A Family Session – At The Campground

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This family was beautiful to work with in every single way. In fact, I wish I could have followed them throughout the rest of their vacation. Dad was recently home after a long deployment, and the connection everyone had with him was electric. It was a powerful thing to be witness to.

When I showed up to the location, I called them. Camp Pendleton was busy and crowded and I didn’t know where they were exactly. We quickly realized that I was in the wrong location. INSERT PANIC. None of us had known there were actually TWO campgrounds, and unfortunately I was at the one thirty miles south of where I needed to be. AND there was major traffic on the 5 freeway. They told me another way to get there, through the base instead of taking the freeway, and I hauled ass to meet them as quickly as I could. I was sick to my stomach over making this mistake. But the minute I walked up to their campground, I knew it would be okay. They were so kind and understanding, and didn’t let the mishap effect our time together at all. We lost about forty minutes of the session, which in most cases would be a deal breaker, but because they were so friendly and rolled with it so well, I was able to connect to them quickly and get to work.

I told them at the time that if I thought in any way that the session didn’t reflect my other work because of the time restraint, I would offer them a free reshoot. Truth is, I was relieved and thrilled that the session was a success but I was also a little disappointed. I would have loved to stick my camera in their faces again.

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16 Comments

  1. wow! Fantastic. I sO love your family sessions. You inspire me to take more photos of my own family. Not because I will ever be able to capture what you capture, but the pursuit of it keeps me clicking! Your work is more than just pretty pictures, with beautiful people and lighting and locations. Your photographs uniquely show your connection with your people and their love for one another. You are so gifted. A true inspiration! Thank you so much for sharing a little bit of what you create. You are hands-down my favorite photographer. It would be a dream come true to have my family “captured” by you! If you ever want to travel to the mountains of Colorado, let me know. :)

  2. i could see your work in a crowd of others and see the magic of yours in a nano second. i love what you do and just want to say thank you. it’s inspiring on every human level.

  3. BE-U-T-ful work. Love these images. As always your talent is so inspiring. If you ever want to travel back to the East Coast I am sure we can find a reason to be in NY.

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