Long Beach + Seal Beach Bridal Session

You've been drafting your wedding day schedule and have come to realize you just can't squeeze in as much time as you'd like for portraits.  Or, perhaps you've already had your wedding, only to discover you didn't capture as many portraits as you had hoped for.  Consider a bridal session as a solution to both of these scenarios.

A bridal session-- scheduled either on a day before your wedding or on a day after -- allows for a scalable window of time of your choosing, free of the limitations of a tight wedding day schedule.   No worries about missing your whole cocktail hour.  No clock watching or pressures from family and friends. And no constraints on location -- it's often a challenge for couples to stray very far from their wedding venue to take pictures.  Or, though your venue may make for a functional wedding, it may not offer all the surroundings you've always imagined for your wedding day photographs.  A bridal session has no such restrictions on location.

 

 

This session lasted about three hours, and spanned from El Dorado Nature Center & Park in Long Beach, down to the community of Seal Beach. Praise to this couple for keeping such high energy levels and for being such naturals in front of the camera!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seal Beach Family Session

I'm learning a lot from our newborn.

That it's okay to make silly faces.  That it's okay to talk in funny voices.  That it's okay to be a clown to earn a smile.

Come to think of it, I was okay with doing all of the above before we had our little girl, as evidenced here in this family shoot with Alejandra, Julian, and their beautiful daughter.   See all those beautiful smiles?  I cashed in a lot of goofy faces to earn those smiles -- her mom and dad, too.   And it was all worth it.  This session was a couple weeks prior to the delivery of our own daughter, and our baby girl was definitely on my mind while photographing Alejandra, Julian, and their toddler that late afternoon in Seal Beach.

Alejandra and Julian have become more than clients.  I originally met them back in 2009 when I had the pleasure of being both their engagement and wedding photographer.  I was so happy to hear about the arrival of their daughter, and even more elated to continue a tradition of documenting their family story.  They've been extremely thoughtful to my wife & I as we start our own family, so my hope is these pictures will be something they can treasure for years to come.  Like a wine, I really do believe pictures become more valuable with age.  Go back 10 years, or even as little as 5, and look at the pictures you took then.  It's amazing how fast things change, and you'll be so thankful you have them.

By the way -- that red trolley car in the photos is decommissioned.  It's resting on a faux track in a tiny park.   No kids on real railroad tracks, okay? :)

More weddings and portrait sessions to come...