Napa Portrait and Wedding Photographer

That’s what I think!  Here it comes, I haven’t posted a portrait session in a bit, so make way for a big one, ha, ha.  And, I love these girls so much.  I really love all my clients, you know I do, it’s just that I have some history with these young women.  Every one of them is beautiful inside and out, talented, funny, sassy (in a good way of course) and, oh so much fun.  They come from a long line of wonderful.  You may remember a post sometime back here Three Generations of Beauty.  They are all accomplished swimmers.  Our oldest beauty here, Bailey, was a participant in the Escape from the Rock, an open water swim from Alcatraz back to San Francisco.  Her time was 37 minutes and she was the 3rd female in!  Top 10% over the whole field.  Can you say WOW?!  In her mom’s words “for these things, you just sign up because you’re kind of crazy”.

This was a hard post to put together though because there are so many images from this day.  These girls just don’t take anything but gorgeous pictures.  We got together on a pretty warm Fall day in November.  We had an unbelievably hot November here.  Everything had this surreal feeling to it.  The colors were still exploding, the light was low and beautiful, the wind would kick up and whip their beautiful hair around at just the right time.  We were together until dark, shooting, laughing, talking.  It was great.  I felt so energized.  As we were walking back to my car to load up and go home, we were talking about Bailey’s new coolio car, the fact that next year I’ll also be photographing her senior pictures (I’m privileged, it’s true), discussing with Addie, our fiery middle-child, who is one of my all time favorite girls, the last outdoor ed trip she went on in Southern California, and just generally giggling with Lindy, my little Sprite!  It was a very good day.  Really, can’t think of anything I’d rather do than photograph families and these kids as they grow up.  Every age is so special and there’s always going to be special moments and connections to document in this beautiful medium called photography.  I’m thrilled that I get to do it.

And, in the order of appearance, let’s get on with the show.  Oh yeah, I felt like mixing it up a bit here and there.  Hope it’s not too distracting switching out from color, to various black and white impressions, folks.  Thanks all.