Orange County photographer | Tara Whitney – Orange County's Leading Photographer. Family, Pregnancy, Maternity, infant, Newborn, Baby, engagement photography in Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego

This happy family found me via Google, and booked a maternity and newborn session. Expats hailing from Sweden and France, our session was peppered with the beautiful sounds of the french language. We started off at home and then took their CHERRY Volkswagen bus to a nearby park. Alex has owned it since he was a teenager! I think you can tell from the smiles that they have a fabulous time together. I left them with a smile of my own that lasted all day AND vintage movie theater seats they were trying to get rid of, also hailing from Sweden. Double score. I have wanted some of my own for years.

Baby Sascha will post on Monday.

The last image is the one they chose for their big canvas. Such a happy image to have hanging in their home.

xo

Tara

film/editing: Michel Sandy
photography/concept: Tara Whitney
music: Something Good This Way Comes by Jakob Dylan
HD version here.

The home was, quite literally, amazing. The children were stunning and lovely to work with. And the parents were super chill and ready for anything. Michel and I were beyond thrilled that someone had finally let us shoot in their home. Earlier in the day, Leah had shared with me the song that she wanted to use for this. The moment it started playing, the goosebumps started. I had never heard it, and I connected, big time. This was the moment that I updated my Twitter feed with this. I spent the next two hours listening to the song on repeat – and while we shot, the lyrics were running through my mind constantly.

I raced off an email to Michel with the song attached, hoping he would be as inspired by it. Yea, I guess he was.

I just stopped writing this to watch it again, so I end with tears in my eyes and a very full heart.

I love love.

xo

Tara

These images are brought to you by the perfect evenings we get in October – which is when this session took place.

Some of my favorite images from 2009.

They drove circles around me in the parking lot for awhile and then we walked down to play at the beach. I couldn’t get enough of this little guy, who reminded me of my husband as a child. And I just loved the genuine love that came through both Mom and Dad. So many great smiles.

xo

Tara