Belly Casting part 2

We did another session with belly casting today and we tried a new prop as well. Check out some images from todays session. Now even though it appears that baby is all alone actually mom was holding or supporting the baby on all portraits below for safety. This is magic of post editing that makes it look like baby is on its own. Baby is now 3.5 weeks old.


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Maternity Portraits 9 months

Gladys came in yesterday for her maternity portraits she is due any day now. She thinks in the next 2 weeks for sure. They are expecting a baby girl. Congratulations to you :-) Here are a few portraits from the session.


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Maternity Portraits 7 Months

Yesenia came in today for her maternity portraits. She is 7 months already and she is expecting a baby girl. Congratulations on the baby girl and here are a few portraits from todays session :-)



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Maternity Belly Casting Portraits

About couple months ago Leontine came in with her big belly and we did belly casting together of her belly. This is Leontine's baby #4 and they are thinking this might be the last one :-) Today she came in the baby is now 3.5 weeks old and we finally got a chance to do some portraits with the baby and the belly molding. Check out some of the images from the session:


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Sisters Portraits

A couple days ago I did a portrait session of a couple of cute sisters. This was a 3 year old girl and a 3 month old girl. Here are a few of my favorites from the session and hopefully I will post soon some of the funny faces we did during the session. For now here are some of the portraits:



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Congratulations Jennylea and Andrew

This past Saturday Jennylea and Andrew got married over at the St. Barnabas Catholic Church over in Alameda. The reception was at the Peony Restaurant in downtown Oakland. We had a beautiful day full of sun. We took our formal portraits at the Washington Park over in Alameda and we even got to go on the beach for a few minutes. Click here to see a slide show of some of the highlights from the day. Special thanks to Mark our 2nd shooter and Joey the photo booth photographer.

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Mission San Jose Communion Portraits

We took some time today and went to the Mission of San Jose. We did some communion portraits of this cute girl.

Wild Birds

We have a wild bird that set a nest in our gazebo and looks like the babies just hatched :-)

1 year Old Cake Portraits

Christine has been coming in with her daughter Sienna since she was a baby. Sienna is now 3 years old. When her sister was born mom brought her sister in as well to take her portraits as she was growing up. Now the baby is 1 year old. I decided that it might be cool to compare the 2 sisters 1 year portraits. Mom brought in same dress that Sienna had on for her sisters 1 year portraits. Take a look how amazingly similar these girls are at age 1.

Top set is Sienna at 1 year and the bottom set is her sister now 1 year old.

Takei Family Portraits

Suzette came in to my studio this weekend and we did a special session for her where all we did is captured as many expressions as we could of her kids. She has 4 beautiful children. I had so much fun capturing their expressions and we are going to be making a huge collage with lots of different expressions. Meanwhile we are working on selecting images here is a little sneak peak to a small collage of the Takei family little crew.





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A newborn's conversation with God

A baby asked God, 'They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?' God said, 'Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you.'

The child further inquired, 'But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy.' God said, 'Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy.'

Again the child asked, 'And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?' God said, 'Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak.'
'And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?' God said, 'Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray.'

'Who will protect me?' God said, 'Your angel will defend you even if it means risking its life.'

'But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore.' God said, 'Your angel will always talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you.'

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, 'God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name.'

God said, 'You will simply call her, 'Mom.'

~Happy Mothers Day :-)

Lake Elizabeth Family Portraits

Monica brought in her 3 daughters today to take some fun portraits. I have not had time to go through all of them yet however here are a few sneak preview portraits from our session today :-)



You did it.....



On right Chloue only 1 year old showing off her strong arms. She held on really well.


This ended up being a tie. They got to me at the same time :-)

Lake Elizabeth

Today was a really warm day so I went to Lake Elizabeth with my son. We met up with one of our new friends and enjoyed some time just relaxing and watching the kids play. Here are a couple of images from the park.



I love capturing kids when they don't know I am watching and then of course when they realize you are watching and they are excited to show you what they just achieved. In the above collage my son found two big rocks after searching for a while. I love the moment of victory in his eyes.


Ronin's new friend....he didn't want to go home

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F.U.N. Mom Pampering Night Event

Tuesday night I photographer my fellow moms at the F.U.N. Mom pampering event. I had so much fun got my hair done even won a prize and I received a big goody bag with lots of goodies. Even though I worked all night it didn't even feel like work. Special thanks to everyone that helped me take down and carry things to my car. :-) To view a small highlight of some of the images from the night CLICK HERE to see the slide show. All other portraits will be online tomorrow after Jaime sends out an e-mail with big tent with instructions on how to access the gallery.

Cute Little Girl....

I am working on some collages and I just made this one of this cute little girl.....

Family Session

Today I did a quick session of these 2 sisters with their brother. We did a few different poses some fun and some more formal but this is one that I thought I would share.

1 Year Old

Learning how to walk is so much fun. I love capturing kids as they are learning things. Here are a few images of Hudson who just turned one a few weeks ago.

Mya 3 Months

Check out this little girl her neck is so strong at just 3 months. Mya is one of my friends daughter and she let me play with some new background ideas I had. Also we just had to get a smiling portrait of her as well. So here are a few portraits from the short session.

I love those baby smiles

Her First Time Wearing a Ballerina Outfit



A New Brick Wall Idea for the Little Babies



A new prop as well but I have other plans for it but though this might look cool like this as well.