Last week I shared some of the photos that my sister and I took of each others families. I wanted to share a few more with you, including a few more family shots, a few pregnancy shots, and a few headshots. It's so much fun having such a talented sister around...

This one is my absolute favorite! I love, love, love it.


This is an options for my new headshot, and another one of me and silly Gigi.


And a couple more family portraits. This one is really how we are most of the time.


My beautiful sister with Gwyneth. Isn't Meghan glowing?!


A few more belly photos.


Me being an obnoxious little sister.

Hope you're having a great start to your week! We've got a crazy week ahead with midterms, lots of work, and a trip to Seattle planned. Here goes...

This weekend my sister, Meghan came down for a visit. She and her husband Rob are expecting a baby boy in early June. I haven't gotten to see my sis in a couple of months and was so excited to see her growing belly. She looks just beautiful and I cannot wait for her to become a mom. She and Rob are going to be such amazing, loving parents. My sister also happens to be a very talented photographer, so while they were visiting we took some time to take family portraits for each other...

... I'm so lucky to have a big sister like her.

First I took a few of Meghan and Rob...



Then she snapped a few of us...

I was so sad they had to head home early today, I wish we lived next door to each other. Gwyneth and I will be heading up for a week soon to spend helping her get food in the freezer and the house all ready for their baby to arrive. I can't wait to meet him!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend too.

Last week the weather here was absolutely gorgeous!  In my line(s) of work, I spend way too much time on the computer.  I needed to get out of the house with my babe.  We hopped in the car, stopped by our favorite coffee shop for a latte, and decided to go for a beautiful drive in the countryside.  We are so incredibly lucky to live so close to so much beauty.  It was warm enough to have the windows rolled down and it was quiet up in the hills.  We just drove in silence and breathed in the fresh, fall air. It was so wonderfully simple and such a great reminder of what each day holds.  Just me and my daughter going for a drive.  If I'd stayed in the house and battled the laundry I would have missed out on all of this...

Okay... I know I promised a kitchen reveal today but it'll have to wait for tomorrow.  We spent all day Saturday running crazy errands (Costco, Trader Joe's, Wood and Stone Outlet, Lumber Liquidators, Ikea...) and all day Sunday working to finish the kitchen and we almost finished.  I'm so excited to share it with you tomorrow.  We are so happy with it!  It's amazing! 

Another thing I've been working hard on is updating my photography website.  I've been greatly neglecting it since I got pregnant and it was due time to update my images.  The site itself hasn't changed (although I have plans for that too) but I've updated all my galleries.  Here are a few of my favorite photographs that I've just added...

If you want to view all my photos head over to In the Moment Photography

It's been a few weeks since Gwyneth and I went to San Diego to welcome baby Lucia into the world.  Over the years, pregnancy and newborn sessions have become my favorite to shoot.  They always feel so precious and fleeting.  After becoming a mom and experiencing the miracle of it all (I know that sounds cheesy but it is an absolute miracle) I find it even more fulfilling.  When Steph asked me to come down and capture Lucia's fist days I was thrilled!  Really, if you think about it, you are being invited into a home during a few very special days.  Over the few years of photographing this family, I have developed a really nice friendship with them but being in there home, sharing this experience with them has truly made me fall in love with this family.  Steph and Andy are inspiring parents, Harrison is an incredibly fun boy and Lucia is as sweet as can be.  I am really proud of these photos and wanted to share them with you.  These photographs capture days three, four, and five of Lucia's life.

Gwyneth and I are headed out to San Diego this morning to photograph the newborn baby girl of Steph and Andy.  Lucia was born on Monday morning and I can't wait to photograph her. I met Steph a few years back and photographed her first pregnancy...

Took photos of her first son, Harrison when he was a newborn...

Then I photographed their family again when Harrison turned one...

A few months back I took her pregnancy photos again...

I fell so honored that I get to capture the first few days of Luci's life.  I will be staying with them so I'm going to get to take a lot of family photos.  After experiencing the magic of that first week myself, I am so excited to get to capture it for them.  They are such a lovely family and Steph is an amazing mom.

With that, I'm off for the next few days.  Then I'll be back just in time to celebrate our second wedding anniversary and then it's time to launch the new site next Monday! I'm so excited to share it with all of you, it's been such a labor of love.  "See" you in a few days.

