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The looks of my life; the looks of my loves, and what I look like.

I love the look on Jaren’s face when we are at a party and I catch him staring at me from across the room, looking at me like he is seeing me for the first time. I love the smile I get from Gunnar when we are on the carpet playing cars, trains, or dinosaurs; he stares at me amazed, like I am the coolest mom who has motorized and prehistoric sounds coming from my mouth. I am in love with the look I get from my baby girl each morning when i get her out of bed; she beams because I am someone special to her. I love my parents’ faces when I walk through the doors of home after having been gone for a long time; their eyes fill with love, and I see a reminiscent comfort. I love the expression my sister gives when she realizes the adoption cleared; they will be getting another baby.  I love the weary grin on my brother’s face as he crosses the finish line of his 64th marathon.  I love the surprise on my girlfriend’s face when I gift her our favorite lip gloss we thought was discontinued. I love the look on my face when I find the perfect pair of slimming jeans or the most flattering swimsuit. I even love the look on children’s faces when they get all pouty and sad because they don’t get their way. I love the look of graduation day: the look of accomplishment, success, and the anticipated future. I love the look of a man totally devoted to one woman because she completes his heart. I love the look of unexpected surprises, the look of a fourth of July picnic, the look of first visits to Disneyland, the look of falling stars, the look of Winter's first snow, the look of a long overdue vacation, the look of winning soccer teams, the look of cookies fresh from the oven, the look of christmas morning, the look of family, the look of mothers drinking in their new babies, the look of unspoken yet powerfully present love. I love the expressions, the countenances, the features, and the presence of life and its undeniably endearing moments, and I love immortalizing them forever with my camera. 

This blog fuses the looks of my life and looks of my loves. It follows my expressions of growth, both professional and personal, and it allows you to take a peek at my moments, my thoughts, and my heart.

I would love to meet your look. 

Category Archives: the look of loyalty: family

Kamee June Valentine’s Special

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I know it’s not an actual holiday per-say, but I LOVE Valentine’s day! I love all the flower and chocolate deliveries, the romantic dinners, and especially the wedding proposals. It might be cliche, but I think getting engaged on Valentine’s day is so neat!

I love wearing my pink and red, and revealing surprises from the “Love Bug” to my children! And I especially love whatever ever little love note or night out my man plans for us.

It’s just such a good day to be reminded of the best emotion the human spirit and experience can ever witness or feel: LOVE!

In honor of it I am offering a Valentine’s week sale! Everything is 20% off!! Read all of the details below and then email me to book or with any questions you might have!! The sale is good for a week so if you are still looking for a gift idea or if you, like me, sometimes purchase your own gift, then this might just be what you are looking for! ;)

Happy Valentine’s to you all! May Cupid’s arrows strike again, and again, and again!

(Please note: This special can not be applied to already purchased sessions, packages, albums, orders, mentoring sessions, and workshops. And the discounted purchase must be used within a year’s time from the booking date. Also note that the this special can’t be applied to any other that might be run.)

My Walking Fairytale, Mamarazzi III: A Photography Workshop for Moms

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She’s a little walking fairytale. Filled with sprites, sparkly dragons, whimsy, and her very own, couture, love potions. And she has all of us, everyone in her kingdom, all her loyal subjects, completely, and utterly under her spell.

I want to freeze her pretty life, her brother’s too, make it stand still, just so I can drink them in a bit more!! I hope they know how much I love them; I hope they feel it, see it, and believe it, every single day. I hope they know they are my greatest accomplishments! I also hope I do justice to their youth by documenting it as often as I can. I know as parents we all feel a certain weight of responsibility in terms of our children: love them, educate them, teach them, prepare them. I also think we feel a responsibility to document them. Both of my kids have enjoyed looking at their baby books lately. It has been fun to reminisce with them, telling stories about the funny little things they “used to do”, and “used to say”. It reminded me of the importance to keep track of their fleeting memories.  The more women I talk to the more I discover that they too, want to take really great images of their children to immortalize this time in their lives, all of our lives. It’s time to start documenting everything whimsical and sweet (and even the not so sweet, but will- be- hysterically- funny- later- on) moments of your children’s and your life!

Mamarazzi: A Photography Workshop Designed Especially For Moms is intended for mothers (and fathers) who want to better understand their cameras as a goal to better document their own kids.

The Mamarazzi workshop will actually run over the course of 3 months (we will be meeting once a month for three months). At each meeting we will discuss a different aspect of photography, namely, how to work all the buttons on your camera and what they mean, how to understand light and it’s fundamental requirement to photography, and how to compose your shots to aid you with better story telling capabilities. Each class will be about two hours and will be packed with information, a few goodies to take with you to inspire you to get to shooting, some great edibles, and a good time away from small people to rejuvenate for a bit. ;)

Side Note: If you have taken the class before, you are absolutely welcome to come again! The content will be similar, but I am changing things up a bit!! There will be some newness for sure!! ;)

Who is this workshop for: moms (and dads) who want to take better pictures of their children

When will the workshop be held: (remember it is three evenings)

February 22nd 7-9pm

March 22nd 7-9pm

and April 19th 7-9pm

Why three evenings? I want to spread the information out a bit to give us all time to practice and create. We will be focusing on certain aspects each month, creating a discussion board and a place to post our images for safe feedback. (I also want us to have a ladies night, each month. That’s how I see it playing out in my head at least. We learn cool photography stuff and then hang out and relax a bit.)

