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Rachel Hulan – Business Casual Portrait Session

  Introducing Rachel Hulan of Hulan Design.  Rachel is friendly, funny, very knowledgeable and way, WAY creative. ...View full post »

celebration

She said that it was “just her birthday,” that it was “no big deal.” But we scoffed at the idea....View full post »

family FUN in the SUN

Let me just put it out there… I LOVE it here in Southern California for so very many reasons, one of them being th...View full post »

Feel the LOVE mini-portrait-sessions

  Mini-Sessions are BACK, and just in time for Valentine’s Day! Whether you’d like a fabulous gift for ...View full post »

jasper + the dragon

Just another one of those wacky moments in my daily life that I thought I’d take note of before it disappears. ...View full post »

project 365 (+1)

I received my first diary when I was around 9 years old. It was white with red borders, had an illustration of a teddy-b...View full post »

& baby makes 3

    It was the night after our annual softball game. Usually both Sean and Van play the part of umpires, but i...View full post »

epic.

2012 is gonna ROCK. I’ve got so many new things planned, and I am hitting the ground running. I’ve got backu...View full post »

a picture’s worth

I was inspired to write today in response to THIS blog post from a few days ago by photographer Jeanine Thurston.  (And...View full post »

pretty planning

There’s something refreshing about a brand new calendar for the year. A clean slate, a fresh start. Seeing those l...View full post »

New Year Tradition

It all started back in gradeschool with my first New Year’s Eve sleepover at my best friend’s house. The cou...View full post »

boy and girl

During the family portrait session, Jen’s parents had taken their granddaughter a short distance away, leaving jus...View full post »

Disney Ditch Day

Now that the holiday season is winding down, I’m finally getting a chance to post this. Because for a while there,...View full post »

tradition

I remember doing all sorts of things during the holiday season as a kid. I went ice-skating, caroling, Christmas-light-l...View full post »

puppy love.

When I’m having one of those days where nothing seems to be going right and the world seems totally topsy-turvy, I...View full post »

last-minute holiday gifts using your digitial images

Move over, Madonna. It’s no longer a material world… we are living in a DIGITAL world now. From point-and-sh...View full post »

Sean, Colleen & Ethan (Orange County Family Portraits)

A friend was kind enough to lend us the backyard of her Pelican Hill home for Colleen’s family portrait session...View full post »

blur.

I can’t believe it’s December. I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas. And I can’t believe ...View full post »

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