Busy with Christmas Family Portraits...

These family portraits helped to raise money for our church's building fund. Thank you to all that participated in helping make Camarillo EV Free handicap accessible.

Family Portrait Session in Camarillo

Family Portraits in Camarillo

This is Melissa Lee from Events of Santa Barbara. She is one BUSY lady. I don't know how she does it--but not only does she do it--she does it very well and with a great big smile. I just love working with her.

Joey is 17 1/2 months...

Joey and I!

Joey watching Daddy go down the slide first.

This is Joey attempting to climb the tree (like the bigger boys were).

In front of the camera...

Ok, for all my photo friends out there that haven't been in front of the camera in a while--you should do it. Nick, Joey, and I had our portraits taken by one of my fav photographers Elizabeth Messina today. I gotta tell ya--I realized a lot. You know when you give your clients directions like "turn this way" and they do but not exactly the way you were thinking...yep I did that like a dozen times. And you know when you are shooting a family with a young child and it's hard to get the little munchkin looking into the camera and smiling at the same time so you tell the parents "keep looking at me and when the kids looking I'll take it" and the parents are always looking at the kid...yep that was me (like a dozen times). I gotta say--poor Elizabeth had her hands full with us.

And for all my clients and potential clients...I know what you go through before the shoot...the shopping and coordinating outfits (or trying to coordinate-in our case), the prep the day of, the hustle and bustle to get there on time and the wondering if your hair is like straight up when the wind blows...I felt it all. But the best feeling of all is trust---trust that your photographer rocks and that they are going to capture YOU and they'll be sure to keep an eye on your crazy hair too! :) When you have trust--you have the right photographer!

I can't wait to see the pics!

And to Elizabeth-thanks for putting up with us--you are awesome!