Lauren Headshots in La Mesa | Marketing Professional Photography

January 20, 2025

Lauren’s new job was the perfect opportunity for new headshots, and I loved working with her and her company’s marketing department. They sent over specific guidelines to achieve the types of images that will blend seamlessly with the existing headshots of their team. With employees across the country, they requested natural light, shaded images in urban settings with a shallow depth of field—exactly what I love to do for a headshot session. Although our original location was foggy on the day of the session, Lauren and I pivoted and found a new location with beautiful sun.

Winter Time Photos San Diego Extended Family

Extended Family at Steele Canyon Bridge | San Diego Photographer

January 14, 2025

Linda’s family was all in town for the holidays, and it was wonderful to photograph their entire extended family at Steele Canyon Bridge just after New Year. Linda’s daughter Jessica and daughters-in-law Laura and Liz all worked for Sitterwise in college, and I loved seeing them again! They were always amazing to work with, and I’m thrilled to see them thriving with beautiful families and sweet kiddos of their own! Linda and Terry are dream grandparents, and I love the shots of them chasing the kids through the leaves. I’m hoping we can get together yearly and I can watch this fun crew grow up!

Alexis & Annabelle | Twins Senior Portraits in Little Italy

January 8, 2025

Presenting my beautiful and talented nieces, Alexis and Annabelle. I was honored that they asked me to do a photo session in Little Italy for their senior portraits, and we had so much fun wandering around the area with their mom, my favorite sister and fellow photographer Melanie. We even finished up the evening with bruschetta at Postino! These two girls have knocked the socks off high school, participating in drama, cheer, ballet, diving, and gymnastics, taking a full load of AP classes, and rocking sky-high GPAs. They are dedicated musical theatre fans and made our Christmas jam sessions fun this year with their guitar and piano skills. I’m excited to see what’s next for them both!

Ava’s Senior Portraits at the Beach | Coronado Professional Photographer

January 6, 2025

Ava and her family vacationed in San Diego over the holidays. As an Arizona-native, she wanted the beach for her senior portraits. Schedules were packed, but we found a time to shoot early in the morning just a couple of days after Christmas. It was very, very(!) cold, but Ava braved the frigid air and water and was a wonderful model! I love how her session turned out!

Gray Family Portraits 2024 | Holiday Photos San Diego

January 3, 2025

I’ll admit it . . . I’m a little jealous of my meticulously styled sunset beach photography clients. These days, my own family portrait session takes place 15 minutes before we sit down to Thanksgiving Dinner, and everybody just pulls whatever they have out of the closet! It’s hard to wrangle college students and early sunsets in the fall, and Thanksgiving is the one day I don’t have a session and Lissa is home from CBU. We’re blessed that my parents live near a beautiful nature preserve, so backgrounds like these are just a short walk away. My sister does our family portraits, and we toss the camera back and forth for the kid, hubby, and dog shots. This year we added some bonus images of Lissa with her boyfriend Taylor.

Williard Baby Announcement | Coronado Beach Holiday Photoshoot 2024

December 26, 2024

When my friend Alli approached me with VERY special news several weeks ago, I was thrilled to be involved in her big announcement! She and Robert have been married for over a decade and have desired children all the while . . . but there seemed to be some delay. As Robert and Alli waited, they poured themselves into serving the Lord at church and through coaching, and they built a business flipping houses, with Robert putting his contracting and construction skills to use and Alli contributing her eye for design and decor. Their Christmas card and Christmas Day post on social media was so fun to read, and hundreds of responses show how much they are loved and how happy everyone is for them. We can’t wait to meet Baby Williard next year!

Linett & Raz Reunited Post Deployment | San Diego Photographer

December 22, 2024

It was wonderful to see Linett and Raz’s Spring Valley home all lit up for Christmas and to see them back together again after Raz’s long deployment. He came home to a baby girl who had grown up quite a bit, and she is loving having Daddy home! I see a daddy’s girl in the making!

Military Family at the Hotel del Coronado at Christmas

Kim Family Portraits at the Hotel Del Coronado | 2024 Holiday Photos

December 20, 2024

The Kim family stayed at the Shore House at the Del over Thanksgiving, and I met up with them the morning after the holiday for their Christmas photos. Cynthia and David two sons and two daughters (twins) who took time out of their busy school and Armed Services schedules to be together. Both sons are on active duty, and one of their daughters is currently a cadet at West Point. Cynthia and David are the founders of Children of Fallen Patriots, a non-profit providing college scholarships to the children of Gold Star families.

The Britton Family 2024 | Hotel Del Coronado & Beach Photography

December 18, 2024

I’ve known Sophie almost as long as I have been a photographer, and I’ve admired her wonderful posed newborn work for over 15 years. She is the gold standard in San Diego newborns! I was so honored that she asked me to photograph her family this year, especially since this was a very important session. Sophie’s pups Kona and Molly are getting older, and Kona the black lab was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma last year and not expected to make it this long. Thankfully, she is still doing well, and Sophie was excited to capture the whole family while everyone is still thriving and while her oldest, Ava, was home from college. The weather was gorgeous on Coronado, and the king tide made incredible reflections.

Birds in the Air above Woman Walking on Beach

Birthday Photoshoot at the Beach | Coronado Professional Photographer

December 16, 2024

A therapist and author, Trinese recently relocated to her old hometown of San Diego after spending decades in Washington State. Her new beginning here includes a new place Downtown, reconnecting with old friends, gathering with her daughter for Thanksgiving, and celebrating her birthday with a photo session on the beach! I loved chatting with her in between shots, and I’m so glad we got to work together to capture these fun headshots!

Chelsea & Steve’s Family Photos 2024| Coronado Beach Photography

December 11, 2024

Chelsea, Steve, and Penelope are just relocating to San Diego, and the traffic caught all of us by surprise on the afternoon of their session. Driving from the extreme North County, they were racing the sun and made it to Coronado just 15 minutes before sunset. Fortunately, baby Penelope was fascinated by the beach! She loved everything about the sand and water, and we swung from one location and pose to another with the greatest of ease. In the end, it was impossible to whittle down Chelsea and Steve’s gallery, and I love how everything turned out! I can’t wait to see them again next year and watch Penelope grow up as a San Diego girl.

Little Italy Professional Headshots | Group & Individual Portraits

December 2, 2024

What a fun headshot session! This is becoming one of my very favorite types of session, where a company or corporate team has an offsite meeting and incorporates photography as one of their activities. Not only does it provide some fun creative team-building, but the images we collaboratively produce work for both social media and the website. Jessica’s team came from all over the country and stayed in an Airbnb in Little Italy. We explored the property and then ventured out to the neighborhood and took in the Italian piazza, walked around in the middle of the street, and did some cute sunglasses shots. Since Jessica’s firm is involved in marketing and graphics, there was plenty of creativity to go around, and so many fun personalities.

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