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I’ve been wanting to blog about Jackie and Josie’s family photos for a while, but I held them back until I figured out how to use my new projector to show them off to their family in Alamo.  One of the cool things about bringing over the projector and laptop is that if someone was thinking about ordering a canvas for the wall, they can figure out what size looks good as well as what picture works best for them.  In this case, the children portraits that we put up on the wall really turned out well.  I could tell that it was hard for their mommy to figure out what looked best to put up.

I have been the family photographer for Jackie and Josie for about 2 years now. In fact the only place that I photograph them is in their backyard in Alamo.  Although the background doesn’t change much over time, Jackie and Josie have grown up so quickly every time I see them. I always enjoy photographing children because they never know how to pose, and I always want to photograph their true, innocent moments. I remember the first time that I came over to took their pictures.  It was a really nice sunny day and everyone was in a happy mood.  They have an orange tree in their backyard and we ended up using some oranges as props.  I think that Jackie enjoyed grabbing the flowers from the flowers near the house and using them as props.  I think Josie wanted to do that too but she only started to walk a little a few days ago.

Taking photographs of children and families is something that I love and I really like the thought that I can document their childhood through it.   I sincerely hope they will cherish the photos when they grow up.

I met Landon’s daddy when he was still a student at Kaiser Medical Center, Walnut Creek.  I met him again at John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek when he was doing his pharmacy rotation, and found out he only lives a few blocks from my house. Like most of the students that come in, we evaluate our students their backs, and Justin is not an exception. The only impression that he gave to almost everybody, is not how hard to learns or how smart he is, but how much he talks about his house and his wife Colette. He pretty much talked about Colette everyday during his 6 weeks rotation in John Muir Medical Center, and at the same time I wonder if Jeff talks about me everyday at his work…..

Justin and Colette are also my neighbor. We all live in the Windemere community in San Ramon. We can literally walk to their house, although it would take about 20 minutes. San Ramon is such a nice city for a growing family. There are so many parks within the community, and the school system is also excellent.

I’m so grateful that I have this opportunity to photograph Landon’s 1st year birthday. He’s the cutest 1 year old on earth and the best gift that Colette and Landon have, besides the two very precious Yorkies that they have.  It was a good day to do shoots both in the morning and at night.  We did the studio session before the sun came out and heated up our house and then went to the nearby park to do some shots around the playground.  Landon wasn’t fussy and really started to get into the shoot once mommy and daddy entertained him.