We are five weeks into our first year of homeschooling. I’d be lying if I said it’s been easy. I’m an introvert. My daughter is an extrovert. Who almost never stops talking. I’m exaggerating a tiny bit but really, the hardest part of this whole journey has been all me. I need alone time to […]

I met so many wonderful families during my mini sessions this year, and this family was no exception! They agreed to climb up a ton of stairs to get to this gorgeous spot at Coyote Hills. I may have had to catch my breath for a few minutes and I was super duper sore the […]

Last month I posted a mini slideshow of an in-home session I did for a sweet family in Palo Alto. M & G’s parents wanted some great pictures of their girls that weren’t taken with an iPhone and really captured their personalities at this moment in their lives. I seriously love taking photos of children […]

Last weekend I skipped over the Dumbarton bridge and headed to Palo Alto to hang with this adorable little beauties! First they took me to “jump school” and proceeded to bounce more than Tigger. Then we headed outdoors to their backyard playhouse that really made my inner 5-year-old squeal with delight! We wrapped up the […]

I don’t do mini sessions often. I prefer to spend more time with my clients and really engage them and draw out all their quirks and more intimate personalities. But there is something to be said about a quick and simple portrait. I’ve teamed up with Six & Ten Studio in Oakland to offer six 20 […]

My daughter is now 5 and still isn’t very confident in the water. We decided that this was going to be the summer she would learn to swim and ride her bike without training wheels, and so to tackle the first of those two goals we enrolled her in swim class at Aqua Adventure water […]