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Visiting from Kansas City, Brandi’s family knows San Diego! Among their favorite outings during their trip were excursions to Alpine, Julian, Silver Strand, and Lolita’s (who doesn’t love Lolita’s?). Their little boy is four this year, and there’s really no better age for family photos, so they made their session a priority (even carrying-on their photoshoot clothing) and surprised their son with a trip to Disneyland, announced DURING the session!

When Jennifer, Delaney’s mom, contacted me about setting up a beach photography session for Delaney’s second birthday, I was immediately excited to meet and photograph this family. I’ll let Jennifer tell the story: “Delaney was born with Spina Bifida, so we had a challenging and scary pregnancy experience which included having fetal surgery to repair Delaney’s back before she was born. The surgery was done at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, one of the only hospitals in the country that does fetal surgery for Spina Bifida repair. It is an amazing hospital and the surgical team was incredible. Delaney was born (early) there and spent ten weeks in the NICU.”

My family of six started our vacation in San Diego. The evening of the day we arrived we had Amy take our family photos. We loved our time and session! San Diego is a great city and we kept busy for the few days we were there before we went on to Newport, then to San Francisco. While visiting San Diego we stayed at Marriott Club Pulse. We visited the Safari Park and did a behind the scenes Elephant and Friends tour (amazing). We also visited Old Town and the USS Midway. Of course we couldn’t leave without donuts from The Donut Bar.

Since my son is a very energetic, ocean obsessed four-year-old boy, I was extremely concerned he would immediately submerge into the water. The day of the shoot, he skipped his nap, so I just knew that it would be a trying experience. As soon as we arrived at the lifeguard tower, toes in the sand, we hit the ground RUNNING . . . and then there was Amy. Aside from her absolute professionalism, her magic not only with the camera but with children, she consistently comforted me throughout our session.

Sarah’s family lives in the San Diego area, so her husband Brendan’s gift to her for her 30th birthday was a night at the Del and a family photo session on the beach. Here’s a peek into her birthday session.

Rachel and her husband celebrated their 15th anniversary with a trip to San Diego, complete with a photoshoot on the beach. Here’s her story of their photography experience:

Khaliq had a conference to attend in San Deigo, and we have never been, so we decided to make a trip out of it! Being six months pregnant with our second child, we wanted to take our son on a trip before his brother or sister arrives. We stayed near the convention center where Khaliq’s conference was. He attended a few events at his conference, and we also checked out the great attractions, including Legoland, Sea World, the Zoo. We got beautiful weather and were so happy to enjoy the California sun, especially because it snowed at home in Canada before we left.