more leah

leah drew

went back east this weekend to meet leah! what a precious baby. perfect in every way, especially how you just lay her down when it's nap time and she falls asleep. amazing.

i wasn't able to finish her pajamas in time since the hours before my flight while i was trying to finish the sewing, i broke the needle! i was in too much of a rush to take a photo, but it would have been a nice addition to the blog. now it will be more difficult to have motivation to get it finished since i have all these photos of her to do. more coming, obviously.

new camera and lens

i decided to upgrade my camera to the 40D now that the 50D is around to keep the price down. i really do need two cameras for the upcoming weddings i'm photographing, so i'm keeping the 20D too. i also realized for the weddings i need a macro lens for those close up details. thanks to my amazon.com credit card, i got a good deal on the lens and it arrived yesterday. can't wait to start using it!

sunday night photo shoot

my friend jennie asked me to stop by last night to take photos of a group of her friends who have dinner together every sunday night. they've been doing it for four years now and three of them will soon be moving away from san francisco (because they're crazy?? who leaves here??)

here's my early favorite from the photo shoot. once i have time to go through them properly i'm sure i'll have others. i mean, we did a jumping one! (of course) so there are photos that are more fun than this. but there is definitely something great about a group photo where every person has their eyes open and looks great...

beautiful babies of sausilito

on sunday evening, larissa's friend helena invited us to a house she'd been staying at in sausilito. i brought my camera and couldn't help taking photos of the adorable kids who were there.

the light was amazing and all 3 kids were natural models, just staring at the camera with their big blue eyes. ryder, larissa's friends stacey and adam's son, is 5 months and the twin boys, julian and kellen, are 20 months. i've been trying to do portraits where the eyes look like this and haven't been able to really pull it off until these photos. i think it was a combination of the color of their eyes and the amazing light that was there. plus, also maybe a little photoshop :)

owen pics posted

here. password is "andreachristine" until i can go home and change it to not have a password. work blocks smugmug! so frustrating.

here are some of my faves from the rest of the photos.

happy birthday carrie!

was in LA this weekend celebrating carrie's 30th... so fun!

here's a favorite photo from the weekend:



i'm excited to start a new project for baby leah tonight. i hope i can get it finished in the next 17 days before i see her!!