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hide and seek

i busted out the film camera to finish off this roll of film. the light was beautiful but challenging. i shot around thirteen frames and eight or more are keepers. the rest are silly faces. he was pretty patient with me this time. the first picture in this series happens to be my favorite of […]

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Tim - Awesome! Film is so delicious. Wait until you try medium and large format. Love!

andi - beautiful, alpana!!! love the lighting and your boy is just so darn cute.

kristi - the most incredibly handsome child in the world……so lucky to have such an equally incredibly talented mama to document that for us all 🙂

one little monkey…

…jumping on the bed. I just found the jumping photos as I was prepping the blog post from this family’s portrait session. The six year old and I got to have a little hangout as my son would call it. He jumped on the bed when no one was looking. Nothing like letting off some […]

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Heather Puett - Aww, these are beautiful. LOVE the life style ones. Great job!

alej keigan - love your style! these are gorgeous and would be perfect in an album!

Tammy Krummel - wonderful session, love your style and the amazing portraits!

Caroline - Beautiful photo’s Alpana !

Lisa Kelly - This is just the loveliest family session ever. So warm and filled with love and energy. I adore the sibling shot on the bed, so rich and gorgeous. I never tire at looking at your work.

Anna-Karin - Gorgeous kids! Love the variety and fun moments you captured from this session.

Marci Ralph - Beautiful family. I love the variety and way you captured them. This babies eyes are so expressive!

Kelly - These are GREAT! I especially love the one of the little boy with his legos, I can totally relate to that one as my little guy is also a lover of Lego. Your black and white conversion is to die for 🙂

Tara McGlinchey - I love these. So much variety and precious moments fabulous work!

Pamn - So fun and modern! I would have to put the bed ones as a grouping right over that very bed!

Amy Rader - The eyes have me. The boys are beautiful. What a nice collection for the family.

lisa m - Lovely in every way!

Lina - Beautiful captures, such sweet moment of their lives. Gorgeous!

circle of love

This year, I had made a resolve to donate a few sessions for those that would not be able to afford the luxury of a custom portrait session. When my friend mentioned her involvement with a non-profit that works with victims of domestic abuse), I thought it would be amazing to create a story-telling portrait […]

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Lina - Those are beautiful captures, such a sweet circle of love 🙂

Heather Puett - These are gorgeous! Bless you for giving these ladies some happy memories!

Shallyse - Such stunning images, and a beautiful story!

Lisa Kelly - So much joy and love springing from these images. Beautiful work.

Meggan - delightful as usual! Your work is always a pleasure to look at!

Paula - Your work always tells a story…love it!

Tara McGlinchey - What beautiful images of a beautiful family. I adore these.

Vanessa G. Photography - great lifestyle images.

Marci Ralph - Photographic magic! Love them all.. such great work you do!!! THis little family looks like they know who to have some fun!!

ayla II | san francisco fine art photographer

Nikon F100 // HP5

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jen - These all have such a wonderful ethereal feel to them – love them! jen 🙂

Kristin - Beautiful work, absolutely lovely!

Kim - Beautiful!!! Yay, for shooting film, too. 🙂

Heather Puett - So soft and dreamy!

Kelly Wilson - LOVE! My favorite is the first color photo…soooo beautiful!

Vanessa G. Photography - Yummy grain. Lovely.

sara - These are amazing.

Lisa S. - Beautiful shots!! You just can’t beat film black and white… It just has something digital can’t replicate.

Paula - Wow your work is just breathtaking!

Julie - Just lovely – everything about these is so beautiful!

Anna-Karin - Gorgeous photography of a beautiful subject!

Lina - So beautiful! Each and every image is flawless and perfect – truly beautiful!!

hair makeover in a pinterest shirt

I stumbled upon a “hair makeover”in progress and grabbed my camera for some quick shots. A few more on the facebook page if you want to take a peek. Talking about Pinterest, have you checked it out? It is a great place to explore and share visual inspiration from the web. And if you fancy […]

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