Napa Portrait and Wedding Photographer

The title says it all really.  I was on my way home from a photo session one afternoon a few weeks ago and I decided to take a detour to see what was happening on ‘the yellow leaf street’.  It’s this great street lined with Ginkgo trees.  Sometime toward the end of November and into December, the street looks like it snowed yellow ginkgo leaves.  Well, this lovely family that I know, has been taking photographs of their children and family in this very spot for 12 years now.  We had tried to work out a date for me to take photos of their family, but we just couldn’t align our schedules and the leaves were moving out.  The question of if the leaves were still there was really bugging me, even though I knew we’d missed our opportunity for a session, which also really bummed me out.  So as I’m driving slowly down the street and noticing that most of the leaves were gone, I spy a court with a load of leaves.  I also spy what I believe to be a family attempting to take photos of themselves.  No offense Dave, but that little itty bitty tripod dealio looked like it wasn’t working so well.  I back up my car, pull up to the curb and park.  Yes indeed, that’s my family!  I get out of the car, we laugh that I looked like a stalker slowly driving down the street and backing up, but how fortuitous, we all agree, I’m here!

It wasn’t the photo session that we had tried to schedule, but it worked.  They got the worn out photographer traveling home from an out of town shoot, but we were only looking for a few fun shots.  I think we got ‘em.  And, no one rolled in hidden dog poo either, always a plus!  I thought it would be fun to show Camp Kaywoodie (as they’re known by the loads of people who love them) their proofs from that day as a slideshow gallery here on the site.  So you’re seeing everything.  I even kept in some of the in between shots, the ones that are blurry.  To me, they have meaning too.  It’s kind of like real life, don’t you think?  Life is fast, life is full of these blurry, fleeting moments of squished noses from pressing our foreheads together with those we love, messy and unkept snippets that we wouldn’t trade for anything.  That’s what I’m after.  There’s no fancy background here, you see the neighborhood cars, bicycles, blah, blah.  Mostly, you see love.

Kari, I’m glad I happened by.  See you soon.

Kathi