Sessions
Lifestyle
Maternity, newborn, family, portraits, and brand work. No wedding required.
Sessions
Maternity, newborn, family, portraits, and brand work. No wedding required.
Who this is for
Some of my favorite shoots are ninety minutes on a Tuesday. A belly at thirty-six weeks. A newborn who'll look nothing like this by next month. Four cousins who will not stand still and shouldn't have to.
Sessions are shorter than a wedding and a lot looser. We pick a place, I keep it moving, and I stay long enough for the real stuff to show up after the posed part wears off.
01 · Motherhood
Late enough that it shows, early enough that you're still happy to stand in a field at sunset. Tell me your due date and we'll pick a week that works.
Partners and older kids are welcome in these, and I'd rather they came. Some of the best frames I've made are the toddler who wants nothing to do with the plan.
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02 · The first weeks
At home if you want, in whatever light your living room already has. I'd rather work with what's in the room than build a set around a week-old baby.
Babies set the pace and I plan for that. If we stop twice to feed and once because nobody can find the pacifier, we're on schedule.
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03 · Everyone together
One good frame with everyone looking, and then we're done with that part. The rest of the session is what you'll actually hang up.
Beach, backyard, the hill behind your house. Kids do better somewhere they already know, so I'd rather come to you than book a location that photographs well and feels like nowhere.
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04 · One person
Senior year, a birthday, a dancer who needs real photographs of what she can do. Sometimes it's just that nobody has taken a good picture of you since 2019.
Bring two outfits and someone whose opinion you trust. I'll handle the rest, including the ten minutes at the start where you're convinced you're bad at this.
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05 · For your business
This is real work, not a favor I do between weddings. Business owners, med spas and aesthetics practices, service and treatment rooms, the one founder portrait that has to work everywhere.
We shoot for what you're actually going to use: a home page, a booking page, a year of social, an about page that finally looks like the room people walk into. Tell me where the photos are going and I'll shoot the crops you need.
Talk about brand work →The work
Southern California. Sessions run all year.
After the session
Same care as a wedding gallery, on a shorter clock.
A few frames land within a week, usually before you've told anyone you had photos taken.
Sessions run four to six weeks. Every image hand-edited by me, light and warm and true to color.
Download everything, print what you want, send it to grandparents without asking me first.
For brand work that means web crops and print files, shot with the page they're headed to in mind.
Real analog stills shot on film stock and developed at a lab, woven into your gallery. It ages the way memory does.
A hand-designed printed album from your gallery. The version a grandparent actually holds.
Good to know
Usually two to four weeks. If you want golden hour in the fall, ask earlier than that and I'll tell you what's open.
A sneak peek within a week, then the full gallery in four to six weeks. Weddings run longer, six to eight, so sessions come back to you sooner.
Light, warm, and true to color. I edit every image by hand, with no heavy filters or trendy presets that'll look dated in a year. Your kid's skin should look like your kid's skin.
Yes. I'm based in Southern California and available worldwide. Give me the city or the venue and travel gets quoted plainly in your guide.
It depends on what you need, so I don't publish a menu that would be wrong for most people. Build a guide on the experience page and I'll send yours back with real numbers, usually within a day or two.
Say hello
Who's coming, roughly when, and where you are. We'll find the light.