WAY beyond adorable photos with one of my best clients. Thanks Kim for all the fun details you brought into this shoot!

TAGS: Easter Kids Photos, Chicks and Baby Ducks, Colorful Kids & Children Photography, Spring in Santa Ynez, Cute Kids photos, Santa Ynez Kids Photography, Vintage photo props, Old Crates, Cute Kids

My sweet baby boy...seven months old.

TAGS: santa barbara baby photography, kids portraiture, journalistic children's photographer, santa barbara family photographer, baby photos, Film photographer, Contax 645, Kodak Color Film

It's been such a fun week with three of our weddings up on beautiful blogs this week! These are all weddings I've been waiting to blog and share so they are being shown in full for the first time online! So exciting! Thank you so much to Southern Weddings, Project Wedding and Junebug Weddings! I am grateful to have these beautiful events shared on your sites!

Sarah & Dan: Colorful Barn Wedding in Santa Ynez - Southern Weddings

Marbella & Frank: Luxe Elegance at The Four Seasons Resort, The Biltmore in Santa Barbara & Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club - Project Wedding

Hylah & Justin: Old-California Spanish Style Wedding in San Luis Obispo - What Junebug Loves

Often I get asked who I like to work with for hair and makeup styling on weddings and I am so quick to answer...Jessi Skipton from Bluebird Salon in SLO. Love her! She also cuts and colors my hair and does my boys' haircuts too! She is talented in many ways but I think her specialty is this beautiful vintage look. It's classic and romantic. Perfection.

This is my beautiful friend Shelly, who is also a photographer (http://www.shellyvinson.com). She had the sweetest little elopement wedding a couple of weeks ago and I was very excited to capture this very special day for her and Chris. :) :) :) Love.

If you would like to see more examples of Jessi's work please email me and I am happy to send you some links to multiple weddings and shoots we've worked together on. She is working on building herself a website but till then she stays busy from word-of-mouth referrals on her amazing reputation alone!

This is Cash's favorite little buddy, Sena, who just turned two! My good friend Lisa and I met up this week at one of the funnest family outings on the central coast, the Avila Valley Barn. I am so excited they are open again for the season. They shut down over the winter and I have to think of as many distractions as possible to hold Cash off while he keeps asking to go to the "Chickie-Baa's" (his word for Avila Barn which means Chickens and Sheep!). So cute. Lisa and I intend to make these guys little buddies for life and now Cash has to compete for attention with his little brother Rider! I guess they will have to learn to share her. :) :) :)

"Ewe! Mommy...Sena Kissed me!"this one Cash is saying "Sena NO push me!" 

Ben joined us at the end and Lisa was sweet enough to take these last two for us. I love my boys.

Hop on over to the new and improved site of the Central Coast Wedding Standard and see our featured interview photographed by the wonderful, sweet and talented Cameron Ingalls! If you're a past client please take a moment to leave a comment or review for us!

Our little sweet pea is almost 6 months old! I tell myself every day to just soak it all in for what I can because he won't be a baby much longer! I love his big smile!

One of my alltime favorite wedding and family clients, Piper, has started her own blog! Check it out!

Tags: Coconut & Bean Style blog, family & style blog, family photos

Rachelle and Tommy's wedding is featured today on The Wedding Standard! Click on the preview to view and read the full post:

Big thanks to all of the very talented vendors we worked with!

| Venue: Pri­vate Res­i­dence | Event Plan­ning & Design: Fancy’s Event Ser­vices | Flo­rals: Jenny Mcniece | Caterer: Cow­boy Fla­vor | Cake: Solvang Bak­ery |  Cer­e­mony Music: Jonathan Sor­bello | DJ: DJ Bob | Recep­tion Music: JD Project | Makeup: Bladerun­ner Salon | Hair­styl­ist: Melanie Mul­vaney | Dress: Wat­ters| Dress Shop: The White Dress | Shoes: Bad­g­ley Mis­chka | Brides­maid Dresses: JCrew | Groom Attire: A Heart’s Desire| Invi­ta­tions: Cit­rus Press |

We celebrated the big 3-0 this weekend. My husband absolutely outdid himself with an amazing surprise party on Saturday and then a day away from the kiddos yesterday driving down backroads in search for pretty photos ops. I got caught trespassing for this first photo by a CHP plane and so to say the least the weekend was far from uneventful. ;) I think it was worth it...

We had some film left over from the party and decided to put it to good use for some landscapes. I believe Ben acquired this new b&w test polaroid film from amazon. It's touchy but I think it makes the outcome even better not knowing how it's going to react in the processing. The beauty is truly in it's imperfections. 

and a quick polaroid from the party...

TAGS: polaroid fine art landscape photos, impossible project, black & white polaroids

Carla Jacobsen of Special Occasions designed this photo session at the Doll Pond Wedding Garden & Vineyard with the help of her lovely partner Kristi and the ever talented Renae's Bouquet. Jessi Skipton provided the hair & makeup styling for our wonderful couple here in the photos. I really enjoyed working once again with this talented team of women!

Vendor Credits: Coordination and Design by Special Occasions, Floral by Renae's Bouquet, Jessi Skipton (makeup & hair), Doll Pond Wedding Garden & Vineyard

TAGS: Santa Ynez Vineyard Wedding, Santa Ynez Wedding Photographer, Santa Ynez Wedding Venue

Thank you so much to the talented Gina Jones of Lola Video for grabbing a few shots of me at work doing what i love.

Michelle Warren Photography Promo Family Shoot from lolavideo.net on Vimeo.

another absolutely beautiful evening on the central coast tonight...72 degrees in january, go figure...

TAGS: Beach Kids Photography, Santa Barbara Children's Portrait Photographer, Color sunset kids photos

life is good!

TAGS: santa barbara kids photography, kids portraiture, journalistic children's photographer, santa barbara family photographer, kids beach photos, fine art b&w kids portraiture, b&w kids photography