Engagment Photography - Jason and Karla

Their first date was on September 11, 2006, they met only two nights ealier at Howl at the Moon in downtown San Antonio. Karla was at a friends bachelorette party and Jason was hanging out with some of his Air Force buddies. The music was loud and everyone was dancing so Karla grabbed Jason by the arm and asked him to dance. At the end of the evening she scribbled her number on the back of a bumper sticker and told him to call. He was only going to be in town one more week and she had to leave on a business trip in the middle of the week so they had their first date on a Monday. The first date led to photo calls and emails and eventually Jason moved from New Jersey to San Antonio after he was finished serving with the Air Force. The rest as they say is history! These two are so in love and they love to have a good time, I can't wait to see what the future has in store for them!

I happen to know Jason and Karla from church, and they've babysat my kids too. We had such a great time walking around down at the Riverwalk, threatening to push someone in the river(we won't mention names), getting yelled at for standing on some rocks at Mission Concepcion, being freaked out by the guy talking about a suitcase bomb (we saw him at BOTH missions taking photos with a disposable camera, should we have reported him?) and just laughing till it hurt. Thanks so much Jason and Karla for trusting me with these precious memories. I had SO MUCH FUN. And although it was my longest session to date it went by super fast! I had a really hard time narrowing down the choices. Here are a bunch of my favorites! Which one do you like the best?

We got in trouble right before this shot, but if you ask me, it was totally worth it!

I think this is my favorite from the session.

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Child Photography - Jake, Sophia & Joshua

One of the highest compliments that I can receive is when a client calls me to come and photograph their family for the second, third, fourth and even a fifth time. Repeat clients are amazing and such a joy to work with and it's incredible to see how the children have changed. I have been photographing this family since before little Joshua was born and I love seeing how much they change from session to session. You can see their last family session here and one of the earlier sessions here.

Amy brought the kids over to my house today for our little session. Our backyard seems to work pretty nice for these types of sessions, plus as an added bonus Naomi got to play with her friends. Jake did great for "not wanting his picture taken", Sophia is a natural in front of the camera. She let me pose her and take her to different areas, so obviously I got the most photographs of her. Little Joshua is such a happy guy and loved standing and bouncing around in the grass. What a great bunch of little kids, but don't tell Sophia that I called her little because she assures me that she is NOT little.

Thanks again Amy for allowing me to capture these memories for you. Amy, since you're usually the one behind the camera I'm so proud of you for getting in on a few of the shots. Your kids will treasure those memories as much as you do. Here are a few sneak peaks! I hope you love them as much as I do. Enjoy!

Look at those eyes!!!

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Mission Concepcion

I have been wanting to check out all the Missions in San Antonio for a while now. I've been to two of them and decided to check out another one. I'm sort of doing some scouting for future photo sessions to see which Mission I like the best. I took the kids to Mission Concepcion last week and we had a good time. They love to run around at the Missions and I try to keep them wrangled so as not to disturb other people. Here are a few of my favorite images from Mission Concepcion.

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San Jose Mission

I packed the kids up this morning and headed south to the San Jose Mission. I was on a mission to get outside, get some photographs and experience something new in my city. Mission Accomplished! Ha! The kids did great and let me explore a little before Naomi insisted on getting out of the stroller. I love to photograph just about anything but I have realized that my passion is really in photographing people. But the San Jose Mission will make a great backdrop to future portrait sessions I can just tell. Naomi was not in a photo mood so I had to capture her quickly without her really knowing it. I just had to get some photos with the beautiful buildings and my beautiful little girl (don't worry I got Micah in a couple as well). Thanks for looking!

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