The practical part.
Here’s what it costs.
Family, maternity and newborn sessions share one simple package: The Picture Book, $650.
Built around your people.
The Picture Book
$650
- Family or maternity: about an hour
- Newborn at home: around two hours, with time to feed, change and settle
- Full curated gallery, typically 75+ edited images
- Session guide and styling help, included
- Family groups: up to six people, then $30 for each additional person
Every photograph I select and edit is included in the price, lightly retouched and yours to keep. No choosing favorites. No extra image purchases.
One great location or your home, relaxed direction, classic portraits, and room for the moments in between. We’ll plan it around your people and what matters to you.
You’re hiring me, not a menu.
We’ll make the photo for the wall, the one for Grandma, and the ones that happen while everybody forgets they’re having their picture taken. Both kinds matter, and I’ll help with the posing, so nobody has to arrive knowing what to do.
Most families choose one beautiful spot. Want something closer to everyday life? Pancakes in your pajamas, running through the backyard sprinkler or exploring the tide pools in Laguna. Ask about my storytelling sessions!
The setting changes. The Picture Book stays $650.
Expecting?
Maternity + Newborn
$1,050
Two Picture Books, a few months apart. Save $250.
Maternity around 28 to 34 weeks, at home or outside, then the newborn session at home in the first two weeks, at the baby’s pace. We pencil the newborn session in loosely around your due date and move it once the baby arrives.
50% is due when you book. The remaining balance is due one week before your maternity session, covering both sessions.
Seniors
Just them.
Senior photos with room for every side of your kid. Two session options.
The Main Character
$650
- Time
- About an hour
- Places
- One place
- Outfits
- Two outfits
- Gallery
- Full curated gallery, typically 75+ edited images
An easygoing hour where your senior calls the shots: the artsy one downtown, the junior lifeguard at the beach, or the one who’s been waiting all year to dress up. They pick the place and both outfits, and the gallery ends up with classic portraits and plenty of relaxed ones too.
The Origin Story
$850
- Time
- About two hours
- Places
- A few places
- Outfits
- A few outfits
- Gallery
- Full curated gallery, typically 75+ edited images
The Main Character, expanded. Most kids are more than one thing. Out on the trail, then the beach. On the baseball field, then hanging out in Downtown Orange. Enough range to paint the whole picture.
Couples + Weddings
The two of you.
Engagements, anniversaries, or no reason at all.
The Double Feature
$650
- About an hour
- One location
- Full curated gallery, typically 75+ edited images
A walk through somewhere you actually like being. A park, the sand, your ramen spot. Romantic ones, a few silly ones, and real direction the whole way, because one of you agreed to this more enthusiastically than the other and we both know it.
Weddings
from$1,500
Three coverage options, courthouse to the last dance. One of them fits.
Extras
Bonus features.
One more chapter for your Picture Book, and two things to hold onto.
Wait, what if we also…
Add Another Chapter
+$200
One more hour, planned together. Perfect for storytelling sessions, multiple locations or just because.
Your Picture Book is already a whole story. If you’d like a second chapter, we’ll plan the extra hour together: classic portraits somewhere beautiful, then ice cream, or the park, then home for the backyard sprinklers.
Works with any Picture Book. Add it when you book so we can plan the day around it.
The Print Edition
+$150
8 x 10, soft cover, forty pages, about 55 photos.
A soft-cover magazine of your session, laid out in the order the day actually happened, so you end up with your own zine instead of a stack of prints in a box. Your digital gallery stays the same either way.
Order it with your session and it lands about two weeks after your gallery, or decide once you’ve seen your photos.
The Polaroid Pack
+$100
Eight real instant photos and a case to carry them home.
Taken during your session, and they go home with you the same day. Nothing to order and nothing to wait for, which is most of the charm. Somebody under ten usually ends up holding the camera.
Add it when you book and I’ll bring the film.
The short version.
The Weekend Matinee
Twenty-minute mini sessions on fall weekends, for up to six people. You pick twenty-five edited photos from forty. Current spots and open dates are on the booking page.
Booking details
- Gallery
- Every session except the Matinee comes with the full curated gallery, typically 75+ edited images, each one lightly retouched and all included in the session price. No image limits, no choosing favorites, no extra image purchases. Every photograph I select and edit is yours.
- Delivery
- Galleries in two weeks.
- Access
- Your gallery stays live for six months.
- Group size
- Family sessions include up to six people. Each additional person is $30.
- Weather
- If a storm forces us to reschedule, there’s no extra charge.
- Payment
- On regular sessions, 50% holds your date and the rest is due the week before. The bundle’s payment timing is listed with it above, and Matinee terms are on its booking page.
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