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Teanna set up a shoot for her family, her mother in law who was in town and also her own mother. Such a great idea! Reminds me I need to take photos of my kids with my parents who are right here in town more often. Here are a few faves from this winter beach session.
This last one is my favorite kind of beach family shot. I do it whenever I can because I think everyone should get to see their family this cute!
Ok, not really sledding… the boys got these new boards for Christmas called Spooners. I think they are made here in San Diego. I had just done a shoot (sneak peek coming soon) in Del Mar at the beach and the sand was pushed up into big steep hills. Perfect for the boards. And today is amazingly beautiful. And I love the beach in December… love it. So I pulled my “Please don’t make us do anything but lay around the house” older boys and the fun loving “i’ll go anywhere” Slater to the beach. And this is what we did.
These were all shot with a little Sony cybershot… when you are used to full creative control with a very good camera, point and shoots kind of suck (and not really just kind of)
I am actually kind of catching up… I think:) It’s hard to tell sometimes because I get things done, it creates new things to be done. It’s a revolving to-do list. The 18th is my goal to have nothing left to ‘revolve’.
The beach is one of my favorite places in the winter. Few people, cool air, amazing skies. This session didn’t disappoint in the skies. And this family didn’t disappoint either. We have some beautiful images and I can’t wait until they get to see them all.
I do love, love, love this last photo with this warm color treatment:)
I have been dying to see how Max has grown up the last year. And he is finally one and SO cute. It’s amazing that a little newborn can go from that to a running, laughing, talking, toddler in just 12 months. So many cute images of this little boy and his mom and dad. I’ll begin with one of my very favorites. Not sure why I love it so much except that it just shows Max laughing it up in his crib.
and my other favorite from this session…. with a new lens that I can’t wait to use more on my family shoots
Max, you are too dang cute! Wait til your mom and dad see the rest of your pictures!
The Kleege’s have been friends for a long time. Even though this session looks like a real session, we still have yet to do a real, ” Session with Alison” type of session. I don’t count 30 min as a real session. Or last year’s 10 minutes because there was some game about to happen or something or other that is totally not important to me whatsoever because photo sessions always come first… i digress (one of my favorite things Colleen says).
There is very little that can trip me up on a photography shoot. Babies, rain, toddlers, kids who don’t want to be photographed, cheese, etc… I’m just fine with those things. But the one thing that just makes my mind almost turn to mush is losing light and feeling strapped for time. I just kind of panic and do stupid things. Colleen and I actually drove around downtown a few days before looking for some new spots. We found some that I really wanted to try. However, the day of our session, we left her house a bit late and then got stuck at a light with trolley traffic for what felt like 10 minutes. And then I was worried about parking so we just parked and it felt dark so I just started shooting where I was… in the darkest side of the street with the stupidest stucco building right behind us. And I kind of rushed through the whole thing on a half a brain.
When I left our little dark spot of downtown and rounded the corner… light, metal corrugated walls, life for that matter… JUST around the corner. I was so bummed. I didn’t know if we got anything good, shutter was slow and my vision for the session came up short.
Or so I thought. The photos below are just a small smattering of my favorites. Now it could be that I really love this family and am a little biased because I can see their personalities shine through in these photos but I think we did pretty good. And seriously… next year or whenever we do another shoot, it’s going to be a real live, full time to extra time, Alison Photoshoot!
Expectations weren’t necessary with this group. Thanks for bringing the magic, Kleege family!
