A couple of months ago, I took photos of Isabella when she performed with her dance group in Pismo Beach (http://owenphotographie.blogspot.com/2007/05/test_29.html). This month, I had the priviledge once again, to take her photos and it seems like she has already grown so much in such a small amount of time.

Somebody once asked me, why do I "have" to take so many photos? Well, aside from the fact that that is what I do and love to do, I find that time goes by so much faster with children. They are wiggly little babies one day and gleeful pitter patters, talkative toddlers the next day. As a parent myself, I would love to hold on to their years of growing up and see how they look like in every stage of their childhood....and if a photograph would give me the pleasure of bringing back a visual glimpse of that memory, then so be it.

This is Ava. She is definitely one-of-a-kind. She is as fun and free spirited as her beautiful wild curly hair. We did the photo shoot late in the afternoon and I remembered the day was gloomy and the weather cold. But Ava's radiating smile and sunny disposition just took away all the gloominess of the day and we had a fun time shooting as if it was summertime....well, being with Ava seems like it was summer indeed.

What is a blog without a blog post? Yes, my blog is long overdue but whew, these last few months have been very interesting...sometimes, life just throws stuff at you and you have no choice but to just slow down and take it one step, one day at a time.

But my camera sure did not slow down...in fact, I have quite a few to share with you all. Let me just start with a few halloween photos I never got to post in time....

Here are some photos of my dearest Troy and his buddies at the daycare...







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I cannot stress enough how beautiful and popular these fine art gallery canvases are. As one of my clients say, it looks so alive, vivid and real that you just want to touch it. I personally love the texture of it and one cannot help but notice it when one enters the room. So, I am really happy to let you know that for the months of November and December, these babies are buy 1 canvas wrap and get the second one at half the price (same size or bigger).

I have a couple of spots available leftfor 2007 so if you would like to book a photoshoot, give us a call at (510)918-1852 or send us an e-mail at owenphotographie@gmail.com.

A photo from this morning....Yes, very different indeed from my usual sweet children photoshoots...but we need that once in a while jolt, change - to keep what we do always exciting....as well, to give you another side of me as well :)



Owen

As unique as her name, Jeazelle's smile made getting up early on a Sunday morning so worthwhile. Jeazelle has this radiating quiet innocence and intelligent beauty in her and I hope I was able to capture that in her photographs.

I'd like to thank mom for working with me on her outfits and making it fit for our location, dad who also happens to be a photo enthusiast, for assisting during the shoot, grandma, for being there to support Jeazelle and ofcourse to Jeazelle, for making my job the best job in the world :)

Here are some of the images from her shoot. Enjoy the slideshow :)


Here's an idea of how you can combine several portraits to make a nice photo wall gallery. I currently have the classic black and white frame there but it will look equally or more elegant if these photos are converted into canvas.



One of my favorite images in a Christmas card.

The title says it all....Andrew made my day! I arrived at their house with Andrew calmly stitting down in his high chair. I can tell he is ready for his big shoot and outfit changes...Thanks to mommy, some milk and those little round cheerios. As mommy and I narrowed down his clothes, he just sat there watching us all quiet and contented. I knew it was going to be a good shoot...and it was.

A is for Andrew and is for Adorable....the two of them go so well together.....
Love it - love it !!!!!

Andrew in Red










Andrew in cool blue














Me as an octopus

I took my kids to one of Troy's friends birthday party. I usually do not bring my big camera for events like this as I really would like to spend quality time with my kids. But now, I have a small snap and shoot stuck in my purse for those just in case snapshots. And when I saw that hug window in the house, I just had to take those "snapshots" and then some.