Photography uniquely genuine to every family, couple, and project.

Currently booking sessions for 2024 + 2025.

 
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How It Works

1) Consult

Connect with me and let me know how we may work together. We discuss dates, locations, details, and answer any questions you may have. Then, you receive a project contract to review and submit a non-refundable $675 session fee to secure your date.

2) Plan

We continue our communications as we near your session, to make sure we are both on the same page. You fill out a questionnaire for me, which helps me to get to know you and your loved ones prior to our time together and I give you all the tips you may need for day of session success, including feedback on wardrobe.

3) Capture

We meet up for our scheduled time together and let the location and the moment guide us both. I give you all the gentle direction if needed, but always let the magic come naturally as it happens. It’s pure fun!

4) Enjoy

About 2 weeks after your session you receive your private online gallery collection of beautifully edited images, and I make myself available to go over any additional framed prints or gifts you may want to order from the professional studio printing lab. Then…you get to sit and stare at your walls of beautiful photography of the ones you love.

Investment

  • BRONZE - $1375

    ・Pre-session communication
    ・Approximately 1 hour of photography coverage (a little longer for newborns)
    ・At a location of your choosing
    ・My own professional editing
    ・15 High resolution digital downloads
    ・One 12x18 print
    ・Private online gallery and access to high quality printed goods - online for one year

    SILVER - $1800

    ・Pre-session communication
    ・Approximately 1 hour of photography coverage
    ・At a location of your choosing
    ・My own professional editing
    ・30 High resolution digital downloads
    ・One 12x18 print
    ・$50 Store Credit
    ・Private online gallery and access to high quality printed goods - online for one year

    HEIRLOOM - $2350

    ・Pre-session communication
    ・Approximately 1 hour of photography coverage
    ・At a location of your choosing
    ・My own professional editing
    ・60+ Entire collection of high resolution digital downloads - in both color and black + white
    ・One 12x18 print
    ・$100 Store Credit
    ・Highlights slideshow put to music
    ・Private online gallery and access to high quality printed goods - online for one year

    ✴︎2-3 hours would be required for an in-home 'Day in the Life' session. Hours can be added to any package.

  • MATERNITY

    ・Pre-session communication
    ・Approximately 1 hour of photography coverage
    ・ At a location of your choosing
    ・My own professional editing
    ・60+ high resolution digital downloads
    ・One 12x18 print
    ・$100 Store Credit
    ・Private online gallery and access to purchase high quality printed goods - online for one year

    NEWBORN

    ・Pre-session communication
    ・Approximately 2 hours of photography coverage to allow for in feeding and changing breaks
    ・In the comfort of your home
    ・60+ high resolution digital downloads in both color and black + white
    ・My own professional editing
    ・60+ high resolution digital downloads
    ・One 12x18 print
    ・$100 Store Credit
    ・Private online gallery and access to purchase high quality printed goods - online for one year

  • ・Pre-session communication + consultation
    ・Approximately 20 minutes of photography coverage
    ・At a location of your choosing
    ・My own professional editing
    ・Up to 5 high resolution digital downloads of your choosing for business
    ・Private online gallery online for one year
    ・Optional Add-Ons: additional retouching, additional edited images, hair and makeup artist

  • ・Pre-session communication, consultation, shot list planning
    ・Approximately 3 hours of photography coverage
    ・At a location of your choosing
    ・My own professional editing
    ・High resolution digital downloads from our time together
    ・Private online gallery online for one year
    ・Optional Add-Ons: additional retouching, additional edited images, hair and makeup artist, personal wardrobe stylist

  • Get in touch with me and after go over your project details, I will be able to provide you with a unique quote.

✴︎ Payment plans available upon request ✴︎

family sessions

 
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Family and portrait sessions are shot in the privacy of your home or at an outdoor location of your choosing, and are approximately 1 hour. These sessions are a beautiful balance between artfully posed and genuine lifestyle story telling. Our time together is spent hanging out where I let the family or subject and the location guide the nature of what is captured. It’s just you and your family being exactly who you are.

Leading up to our time together, we go over all of your desires, requests, hopes, and questions. I have you fill out a questionnaire so that I am best prepared to connect with you and your loved ones during our session. I am also available to bounce around ideas around wardrobe, props, and locations (I have an extensive list of Bay Area locations that are wonderful) and will provide you with thoughts on how to prepare your family the best that you can for our time together.

 
 
 

maternity sessions

 

Maternity sessions are shot in your home or at an outdoor location of your choosing. These sessions are approximately 1 hour, are scheduled around 34-36 weeks of pregnancy, and I always encourage my mamas to have two outfits prepared for an outfit change. These sessions are a lovely way to celebrate yourself and your little bundle to be, and are great shot with partners, siblings, and pets!

We will run through photos of just mama, mama with partner, mama with kids and pets…and just capture the story of your growing family. But in the way that is true to you.

Before your session, we go over what the session will be like, answer all of your questions, talk about wardrobe, and go over all the ways that we can both be best prepared for our time together.

