Fun and Natural Family Photos in Temecula

This was the best family photography session in Temecula I have ever had! Everyone was comfortable, happy,  and looking great. These were captured in the park next to our house here in Temecula. I forget how pretty it is here in Temecula in the fall. the leaves are everywhere and the air is so crisp and clean!

This was my first time meeting Amy, and I can already tell she is an amazing person. By spending some time with someone’s kids you can get a pretty good reflection of who the parents are. Kayla and Jacob are great kids. Fun loving with great attitudes! Oh ya and super cute! Their pictures turned out awesome… check them out!

Maternity Photo Session at La Jolla’s Wind n’ Sea Beach

I feel like the luckiest guy in the world when great people ask me to photograph the most important memories of their lives (tear)! I got to photograph Ashley and Colin’s wedding a couple years ago and now they are expecting little baby Lucas and they asked me to photograph their maternity pictures at the beach! On top of that, her sister is due less than a month away from her and she also wanted photos. Ya all the cool kids are having babies apparently. Im gonna go have a talk with my wife after this, hahaha! Anyways back to the maternity photos.

We spent a couple hours in La Jolla at the beach capturing these shots. It was pretty dangerous. Well at least I was scared most of the session. I had my back to the water, laying down for one of the first shots and… Out of the corner of my eye there something huge and fast coming straight towards me. After realizing I had about $5k in equipment around my waist I jumped straight up and ran! I barely missed the wave. From then on I was pretty jumpy, and Colin was having fun just saying the words wave watch out! At the end of the day my jeans were soaked but the camera equipment wasn’t so I was happy!

It was so fun getting to see how excited they are to meet their new babies! I can remember wondering what he would look like, be like, sound like, etc. Its such an exciting time and you can see it on their faces…

Family Photography in Valley Center

Every year my family and I like to go to the pumpkin patch for some family photographs. The best place in town is Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center! I was actually fortunate enough to work here during High School! And my little brother is working there now. It’s a really cool farm with pumpkins that weigh in over 200 lbs! There is also a sweet petting zoo, maze, and tractor rides.  

My wife dressed Carter in the cutest outfit and we headed out looking for good pumpkins and photos!It was a lot of fun watching Carter run around and try to pick up the pumpkins. You can check out some of our family photographs below.

Our first Beach Camping trip as a family

And probably our last… Hahaha! No we had a blast but it was a lot of work. Taking a 1 year old beach camping is quite an adventure!

We camped on the cliffs of Carlsbad. The weather was perfect, in fact it was during one of those heat waves, so we really lucked out. As an overly protective Dad I was constantly trailing Carter, which left little time and resources for photojournalism. However there was one morning and one day at the beach that I brought out the Canon 50D, Sigma 50mm f/1.4, and the Canon 16-35 f/2.8. He is the cutest little bugger you’ll ever see!

We played in the sand a lot, building sand castles, running around barefoot, digging holes, and I cant forget eating it! Yeah Carter ate quite a bit of sand! When his hands would get dirty he would lick them to clean them. I think he learned this from our cat Josie! I think next year will be a bit easier, assuming he will listen when we tell him to get out of the street. Apparently playing hot wheels anywhere but in the street is too great of a compromise!

Here are some of our family memories from our camping trip at the beach that I wanted to share!