A Family Shoot at the Ranch House

This beautiful family are friends of ours from my hubby's squadron and they happen to live in the neighborhood!  We did a quick 60 minute shoot before church one Sunday at the Ranch House on Camp Pendleton--what a great location!  We had a good time--aren't they an adorable family?!

A healthy and handsome baby boy was born into this family last week. Congrats you guys! 

Thanks for the opportunity to play photographer for you guys!

Practice and Picnic at Balboa Park

The San Diego Photog group I belong to held a practice session at Balboa Park where we were practiced our skills on each other.

This is Jen--an adorable, young, up and coming actress who came to help us practice and glean some 'headshots' in the process!

Yvonne is my photography mentor--she's taught me so much and has inspired me in so many ways to dive into this hobby of mine.  She's so much fun to be around and easy to photograph!

Yvonne's kids--so cute!

Delmy and Briana--another photog friend and her sweet little girl :)  I think the kids had as much fun being 'models' as we had 'shooting' them!

My Favorite Model

She's my white whale of a photography model--getting good shots of her face is near impossible for me!  But today I lucked out :)  Isn't she just gorgeous!

Congraduation Steph!

This is my beautiful sister in law Stephanie..yes I know--two Stephanie Zyga's in this world, isn't it great! She graduates this year so we took a golden opportunity to take her senior photos while on a family vacation in Poland a few weeks ago. She is such a gorgeous girl and easy to photograph--she really should model! Stephanie has a lot of spirit and style, I hope this is reflected in her photos.

Playng with some photoshop actions here...what do you think?

This wall we were leaning on is over a thousand years old, it used to be the Krakow city wall. To make a long story short--we should not have leaned on it...a foot and a half in diameter boulder came loose and fell off when I leaned on it! We ran...the photo shoot was over. :)

This is Steph! She's just spunky!

Thanks for letting me practice on you!

Happy Easter!

We took some photos of my daughter in her Easter dress this morning just for fun. She is SO hard to photograph! I have a million shots of the back of her head, she just doesn't want to look AT the camera! Maybe this is why I so enjoy taking photos of other people's kids--they look at the camera!

She loves flowers--and this morning she said "flower" for the first time! Normally she just crinkles her nose and blows out as if she's "smelling" them when she sees one :)
This is the new face I get when I ask her to smile...oh dear!

Love you Lena!

My New Nephew!

OK, so he's only sorta new...He's 12 weeks old already! Though I think he was 3 or 4 weeks only in these photos. He is such a sweet little guy, I'm so in love! Its heartbreaking that he lives so very far away. I can't wait to get my hands on him in 6 weeks when we go for another visit! My sister and I had lots of fun playing photoshoot with him. Too bad I found out the trick to sleepy naked newborn shoots the week after I got home...crank the house heat to 85 and have mom nurse him to sleep...then you can get great naked sleepy photos! We'll try that with Jameson's little brother or sister someday :)

Right Andi?!

What an adorable family. Congrats guys! Thanks for making me an AUNT!

Baby Girl

This, is my all time favorite photo ever.

Ever.

Doesn't this little one have the most adorable little chunky legs you've ever seen?

She is just a honey. Her mommy is a friend of mine and allowed me the privilege of taking her 10 month photos. We had SUCH a great time at the San Diego Botanical Gardens.

This shoot was done along with Kennadi's 12 month photos previously posted. So my lesson learned about white balance still applies...if only I'd known! I can't wait for another shoot to experiment more with this crazy concept and hopefully get more accurate skin tones instead of the skin tone assortment I've been getting! SO much to learn!