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Laguna Beach Family Photography: The Zarate Family

Baby boys…. oh how I love capturing their winning smiles, their spirit, their energy and well, yes trying to catch them.  This guy really gave me a run for my money.  I absolutely love capturing small kiddos in an open environment, but the only trouble is there is also lots of room to run.  Mom and Dad were great at playing games, making silly faces and just entertaining him long enough to get some amazing smiles.  He loves music and his Mommy and Daddy, as long as they aren’t touching.  I know right, he gets mad if they hug or kiss!  Again, another challenge when you are trying to get great group shots.  I think we managed anyway!  It was so amazing to get to know this beautiful family and I hope to get to enjoy them for many years to come! ;)  Enjoy.

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Laguna Beach High School Senior photography: Beautiful Gianna!

She showed up with a car full of clothes, an amazing smile and ready for anything.  Believe it or not, this entire session happened in my Laguna Canyon studio.  We started inside (the natural light in my studio is really to die for) and continued on in the parking lot, laying in the street full of leaves, climbing into a tree, just whatever looked good with her amazing wardrobe.  I love these type of sessions that have an editorial feel really tell the story of Gianna.  She is headed off to either SMU or USC next year and either school will be lucky to have her.  Thanks to Gianna for being such an amazing beauty and so much fun to work with!  Enjoy.

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She’s All Grown Up: Laguna Beach Event photography

I am constantly finding inspiration for my photography work. Whether it be a beautiful sky, an old weathered car, a lone tree, an beautifully lite movie, a fashion magazine, MTV/ VH1, or my kids… inspiration seems to be everywhere.

Some of my favorite blog that help stretch my creative muscle are:

The Dreamer Journal: http://dreamerjournal.com/
Reverie Mine: http://reveriemine.com/
Evoking You: http://www.evokingyou.com/

For print images:

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE : Vogue Bambini

I am also a daily browser on pinterest and flickr

And as my regulars know, I always set aside time in January and February to put together creative sessions. We spend a little more time with creating a story for the session, and then providing the atmosphere, location, props and clothing that help tell that story. I have two different objectives this season.

One, I will be doing 8-10 fine art pieces with high school seniors for an art show on Earth Day in the Laguna Beach Art Museum. If you have kids interested in being models or helping with the project, please e-mail me at kristin@blueskysstudio.com to let me know.

The second objective will be 5 family styled sessions. These will be video taped as well as photographed to use in my promotional material. This is a excellent opportunity for a family to get a whole lot of fabulous images that really capture the essence of their family in a relaxed environment. Of course, I will provide lots of help on clothing and accessories. These are typically my most popular sessions of the year. If you are interested, please e-mail me at kristin@blueskysstudio.com. This will be limited to 5 families and I will send a detailed e-mail out next week.

I can’t wait to share these sessions with you throughout 2014.

And now, I can’t believe how quick they grow! This is my daughter over the weekend going to her first formal party (heels and all). The one next to it is only 2 1/2 short years ago. They change so quickly! :)
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What to Wear: Valentine’s Day Outfits

Celebrating Valentine's Day

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OPI nail polish
$26 – nelly.com

The Beautiful Frum Sisters!

October, November and December were the busiest months for Blue Sky’s on record.  Thank you to all of my fantastic clients for trusting me with capturing your beautiful families over the holidays.  I hope to share lots of these sessions over the next few months.  I am thankful for so many things as we start 2014.  The health and happiness of my family, wonderful friends, to be active in my community, for new opportunities to stretch my creativity with a job that I adore.

One of my most recent sessions reminded me why I love photography so much!   The holiday season was wrapping up, I really felt it was time for a well earned break and I only had one session left before Christmas.  I headed down to historic San Juan Capistrano, one of my first favorite locations for a session.  I had not photographed around the train station much at all in 2013.  While I was super excited for the session, I was also thinking about how great it would be to get all my sessions completed for the year and start my Christmas shopping (yes, this was 5 days before Christmas).

Then the Frum Sisters showed up!  With bags full of clothes and accessories and lots of great ideas!  I forgot all about what I needed to do and just got excited to create some one of a kind images.  We literally laughed the whole session.  What a joy these two beauties were to work with!  And their Mom was amazing as well.

And then I realized, that this was a gift to myself!  That every day I get to do what I love and create images that bring joy to others.  How lucky can one gal get!  Enjoy! :)