Family photographer, family photos in San Diego with an emphasis on relationships and lifestyle photography

San Diego Newborn Photographer, the Smith family

June 9, 2011

We’re back once again with the Smith family! You may recognize them from this post, this post, this post, this post, this post, this post, and this postI’ve had the privilege of photographing this adorable family every six months. Last fall they welcomed their fourth child, a little girl named Avery. Dylan and Tyler, their twins, are four, and Colin is one and a half. While photographing these rambunctious little boys keeps me on my toesI love seeing this family grow and change. In fact, they’re the reason I now specialize in capturing families and their relationships. So excited for our next session!

San Diego Newborn Photographer, the Smith family

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Loews Corondado: Paradise by the Bay

June 4, 2011

Our first San Diego Insider piece is on the amazing Loews Coronado Bay Resort, our latest partnership in vacation sessions for visitors to San Diego!

Loews Coronado Bay Resor t has been a staple in the San Diego and Coronado communities, and it’s perks just keep getting better! If you’re lucky enough to take a vacation, or even a local stay-cation!, to Loews Coronado you are blessed indeed! With only a few resorts in the Coronado area, Loews is repeatedly recognized as one of San Diego’s best, and seen as a top-notch location in the entire state of California.

Loews is toting some amenities completely unique to their property, the most obvious being their private marina and 80-foot dock. If you’re a guest of Loews, you can skip the car and just drive your boat up the property and park it in their private marina. Once parked, jump aboard one of The Gondola Company’s boats and enjoy the day lolling about in the amazing gondola, a feature you will only find at Loews. Out on the Silver Strand, it’s easy to feel like you’re in a small town, and Loews gives you that exact comfort, as the staff treats you like a welcome family member, and all seem to know each other’s names!

Another benefit to Loews Coronado is their Sea Spa, where you can order up some champagne and strawberries while enjoying their signature treatments. With all of these perks, and their 400+ guest rooms decorated in the So-Cal style you’re looking for while visiting San Diego, you rest assured that when choosing a great resort in the area, Loews Coronado Bay Resort is going to surpass your expectations every time! With renowned chefs, a sustainable foods garden on property, and a million touches that make this resort fantastic, you will not be disappointed with the experience of Loews Coronado.

Aside from all those perks, we have one more! Here at Photography by Alison, are going to be offering exclusive family session promotions in conjunction with Loews Coronado, for guests of the resort soon, so check back for details!

The San Diego Insider for Photography by Alison

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New Guest Blog Spot: The San Diego Insider

June 2, 2011

Here at Photography by Alison, we get so many families and visitors from outside San Diego wanting to visit and get some gorgeous beach sessions, and California sessions in general, that we thought we’d start giving some coverage to the awesome spots we’re lucky enough to shoot!

So please look forward to all of our new San Diego Insider blog spots, highlighting some of the greatest places in our beautiful city, and all the amazing venues we are so happy to partner with for shoots!

Check out all the San Diego Insider’s tips and hot spots, here on our blog, and stay tuned for all of our upcoming partnerships with incredible venues in the area!

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Seattle Senior and Family Portrait Photographer - Wednesday | June 15th | 2011

This shot is amazing! Great processing. You also have some fantastic senior shots! very impressive work. Inspiring and well done. Thanks for sharing your work.

San Diego Soccer Photographer, the Karam family

May 8, 2011

You’ve seen this family here from one of my favorite at home sessions. A few months later, we did a day of soccer. The three oldest boys are all on soccer teams (and the youngest will be soon enough). We picked a day that the games were all back to back. Just a few snafus like no refs showing up for the first game, one of the boys hurt his arm a few days earlier and couldn’t play, and rain:) We ended up shooting two different days. And despite the first day where the weather changed from fog, to sunny to rain in an hours time frame…everything was great! And these boys… I just love their personalities. Their fun and laughter is so easy to capture in photos. I can’t wait to see them again this summer.

I really didn’t know how this whole shoot was going to work out. We had already planned an album so I knew we would need a few pages of each boy and then a few pages from the sidelines. I’ll admit that even after editing all the images into a slideshow, I still wasn’t quite sure how it would all go together. But, once I got the prints for the album in, I knew it would be an amazing album I would want to keep even though they weren’t my kids:P I always want to keep the albums I make though. This album… turned out so great and the prints were just beautiful.

These images are all pages from the album. Since I already had it laid out in the album, it just made sense to share some of the layouts (they are cropped down to just the images). Oh if you could only see the album… the images here don’t do the actual prints justice. Soccer is a big part of this family and think the shots we got capture them all just perfectly.