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Archive for March, 2008


Go ahead and JUMP!

Published March 30th, 2008 in Crazy, family | 1 Comment »

Why do I have that Van Halen song on the back of my mind? Because this family was happy to do silly requests from their photographer! Very enthusiastic, nice and fun family. They chose Sunol Regional Park for their session and it has endless possibilities for photos. It was challenging having this bridge all to ourselves. Every couple of minutes there would be a group of people and their dogs trotting past us. More to come from this session soon. I have to thank my friend Erika for the inspiration to do this kind of shot.

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Newborns Newborns Newborns

Published March 25th, 2008 in Newborns, babies, family | No Comments »

Something magical about the late winter and early spring. Lots of newborn babies are happening. This Palo Alto family recently became parents and brother to a new baby boy. I think mom looks fabulous and radiant. Big brother was a hoot. I have to share a cute one of big brother–he’s quite the ham! That’s my kind of kid!

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I Don’t Like to Iron

Published March 22nd, 2008 in Certified Professional Photographer, Photography and Me | 6 Comments »

As you can see in the photo below. I have an iron. It sits on the shelf of my husband’s closet along with an ironing board. It’s a pain to pull out and set up and plug in. Really. Anyhow, I realize this photo of me could be a lot more polished if I had just taken the time to iron the darn pants. But that is me. And walking around disheveled and with wrinkly dog haired filled pants is one of my weaknesses. Ironing is not in my vocabulary. I just don’t see the point. My poor children…they aren’t going to have ironed clothing either. Do T-shirts and jeans need ironing anyway?

Anyhow, I decided to post this photo of myself to celebrate a bit. Finally I have decided to toot my horn and admit something that happened last month. I completed my PPA certification. PPA is Professional Photographers of America.

Those who have earned the Professional Photographic Certification have passed a comprehensive written exam measuring their technical expertise, and have successfully submitted their work to a panel of judges for review and approval. That is straight off their website–sorry for not paraphrasing that–but what it means is that I passed. So, while I don’t often like to post my photo or brag about myself, I thought I would take a moment to kick my heels together and share with the two people that read my blog (gosh I hope there are more than two people) that I am a CPP. A CPP with wrinkly pants.

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Newborn photographer Pam Biasotti

Published March 21st, 2008 in Newborns, babies, family | 1 Comment »

Remember my sneak peek of baby A?

Well here are a few more of the little fellow and his family. He joined his parents, sister and brother in February. He’s definitely a cutie and very alert. We did catch a few sleepy moments as you can see in these photos.

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Going to be a big sister!! – Maternity Photographer Pam Biasotti

Published March 16th, 2008 in babies, family, maternity | No Comments »

I have been photographing this family since Z’s mom was pregnant with her.  She’s about to be a big sister.  I just wanted to get a sneak peak of those gorgeous brown eyes that she has.  She is the most darling 2 year old you would ever want to meet.  More to come soon.img_9122-copy.jpg

Danville Family Photography

Published March 12th, 2008 in family | No Comments »

This family wanted to have a nice portrait session at the waterfalls located on Bollinger Canyon in San Ramon. The light can get tricky over there at the end of the day, but we did manage to capture some affectionate moments between the family. Mom and Dad especially were all too willing to capture a few smooches in between.

Their daughter L thought this would be a nice treat to get the family together. Here’s a sneak peak at the session.

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Happy Birthday Kyle

Published March 10th, 2008 in family | No Comments »

13 years ago tonight I was writhing in pain. A labor and delivery nurse had the gall to tell me how low a tolerance of pain I had and basically made me feel like a failure trying to deliver you. I was induced at 7 am on March 9, 1995 and you didn’t come out until March 10 at 12:53 pm via a c-section. My 10 pound 5 ounce football player had arrived. Wonder if the labor and delivery nurse knew what was making me writhe in pain?

Kyle, you are a teenager tomorrow. Although you have been acting like one for the past five years I can’t believe how old you are getting and how tall you are getting. It’s hard for you to allow me to photograph you. Even this photo is over a year and a half old and you don’t even look like this anymore. It’s so easy to photograph the children of other people and yet I can’t make my son sit still long enough for me to capture him. You are as tall as me now and your shoe size is the same as your father’s. Your voice doesn’t sound like a boy’s voice. I am in awe of your appetite and ability to clean out the fridge in one day after shopping. Welcome to your teenage years.
It seems like yesterday you were a newborn. I think tomorrow I will watch your birth video as I haven’t seen it in such a long time. When you were born you had three great grandmothers who were lucky enough to meet you and know you. You were the first grandchild on both sides which made you special. I hope your day goes well! Happy Birthday!

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Those that have stock in Apple

Published March 7th, 2008 in Crazy | 4 Comments »

Should be thanking me for all my patronage. I have invested quite a bit in Apple products the past year or so. I have purchased a MacBook Pro notebook, cinema display monitor, software, external hard drive, ipod accessories and of course an Iphone. Well, how about two iphones? There is nothing more hilarious than going to a workshop of other photographers and seeing everyone playing on their Iphones. You could always spot a true Iphoneaholic. My biggest fear was realized today. Don’t continue reading this if you gross out easily. My iphone which always sits in my back pocket of my skinny jeans (those low waisted show your crack at every opportunity whether you want to or not) fell out of the back pocket as I was getting up from the—um–well–you know—commode and fell in with a loud kerplunk. I cried out in agony “NOT AGAIN!” as when I was pregnant with my second child over 7 years ago I did the same thing to a Nextel. At least back then it was my company’s phone and they replaced it at no cost to me. This, however was MY beloved Iphone. The greatest thing invented since sliced bread–I adore my Iphone. I worshipped my Iphone–it made me spiritual and giddy while I surfed the net and texted and did everything imaginable on it. It did everything for me and there it lay in a pool of water and other unmentionable liquid as I fished it out as fast as possible. I cleaned it as best as I could. It still worked! Part of me was ecstatic and the other part of me grossed out that it had been swimming in the potty which held my potty. It kept giving me a message saying that something was not functioning correctly and did I want to turn on the airport mode–WHAT?–no way–I drove to the AT and T store and embarrassingly mumbled to the employee that I needed a new iphone. Why? “Cause it fell in the toilet” I mumbled. It what? ” IT FELL IN THE TOILET” I said clearly. The employee’s eyes grew wide and she stepped back as if my spoiled phone was going to infect her with some disease. I felt like George Costanza trying to return his $100 book that they wouldn’t take back because it had been in the bathroom. I was instructed to go to the Apple store where they could try and repair it. I jumped into my car and headed over to the Apple store. The place that has taken so much of my money this past year. At least the employees are nice and sympathetic over there. They told me to make an appointment with the Genius Bar for tomorrow and they will swap my phone for another for ONLY $249. Why is that? Cause they take your phone and give you a refurbished one. Great. So you are going to take my phone that fell into the toilet and fix it to give to someone else and for $249 I can get another refurbished Iphone that has probably also been dropped in the toilet and most likely in a toilet full of #$%$%#$? No thank you. Please show me where the brand new Iphones are. By now my current Iphone is going schiztoid and not even working correctly. So, now I have a brand new Iphone. Here I was so happy I paid less for my phone when Apple lowered the prices and now….well now I have paid what the original folks paid to get the Iphone when it first came out. Brilliant. All you Apple shareholders….YOU ARE WELCOME!!!!!

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