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holiday mini sessions: personal faves | orange county family photograpy

Tim — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:57:11 +0000

as the holidays came around this year, i teamed up again with gillian from the write invite out of ladera ranch to run out some mini sessions for families. after the success and positive feedback from last year, it was kind of a no-brainer. this year, we had one day at the beach, and another at a park. i figured i would do a little post to show off some of my personal faves from the sessions.

yes. and again i say yes. do you not love this to pieces? they did their family shot with all of them lined up with their gum and it was fantastically magical !!

as my heart awakens…

Tim — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:36:24 +0000

i have to admit… sometimes, even late at night… even on the roughest of days when i sigh with relief when she finally goes to sleep, day or night… sometimes i still just cannot wait for my little girl to wake up. to see her smile. to hear her first noises. and now that she has some more hair, to see how amazing her bedhead is after her nap or night’s sleep. and, above all else, the way that she wants to be held in your arms after you take her out of her crib… well, it has reduced me to tears more than once.

i had to take some photos of her fresh from a nap…

wheaton family: two plus two plus one

Tim — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:24:14 +0000

i have actually been trying to get together with these busy-bodies for so long. it became almost urgent to finally work it out so we could get some photos done before their newest family member is born. which could be any day now. for those of you who do not know, this is my brother’s family… he is 18 months older than me and we have been best friends, through thick and thin, for all the days of my life.

we met up at what seems to be the epicenter of my family shooting this season for some reason: the montage resort in laguna beach.

the sun was setting and spreading its beautiful orange glow all over the grassy area while we were there. i just kind of went with it and allowed it to wrap its warm arms around their little family…

after the sneak peek storyboard of my niece letting her twirly dress do its thing… i decided to do another from the day. this one shows one of the other things that we forget as adults.. one of the things i most adore about kids… them just being goofy: laughing, making silly faces and cracking themselves up:

this shoot was not really aimed at being a “belly shoot”… or we had not really discussed that. but how can you not involve the miracle of that little life in there?

kids and their special stuffed animals. this one does not have the most original name ever… but it is loved with a full heart.

and we were all blessed by yet another jaw-droppingly gorgeous laguna sunset:

and every time the sun sets right now, i am wondering if i will be getting a call or a text saying that “it’s happening! it’s time!!!” when we had our little girl, it was a dinner with my brother and his wife that possibly set things into motion for my wife’s labor. maybe we need to have some thai food together, you guys! ;)

living is like this: sneak peek for the wheatons

Tim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:28 +0000

this is sort of a peek for my brother and his family. i shot them a couple of weeks ago now and my sister-in-law is about to give birth, maybe any day/hour/minute now. i think if i had ever needed a push to my desire to be a father, that door was completely busted wide when my brother and his wife had their kids. i have been an uncle since i was, i think, in the 4th grade… i am the youngest of 8 kids, and i have nearly 20 nieces and nephews now. but with all of those kids (some of which, are adults now — shows how old i am!), of course it never hits home until you have one of your own.

now that our little girl is getting so much closer to walking on her own, i sit and marvel at kids that are just running around. the process to getting there is really quite remarkable.

so, here is a little snippet from my day with my brother, his wife, their two kids and the one still “baking in the oven”… a moment that reminds me how sweet life really is. how sweet it can be. that just because so many of us are “grown up”, doesn’t mean that we can’t have silly fun. and for the girls out there, that can be as simple as “putting on your twirly dress and spinning barefoot in the grass as the sun sets”.

your pics are coming your way soon, m&b! and, i cannot wait to meet my newest little niece or nephew! :) love you guys!