Orange County Photographer, Tara Whitney. Fresh and fun family, baby, child, maternity, newborn, senior, and engagement photography.

• the unexpected, an auction •

**edited monday morning: Michelle Meisenbach, author of paper therapy, is donating all of the proceeds of her book sales this week to kimberly.

wanted to link you guys.

also, there are a few more auction items to check out on emily’s blog. here and here and here. thank you so much everyone.**

edited: thank you to everyone that bid, the auction is over now but we have had a few requests for donations. emily set up a paypal account in kimberly’s name. here is a link to that, should anyone want to.

**i am putting this back at the top because the very sad, and very unexplainable happened. the family emergency has turned into a tragedy. our friend kimberly and her two young sons have lost her husband & their father james at the too young age of 38. my heart is so heavy i have no words to express the sadness i feel.

emily has put together a silent auction to help raise money for kimberly on her blog. she has no idea we are doing this, but we just have to do something. he was their sole form of income.

i am auctioning off my photoshop skills. two winners will send me 5 of their family photos and i will edit them so they look like candy. all money raised will go directly to kimberly.

i have seen the internet do beautiful things, and here is yet another chance. if you would like to be a part, go here. sharing a link on your own blog would be awesome too, thank you so much.**

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one of our find yourself attendees has experienced a saddening family emergency and needs to stay home. we are worried sick about our new friend, and our hope and thoughts are with her.

WE HAVE FILLED THE SPOT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

• compromise •

from anna: drew, pretend im a lovely lady and you fall in love with me.

drew: ignore ignore ignore (reading a book)

anna: drew! PRETEND IM A LOVELY LADY! AND YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME!

drew: no. (turns a page)

anna: (pouts)(harrumpf) why not?

drew: i dont want to have to hug and kiss you. (puts the book down and smiles at her)

anna: you dont have to. just hug. and ill give you weapons.

drew: only if i can be a worm.

• you know you weren’t a child of the eighties if •

your mom comes home from target and shows you your new shirts.

you are pretty stoked over them actually, showing off to your sisters.

“these are cool! thanks mom!”

you put them on, marching around, rubbing your hands all over your stomachs.

when suddenly, you look at each other, then at me, point to the design on the tshirt, and say,

“but what are these?”

• the pleasure of being photographed by her, •

i wish you all.

back in june, i surprised emily with a photoshoot for her birthday. we dressed up, brought props, and met denise aka bohogirl at the beach early in the morning. meeting her after emailing for months in the planning stages was such a relief. she was exactly as she portrays herself online. open, warm, lovely, intuitive, gentle. my nerves on the car ride to the beach were running high, i was anxious about not being behind the camera mostly, nervous about my body, my chin, my profile…totally doing what i tell everyone NOT to do. where was my zen, my just be you?

as soon as we met, hugged, giggled nervously, and started talking all of those nerves left me completely. i let go completely, and we had the best time.

emily and i had a few ideas in our heads of things we would like to do, but mostly we just wanted denise to do what she does best. here are my favorite photos from our session with her.

am i perfect? no. but i look at these photos and they mean everything to me. it was a morning just for us. girls. friends. women. we connected with denise so deeply. she just gives of herself so freely. she has just restructured her photography business to focus purely on photographing other artists. models, painters, authors, photographers, musicians…such a lovely idea to be able to collaborate every session with another creative minded individual. i know she is going to blow our minds!

and this, (smile), was an idea emily had, i think? we wanted to show our differences. so she brought along a jar of lentils from her kitchen, and i saved a mcdonald’s drive-thru bag. definitely an exaggeration of sorts, but funny, so so funny. this is going big in my house somewhere!

just be us.

have a great weekend everyone! im off to the beach with the kiddos, jeff, my camera, and a surfboard. (our new friday after school ritual…)

• rampant like herpes…..but for positive •

do the right thing.

• the unexpected, an auction •

• compromise •

• you know you weren’t a child of the eighties if •

• the pleasure of being photographed by her, •

• rampant like herpes…..but for positive •

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