A few weeks ago, the Zamora’s came down from the Bay area to soak in the SoCal shine, but the day before their shoot, they brought the rain from NorCal. However when it cleared the day of their session, they brought the epic clouds that I wish would show up everytime I venture out with my camera. We met up in Coronado for the family portraits and amazingness ensued, enjoy.
Did a maternity session with my cousin Geraldine, her boyfriend Chris, his daughter Kayla and the dude in the belly Jordan. Since she’s my cousin, I had to enforce the “no nudity allowed” clause. Special thanks to Wilma of Lovely Jubilee for styling the shoot and Eugenia of Petit Plume for the hair accessories.
Yup, this is him, cute ain’t he?
I jokingly asked if I should write the blog post for our family photos as a “guest blogger” and Chaz responded with a sure, whatever. Ummmm, I think I was just kidding? But he must have known that I have no problem chatting away during any chance I get. So here I am. In Chaz’ studio listening to cool music that I’m not hip enough to know about on my own surrounded by beautiful pieces of art while I try to find the words to explain how pleased, no, how thrilled I am with the result of these photos. *deep breath*
Here’s the short version of us, the Flores family…my older brother and his wife moved to Hawaii about a year and a half ago and had a baby. We are all completely in love with said baby and longed for their visit to San Diego this year. Perfect timing for updated family portraits to include baby Eliana since she wasn’t around last year. We wanted the photos to be completely out of this world amazing so we can show Eliana when she’s older that we were in fact, pretty cool at one point. We wanted to stay away from anything traditional. With lots of color. Lots of laughs. And as much realness as possible. Enter, Mr. Chaz Cruz.
Enjoy!
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Marissa writes too much. Enjoy. – Chaz
The next two shots are taken by my amazing assistant, Mr. Kim Marcelo.
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At first glance I was about to say…Wow this is the most Chaz has ever written. Enter Marissa
This ain’t no regular family session! Love it! -
Best family photos ever. Great job team!
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Love these photos!!! that is SUCH a fun idea for a family shoot and they turned out AMAZING!
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Best family photos EVER! without a doubt. These are INCREDIBLE.
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I love this concept!
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I love this set. I can’t even put it into words. I can’t wait to show my girl friend. She’s going to want to do one of her own like this! lol
I traveled up to Dana Point for a family session with amazing wedding photographer Ashley Rose, her husband Jeff and their little dude named Crew (oh what, J + Crew! Ashley doesn’t work in this joke). We headed down to Salt Creek Beach and proceeded to get attacked by the sun, I think I did more crying than Crew did. But we had a blast and I am now witness to Crew’s famous blank camera stare which I so happily captured. Enjoy some of my favorites from the day.
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you are a master, Chaz. I LOVE the one of all of them laying down. Way to go!
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oh, chaz, i heart these! lots! shoot us next!
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I love this family! Crew is the cutest EVAR! Great job, Chaz.
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me next, me next!!! these are FAB Chaz!! i love you Ashley!!(and crew and jeff, although i’ve never met you, i love you too
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I SO LOVE THESE PICTURES, CHAZ. CREW IS MY FIRST GRANDCHILD AND YOU HAVE DONE A BEAUTIFUL JOB!!!!
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That camera stare is legendary!! Fab shoot!!
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beautiful! breathtaking, His little Changala friend can play with him next year!!
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That’s one tough, but cute, looking kid! Cute family. Love his face in the third one.
Before I get back into the mass engagement and wedding posts, I wanted to post a maternity session with one of my favorite wedding couples from last year, Katie and Nick. We started off their maternity session at their home, then went off to Torrey Pines State Beach to catch the San Diego sunset.
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Love the minimalistic style of the beach portraits!
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These are just stunning! Love love them.
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your work leaves me breathless. thank you so much for sharing.
I’ll be in Puerto Rico from May 5th through the 10th, so I’ll return all emails and calls when I return. Until then, here’s a pic of photographer James Law that I took a few days ago.
I hung out with Jen, Bucky and their son Liam in their neighborhood of Bernal Heights in San Francisco.
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i LOVE these.
“baby jordan / more than just a shoe” … HAHHAHAHHA love it!
How do you pull off those AMAZING silhouetted sunset shots every time?! incredible!