Classic Cycle Events, El Camino

I know some of you know that already, but twice a year, we go and take pictures of the Classic Cycle Events... once in the Spring, in Hanford and the second time in the Fall (or late Summer) by the El Camino College...

If you like Motorcycles, you should not miss out going to the next one, it's worth a trip! We always go as the whole family, with kids, so don't worry, it's  not just full of rough biker dudes! ;)

Take a look and see the rest of the pictures on my online gallery here.

my kids on video

I made a little video of my boys. A day like many, except with WAY more video footage than usual ;)

Note, here's for all of you who keep telling me having girls is so much easier than having boys... I beg your pardon ;)

They constantly fight and make up. 

But I guess it's kind of normal for brothers! ;)

The Ginn Grandkids

The hard thing about taking pictures of 10 children (most of them very small) is, they don't always do what you say. (Let's not pretend like adults to what I say)

But the easy thing about taking pictures of kids is, no matter what face they make, children are just cute. And the Ginn Grandkids especially.

I would take them all home, but I think my kids would get a bit jealous ;)

Also, I LOVED that each child had a different outfit and that they decided to make each child look fantastic in their own way (only the twins matched and I think we can agree that this is perfectly cute!) Talking about individuality!

You guys rocked the shoot!

the walker clan

Sneak peak before their vacation. Have a good one ;)

peekaboo from miss brinley

hello gorgeous ;) your eyes are just nuts!!! love it.

Aubree - The addition to the sneak peak ;)

So, after drinking TWO diet dr pepper (even though I'm on an anti soda, anti coffeine diet right now) and after letting my kids go run wild and pretty much destroy the house, I'm done editing the shoot from yesterday. I'm decently busy at the time and have decided, I have to edit this shoot before tomorrow's next shoot. And even now, I still have a wedding to finish edit. (Anyone volunteer to do it for me? JK!) Here some of the pictures that made an impression on me. I've got tons of great pictures due to my models and the beautiful light! 

 NORMALLY I'm not the type to edit my pictures all diffuse, but it just seemed to be right for a little fairy to look a little dream-like. After all, that's how I imagine my fairy land (I LOVE fairies, it's one of the cheesy things that I actually embrace). Love the fact that they live in forests, love trees, love flowers, love streams and everything else that belongs to a fairy land. So here you go... my fairy land.
    

And after those dreamy ones, here a little more real ones. Ones where she did not have to listen to me... just be herself.

and then she even gave me a little attitude ;) look at that smirk

And now,let's see the whole family together...

And it would not be complete without seeing some interactions between parents and daughter... Always try to get some of those in the shoot too. Cause that's what every parent wants, right?

That's it for today. Now i'll go play with my kids. They've well deserved my attention now ;)

A little Fairy turning four

And here some in color.

Finally my absolute favorite. By far. No question.

underwater fun

One thing I love about photography is that there is basically no limit to what you can do. We have had this throw away underwater camera for a few years... why we did not use it before, I don't know. So, we used it, brought it to be developed, scanned it and here we are. Some random family pictures.

I might sound super stupid when I say this (especially around my SoCal friends) but until about one month ago, I was NOT able to get my head under water unless I pinched my nose. So, this here is HUGE progress! Even with a smile. Just for you ;)

The coming up pic has me laughing every time I looked at it. Doesn't it kind of look like a really ugly 80ties swimsuit that's cut super high on the leg? I hate those and they make me laugh. (Maybe, only maybe they make me depressed cause even though I would not weare one of them, I wish I could - while looking great in it. hahaha)

DON'T JUDGE, we dunked both boys. After seeing how FRANTIC Sebi lookes under water, I however consider NEVER EVER dunking him again. I wanted to post the pictures cause they look funny and I promise the boys are fine, but in the same time I was really hesitant in posting them because Sebi looks like he's been seriously tortured here. Like he's being drowned. Sorry dear Sebi-mine. He is fine though and he did not even swallow water. (At least not much)

Here the over water view

AAND for a good ending, some hilarious distorted pictures. I laugh looking at the bubbles coming out of my nose. At the distortion. But then I laugh cause even though I look ridiculous I really like the picture!

Go have fun taking random pictures! Kiss, kiss. Lydia

a test and so on

I'm just checking if i really wanna go that big... What do you think, too big? Let me know. All these decisions to make!

A peak

I still can't believe I got to shoot this wedding. I love every wedding I get to shoot for various different reasons. This one for a GORGEOUS couple and a super hyper fun party!

Congratulations to Carlos and Ashlee, you guys looked stunning! Thanks for having me take your pictures!

aaand the winner is...

... WELL, let me first tell you that this has been really hard for me to decide. I got really different sugesstions. Here my favorites in no particular order:

Joanna via FB: I would love to have our family carwash/turned major water fight photographed. Its something we do together, and I would love to have the memory captured.

BPG: The first day of school in Mt Baldy! My school is one of a kind with an outdoor auditorium, creek, wildlife, and beautiful view of the mountains!

Alli:I think you should do a photo shoot with as many different hats as you can find! ... Or as many hair-dos as possible! So fun!

Heidi: Playing Twister

AAAnd the winner is:

BPG

I'm thinking of tying books together with a belt, hanging from the kids shoulders. Lunchboxes, maybe a Schultuete (the german in me), pencil behind ear, ... maybe a pathway where the child "walks to school"...

BPG, please contact me so we can set this up!

Thanks everyone for participating!