Monthly Archives: April 2008

Such a happy little guy

I received an email recently from Sindy asking about recreating a portrait as a gift for her husband.  When her oldest son was 5  months old she had a beautiful portrait taken of the two of them together and gave it as a very special gift to her husband.  Well, now that Sindy and her...

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Matt + Jen : 10 months later

Last weekend I met up with a few local photographers, Amanda, Tanni, Je and Heather, in Santa Barbara for a little gathering and some shooting.   Prior to our gathering, I had been chatting back and forth with a friend of mine about the possibility of doing a ‘trash the dress’/post wedding type session with her (she and...

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A beautiful baby bump indeed

It never ceases to amaze me how absolutely beautiful a pregnant woman is.   Everytime I do a maternity session I am reminded of this, and this next session was no different.  Velida was just sparkling, you could see the joy and excitement in her eyes as she awaits the birth of her first baby boy. ...

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The Payan Family

I recently had the opportunity to photograph the Payan family.  My goodness, let me tell you how fun this family is!    When they arrived for their session, everyone was pretty quite and laid back but as we started shooting everyone started to loosen up a bit and it was then that the shoot turned a little...

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Welcome…

to the new and improved Photography By Charise Blog!  YIPPEEE!!!!  All of the old sneak peeks have made their way over to the new blog and all the new posts will be over here now!!  Speaking of which, I have a few new sneak peeks to post over the next few days so stay tuned....

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