JaimeLee Photography: Family Portraits

Monday, November 29, 2010

Referral for a Family Shoot

I love when a client becomes a client because of a referral. I've been so grateful to all my family, friends and happy clients who have sent new client referrals to me, as it has really helped my business grow and flourish!

This family was referred to me by my brother-in-law, Andy. Andy is a builder/developer and Vivian is an architect. They recently worked on a project together here in San Francisco. When Andy learned that Vivian and her husband were looking for a family photographer, Andy told Vivian about me, gave her my website address and then, she emailed me.

Vivian and I corresponded weeks in advance of the photo shoot, setting a tentative date, but the city had received a lot of rain the day we had planned. So, we rescheduled and it turned out to be the day that Matt and I were to leave to go get married. Thankfully, we were leaving on a red eye that night and a morning shoot was perfect! I really wanted to make sure they had their photos done in time to send off their holiday cards to friends and family.

We met at the Presidio, where I met her husband and their very cute boys, McCall and Anderson. We took some shots there at the Presidio and then headed up to Golden Gate Park and went to Stow Lake where it was a bit warmer! Here are some of my favorite shots from this shoot. Thank you Andy for your kind referral and thank you Vivian for choosing me to be your family photographer!

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Friday, October 1, 2010

The Blakeslee Family :: Fabulously fun family photo shoot in Tacoma, Washington

I know Christen through her brother Hans, and I know Hans through my friend Amanda. Did you follow that? Christen and I are friends in real life and friends on Facebook. When I booked my trip to Washington, I advertised photo shoot specials and Christen responded that she wanted to do a family shoot. I had met her family a few times at church and maybe at their family Christmas parties briefly. I remember hearing from Amanda how Clara loved Hillsong Super Kids worship and had heard how the girls were growing up from Hans. But somewhere I missed that they had their son Titus in the last year and a half! Last week Christen called and began sharing with me what she was envisioning for the family shoot. I could hear the excitement and anticipation in her voice and I knew this was going to be a fun shoot! She also asked if we could change the photo shoot from Thursday to Wednesday due to the weather and of course I said yes. Boy was I soooooo happy that we changed the shoot to Wednesday, because it poured on Thursday!

Nathan and Christen came and picked me up in their SUV which was pulling a utility trailer filled with props.... yes, a UTILITY TRAILER! They had spent time scoping out locations of where they wanted their pictures to be taken. Over the next few hours, we went to all the locations and captured lots of different moments, candid and posed! The kids were fabulous and had so many ideas of different poses. They were such troopers too! This was a wonderful, fun shoot and I think I was like a kid in a candy shop... everything was perfect... the family, the weather, the locations, the props.

Thank you Christen and Nathan for letting me spend just a few hours with you and your lovely family to capture some joyous moments!

Clara thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of her making a heart with her fingers and having me take a picture with her parents in the middle of the heart. She's so creative!