Old Married Couple’s Perfect Date.

It was quiet.  It was pretty.  I read.  He caught up on some business correspondence and phone calls (he might have mildly enjoyed answering “what are you doing?” questions from  a couple co-workers stuck in a traditional office environment).


It was … nice.  And then we meandered on back to the car and resumed life as normal.

More Kauai Bits: Waimea Morning

Each time we’ve gone to Waimea, we’ve left at o’dark hours so we can arrive with the sunrise.  It’s worth the effort of getting up early …

Sweet, Beautiful Life at Home - Orange County Family Life Photography

I know I've said it before, but it totally bears repeating.  Home sessions are THE BEST.  There is just something truly special about photographing people in the place where they are most at home, comfortable, able to be in their own skin, doing their own thing.    This sweet family invited me into their home.  Darling youngest daughter, fresh-faced and smiley, greeted me in her favorite red plaid dress.  Five minutes later she greeted me again, after making herself beautiful with make-up (big huge grin!).  We rolled with it and documented the last bits of her immaculately precise application of eye shadow.  Darling older daughters share a room, and even when they're not together in their room reading or doing homework, they're still found in close proximity to each other.  They simply like being together.  #1Son is busy, busy, busy:  gaming, scootering, climbing trees, manipulating Legos, skateboarding, playing football (yes, in the house! where else?) with Dad & wonderDog.  Mom & Dad are raising four beautiful, lively, thoughtful, fun children.  It was truly my pleasure to spend an afternoon with them all.

Narrowing down my favorites for this blog post has been difficult, to say the very least.  Because the beauty is in the details ... and each frame had such distinct, precious detail.  This family's gallery ended up with 400 pictures I loved (not a typo!).  To get a feel for the whole session/story, please watch the video.  I think I managed to fit 105 photos into 3 minutes of music!





Bionicles in a galaxy far, far away ...
Despite being a rambunctious, high-energy puppy, WonderDog is so very gentle with these kids, even when tackling football boy!
Black & white or color?  Sometimes I just can't decide.
By the time we got here, we had about 5 minutes of glowy light left - and we literally ran up the hill to chase down every last little bit of it!

This session was a true delight in every way.  Thanks, J-Fam, for trusting me to be the one to photographically tell your "now" story.