Jake Bacon and Family Christmas cards

I photographed Jake Bacon's family the other day. He helps me second shoot weddings from time to time. He's the photo editor of the Arizona Daily Sun newspaper.

This session was a good example of making the house location work for us. One of my favorite things is to shoot inside and outside the family's house. Often, I can find little nooks that make for great portraits. Later, in terms of family history, these photographs will carry great importance. It's the house where your first baby was born or where you got married and made so many memories together. It's important that the house not be forgotten as a part of your family history!

Family Christmas Photos

We had a quick mini session for a family Christmas card for one of my best college girlfriends and her family. Their kids were so fun and cute. I’m going to miss these guys terribly when they move at the end of the year. Thanks Camille!!

Leigh & Blake- Maternity

I shot Blake and Leigh's wedding a few years back and it was fun to be a part of another special time in their life. They are such a fun and beautiful couple. I can't wait to photograph baby Call in another month or so.

Thanks Leigh,
Jamelle

Owen's daily grind

I thought I'd just post a few cute ones of the boy. Two are from regular bath time. We get in the bath with him and have fun. He likes to stand up and hold the edge now. Also he's "into" reading a book with little furry patches while I change his diaper. Middle image thanks to Daddy Clark. :)

Hess Family Shoot

Jamelle shot these too...

Cousins

On the way back from Athens to the Atlanta airport we spent the night with Matt's cousin Chris and his wife, Taylor and their daughter, Evy. Evy was very interested in holding the baby, feeding the baby and overall was a great big helper. I heard she cried a lot the day we left. I was at Chris and Taylor's house for a total of 5 hours before I went to sleep, 2 of which had natural light. We got up the next day and left. I promise to take more photos next time I see cute little Evelyn!

P.S Evy is HYPER camera aware. Many four to five year old suffer from this "affliction." It's hilarious-- she is like a little model; however, it does makes the documentary photos hard... see example below -- hee hee.

Introducing my little man... Owen Wyatt Clark

Birthday!

Dr. Ron's Visit: Day 2

Day three: sunning to rid himself of bilirubin

So I haven't has a chance to update my laptop with a couple of programs, and it seems every time I get a chance to be on the computer it's on the laptop so click on these photos to see bigger. Next post about Owen will be larger photos.

I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on March 1, 2008. We didn't find out the sex until the birth so that was exciting and we named him Owen Wyatt Clark. He was 8 lbs and born at home in the care of some incredible midwives. To read more about the birth, babies, pregnancy and more, please check my very liberal "baby blog."

Kate- the Hotshot

Kate after a 3 day "roll"

My sister Kate, is a wildland firefighter. They are called "hotshots," and this is what she looks like after a 3 day trip into the smoky wilderness... and then after... cleans up pretty well if you ask me. I plan to photograph her more in the future but I'm working on access. I'm proud of her for choosing to do such a bold job. It's amazing what she does. She is currently driving to Montana for a fire up there.

P.S. Kate is not really that much taller than me, she's got on heels and I'm in flats.

Cape Cod

We left D.C. and flew to Cape Cod for a week with my family. The week got by and we didn't do a family photo. I know! I know! I did take some photos of my niece and nephew, Karolyna and Tim. The last image is my cousin Rob and Lynne's baby, Nicolas.

Jazzie J

What a natural beauty! I'm editing through a 2/10/07 wedding today and WOW, I must say, Jasmine you look marvelous. Slideshow is up. I did NOTHING to these images. Okay, okay, I adjusted the levels a touch to brighten it up, but seriously that's it. I want to give credit to Canon here, I can't say enough about their 85mm f1.2 L lens.

Philadelphia

Over Thanksgiving we flew one-way to Philadelphia and celebrated my nephew's first birthday. We went to the Aquarium with my niece and then drove cross-country in our new-to-us car. Here are my niece and nephew...

Evy

I love this child. This is Matt's cousin, Chris's daughter. We like to think of Chris as Matt's brother, so I'm going to use the term neice. Evy is my niece and isn't she cute?

Napa California

Matt's cousin Kim was married a Auberge du Soleil in Napa, California. Our trip was a full week and we toured San Francisco a few nights as well. The theme of the trip was 'food' as we ate our way through Northern California. I remembered how much I love San Francisco--I was born in the city. Most of these shots are with my Fuji F11, point and shoot camera, which I love. It takes great photos.


Napa was quaint and loaded with excellent wine. I only photographed a little bit at Kim's wedding, as I had instructions to participate as a guest, but it's hard to avoid a few quick shots... especially since Kim had unique details everywhere. The 'Belize' card, amoung others, told stories of places they had vacationed, how they feel in love and Mike's proposal in London. It was a romantic idea and it doubled as their table names.

I caught this candid moment as Kim danced with her Dad. Canon 30D 1600 ISO 24-70mm 2. 8 at 1/15 of a second. I wish I shot it with my 85 f1.2!

Matt and I took a road trip down the California coast, HWY 1, and it was breath-taking. I had no idea California had such a pristine coastline intact. Great towns to visit along the way. Carmel, Monterrey, Santa Cruz, and finally tiny San Simeon, where William Randolph Hearst built an incredible mansion (including this pool, below). We stayed overnight (at this steller hotel on the coast--see Matt with binoculars, below) and toured the castle in the morning and it was worth it. I pretended I was an LA movie star invited to the Castle for the weekend. You could taste the parties and the glamour and I love 1940 as we toured its unbelieveable grounds.

Carmel