I had grandiose ideas of shooting pictures on our vacation to san francisco and as per usual, i fell short of documenting it. Two kids will do that to you. Here are a few I did take though, all was not lost!! I went with b&w, which is pretty unusual for me, but I am so happy I did!
Thanks for looking!
Contax G2 | 45 2.0 + Kodak BW400CN
I love new, soon to be parents!! So full of excitement – I can remember that feeling like it was yesterday! I had the pleasure of meeting up with Bria and James and their first baby, Tucker, down in Newport a few weeks back, they were so sweet and I am so excited that I get to photograph their baby boy in just a few weeks!!
Tucker was much more interested in the squirrels and birds and waves and other dogs than he was me (i don’t blame him) but I did get his attention for a few seconds! Going to pat myself on the back for these as that is MAUNAL focus!
Little costume change!! Adore Bria’s flowered dress!!
Techie Info | Mamiya 645 AF + 80 1.9 | Portra 160
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FANTASTIC session, Tory! I adore how happy and excited they both look in these!
Bria is my niece! These pictures of her and James (and Tucker) are amazing! Beautiful work of a beautiful mommy to be!!
These are fabulous Tory! She is one pretty prego and yes, how about a couple more pats for manually getting that little guy in focus! woot woot!
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of photographing this new family. Baby G and his mommies. He was a doll baby and even at 10+ lbs curled right into position for me and all his little newborn details, not helping the baby fever!! A new favorite session to date!! Enjoy!
Thank you so much for allowing me to capture this time for you!!
Enjoy!!
xo
Tory
Techie info: Mamiya 645AF + 80 1.9 |
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These are just gorgeous–love this session!
I lallalloooovee these! Great job Victoria, he is a beauty and they are a gorgeous family.
GORGEOUS! Gabe’s giving Ian a run for his cute money. He is so perfect, and you are both GLOWING. Sending oodles and oodles of love.
Beautiful photos of a beautiful family! Great work!
Great job, Tory! You really captured them!
Great images… Love the color and crispness too!! Beautiful
These pictures are the most beautiful baby pictures I’ve ever seen. What a beautiful family.
LOVE these pics of little Gabe. Nice work!
Beautiful. Such love. Such devotion.
Oh my gosh, I absolutely love the pics of this sweet little baby all curled up like a little lima bean! So so sweet!
What a little pretty boy — and such a beautiful family!
So I don’t know if some of you know or not but I run another blog with a photographer friend of mine, Wendy Laurel (she’s AMAZING and lives in one of my favorite places, Maui, HI). It’s called Let the Kids Dress Themselves and is a blog devoted to creative HONEST photography, we are geared towards the photographer, as well as, people looking to see what REALLY good portrait photography should look like.
Earlier this week I ran a post called Ok with the imperfect and since it really summed up what I am all about I thought it would be a good thing to share here too, since well…..you’re the people that are going to hopefully hire me to take your family pictures and it is important that we are on the same page – a good fit so to speak! It is important that you as a consumer are on the same page as your photographer, whether that be myself OR anyone else….the last thing you want to do is open the yellow pages and blindly choose, these are your memories you’re dealing with.
For me, my favorite images that make my heart sing….are usually the imperfect (but in a sense perfect) shots. This is what I want to print on canvas and display……because it represents a snippet in time. Of course your gallery will include all sorts of perfectly posed images from me too…everyone smiling at the camera…but as an artist what I really want to give you, what I want you to get out of our session is a blink in time, a piece of art. AND, most of the time, for me, these are the “imperfect” shots on the roll.
Here are a few from my last few personal rolls.
In my hearts of hearts I hope you agree and will hire me to be your family photographer, to capture your moments….but if I am not what you are looking for I urge you to find a photographer that you connect with, not just a random person in the yellow pages.
xo
Tory
Techie info: Mix of Ektar 100 . Fuji 400h . Portra 800 | Contax G2 + Mamiya 645
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I love your perfectly imperfect shots. Don’t change a thing. You are awesome!
This is pretty much us everyday. From the time they wake up, to the time the sun goes down, all they want to do is ride their scooters up and down our sidewalk.
Pierce goes super fast and his sister tries her hardest to catch up…one day she will.
Mamiya 645 AFD + 80 1.9 | Testing out some Fuji Reala for the first time |
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I love it. The b&w give the feel of kinda chilly/edge that IS san fran. Love love that one of your three. xo