Category: Families

Three Months Old

I had the pleasure to photograph little Asher, a tiny friend from church, on his three-month birthday!  He was a champ and did a great job!


Three Months Old posted March 11, 2010 (10:59) in Babies, Families

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  • Deanna Austin · Posted March 12, 2010 at 6:29 am · Link

    Beautiful pictures. I would love to have prints.

  • Rachele · Posted March 12, 2010 at 4:58 pm · Link

    Love, love, love these!!! (Especially the top two!)

  • Paul · Posted March 19, 2010 at 11:31 pm · Link

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    These are really cute! I love Asher’s expression in the second one.

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Family

Family posted February 16, 2010 (07:26) in Beach, Children, Families

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How Sweet to Hold

My sister Melanie Monroe and I got to meet such a precious little guy yesterday morning.  We have been looking forward to this session for some time, and it was so much fun to hang out with Baby C’s mom and dad and capture him at six days old.   These newborn days seem forever long, but they are gone before we know it.

How Sweet to Hold posted February 10, 2010 (21:49) in Babies, Families

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  • Rachele · Posted February 10, 2010 at 10:33 pm · Link

    Beautiful photos!

  • Melanie · Posted February 11, 2010 at 11:15 am · Link

    Great job, Sister!!!!! LOVE them. She will be one happy Mommy!

  • deb · Posted February 11, 2010 at 2:59 pm · Link

    YOWZAAAA….Great shots…my favorite is J and C with the blue hat…..moments to treasure since they grow DAILY at this stage!!

  • Kris · Posted February 14, 2010 at 10:01 pm · Link

    Amy,

    The photos are amazing. What a beautiful family and the baby is gorgeous! You captured some photos of a lifetime!

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Family

Family posted January 31, 2010 (23:06) in Children, Families

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  • Tammy Sanchez · Posted February 1, 2010 at 10:02 am · Link

    Oh my goodness, these are OUR children! You are so good with children, Amy. You did such a great job at making them feel comfortable and interacting with them. Thank you so much. You are going to be famous someday. You’ll see!!!

  • Kris · Posted February 1, 2010 at 8:49 pm · Link

    Awesome pics! Beautiful kids and look at those eyelashes on your little girl! Amy, once again, did a fantastic job!

  • Melanie Monroe · Posted February 2, 2010 at 2:42 pm · Link

    LOVE the last one. Very cool.

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Dogs.

I know, not a very nice thing to call my clients.  But in this case, they WERE!!

Five dogs, to be exact, and two very nice and good-looking owners.   And thank goodness for my wonderful assistant Nicole, who was responsible for holding the treats, holding the dogs, holding the leashes, and holding the reflector . . . all at the same time.  She rocks.

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Dogs. posted January 12, 2010 (22:27) in Families

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  • Kimberly · Posted January 13, 2010 at 12:08 pm · Link

    Fabulous, Amy! Only you could make this happen, but thank goodness for Nicole too! Whew! What an undertaking and what wonderful results too!

  • Greta Morgan · Posted January 13, 2010 at 7:07 pm · Link

    Wonderful pics! Dave & Debbie look cute too – happy – surrounded by their “kids!”

  • Melanie Monroe · Posted February 2, 2010 at 2:41 pm · Link

    Truly amazing.

    …And I thought 18-month-old triplets were hard to photograph. Sheesh!

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Catching Some Serious Waves

I met my daughter Lissa’s friend Evette and her family at the beach on Saturday.   This precious little girl was a familiar face for us between preschool and kindergarten, since she is the only friend who also went to the same two schools!  It’s always fun to see her smiling face before and after school, and we’re looking forward to our ice skating field trip this week!

“E” was so much fun to photograph!  She had lots of smiles and was all about posing for the camera.  And when it came to going down by the water for a few shots “near” the waves . . . look out!

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Beautiful brown eyes . . . and no question where they came from!

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Catching Some Serious Waves posted January 11, 2010 (00:15) in Beach, Children, Families

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  • Shari Barnes · Posted January 11, 2010 at 8:45 am · Link

    Love the last two especially! Look at that face!

