We celebrated Mother’s Day last Sunday with my cousins & their two beautiful families. The spring flowers have been exploding in the backyard, so I was so excited to use them as a backdrop for a few quick portraits. We ran outside just before sunset, & gathered the mamas with their getting-too-big-too-fast children, ranging from age 9 months to 13 years…How quickly it all goes by!
Ingrid, Paul, & their kids Cassandra, Theo, Evangeline, & Zach
Beth and her son Kyle
Our very close friends, the Corter-Bells, are subjects I have gotten to shoot regularly since their first-born daughter, Mikayla, was just about a year old. Since then, they’ve become a family of four, with the addition of son Connor. This February, we did a few pix to commemorate Connor’s second birthday, Mikayla’s fourth birthday & Chinese New Year. Happy Year of the Tiger–rowr!
I’ve got a thing for redheads. And our friends Colleen & Jim have one of the cutest redheads around–their daughter Harper! I remember the first time I got to do portraits of her & her mommy; Harper was about a year-and-a-half with a short crop of already bright hair & these huge pools for eyes. My favorite shot of her from that shoot was one in which she’d come up so close to the camera to peer at me that only part of her face was in the photo–but one big eye was featured. And now, she’s almost four with the same red hair, much longer, and those green eyes. This time, I got to do the whole family–including baby brother Grady, who has the best bald head ever–at the beach. The sunset set their hair afire, & they just did their thing. I’m in love with so many of these shots!
My husband met the Beckers at the (unfortunately now defunct) raw food restaurant Terra Bella in Redondo Beach. He would often come home talking about Luc, this cute red-haired kid that he loved to play with while his parents partook of the delicious meals. When I finally got to meet Jeff & Mary, she & I were both pregnant with our second children. We all hit it off immediately, sharing in common some uncommon interests–like homebirthing. Little Luc & our daughter Zoë became fast friends. The Beckers have now relocated, & we miss them, & especially the chance for our second children to grow up knowing each other, but we stay in touch often & are amazed at how we’re still living parallel lives, just now on different coasts. These are some of my all-time favorite beach portraits of them just being the fun, sweet, loving family they are…
