"Met" this great family a few weeks ago by phone and it turns out that the mom owns her own business as well. She is the owner/teacher of "Music Together" which is a great music and movement class for kids of all ages. I have heard great things about it and know many of her students who rave about her classes. Check it out here:

I’m going to be doing a class shoot for her soon, so be on the lookout for that sometime this fall.

We had a bunch of fun on our shoot. Her littlest son (according to mom) has two speeds- on and sleeping. Man, he is a busy kid. He found it necessary to hold on to the towel that his mom was cleaning him up with (it was a bit muddy at the park) and wouldn’t part with the thing for the rest of the shoot- and believe me we all tried! At least it was colorful and looked good in the pictures. The older two kids were sweet and so easy- they both had a great time posing for me.

It was so great meeting all of you! Hope you like your pictures.

My very good friends and their sweet, adorable, photogenic as anything family and their latest shoot. This time down at Malibu. This is Timmy’s future wife (or at least prom date, I hope). Thanks Sharon for the babysitting today. I owe you! Payment in creative picture displays coming soon….

There’s not enough I can say about them, so I’m going to just let the pictures speak for themselves.

Another one of those "oh, I know you!" shoots where it turns out that I "know" the mom from town. Our kids go to the same school, and I have seen her around. And now that I really can say I know her, she’s super nice.

Got to photograph these delicious blondies at the beach, and they were all so cute! The boys were very, very boy (read: very busy) and had that mischevious glint in their eyes. We had some fun running around the dunes and the beach and with the promise that the boys could practice their star wars moves, we got some good shots. Their little sister, was just mesmerized by her big brothers in action. I kinda tried to keep them a little separated from her, as I was afraid she was going to get smooshed or trampled in the middle of things. We did manage to sneak her into the mix for a few.

Hope you like the pictures! I had a lot of fun with all of you!

Getting back into the swing of things and heading head on into busy season.

A great family to start off with. They are all gorgeous and so super nice. Mom is beautiful (and one of those people who is just so nice, you can’t believe it) and Dad handsome and a real trooper. The poor guy woke up with a fever, but he really put on his best smiles for the pictures. I felt terrible (especially after walking into the backyard and seeing him with his head on the table) as I know what a thrill all the husbands/fathers have taking pictures with me to begin with.

The older of the two boys really had enough of me after about the first 5 minutes, but he managed to squeak out a few more smiles and muddled thru my goofiness with lots of patience.

The middle boy was the ultimate ham- full of poses and smiles and sweetness. And such a looker.

And the baby- oh, the baby. Off the cuteness charts and I was lovin the baby CHUB. Yum.

Their cousins stopped over for a few shots as well. The big boys were born 3 days apart and the best of buddies. The middle boy and his cousin have a little love fest going- it is too sweet! You’ll be seeing these beauties again soon- as we have a shoot for them coming up in the next few weeks.

And their house was a little nice too. Can’t forget the other family member who let me take some pictures too.

Thank you Syl family. See you soon for your holiday session in a few months.

Met up with the McK family at the beach club we both belong to. We had the best time of the day down there- lots of golden light at sunset. Dad really wanted to see some muscle beach pictures, so we did what we could to appease him.

The kids were great as usual (I have done photos for this family a number of times now) and we had fun wandering the beach and climbing the rocks. Love some sunflare with some yummy backlighting.

Ended up on the lifeguard stand (why can’t they have white ones like this at Pt. Lookout beach instead of those screamingly yellow ones??) right before we lost the last bit of light. A fun way to end the summer.