  • Tiffany Chapple · Posted January 11, 2010 at 8:56 am · Link

    Thanks again I love them all. Cant wait to see them all.

  • Melanie · Posted January 11, 2010 at 3:17 pm · Link

    I hope they brought a change of clothes!!!

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Thanksgiving

The last time I was at Crystal Pier, the entire place was socked in with crazy fog!  What a change this time, when I arrived for a pre-Thanksgiving Day shoot with Family L.  Oh, my goodness!  The weather was beautiful, and everything just went by the book.  The children were sensational, the parents were pros, and we had plenty of time to get just the shots we needed.  Thanks for a wonderful time!

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Thanksgiving posted November 26, 2009 (01:23) in Beach, Children, Families

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Hugs, Lollipops, and a San Diego Snowman

What a treat to do a sunset beach session at the Del with my good friend Keri and her family!  Little Zach spotted me on the sidewalk and started running, giving me a huge hug right off the bat!  Wow!!  He loved me even more when I told him about the super-special lollipops I was holding for children with smiles for my camera!

Zach and his big sister Rylee were both champs, and they genuinely had a GREAT time getting their church clothes all wet and sandy in the waves!  Baby brother Colby took it all in and pretty much decided we were all nuts, but he was okay with it.

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Zach was a GREAT smiler . . . except when there was something more interesting to look at!

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And at one point, Zach got just a little more wet than he’d bargained for . . .

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But Rylee loved every single minute.  She has a zest for life equaled only by . . . her mommy.

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I love these silhouettes from this session!!

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And to top it all off, we met a real-life  San Diego snowman on the way in from the beach!  We were all soaked to the skin, but Zach and Rylee took a moment out from their lollipop appreciation party to stick the nose back on the snowman.    (So THAT’s what vegetables are for!)   It was a sweet ending to a fun time!

Hugs, Lollipops, and a San Diego Snowman posted November 22, 2009 (08:56) in Beach, Children, Families

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  • Kris · Posted November 23, 2009 at 9:08 pm · Link

    Just beautiful!

  • Keri · Posted November 24, 2009 at 9:48 am · Link

    I LOVE them all, and I can already tell this is going to be so hard picking my favorites!! They are gorgeous, Amy, and these pictures will forever remind us of our fun family beach outing at the beautiful Hotel Del. Rylee and Zachary have already asked me, “When can we go back there with Miss Amy?!” :)

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Family . . . at Warner Springs

What a beautiful drive it was up to Warner Springs, where Family S spent a fun-filled afternoon celebrating Mom & Dad’s 30th wedding anniversary.  I couldn’t count the times I wanted to pull the car over and take photos on the way up there!  Fortunately, my photo-taking appetite was assuaged upon arrival.  Warner Springs Ranch is an incredible location, complete with trees that actually make you feel like it is fall here in our crazy land of endless summer!  And not only that, but the whole family was drop-dead gorgeous.  I have a bunch of photos to edit from this session/event, but here are a few that I thought were nice right off the bat.  Family S — thank you for allowing me to be part of such a special day!

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Family . . . at Warner Springs posted November 13, 2009 (23:00) in Children, Families, Weddings

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  • Kris Shaffer · Posted November 16, 2009 at 12:13 pm · Link

    The pictures are beautiful and I’m so happy the background looks great. I can’t wait to see more!

    Thank you for traveling all the way up there and photographing our family. It was about time I had family pictures done!

    Kris

  • Sarah Albert · Posted November 18, 2009 at 10:02 am · Link

    Hey I know these people!!! That’s Pastor Kent, our former youth pastor. And we know the Shaffer family too … what a small world!!!

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Justin! No . . . Evan!

Well, I thought I had experience with twins . . . but IDENTICAL twins are a whole different ballgame!

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I kept calling for the wrong one to look at the camera!  Fortunately, their beautiful mom had them color-coded, and that helped some . . . if I could remember which one was which color!

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What it came down, to though, was that they were both sweet and smiley and fun!  Here’s . . . um . . . Justin!

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Pretty cute, hmm?

Justin! No . . . Evan! posted October 27, 2009 (11:33) in Children, Families

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