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Yesterday I met the Espley family at Santee Lakes to take their Christmas pictures. Their little boy Travis was so good for the whole session. I truly enjoyed taking this sweet little family’s pictures. Here are a few of my favorites.
This morning I spent it with the James boys at Kit Carson Park. Which by the way is a new favorite place of mine! Thank you Matt for suggesting it! Tucked away in the back, Kit Carson park has an awesome sculpture garden called Queen Califia’s Magical Circle Garden. This garden was created by the late, internationally famous Niki de Saint Phalle. It is one of the four large-scale sculptural environments designed and built by the artist and her studio collaborators and the only one located in the United States. Niki de Saint Phalle chose the mythical Queen Califia as her subject. Califia is an Amazon warrior and has been depicted as the Spirit of California. She often figures in the myth of California’s origin, symbolizing an untamed and bountiful land prior to European settlement. This garden is so whimsical and nothing short of fantastic. I felt like I stepped into Alice’s Wonderland. With that said, here are a few of my favorite pictures from today that were in the sculpture garden and in Kit Carson Park.
Their Dad calls the twin boys “Search and Destroy.” I LOVE it and I think he needs to make T-shirts for them that say that! Thankfully, they were not on a search and destroy mission during the photoshoot. They were great!
The boys played a little frisbee golf during the photoshoot, so of course we had to include one of the pictures from that!
And last but not least, I snagged an artsy self portrait of myself! ;o) I just happened to pop up in the reflection of the mirror and I couldn’t resist! Love all the rain drops on the glass and colors!
A few days ago, I got to meet the Cottrell family. What a lovely family they are and their son is so adorable! I also loved the fact that Eric is a fellow Tucsonian! Every time I meet someone from Tucson, I feel a little closer to home. :o) We ended up going to Santee Lakes to take pictures, which is very close to where I live. The funny thing is, I rarely go to Santee Lakes and quite honestly, I hadn’t been there in years. I am not sure why, because it is absolutely gorgeous there! Especially this time of year with all the fall colors. I can only imagine what the spring time looks like. I am also excited about the bike trail there. I have not biked at Santee Lakes yet, but I am now very excited to add that location to my favorite list of bike trails! The session went great, we were at a race against the time clock for sun light, but we managed to finish just in time. Here are a few of my favorite pictures.
I adore this family! The Johnson’s are great friend’s of ours and I felt honored that they asked me to take their family pictures this year, which now includes their newest member Cade! The Johnson’s suggested we go to Chicano Park this year and for those of you who have never been there, it’s not located in the best neighborhood, but I LOVED all the street art there. Gorgeous! And it made for some fun backgrounds. Here are a few of my favorites…
Yesterday I met the Carman’s at Balboa park for Claire’s 1 year old pictures. I was lucky enough to get to photograph Claire when she was just 3 weeks old, so I was excited to be contacted again for her 1 year old pictures and see how much she has grown. She is one of the happiest kids I’ve met! I hope I get the chance to continue to see little Claire grow and change… she’s already grown so much in the past year! Thank you guys for sharing your lives with me! It was an absolute pleasure photographing you guys yesterday!
Such an angel!
Silly Claire! ;o)
I got to meet up with the James boys today to take a few pictures of them. We went to Midland Park in Poway (one of my new favorite spots) and grabbed a few shots of them. I’ve known the James boys for quite some time now, so it was my pleasure to be able to capture this moment in their lives. Here are a few of the shots among MANY we got today.
Yesterday I was able to take pictures of the Deerings. We meet at Balboa Park and spent the morning there taking pictures
Yesterday I had the pleasure of photographing 2 week old baby Claire. She was so adorable! Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the session.
