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i love photographing in people’s homes

Karen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:58:42 +0000

This is one of my favorite sessions I’ve done yet. I always suggest to clients that we shoot in their home, but people don’t always want to. I like it because it’s them, it’s their stuff & their place, everyone’s more comfortable and relaxed and doesn’t feel as much like they have to “perform” while we’re out at a location specifically for photos.

I’ve gotten to know this family a bit over the past year, as our kids go to preschool together. The girls are so sweet, and their mom is one of the nicest women you will ever meet. I love the images we got from their session.

manhattan family

Karen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:02:37 +0000

They live in New York on the Upper West Side, a block from Central Park. The kids were a little shy at first but still came running down the hallway of their building to meet me as I came off the elevator, which was awesome. I shot a few photos in their apartment, and then as their mom encouraged them to get ready to go outside to do more photos, the little girl said, “But, Mom, she just took, like, FIVE pictures of me. Isn’t that enough?”

father’s day surprise

Karen — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:18:55 +0000

Their mom hired me to do photos of the kids as a Father’s Day gift for her husband. I love this idea! We did the pictures on the day he left town on business. Here are a few of my favorites.

loved these boys!

Karen — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:29:39 +0000

These two brothers are hilarious. They diligently stood still and followed directions for the more posed shots, and then when I told them to be goofy, they really let loose. I loved seeing them crack up!

last boulder session

Karen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:00:00 +0000

This is the third (and final) session I shot in Boulder over Christmas. These girls are so stinkin’ pretty. They were really into the whole photo session, too. They made up poses to do–like, “Us pretending to be asleep!” and “Being baby seals!” Here are some of my favorites. Especially this first one. This one should be HUGE on their walls, don’t you think????

another boulder session

Karen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:45:32 +0000

Here’s another family I photographed in Boulder. I hate admitting that I had a hard time with photos. But I did have a hard time with these two kids. Not the kids’ faults, just their ages (4 and 2), which didn’t lend themselves to, say, sitting in one spot for pictures. I spent too long trying to get pics in a setting that I knew wasn’t working, and I should have stopped and figured out something else sooner. After we moved into a different spot, I got some better shots. And I still managed to get several that I really like.

And the last one–creepy or funny? It’s the first time the Virgin Mary has ever been in one of my photographs.

little doll

Karen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:40:53 +0000

I managed to fit in some time to do a couple photo sessions in Boulder while I was up there over Christmas. Unlike San Diego and Houston, the weather there is NOT reliably warm all winter (which is, of course, one of the reasons I love it so much there–I love winter!), so I could not assume ahead of time that we could do outdoor sessions on a certain day. I scheduled them fairly last-minute so we could hopefully rely on the weather forecast, and we lucked out with weather in the upper 30s/low 40s–plenty warm to shoot outside. (I know–the Houston and SD people reading this are all going, “WHAT?” But this is Boulder, remember.)

My first session was with this almost-two-year-old. (I did these just a week before her birthday.) Her mom is also a photographer, so I was especially honored that they asked me to do these photos.

family session at Hermann Park

Karen — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:52:38 +0000

This weekend I had a great shoot with the W family in Houston’s Hermann Park. What a great place to hang out, now that it’s not so crazy hot anymore. (And the geese sure are friendly.)

And this last one shows pretty much what the six-year-old thought of the whole thing, but he was a trooper! I love this one.

family session

Karen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:18:22 +0000

Ok…a couple of pics from my very last photo session in San Diego. I am trying to get everyone’s galleries up so I can get orders in so I have time to order from my lab and have them back in time to deliver them before I leave town. Whew. It’s coming up quickly. I move in TWO WEEKS, people. Hard for me to believe, really, but that’s a whole other post.

Here’s the S-H family. We did these on the grounds of the Marston House in Balboa Park, which is beautiful. I’ve got color versions of these, too, but I think I like the b&ws best.

now THIS is cute

Karen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:38:54 +0000

What is cuter than a toddler at the beach? How about ELEVEN toddlers at the beach?? And ten beautiful moms who get together at least once a week for a playgroup who asked me to get a few group shots of them all.

The cute was out of control. I will share two pictures with you for now. There is probably some funny caption that should accompany the first one, but I’m so bad at being clever. Any ideas?? In this first shot with the naked bums, you can see there are only six and not all eleven. This was the most I managed to photograph in a line at once (naked, anyway–we did a different series of a line of babies with clothes on). Moms kept setting down the kids then running out of the frame real fast. Kids would stand up, toddle off, run off, cry and look for mom, whatever, so the quantity and identities of toddlers in the naked baby lineup was ever-changing. I just stayed behind shooting constantly as babies moved in and out of the lineup. It was probably very comical for outsiders to watch.