In August I took a trip down to SoCal to visit some friends and while there I was able to do two family photo shoots.

The first one I'm sharing is with my lovely work-wife friend, Kerri. We met while we were doing marketing a few years ago and became instant friends. We had always joked we were work wives because we'd spend about 12 hours together and I consider her one of my closest friends.

When she became a mom, it was so exciting! We got to celebrate from when she found out, a baby shower, a maternity photo shoot and celebrating the birth of her daughter, Eisley. Kerri is a fantastic friend, loving and caring wife, and an amazing mother.

It was fantastic when we figured out we could do a family shoot while I was there, I was super excited to be able to get spend time with my friend, her family and capture them all.

Eisley is my little buddy and such a funny and charismatic person. She is well loved from both her parents and it shows through the lens.

We took these photos at the same park we had Kerr's baby shower at and where I shot her maternity photos. All great memories.

Enjoy!

P.S. Please check out Kerri's blog in the above link. I love reading about her daily life and what trying out her craft projects.

In the first weekend of April my friends and I attended two music shows back to back and it was really exciting! On Saturday, we saw CunninLynguists in Santa Cruz at the Catalyst, which is a really great venue. It doesn't look that large on the outside, but inside there are two separated areas for shows and we were in the larger venue.

I enjoyed how the venue was set up, because you could either be downstairs in the thick of the crowd, or hang out upstairs on the balcony and be able to see everyone. This allowed for a great vantage point of photography.

CunninLynguists has been a recent discovery music wise, and they're great live and they kept the crowd going during their entire set.

On Sunday, we saw ZZ Ward, who is AMAZING. Pandora played her music a few times and I downloaded her album and every song is worthy of playing over and over. So when I found out she was coming to the Bay Area, I was really excited. The show was at the Independent in San Francisco and it's such a great place. If you have a chance, check out either venue for shows. It's more intimate and you can really feel the music.

I used the Fujix100s camera, which is really great in low light, another reason why I really wanted the camera. I was also able to take some HD videos of the show.