Mother’s Day with Aunt B

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My immediate family lives in Southern California, in Mission Viejo, Ca… My Mother lives in Easley, SC. Google says that’s 2300 miles. The trip to Buena Park is much closer and since they are sisters, I don’t mind lovin’ on my Aunt B for Mother’s Day. Grace and Mikey are both ALWAYS stoked to be headed to her house, she has a huge yard with great stuff in it, she has the water hose and bubbles, and she always has great munchies!  OK, those are the reasons I go too

 

We hung out most of the day, just talking, laughing and remembering my Grandma and Aunt Chris, both who have passed away. Our times with her and Uncle Craig are always good… as if we haven’t hugged enough while we were visiting, it still takes us 20 minutes to say our goodbyes.  Here is a peek into our loving family – there is a bonus gallery at the end of some things in her garden:

 

Some cool things found in her yard and garden:

 

Some of my family photos today at Doheny Beach – Orange County, CA

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Man I Love My Family!

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For a while now, I have been taking photos with my iphone and the Instagram app and I have been tagging them with #manilovemyfamily. I am doing this to keep a running journal of what the family is up to. I wanted to share some of the most recent ones with you. Enjoy.

Lewis & Monica – Orange County Family Photography

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I was so lucky to be called up by my friends and fellow Orange County Family Photoraphers Lewis & Monica Allison. They are such a great couple! Every time we get together, we seem to talk the time away – right Monica?!!??!  Well, a few weeks ago, God blessed them with Mia, the little beauty that you see here. OK, enough with the jibber-jabber, on with the family photos

Grace is THREE today!

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Hi guys, just a quick post to share some photos from today. Grace has been looking forward to “Octomber da eiffth” for a while now and we are all glad (almost as much as she is) to say that she is now three! We met with Aunt Barbara and Uncle Craig for some beach time, digging for sand crabs, sand castle building and a little BBQ! Everyone had fun, even Mikey had so much fun he conked out under the umbrella

Helping Kids – A Charity Book Project

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Hey there!

I’ve been planning this for some time now and I can finally let the world know… I am putting together a Book Project to benefit the Orange County Ronald McDonald House.

I have been looking for a cause that I could get behind and I think that anyone that helps kids and their families in times of medical crisi is something that I can support Starting today, now… I have a special plan to make great photographs AND support this cause. For the details, take a look at my section on the site for The Ronald McDonald House Charity Book Project. 

I love it if you’d consider taking part! Take a peek at the information and give me a call today @ 949-436-7374!

See you soon!

pesh

Gracie’s Shoesies – My first little photo project

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Hi there,

I have been “threatening” to do a small project for a while now. My goal is to come up with a handful of achievable projects that I could complete in under a week. This first one is of my daughter Grace’s shoes. For a 2 1/2 year old, she had almost as many kicks as Imelda Marcos! Here is a sampling of them. they are so cute to look back on… Her feet are bigger now, her vocabulary is bigger now… As I write this post, she is playing with the shoes, bringing them to me saying “awwww, these are cute!!!” and “Daddy, you wear one!”.

For the photographers, I made these with the Nikon 105mm Macro, 1/125 @f5, ISO 400. I lit it with a Nikon SB-900 @ 1/32 power through a beauty dish. I snagged a couple pieces of wood from an unused shelving unit, polished them up and started shooting.

Warren Family – Relaxed Family Portraits

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I wanted to share some photos from a recent family session. Kristin and I share the same Chiropractor and after meeting her and her adorable kids, I knew we were going to have a good time. We settled into a groove pretty quickly and started having a good time. Nick was a trooper, and opened up to me pretty quickly – it turns out that he likes to climb Haley is at that age where most people feel a little self-conscious but somehow, we connected and I was so happy to see her reaction at the photo below, she said she loved it! THAT’S a compliment! Thank you Kristin for opening up your home and family to me, I had a great time and would love to photograph you all again sometime!

Portraits of Jordan with the NEW Nikon 85mm

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I finally invested in a couple new lenses. Since I am working more and more to improve myself in the world of portraiture, I HAD to get an 85mm lens. This is a classic look and I a SOOOOO glad I made this purchase. I have used it on a couple sessions already but for now, I wanted to share some photos I made of my son Jordan. I simply put him on a stool in the doorway and allowed the light to wash over him. These were all at f2.0 @ 1/1600. These are lightly touched up (some grain and a bump in mids), I did not take them through my entire portrait workflow… just Photo Mechanic to Lightroom to the blog.

Finishing a 365 Project

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THIS is how I am going to preserve my photo projects FOREVER

A little background, a 365 project is a project that you do over the course of a year (365 days).  This is like the marathon of projects.  We all can run to the door for the pizza guy, or to the car in the rain but it would take some dedication and LOVE to train to run 26 plus miles.

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