The series of events that led me to photograph one of the funnest Santa Cruz Family Sessions I have ever had! One of my clients, and biggest supporters, gifted her favorite, closest relative, and only brother a Family Session as a Christmas gift. Her brother and his nuclear family had a tradition of renting a […]

Blessed to have had repeating clients year after year, since I started my business back in 2011. Yet, this creates a challenge for me. How can I push myself creatively to bring my clients something different? In this particular case, I came to photograph one of my favorite families ever. I am mostly in love […]

Family photography is an art which value only increases with time. I haven’t yet come across with anyone that has regretted getting family pictures. Here are some reason this is a fact. First of all, families grow (as in with more family members); or grow apart, yet there is that unity of what was that […]

Elena is graduating in the most challenging year you could ever wish to graduate.  Pandemic, politics, uncertainty, global climate change, and so many other challenges that will leave this generation; perhaps, being the most resilient generation ever to go into the real world; which today is still partly partly virtual world.   The year 2021 was […]

I was trying to capture the essence of what a full custom sessions looks like photographing this beautiful family of six. These type of sessions are the ones where I have time for creative freedom. First of all, I trust and faith that the universe put this family in my path for a reason. With […]

This year has rattle us like no other. Some of us can’t even begin to comprehend the impact “this” has had in some many families. But with challenges come new beginnings; new opportunities; and the making of new memories. In the middle of packing and moving out of state; this family of 4, including a […]

Photographing this family during one of the most challenging times our generation has experienced:  a global pandemic; and historic large California fires,  makes me appreciates my clients more than any other time in my 8 years in business. It fills me with joy; it makes me grateful; and it gives me purpose; which research shows […]

This is the story about  time in our lives where I could no longer hug my clients when I first met them for a session. About a time when I had to pull my rarely used long lens to take pictures of them. It was also the time when I couldn’t greet them with my […]

Fine Art Portraying 2020 Quarantine Feelings was the idea behind this personal session. No words to express how my heart races when I see these pictures. Quarantined for 3 weeks, and these boys teach me day after day how to be a better person: their emotional IQ is high, and I am not sure if […]

I get asked a lot whether I do weddings or no. I mostly market my family photography. But to answer your questions, yes, I do photograph intimate weddings. The ones that are small family affairs, where you are present to celebrate your love. I find quite often we get lost in the big business that […]