposite of that. She just has a ton of great ideas and then lets me go to work and trust she will like the results. Which so far has worked out. So far…

>Welch Family La Jolla Cove

>I love shooting in the cold winter months at the beach. I think other photographers will agree that you just cannot beat the lighting. Cloudless sunny days are awesome at the beach when I feel like donning my pale mid-western skin tone for the hairless and tan natives of San Diego to witness. I think there is even a little club of Sasquatch enthusiast that wait all year to get a glimpse of the “Sas” skipping through the water in hopes of finally proving Big Foot exist and he runs like a girl.

When I met up with Jen and her family they were kind of bummed on the weather (visiting from the east coast I guess I would be bummed as well that it was not even 60 degrees at that beach) Despite it being a little less than perfect weather-wise we practically had all of La Jolla Cove to shoot without any other distractions. Here are a few shots from their session.

>Cute Kids + Creative Moms = Fun Christmas Sessions

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Heather emailed me a few days prior to our shoot and wanted to know if I could fit her in on my extremely and thankfully booked schedule. At first I was a little aprehesive in adding more sessions to my December calendar. That is until she told me a few of her ideas. Seriously, how can I pass up the chance to photograph kids tied up with christmas lights. (come on parents you know that sounds tempting when you have gotten up to refill the juice cup for the 10th time and there are crackers crumbled all over your freshly vacuumed carpet…)

>Davis Family – Oceanside Pier

>I had been wanting to shoot at the pier in Oceanside for sometime now, so of course choosing the weekend of Thanksgiving was perfect. With everyone off of work and family leaving their frozen tundra’s of the midwest to visit family in SoCal, I mean really, how many people could be at the beach? (sarcasm)

Despite having to tell little children to stop playing and get out of the shot and shirtless hairy Europeans frolicking through the water in their speedos the lighting was amazing and the structure of the Pier was just awesome to shoot against.

>The Merritt Family

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>In A Years Time

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I am completely obsessed by photography. Ask any other photographer and they will tell you I am not alone. There is so much to learn, so much gear to try, and so many things to shoot that most of the time it feels like a bottomless pit and that I am sure someday I will be on my deathbed thinking of all the things I wanted to do with photography but just ran out of time.

With all of that being said I was going through my flickr account last night and found some photos I shot a little over a year ago and thought I would share. And I share these not out of trying to show off, honestly I probably know less than 1% of what there is to know about photography and still consider myself a beginner hack, but it is still fun to look back and remember when I knew completely nothing to as what I was doing and compare it to now….when I kind of know that I know nothing to as what I am doing.

>Woog Family at the Beach

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Photographers tend to gush about how every session they do the clients are always the most amazingly nice and loving people in the world. I have yet to work with anyone that wasn’t nice (fingers crossed) but the Woog family is going to be my break from telling the world about nice people, because well they just are. I met up with them at a beach in Carlsbad last Sunday morning and it was like meeting up with old friends. Here are a few photos from our session.

>Diaz Family at Mission Trails

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Despite finding out that Tarantella spiders live outside of pet stores, Mission Trails is becoming my favorite place to shoot.

>The Alcantara Fam

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This shoot almost didn’t happen because of the rainy weekend we had, but fortunately it stopped raining long enough for us to get some great shots of the SUPER nice Alcantara family. And when I say “rained in San Diego” that means it barely sprinkled for a couple hours to everyone outside of Southern California….

>The Zoo Keeper and his pets – Paradise Point

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Photo sessions with the Lovci kiddos are never dull ones. Add halloween costumes, hungry ducks, and what the little guy assumed was edible leaves makes a photographers jobs super easy. (the lion outfit didn’t work out as well as the giraffe, but I believe I got enough photos to show to his first girlfriend…)