It's the new year!

WEll actually is one hour and twenty eight minutes into the new year! :) I hung out with family and my kids tonight. We played games and danced to The Wii with the new Michael Jackson Dance game. I am pretty good, but I have to admit that my 9 year old son kicked my trash....well everyones trash even my daughters who takes dance. It was a ton of fun!

I have no resolutions for the new year! yep, that is right. I am struggling with this inside of me, even as I write it. This is not something I have ever done. I usually break my life up into sections and set goals or resolutions for each one. But as I feel I want to get centered I am just focusing on what I do daily, putting God first, My family second, and taking everything else in Stride! (thats not a resolution as much as it is a motto!) and it does sound like Mary Kay! HAHA! but it's good.

I actually am so much of a planner and list maker that I have about 4 different calendars and then a master calendar.... ahhh yes! I am a it of a control freak! And I am o.k. with that.

This weekend I am shooting an engagement in San Francisco and getting away for the night their with my hubby! So excited, I ADORE him! And I ADORE engagement sessions!

It's time to slow down a little and hug those you love and enjoy the time you have with them.

I wish everyone a new year filled with adventure! I say that because it seems like life is always throwing me a curve ball and I have to readjust my game. I am sure it is the same with all of you.... but as they say on the cartoon UP.

"ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!"

My littlest {batman} and his best friend and side kick {robin}

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! THANK YOU TO ALL MY CLIENTS WHO I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING THIS YEAR AND TO ALL THOSE NEW FRIENDS I GET TO MEET IN 2011!!! LET'S MAKE IT ROCK.

Rock that OCF!

A few weeks ago I went to Rock that OCF with Ali Hon. It was really fun! I was so hoping for some of those great sunset shots I always see of hers, but unfortunately it rained!! seriously can you believe it rained that weekend? It hardly EVER rains here!... Oh well! It still turned out great and I met a ton of new friends and got to shoot some stuff in the studio.

here are some of the images I took.

It feels like fall and I'm LOVIN it!

I just took a trip....

...down memory lane! I have not been to my old photography blog for a long time. It is about 3 years old! It had a different name and a different me! LittleKiwis Photography It was really weird to look at it. I am amazed at how far I have come. As I was looking back I was cringing at my focus, editing, posing lighting, exposure.... well the list goes on and on (LOL!!). But I was having so much FUN!! I still am and I am still loving photography, it has been so good for me. I have met so many great people and developed a skill and talent that is really fulfilling.

I am wrapping up a very busy season and so grateful for all the wonderful clients/friends I get to meet. I wish I could call it work.... but it's totally me time.

What I love about photography

*capturing pure love, joy, emotion...

*meeting great people.

*getting results out of my pictures I never thought I could do.

*learning

*creating

*finding great locations

*light

*beauty

I hope you have a happy Saturday! I am doing Rock that OCF with Ali Hon this weekend and I am excited to share some of what I learned and created. YAY!!!

Maiden Voyage of my new couch!

I have been looking for a beautiful vibrant victorian style couch for my sessions. I love antique furniture anyway. I found this beauty at the Salt Seller just by chance! It was under a ton of stuff in a store that is more thrift shop than antique shop, but there it was.... and now it's MINE!!

Another image from last night! I am so Jealous of this beauties exotic look!

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I want this desk!!! really, really, really, bad!! it lives in New Jearsey....but it's new home may be California shortly.

I was totally inspired. . .

When I went to the workshop in March, and then again when I got together with some of my photography friends where, discussed direction in photography and shared some ideas about things we are learning. It never ceases to amaze me how amazing all the artisistic people are that share this photography community. Truly amazing people! I myself have a continued flow of ideas come out of me that I can not even possibly get done with out a babysitter, house keeper, and personal driver! Take this blog for instance. It is totally LAME and unsinpiring. . . . blah. And only because I am in the process of recreating another blog and website that will better display my vision. So it will be AWSOME soon! And I also apologize for the lack of posting. I will do better.

This weekend I am shooting a wedding in Tahoe on the beach and I also have about 5 sessions that still should be blogged!

And I still have NOT posted anything about the NICHOLE VAN WORKSHOP. . . .

so here they are right now.

Nichole was amazing, she was nice friendly and totally real. Every detail of the workshop was planned out from the AMAZING FOOD to the tiny button flowers and magnets she made for the workshop book & name tags!!! {details make me happy!!!}

I also met an amazing group of women.

