Category Archives: Family Sessions
Being a family photographer always seems to offer me lessons in life; wisdom hidden in everything around me. This session with the Ito family, hailing from Alberta, Canada, had such a lesson. I arrived at the Fairmont Orchid greeted by grey clouds and relatively dark skies. There would be no real sunset that day, just…
My girlfriend and I have this thing, where we come up with the name — well, the theme — of the year ahead. A single word that encapsulates everything that we want our lives to be about in that year. Last year, the word was WILDFIRE. We had first met in January, not much more…
This session was just a smattering of good times… probably from the fact that the Mayer Ohana is one of those families who unintentionally “own the room”, because their affection for one another is so loud and obvious and not at all dull. They are what I think families should be. They are loving, honest,…
Back home in Hawaii after 2 months in India, although it feels like we spent 2 months on another planet entirely. It was a surreal, beautiful time, and I’m still gathering my thoughts on all of it, in preparation for what might be a gigantic blog post full of words, photos and exclamation points. Or…
It was a pleasant winter’s morning early in the month of January; a Hawaii kind of winter’s morning where the sun and the sea are just as they’ll always be. I remember that I posted this photo on my instagram; it was so peaceful. There wasn’t another soul there when I arrived. And by the…