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Storybox Art nominated as best family photographer in San Francisco

Can you see me dancing?? I am excited to share that Storybox Art has been nominated as the best family photographer in the San Francisco bay area by Nickelodeon’s Parents Connect website. The nomination is for the 2009 Parent’s Pick awards. What are parent’s pick awards? You can read all about it here but the […]

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Carrie Sandoval - Congratulations, Alpana! What an honor!

smita - A well deserved honor , Alpana. Congratulations!!!

Raji P. - Alpana, I hope you win this contest, but whatever happens, we all know, you *are* the best family photographer not only in SF but in the world!

Our wonderful unplanned Mothers Day

Hope all you fabulous moms had a wonderful Mother’s Day! For me, the day was an excuse to do something fun that I had been meaning to do with my little guy. We spent a wonderful day hanging out in San Francisco with our friends from the East Bay. Nothing like a spur of the […]

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Smita - Gorgeous pictures!! That lil boy of yours is going to be a ‘show-stopper’. Both the boys look so adorable in this last picture. Your beautiful captures and the way you bring out the best in your subjects never ceases to amaze me. Looks like you had a wonderful mothers day what with such delightful company. Could one ask for more?

Smita

Amber - WOW, your lil’ man have gorgeous eyes! Beautiful pictures, I hope you enjoyed your mothers day!

Katie - I can’t get over those eyes!!! Stunning!

ashley - Happy belated mother’s day;)
Gorgeous – your images of him always take my breath away!

alpana - Thanks for the comments. It was a lovely day…one that unfolded in a beautiful way!

Picture perfect little people | san francisco bay area photographer

A sneak peek from last weekend’s mini-sessions. It was such a fun time working with these little people in the variety of ages. The 18 m- 2 year age were a bit more challenging in the short time slot for the mini’s but I was up for the challenge. It was great to see repeat […]

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Amber - Beautiful images! I love the one of the little girl on the bike!

Kimberly Kyle - Precious mini sessions! Those kids are ALL so adorable!

Alyssa Anne - Such cute stuff! You did a great job!

Supriya - Great pics, Alps …all of them!

Karen - Such a great job on these!!!

Debi Gomez - love them! beautifully simple and focused on those gorgeous kids 🙂

Katie - You have the best props! Love them all!

Michelle - Wow. I LOVE them all. But that one on the trike is priceless! 🙂

marie - You did these so well girl

Catherine - beautiful!!!

Alex - Beautifully Light Alpana, just love them all 😉

Paula - Every time I look at your blog, I find reasons to smile. Thanks.

Fundraiser for Mariah Jackson

Recently, I heard about a brave little three year old called Mariah Jackson fighting a rare kidney cancer. I wanted to share a fundraising event for her at the Icecreamery in Castro Valley. It is a Stuff-n-Fluff fundraiser where you will get to stuff your own bear and wish upon a rainbow star. The cost […]

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The Texan family in San Francisco | San Francisco bay area photographer

I first met Mommy R online several years back while on my quest to have a baby. She visited the bay area when I was preggo with R and we got to meet in person. We stayed in touch off and on and then reconnected more recently on Facebook. She emailed me recently to say […]

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amy boring - What a fun happy session. Beautiful kiddos.

Texas Mommy R - The sneak peek teaser is torture – can’t wait to see the rest! You rock, did you know that?! and I already miss your beautiful boy, wish we could have spent more time with him. Any chance you can take him out of school tomorrow to play with us?! LOL!

Amber - Gorgeous family, looks like a fun session!

Alyssa Anne - These are just beautiful…how will they choose?!

Aseel - Great set!!! You can really tell they were having a fun session. Gorgeous kids.

Deanna - what a GREAT session!!!!!!! i can see how much you and your clients had together! Wonderful work!

Suchitra chander - Lovely shots, the family looks so lively. No wonder the kids were wiped when I saw them for dinner that night, I hadn’t seen them for 2-3 years and they were tuckered out with the long shoot, expended lots of energy. Glad the pics captured their energy so nicely.

ashley - Wonderful session! Beautiful family and gorgeous images;)

Alex - Looks like this was a really fun session, love these shots Alpana 😉

Paddy - Hi Alpana,

So good to hear about you again. R and I have kept in touch and we met finally in India. Great pictures!!!

Christine - How funny! Before reading your post–I was just thinking–that little boy MUST be related to your R. Great set! What fun for them!

Malathi - Alpana

those are great pictures of K&K. I haven’t met them. R – they look like real fun kids. Happy 5th b’day to them!

Deepa Ramani - Raji, You’re a major babe! You look fantastic! The photos are awesome. Everyone’s laughing, looks SO natural! Give me the photographer’s contact info and all, and I’d love to book something in september (we go to CA every September). Deepa

catch me if you can | san francisco bay area photographer

These are a few pictures that I processed quickly from our recent vacation in San Diego. The thing I love about lifestyle pictures is that they don’t have to be perfect…in fact, the less perfect they are the more I like them. That is most of the time 🙂  So here we have my slippery […]

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Raji P. - Now I know where R. gets his mischievous smile from! Stunning – the blues are breathtaking.

Katie - So fun!

Ginger McCabe - What a fun session! Lve all these pictures! Great job!