A few weeks ago Kyle and I took Gwynnie on her first visit to Pike Place Market in Seattle.  It was rainy and cold (despite the fact that it was June) and she was over-tired and miserable.  We only lasted about an hour but it was still kind of fun.  Actually, that's a lie, it wasn't but I took some fun photos!  Growing up in Seattle, Pike Place Market always has a nostalgic energy.  I love the abundant produce and the overflowing flowers.  I felt kind of like a dorky, high-school photography student again (Pike Place is where every photo student heads with their first camera).  

We are in Seattle for the weekend and we are taking Gwyneth to my very favorite place today... The Woodland Park Zoo!   It's still rainy and cold but we are gonna bundle that babe up and hope for a sunbreak.  I'll be back on Monday with a Wonderful Weekend post!  

A friend of ours does these progression photos during pregnancy.  She recently completed and handed it over to me.  It's astonishing to look at the process.  We took one every 4-6 weeks starting around the fourth month.  Our bodies are pretty amazing.  I mean, I grew a human being in 39 weeks.  That's mind boggling!  Sometimes I find myself staring at Gwyneth thinking, I made you!  I can hardly remember what it felt like to be pregnant, so it's a wonderful thing to get to look back at the journey all in one little picture! 

Photo by Silvia Flores

Another view of the progression...

www.MKMphoto.com

Hmmm.... all of this is makin' me wanna have another baby!

Mario Testino in front of a portrait he took of Princess Diana at her last photo session.

I absolutely love the work of photographer Mario Testino.  I have been in love with his unique style of portraiture since I was thirteen and had huge posters of his work all over my bedroom walls.  When I was working with Charlize Theron a couple of years ago, I asked her what it was like to work with Mario (he's shot her for two covers/spreads for Vogue).  She said that he has an incredible ability to connect with the person he's shooting and to make them feel comfortable and open.  Therefore, his work has a more intimate quality to it.  I love Mario's photographs because they are vibrant and really capture something special about his subjects.  His style is often raw and of the moment yet, at the same time, it manages to be refined and his composition is flawless.  He mostly photographs women although he also shoots lots of ad campaigns and spreads for various magazines.  Here are a few of my favorite examples of his work I found via Google Images: 

The books I have of his are...

This weekend we headed up to Whidbey Island, Washington for our friend's wedding.  We packed up the car, put in the Harry Potter CD and hit the road.  We drove up along the 101, opting to take the scenic route.  We stopped at a pretty State Park for a very French road trip lunch.

We just had to stop at this dive bar called, what else, the Geoduck.  For those of you who didn't grow up around Geoducks, they're a big deal 'round these parts.  They're a kind of clam with a funny name and they are the mascot of Evergreen State University...hmmm.  Kyle had a drink and we took in the view and the, um, interesting souveniers like hot pink camoflauge shirts and thongs that had "The Geoduck" embroidered on them. 

We arrived in Port Townsend where we took the Keystone ferry across to Coupeville where the wedding was going to be.  Port Townsend is a cute, tiny town with lots of shops and yummy (yet overpriced) ice cream.  I had their fresh made ginger ice cream...a pregnant lady's dream!

We had about an hour to wait for our ferry and that was the perfect amount of time to wander up an down the main street and explore the little shops before making our way back to the car for our ferry.  Unfortunately, the woman running the toll booth put us in the standby line even though we had a reservation so... we missed our ferry and had to wait another hour for the next one, so we explored Port Townsend again to see if we'd missed anything...we hadn't, but it was still nice to check.  I love taking ferries!  It's totally nostalgic if you grew up in the Pacific Northwest.

We got checked into our cute little Bed and Breakfast, The Spinnaker Tea Garden where the owners Juanita and Marty welcomed us.  They are the sweetest couple and clearly love running a B&B.  The beds were comfortable and the breakfast was fresh and delicious.  Juanita even packed us up a picnic lunch to take on our way when we left!  

On Saturday morning we spent a little time wandering in downtown Coupeville (which spans about a block and a half) but most everything was closed because it was early so we had to find other ways to entertain ourselves.

As a photographer, I am constantly drawn to...well, photographs.  Here are a few that I loved today.

Harper's Bazaar

Vogue

Vanity Fair

Vogue

Vanity Fair

Vogue UK

Allure

Lovely

Vanity Fair

J. Crew

Allure

Vogue UK

Vogue