Another contestant in the “Cutest Kid Model Search“. Mister O was a hat fan and so were we! Vote for Owen HERE.
In case you haven’t seen our earlier post, we are part of a national “Cutest Kid” contest running in photography studios across the country. We met our first contestant here at the Silver Spoon during our in-store toy drive. Little miss E did so well at that session, Julie(mom) decided to bring her in for this contest.
To vote for Elizabeth, go HERE. Make sure you read the rules!
Stay tuned, we will have more of our contestants soon!
The Morell family was another one of our pre-holiday sessions (we’re still trying to catch up from all the holiday season craziness on the blog!) full of fun. Kerstin’s sister came to us last year, so she figured it was time for her family to visit the Enchanted studio, too. A fun treat was that Kerstin brought her 90-year old grandpa, Woody, to come to the session and be included in a few portraits. He was an amazingly witty and fun guy! They all seemed to have a good time in front of the camera, but holy cow did Miss S show us her stuff!! Thanks for the fun and the perfect wall measurements & diagrams! 🙂
Reilly had a minimum day yesterday so Stef and I decided to surprise her and take the girls bowling. Of course we had great fun but honestly I thought I would do much better given my recent practice on the Nintendo Wii. For the record, it had no positive effect at all. About halfway through the first game I almost asked the attendant to put up the bumpers…
Noon on a weekday is a great time to go by the way. 1. Kids eat free! 2. There is hardly anyone there which was nice because my score was rather embarrassing.
Teagan was surprisingly quite a capable bowler. Now, she did start her roll from our waiting tables, but the ball eventually found its target. And check out Reilly’s form! Bravo!
As you can see, the DuPont family was here back when the leaves were still on the trees; now these lovely leaves are just clogging our rain gutters! Christine’s main goal was a family portrait, as they had never had one since their 4-year old twins were born. She was so excited about this session, and then the unthinkable happened–one of the twins, Miss D, developed a sty in her eye 2 days before their session! After much discussion and debate, it was finally decided the morning of the session that D’s eye had improved enough to make a go of it. So glad we did, because you couldn’t even tell, and that was probably the last chance they had to get these beautiful fall leaves in the portraits.
Thanksgiving weekend we met the lovely family you see here. We have worked with one of the 4 Henderson daughters and her family for several years, and Emily was nice enough to arrange for her whole extended family to get together for group portraits. We met out at William Land Park, as that’s where the Henderson’s raised their kids and still live today. We were lucky beyond belief with the amazing weather and gorgeous fall leaves for this very late November day. It’s always fun to meet the extended families of our clients, and this was no exception. They were all fun, wonderful people and Sue and Marty have much to be proud of in their beautiful daughters. Thanks for letting us capture this moment in time!
We met the Falco family before the holidays thanks to the Newsom family who referred them. Deb called and knew exactly what she wanted and was very specific that the session needed to be short and sweet, as she felt her loving hubby and kiddos weren’t exactly thrilled at the task ahead of them. Well, they weren’t such tough nuts to crack after all, and Deb said it best in an email to us that read: “My family had a great time taking pix yesterday, a first for the Falcos! They unanimously said that anytime we take family pix they want to go back to you.” Thanks for the awesome compliment, Falco family! We had a blast!
I’m so totally excited to report that James was named Sacramento Valley “Portrait Photographer of the Year” once again! He received this great honor at our local Professional Photographer’s of America (PPA) affiliate annual dinner/awards banquet, held at Lucca Restaurant dowtown last Friday night. To put the icing on the cake, the image below (of our own Reilly!), titled “Her Day Will Come”, also was named “Image of the Year”! We are both thrilled at the honor of these awards and couldn’t have done it without all of our amazing clients, who are so critical in many of the award-winning images James has produced over the years. We share this award with all of you, and you know who you are!
The San Diego Zoo. It had been a while since Stef and I took the girls here and Miss T didn’t really remember it at all. I expected much marvel and amazement from them as we walked about looking at the wild beasts. Not today.
Apparently the HD series “Planet Earth” the girls have been hooked on did its job a little too well.
“Yeah, I’ve seen those dad.” And off they went to climb on stuff….lots of stuff. I don’t remember having to tell them so many times to get off something. It was just silly.
They were acting like…animals. That’s it. Time to get out of there before this Lord of the Flies adventure gets any more serious. We made our way back to the entrance. Time for one last potty stop.
Thankfully they remembered how to do THAT like civilized children.
“Dad, when can we come back?”
I still haven’t answered that one.
We first met the Karavlan’s at our Costumes & Cans event in October and we’re so glad they came back to see us before the holidays. This session was mainly to capture baby J while he was still almost a newborn. Big sis and mom joined in and what a gorgeous family (dad didn’t come that day, but we’ll see him before J’s Bebe year is over, I’m sure!). J was just the most gorgeous baby and so happy, and big sis was quite obliging herself. Can’t wait to see them back in a few months!