Where the workshop be held: My place, in Corona, CA.

What to bring: Your camera (Doesn’t matter what you have, but it would be best if you had a dslr which basically means a camera where you can change out the lenses. If you don’t have one, it’s totally cool; this class is still geared for you!! If you are in the market for buying a new camera let me know and I will make some suggestions.)

What will all of this cost? $265.00 for the three evenings of workshopping! (Your tuition includes a whole bunch of great knowledge on how to shoot better pictures of your own children, incredible after dinner edibles, and a few surprises to help inspire you to get to shooting.)

I want to keep the class smallish, so if you are interested jump on it. ;) I would love to meet you and have you in my home to be able to discuss the most important role we have, and how to document it more passionately.

Join us! It’s going to be great!! Come and take advantage of this great offer to better learn how to document your child’s life.

A few mom’s from the first Mamarazzi class shared this:

To say Kamee is a good photographer would be true, but she’s more like incredible. To say Kamee is a good instructor would be true, but she’s more like inspirational. In one night, my eyes were opened to the power of a great image. Over the course of the workshop I began to feel like a true photographer for my little girl and family. Kamee taught us to compose beautiful shots using variable light for differing effects. She showed us how to operate our cameras and get more from them than automatic settings could produce. Kamee can teach anything and you will have fun; photography is her passion and you will likely take some of it with you. You will receive incredible support and encouragement from the other mommies too. If you are considering this workshop…sign up for sure!! –Anne

Mamarazzi turned my interest in photography into a passion. I learned how to capture the priceless personailities and precious memories of my little ones as they truly are in the moment which is something that my family and I will forever treasure. As an aspiring photography hobbiest, the class provided a foundation for future endeavors, as a mom, I was given the opportunity to learn how to beautifully document the lives of my children in a way that conveys how I see and treasure them everyday. Thank you kamee for that priceless gift! –Sandra

Went into this class wanting to learn what the buttons on my camera were. iIdid learn that and so, so, so much more! Not only did I learn to take beautiful natural pictures of my daughter but I unwrapped a new creative hobby! All the ladies in the class were so encouraging, inspiring, and sweet!!! And kamee, well I couldn’t have asked for a better teacher! I left so inspired and the passion is still burning strong! People ask me questions about their camera all the time now! It is not something I could just “quickly explain”. That’s why i HIGHLY recommend this class! –Monica

Please Email me with any questions you might have!! Looking forward to having you as a part of Mamarazzi III!

 

baby ava: a christmas elf

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i love this little family, so much.

a baby, at any time, is a gift. a baby, at christmas time,  is magic.

emma teased that she looks like a little house elf; i am sure that she has changed so much since we shot these images that she is out of her house elf stage. i couldn’t help but think of emma’s baby elf when i moved our elf on the shelf today!! i giggled a little thinking of emma calling her a “little dobby”. i am certain, like the magic our little elf brings to my children each day, ava, a literal present, brings so much joy to her parents’ lives and all those that know her.

what a priceless time in life, for everyone.

so happy i could spend a bit of time making a few memories of some of the sweetest days of newborn life.

emma, david, and baby elf (aka ava):

thank you for sharing so much of your life with me! so grateful for all the time we have together and for the example of true love and respect you are to me!!! may this season be filled with so much happy, more than you ever felt you could feel!! i love you guys, so much!!! xx nuz

love you!! and your pretty baby girl elf!!!! xx kj

blessed

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i feel my life is so rich and blessed with good friends who love, support, and encourage me. i am grateful for all of the friendships i have made through photography and feel that part of the reason i was lead on this journey was so i could meet all of these genuine people who have added so much texture to my life!  tracy and her family are a few of those people! i have known tracy now for several years and am so thankful she is a part of my life! she is an uplifting friend and person!! seeing her, when i do, is always a gift!!! seeing her family, being with her children, and listening to her husband talk (he’s from france; they are going there for the holidays *jealous*) is always, always a treat!!!! ;)

tracy, thank you. thank you for being my friend and a blessing in my life!!!!

happy holidays to you!!!! xx

love you guys!!! xxoo kj

the art is found in the space between

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i am getting ready to make some big changes to kamee june photography.

new look (you can see some of it here). new site. new stuff. everything is going to be new. new. new!!

i can’t wait!!

hang tight. that’s what i am doing. just waiting for the site to be built!!!

while we are waiting for all the new kj, i will do my best to keep you updated on what has been happening with me all summer.

i have so much to share!! i found these that i was going to use for a fine art post.

decided to share them now instead!!

happy weekend everyone! here’s to embracing change and loving something new!!

it’s not so much what we can see that makes us think something is interesting, beautiful, even artful. it’s what we can’t see that our minds fill in and makes us think on a higher level and enlightens us to something, somewhere.

the same is true with life: what we think might be a vain obscurity is really an equivocal allure.

the art is found in the space between, in the space our creativities fashion.

fall in love, again, and again…

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it is genuinely sweet to fall in love again, and again, and again, with the same person.
i adore this thought!
i loved that this shoot was just because they had fallen deeper in love!
i admit, i love them too. ;)

just a couple from a very in love couple.

 


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