One of the coolest things about being a photographer is the connections that you make. I get to witness first hand some of the most important parts of peoples lives, its pretty amazing to watch a family that’s just starting out and watch it grow. For me I usually first do a photoshoot for a couple when they are engaged. The engagement session is always a fun photo session that lets me spend some quality time with the couple and start to get to know them. On the wedding day I am usually there from the getting ready moments up until the end of the night. Spending time in the room with the girls getting ready, the guys beforehand and all of the family really brings you in to this personal, private space for families and lets you connect with them. After the wedding most of the times I feel like part of their family (maybe that crazy uncle with the camera always). But then after the wedding I still get to experience some great moments and share in them with my clients. They get pregnant, have babies, grow their family, have an anniversary, the list goes on and on and while all of these huge milestones are happening I am right there creating lifestyle photos of them to cherish and remember the day forever. No words can describe how cool that really is.

So today here are a few images of Sherri and Steve who are about to have their first baby! Congrats guys, you will be awesome parents.

We have been so busy shooting the past week that we haven’t had much time to blog, but we are putting the final touches on lots of portrait sessions and weddings and will be updating the blog over the next few days with lots of new stuff! We also got to check out our neighborhood 4th of July parade again this year and captured a few images of some of the cool floats. I’ll post a slideshow with some of the highlights tomorrow.

We also have a couple of days still available this month for our Lifestyle Family Portraits, check out our new website at: http://www.stagiportraitlife.com for some of our recent work and contact us to book a session.

– Mark

For those of you who haven’t seen our new family portrait site yet, check it out: http://stagiportraitlife.com/
Even though we shoot more weddings than anything else we do a lot of other types of photography like Family Lifestyle photos. These can be such fun sessions, here is a little
more info on how we approach our family portrait sessions. If you are in the bay area give us a call (or if you are out of the area we do travel based on our schedule
so give us a call anyway to chat about your session)

We believe that a great portrait should show more than just what you and your family look like… a true portrait should show what your family is all about. It can be your family snuggled up on the couch with popcorn watching a movie or running around at a park; our lifestyle photography strives to capture your family in a natural setting. That way you have portraits that really show who you are and tell a story of your family at a given point in time.

Families are always growing and changing, capturing natural moments of your family tell a story of this time in your life and are always treasured for generations.