*Maternity + Newborn Package available to save on the sessions and secure coverage for the most important moments.

 

newborn sessions

Newborn sessions are shot in the comfort of your home for the convenience of you and baby. These in home sessions are wonderful as we do a dance between some simple portraits of baby and some natural hang out and snuggle time with the family (the presence of siblings and pets is encouraged). These sessions last up to 2 hours, as there needs to be time to sooth, feed, and change diapers. We take our time so that these sessions are quiet, calm, and blissful.

Before our session, we go over any questions you have, what’s to be expected when I arrive, how you may best be prepared at home for photography, and go over any desires you have about our time together. You will fill out a questionnaire, before baby is born, so that I may be best prepared for our time together. I encourage all the cute outfits and special things that is meaningful to your family to be out and ready for us to capture.

*Maternity + Newborn Package available to save on the sessions and secure coverage for the most important moments.

 

graduating seniors

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High school senior sessions are shot at a location of the senior’s choosing, and take approximately 1 hour. We usually collaborate on location ideas together to determine what fits best with the personality and interests of the senior, and can sometimes fit in multiple locations if thoughtfully mapped. I always encourage 2-3 outfits for a variety of looks (formal, casual, and fun!). We run through formal and casual posing to achieve a range of imagery for your teen to choose from.

These sessions can be some of my favorite as this age is such a big deal - and it’s just so cool to hear about what they have achieved and where they are headed. These images make great gifts for their family and friends.

Before the session, I have your teen fill out a questionnaire so that I may learn more about them prior to our time together. We go over what will happen during the shoot, come up with a game plan for locations and wardrobe, answer all questions, and get excited about the fun we will have.

 

headshot + branding sessions

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Headshots are shot in studio or at an outdoor or indoor location of your choosing. These sessions are great for business owners, and professional online profiles. These sessions are, depending on your goal and how many looks you wanted, about 10+ minutes long for one person.

Prior to your headshot session, we go over what your goals and desires for your headshot are, and arrive on a game plan for wardrobe and location.

I first provide watermarked low resolution un-edited images from our session for you to review. You then make your choice(s) of headshots and choose your package of number of shots you would like to be edited and delivered.

Comprehensive branding sessions are longer approximate 2-3 hours of photography coverage, where we capture a variety of collateral images for your business website and socials.

 

sports / education / events

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Event, sports, and education coverage can be for anything you would love to have captured. From birthday parties, Bar Mitzvahs, and family reunions, to sporting events, education, classroom, sports teams, on-campus, and fundraisers. Get in touch to discuss your project for a custom quote. Check out some highlights!

 

F. A. Q.s

 

Where do you shoot?

Any location within 30 minutes of Alameda, CA is covered in the cost of the session. Any locations outside of that range will incur a $100 travel fee. I have an extensive list of Bay Area locations that I love shooting at that I will share with you when we are deciding on a location for your session. Scheduled mini session dates are set for particular locations and dates. And mini Front Porch sessions are ongoing and shot in Alameda, CA (travel fee incurred for outside of Alameda, CA).

What should we wear?

I work with all of my clients to bounce around all wardrobe ideas that best fit the scheduled session. I leave it up to the clients to decide, but am here for you to give feedback and make suggestions. I also have a list of wardrobe stylists who would be happy to come on board to assist in personal styling. Camera loves colors that work together, and you will be most successful wearing items you feel most confident in.

 

When will we get our photos back?

You will receive your online gallery of images within two weeks from your session date. Your gallery will be online for a year and you will be able to download your digital images directly from the gallery.

How will we know what to do?

Have no fear! We are gonna have some fun! When I arrive, we just start chatting and playing, I give you a little direction guidance, and then you are just hanging around like you normally do, a little more direction as needed (or not), and then laughing….all the while, I have captured the purity of you and your loved ones. There will be some direction along the way when needed, so I never leave you feeling lost. But my top priority is to let the natural moments happen as they will. It will be glorious, I promise. The kids will even love it.

 

Will you help us order framed prints and gifts?

Yes, absolutely. Your online gallery is linked to a professional museum quality printing lab that offers prints, framed prints, display print items, cards, and more. We can evaluate your space where your images will live and come up with a solution on frames and items that are the perfect fit.

What if our session needs to be canceled or rescheduled?

No problem! I totally understand that sometimes someone gets sick or the weather puts a damper on our outdoor session. I connect with my clients the days leading up to our time together and check in on everyones health and the pending weather. If there is an issue, we will simply reschedule the session to a date and time that works for us both. Your session deposit fee is non-refundable. If possible, please notify me to reschedule within at least 48 hours prior to your session, for any reasons outside of health and weather.

 

What time of day should our session be?

I usually like to schedule family sessions that involve young ones in the earlier part of the day, when the little ones are at their best. That’s really when we all are at our bests, right? But, you gotta love that low light warm sun glow nearing sunset. There are pros and cons, and I evaluate this session by session.