Carys, Murphy, and Cash- Family Session.

I photographed this great little family over in the East Bay last month. Carys (like "Paris" with a C), aside from having a really fabulous name, also has a fabulous appetite for cupcakes (although her aim is slightly off), a fabulous eye for style (she would wear her snow white princess dress even in the bath if she could), two fabulous boxers (also known as "the first wives") and some pretty fabulous parents! (you can probably tell they think pretty much the same of her!)

Baby Oscar's birth {birth photography}

I don't even know where to start with talking about this session; it was such a wonderful experience for me. I had never done any birth photography before but when Liz mentioned it as something she was thinking about, I knew immediately that I would want to do it. For quite some time after Berkeley was born, I was obsessed with reliving the day in my head. I would just go through it, phase by phase, as if trying to cement every detail into my brain. I loved that day so much, and I just needed it to be right there, within reach. (Thankfully I created a written record of it!) So anyway, yes, so very excited and honored about the idea of creating an actual visual memory for someone.

I feel like I sound so vain, but I just love these pictures! Not so much because of anything I did well, but because I love to see untainted emotion, and a birth clearly presents lots of that. Pain, fear, nervousness, anticipation, agony, compassion, elation, exhaustion, falling in love, starting over . . . I love these images.