The day Nichole taught us lighting techniques, we shot with some beautiful models who were troopers!!! we shot till dark and I got so many amazing images.

here are just a few.

This was shot with two alien bees of camera lighting triggered by a pocket wizard attached to my camera. So amazing to get that sunburst and exposure perfect for the back ground and have my subject perfectly lighted. This shot is almost SOOC!!! just a little color boost.

natural light

natural light

natural light

alien bees

natural light

this one is with someone holding my external flash off to the side with a remote trigger attached to my camera and to my flash.

(can you believe she can jump like that....in HEELS??!!!

I was so excited about the things I learned and get to implement into my photography. I have even seen a big change in my sessions since I have been home.

Thanks for looking, have a wonderful weekend! ~ K

I know you wanna know. . . .

What I am working on?. . . .

This.. Beautiful session

And this. . . . new logo/branding/blog/website

And this. . . images from Nichole Van workshop

Promise more to come soon and some details about the workshop....

some more sessions.....

unveiling of my new stuff....

ANNNNNDDDDDD....... a giveaway you will not want to miss!!!!

My heart....

My Kids

September is lovely...

Apple cider
Apple Butter
Apple dohnuts
Caramel apples
honey sticks
Harvest
Beginning of fall...

LOVELY!

Alter Ego?

Hi guys!

Did you see the Americas next top model/ or real houswives of Atlanta, where they did the alter ego photoshoots? If you have not, I will tell you what it is. So you think of yourself and who you are... like for instance I would be conservative, christian, crafty, soccer mom, {kinda boring to some... but I do love my life!} anyway so my alter ego per say would be a high class fashionable/sexy/no kid/ powerful executive. And In my alter ego shoot I would dress both parts and do two shoots that are merged in a final image....

Very cool!

One of my clients is working on one of these, I hopefully will be shooting this session in a month or so with her and 4 of her friends.. it should be a blast and test my photography skills. Just so you can get an idea of what I am talking about you can see the images by Derek Blanks who specializes in these, he does an amazing job! I just hope my photoshop skills are up for the challenge.


So tell me... WHO IS YOUR ALTER EGO?....

Kaden {Lincoln, Ca. newborn photographer}

Oh how I LOVE new borns! I was so happy to get my hands on a tiny little guy to photograph! He did NOT want to cooperate, but with a little patience we captured a few...here are some to ejoy.. have a great day! :)

{can you see me in his eyes!!!!} ?

Sundance ski resort in Utah

This fourth of July we went on a trip to Utah. We always love to visit the mountains while we are there. The mountains in Cali. Just are not the same. Sundance is one of our favorite places. They have the best 5 star restaurant called the Tree Room. My Husbands brother was a chef there and we have had the pleasure of dining there more than once! It is also a ski resort in the winter and in the summer hiking and mountain biking and outside theatre. It was created by Robert Redford and origin home of the Sundace film festival... We took the kids for a little visit. Enjoy some of the pics!

Personality flaws

This beauty is my oldest daughter, I came across this today as I was giong through my vacation photos so I was thinking today about myself, and my personality flaws.

It occured to me that my children help me see the things I want to change.

It's funny when you hear your kids talk to each other and they are not talking nice, and it occurs to you "oh my goodness, that sounds just like ME!" This daughter of mine is an angel, she has been a ray of light since the day she was born, she is a beauty inside and out. She helps me be a better person, a better mom, a better woman. All my kids do, but as my only daughter I want to set a better example than what I had. I want her to be strong, I want her to be kind, I want her to make choices that will bless her life. I know those are things we all want. But sometimes I wonder what things she will hate about me, what things will I mess up on When I yell, and I am not patient and I criticize...I catch myself and think, "dang! I should be better" but it is hard and I find that one of my personality flaws is that I tend to talk harshly
even when I do not mean to. I guess I have been been putting myself under a microscope lately, Who is this person...I have changed so much in the last 10 years, sometimes I am not even sure
Just a little about me ~K

My Computer is getting all the buggs worked out! So I will be off line for a few days. Sheesh between vacation and this I feel like I am missing my bloggy friends...

I'll be back. :)

Check out my family pics!

Check it out!

while we were in Utah visiting family and friends, I had my dear friend and favorite photographer Jess Bishop take our family pics. Jess has been taking pictures for me since my daughter was born. Anyone who lives in Utah....Go see Jess. she is amazing!

here are a few, you can see more on her blog....

Photography by Jess

are my kids ADORABLE or what!!!!!