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Planning holiday family photos in Monterey? Winter sunset times, the best beaches, what to wear, and how to plan a session around a holiday visit.
Some sessions go exactly to plan. The best ones give you something better. The Kim family met me at Garrapata State Park, on the northern edge of Big Sur, for a sunset family session, and the coast gave us two sessions in one: soft, moody fog to start, then warm golden light by sunset. Mom, […]
Being a Pacific Grove proposal photographer means some of my favorite afternoons start with a secret. This one was Joe’s. He picked Asilomar because he and Peyton had ridden bikes along this stretch of coast years ago, and he wanted to ask her somewhere that already belonged to the two of them. On Friday he […]
A vacation-week family session at Pajaro Dunes, booked by the daughter so all seven of them would finally be in the same photo.
Every August my inbox starts filling up with some version of the same question. “Is it too early to be thinking about fall photos?” It’s not too early. August is just about the perfect time to start planning fall family photos on the Monterey Peninsula, and I want to walk you through why, because the […]
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