For love... { bay area photography }

i tried out animoto it’s very easy but i still have a few kinks to work out.  i’m going to put it up on this, let’s see if it works…

our feet in the sand... { family portraiture }

every year we go to maui for a dental class my husband bruce takes. we go with aly, corbin, quinn and jack (you’ll hear more of them later…) each year we make more new friends. this year i had the pleasure of photographing our new friends the Helds. suuuuper cool people from Canada.

i always say… you can never have too many dental friends….

Happy Holiday Wishes { tiffany fong photography }

My Tristan (orange) Trevor and sweet Maya.

now I lay me down to sleep...

Okay… so this is a promotion I’m running that benefits an organization that I hope I will be a bigger part of soon. NILMDTS (Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep) Photographers from around the country participate in helping families to ease their suffering and heal by taking beautiful portraits of their newborn when they have passed away or were stillborn. Sounds horrible, but being a Mom who lived through 2 miscarriages, I can see an amazing benefit to providing photographs of their babies to keep and remember.

My first of many

Well this is my first at hopefully many thought provoking entries. It seems my double 4’s are serving me well… This 44th year is bringing on new and great new changes. The doors have opened and unleashed a new season of ideas. I’m hoping to be able to share my stories of colors, experience, personalities and growth based on inspiration that’s coming and filling me with so much love that there’s nothing more to do than to share it.

Things started changing inside me a few years back. The kids had gotten older, my husband’s business busier, and life for me lost some luster. I found myself really quite lost. I mulled around in it for awhile, hoping, as many do, that someone would fix it all for me. Alas, no one did… thank God… I learned what I want from experiencing what I didn’t want. One morning I sat on the warm cobblestone in the center of piazza San Piedro (St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican) and helped random people take their -essential self portraits in front of Michealangelo’s greatest architectual achievement. I was sitting there by myself when something in my head remembered. Things changed that morning in Rome, I knew there was a long forgotten part of me that resurfaced and there was no going back.

So now I make portraits. I see people and love getting into their heads, getting to know who they are and what makes their inner being sparkle. Then capturing a moment, time stops, and it just feels right. Then, seeing what the camera captured for me, is like opening the prettiest gift with a perfect bow. I work with each image and all of this, from beginning to end, is like velvet. I don’t know how I could ever- not -do this.