Pam Biasotti Photography Blog

By the end of the month, my life is going to change completely. I will elaborate on that subject after July 29. I have been going through all sorts of highs and lows–denial actually–exhilaration–fear–anxiety–more exhilaration–self doubt. I think I need to have a cold beer.

Here are some more wedding shots from last weekend. I definitely need to keep my second shooter status, as I just don’t think I can make formals look exciting. It’s hard work to shoot a wedding. There are so many inspirational photographers out there that make it look so easy.

I don’t often add links to my blogroll but this is one blog I think should be bookmarked by anyone gracious enough to come by and visit my own blog. Just a few short weeks ago I stumbled across Matt, Liz and Madeline and was moved to tears in less than a minute. I sat there for what must have been at least 3 hours, reading every post, every comment, and stared at every picture. I cried a lot at first. But I also laughed out loud at Matt’s wit. Aside from the tragedy he and his family suffered he writes humorous tidbits at times that makes you smile for a second as you wipe the tears out of your eyes. Very raw emotion. Very real.  You see, Matt and Madeline lost Liz 27 hours after Madeline was born.

His blog is worth following. His journey is changing day by day as his little girl continues to grow and he continues to embrace the changes that he has had to endure without his wife, Liz. You might want to check him out and read through his blog to understand some of the photographs I have posted here.

Matt and his family were visiting the awesome Aunt Deb in the SF last weekend and graciously invited me to hang out with them for a bit. Every single person that was there had wonderful stories to share about Liz and Matt. The love they all have for Madeline is such a treasure. Such a loving, positive great group of people. It gave me a lot to think about in my own life. This is truly one of those times when you don’t sweat the small stuff because everything is the small stuff.

Here’s just a few images I wanted to share.

While Madeline napped, I was offered good food and drink. The Stellas were my present to Matt. I brought Madeline a little outfit.

When Madeline woke up, Matt introduced us. She’s as beautiful as her pictures on his blog. Her eyes are just like his.

This is my favorite image.

Matt asked me if I wanted to hold Madeline. Are you kidding? Absolutely! I gazed into her big blue eyes and she had no problem with a strange person holding her. I even had the pleasure of feeding her. She drank her bottle quietly while those piercing eyes stared back at me.

We lost the light and soon it was very dark. But we continued for awhile with flash. This is Liz’ mom and her sister. You can see where her big smile came from. Both truly lovely women. Dad isn’t pictured here but he was just as friendly and warm.

Lastly, I wanted to show one shot of Matt with his good friend Ken, “The Bastard”. I just report it the way it’s told to me.

Looking forward to meeting you again next time you are in the SF, Matt. You are doing a fantastic job.

Low key was ours. We didn’t fight the crowds to watch fireworks. Instead since we live in one of the few cities in that Bay Area that sell “legal” fireworks we bought an atrocious amount of them and entertained the kids for about 20 minutes.

We had some friends stop by for dinner, beer, dessert and pyromania.

All photos were shot at an outrageously high ISO of 2500 at some point. Whatever. My camera CAN HANDLE IT.

I didn’t photograph any hot dogs, flags, watermelon eating, picnic tables, sack races, egg tossing, water gun fights, yankee doodle dandy stuff. I just photographed “Safe and Sane” pyro sticks that made lots of smoke and trash to pick up this morning.

Have a fabulous 3 day weekend…I am off tonight to meet some special people that I hope to tell you about in the future and tomorrow it’s a day of photographing dogs.

In the immortal words of Beavis…”FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!”

You really can’t see it here below, but Kyle got a bad @##$# buzz cut last week that I can save for another story because it all happened at a party and I never thought we would leave it with him “buzzed”. I saved $20 and was thrilled. I dig Dante’s new sneakers. When they don’t wear velcro on their shoes they seem so grown up.

It took miss J awhile to come forward with holding one of these. Finally she got up the courage and was sparkling like a champ.

Happy 5th of July!

Oh I forgot to add. Someone from the next street over shot this bizarre parachute firework thing (it was a flare!) that was a big red glow in the sky and it slowly started heading toward my street. It looked like it was about to land on my next door neighbor’s car but instead it settled in a tree in the front yard. The darn thing was still glowing and full of combustible crap and I ran over to make sure their house did not ignite in fire. It was that concerning. Maybe I am getting older, but it was not cool and when you live in a state known for all the fires and drought I don’t get why people do these things. Oh and thank you for all the M-80’s you shot off last night until 1 a.m. people. Thank goodness my dog Riley doesn’t mind the noise, but I can only imagine the poor creatures last night shaking to the shock of a M-80. My poor Golden Paddy used to crawl into the bathtub and shake. That is enough PSA for today. Thanks.

This little man belongs to another local Bay Area photographer, Alpana. He’s a hoot. Full of expressions and full of life. Mom preferred his somber expressions to his silly ones, so I thought I would show you some pensive, moody images of an otherwise funny little boy!

Today I did 2 family sessions in Walnut Creek. The weather has been extremely hot! I think we cracked over 100 degrees today but thank goodness the fog is rolling back in and cooling down the Diablo Valley and San Ramon Valley.

The first baby is 8 months old and I had the pleasure of capturing him as a newborn. Baby L is on the go now and probably going to be walking very soon. Mom played a big part of the session today. I promised a quick sneak peak for both families.

Now baby W is a little younger at 4 and a half months and not yet as mobile. She definitely loved her beautiful room and her tummy time.

Whew…my office is still warm and my computer is working overtime. Where’s that San Francisco Bay breeze I was hoping for? Tomorrow it’s only going to be in the 80’s. Everyone stay cool. Off to check on the boys. Until next time.