Gorgeous sisters – this was such a fun session! Both are graduates of Palos Verdes High School, Christine is studying English and creative writing at University of California, Berkeley and Haley is working locally for Guess after graduating from Santa Clara University just recently. We shot these just wandering around Palos Verdes Estates on a finally sunny afternoon a week or so ago.
July 22, 2010 - 1:13 pm - Dear Lisa, The photos of the girls are so beautiful!!! I can't wait to see more. You are so talented. I look forward to meeting you soon. I am leaving for Berkeley tomorrow to see my brother who is very ill. I'll be gone afew days and then I'm hoping to get together to select my photos...Blessings, Maureen
July 22, 2010 - 1:54 pm - Awesome photos!!!! Of course, when you have two beautiful women to start of with, how could you go wrong. The photos totally captured the personality, and inner beauty, of Christine and Haley. I enjoyed the variety of viewing black & white, and color, as well as the different settings. I would be interested in having my own family captured in the same way. Very nice.
July 23, 2010 - 10:33 pm - Love these photos, especially the black and whites! The sisters' contrasting coloring really looks beautiful too. You have a talent with the older kids as well as the young ones.
Black and Khaki for summer… casual and classic.
Traditional colors that have been worn for photos for years and years, right?
But why not add some fun and a little attitude to this traditional color combination?
Do it for the whole family but mix it up with patterns and textures.
This avoids that matchy matchy look, but still looks amazing and pulled together.
You notice I have the mom dressed head to toe in a similar tone?
This is a very slimming look and I know us moms always want to look our slimiest in pictures, don’t we!
Have some fun with your family photos shoots this summer, play with your color combinations.
I made my Dad the best present for Father’s Day this year. 
I finally got around to make a great book of our trip to the Dominican Republic last year. It was 60 pages full of fun snapshots and memories. He absolutely loved it, and said it was the best gift we had ever given him. Photo books make a terrific gift and preserve your memories forever – plus, you don’t have to figure out where to put them on your walls!
July 25, 2010 - 11:40 am - fabulous! how do we make one of these? do you create these for clients using their own pictures, as well?
Sarah’s mom won the highest bid for a photo session with me at the Soleado Elementary School silent auction last fall – we have been trying to make this session happen for a while! Well worth the wait – Sarah was an absolute delight! She was so fun to photograph. So smart too… she speaks three languages!
July 7, 2010 - 8:24 am - Love these. I especially like the one with the back lighting. Beautiful girl and beautiful photos.
A cloudy Manhattan Beach morning… swingtime!!! Jack was a fan.
July 2, 2010 - 12:54 pm - these are fantastic! love how crisp the pictures are! (ps- did you know that you and i are related?!) ---> love having another photographer in the family!
July 3, 2010 - 2:05 am - Gorgeous! What a cutie!
One of my favorite little guys… Isn’t he yummy? This little baby wants me want to have another one. He has gotten so big! I could post so many more favorites, but I keeping this short and sweet so I can keep catching up on all my sessions lately!
He was so tired, but I got one last smile before he settled down for a nap.
July 2, 2010 - 11:53 am - That first image is adorable!!!
July 4, 2010 - 12:05 pm - What BEAUTIFUL eyes! You did a fabulous job with the catchlights. Love it!!!
So much fun! This was a surprise for Dad for Father’s Day – I felt like a stalker waiting for his car to pull out of the driveway so I could go in. Kai played the piano for me, ran around the yard, cuddled with Mom a bit, played with bubbles, and I got lots of great images. Baby Zaia was incredibly good – although she was really awake for most of it, she was good natured and happy. I seriously can’t even believe that she was born recently – her Mom looked absolutely amazing!
Ian just graduated from Palos Verdes High School, and is headed to the University of California, Berkeley in the fall. He is currently enjoying an awesome trip to Europe – I am very jealous that he is having a great time in Germany right now! Don’t you think he is a ringer for Chris Pine from the Star Trek movie?
June 30, 2010 - 7:37 am - Cutie!
June 30, 2010 - 11:31 am - Gorgeous! I'll bet he's breaking hearts all over Europe!
June 30, 2010 - 7:21 pm - Amazing how you capture his personality in every photo! Love the video and music too!
June 30, 2010 - 8:18 pm - Fantastic job on these my friend. I LOVE that black and white!
Where to start on this family? They are just amazing. Nastya and Kristina were recently adopted from the Ukraine, and this session took place 5 days after their arrival. They don’t speak much English yet, but their mom is home schooling them until they can start school in September. I never realized how much I talk when I photograph! I had to gesture a lot to make sure they understood what I was saying. To say that their adoption was a long process would be an understatement! They joined a big loving family here – new twin sisters and younger brother, plus two older brothers who couldn’t be there that day. We had a great time hanging out and playing. I was so honored to be able to capture images of this incredible week adding two new daughters to the family.
I wish I looked this cute at 11 and 12!!!
Gabriel wasn’t sure he wanted to share the attention with all the girls…
That’s OK – they didn’t want to sit with him anyway. I love that you can see Sara in the background after she ran away!
I adore these two images of the twins!
A favorite of Kristina and Sara!
I finally figured out that this one is of Isabel due to the difference in ponytail colors, thank goodness.
June 23, 2010 - 8:52 am - Oh, these are so awesome! I love them!! One of my favorites is Gabriel hugging Sara, and of course I love the attitude of the twins by the fountain. And of course my older girls came out great- they LOVE to pose! So many great shots! Can't wait to view the slideshow!!
June 27, 2010 - 10:02 am - love the tutu and chalk pic....soooo cute!!
Here’s to the first day of summer! What are you doing this summer? Each June my kids write a list of their summer desires, and then we get some days scheduled to make sure we actually manage to cross some things off the list. Some are really easy, some require a little bit of planning on my part. This is part of the wish list so far…
Two favorite images of the kids from past summers…
by Lisa Roah
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