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Valentines Mini Sessions are coming! | San Diego Valentines Day child photographer

Sophie Crew — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:37:29 +0000

It’s almost Valentines day! Sophie Crew Photography will be at Play Town Indoor Playground in El Cajon this Friday, January 27th from 10am to 12pm. Feel free to call Play Town to get on the list, or just walk in – we’ll be sure to get your little one in for their sweet Valentines photo. Cost is $20 (cash or check) for one image (photographer’s choice) emailed to you approximately one week after the session. Create your own Valentines wallet sized cards to hand out to classmates and family!

See you on Friday!!

Awaiting baby boy… | San Diego Beach Maternity Photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:05:44 +0000

Happy New Year everyone! Ok well this year I don’t have any resolutions other than just enjoying life… and keeping up with blog posts! Eek! I just looked over all of my 2011 sessions and I have a gazillion sessions I still need to blog! I see a few ‘ketchup’ (catch up) blog posts coming up soon so that we can move onto blogging 2012 sessions.

I photographed this beautiful mama to be a couple of months ago – this beach is just so gorgeous – when the tide is low, the rocks are really amazingly beautiful, as is this mama Baby boy’s first name is Japanese and incorporates ‘ocean’ and ‘to shine’… the beach was the perfect place for our maternity session!

Here are a few of my faves…

Baby Samuel | San Diego Newborn Photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:51:10 +0000

Meet sweet Samuel. Such a little cuddly love to photograph – he slept and slept and slept.. I think he woke up just once towards the end of our session, but totally let me pose him during his little snooze. It was so fun to chat with mom, auntie and daddy during our time together – Samuel’s parents have traveled the world with the military, and even lived in Italy, so of course we had to talk about that (I’m half Italian myself )

Here are a few of my faves from our session… don’t you love the one of him smiling in the crate? Funny – I had him on the ground in the crate and for this kind of shot, the legs don’t usually keep that position for too long, so you have to shoot fast. I was still not high up enough to get the whole crate in the frame so I turned one of my buckets upside down to stand on it with the help of dad holding my other hand to balance me… it was going to be a super quick shot for that reason – one snap then I needed to get off the bucket… well little Samuel KNEW it was ‘the’ one shot he would smile for – seriously such perfect timing! What a cutie!

Sweet Maya | San Diego Newborn Photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:53:42 +0000

Yes, I am still alive! Sorry, things get a bit busy this time of year, so blogging has been taking a backseat lately, whoopsie

Meet sweet Maya – pretty girl! I met mom at Mamafest last May as a vendor as well – she and her husband are the awesomeness behind Murasaki Media – check them out.. super cute videography! Little Maya was such a cutie during our session – we had a lot of fun getting a variety of poses and headbands on her Thank you, F family for allowing me the opportunity to photograph your sweet girl

Baby Eli | San Diego Newborn Photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:55:53 +0000

Wow, it’s been a while since my last blog post… my ‘need to blog’ folder is going to explode! So sorry!!

Remember these beautiful soon to be big sisters from mama’s maternity session a couple of months ago? Wellllll, they are now ALL big sisters to one handsome little guy, Eli! Yay! I had so much fun spending the day with this beautiful family for Eli’s newborn session. Seeing big sisters run around during our session made me so happy – knowing that Eli will have some wonderful playmates when gets older. I love this family! Anyways, when mom contacted me a while back to set up our maternity and newborn sessions, she had only one request for the newborn session – that we get baby boy in her husband’s flight helmet – mission accomplished pee and poop free!! Yay!! B family, thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of such a special time in your family’s life.

Baby Makena | San Diego Newborn Photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:42:10 +0000

I am wayyyy behind in blogging – this month has been super busy not only with tons of brand new babies (ahem, 9 months ago was Valentines day, lol but also with beautiful families having their yearly holiday portraits done. I am slowly getting to blog past sessions… we might have a few end of the year ‘ketchup’ (catch up) blog posts featuring all session – stay tuned!

Meet sweet baby Makena! I had the honor of photographing this sweet baby girl last month. She was such a cutie, and did you see that ginormous smile she gave us (scroll down now ) Cute, huh! It was so fun picking out headbands and hats with Makena’s mommy – I bring so many styles with me that it’s hard to pick sometimes, lol! Anyway, we had a great time, and baby Makena was just the cutest. Thank you, S family for allowing me to capture your family’s special moments

Halloween Mini Sessions | San Diego Child Photographer

Sophie Crew — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:34:12 +0000

Wohoo, I had so much fun photographing all of these little cuties dressed in their Halloween costumes last Friday during our Play Town mini sessions. It was wonderful to see all of my babies I photographed as newborns coming back as babies and toddlers. I LOVE watching ‘my’ babies grow up! It was also awesome to meet a few new little kiddos too. Everyone was so excited to be dressed up, and my pumpkins even survived a few super excited kiddos using them as soccer balls, lol. It was fun! Thanks so much for coming to spend your morning with us!

How adorable is baby T… Mom and dad brought in their own carved pumpkin and knit hat with this shot in mind. I was super excited to do it. Baby T was 4 weeks old – I photographed him at 7 days old for his newborn session, and was so excited to see him again. So cool to see him hold his head up so well! Mom and dad were on both sides of him for safety – he did great! Watch for Baby T’s full newborn session blog post soon

Double the fun! | San Diego newborn twin photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:03:58 +0000

These little twin guys were SO much fun to photograph! We actually had quite the memorable newborn session just a few weeks ago… I arrived at their home and mom and I went over where we would set up, and how the session would go. Little guys H and L were all ready to go – bellies full, house warmed to the perfect temperature, television on for some background noise and entertainment… so I set up and had juuuust gotten my camera white balanced, ready to start shooting, when poof – the TV turned off. Hmm, that’s odd, oh well… since I am a natural light photographer, I didn’t need electricity anyways as I was using the light from the sliding glass door. A few minutes passed and dad decided to check out the problem – turns out, all of San Diego was out of power! Like the whole county! All the way from Tijuana, Mexico to some folks in Riverside. Say what!? So dad kept us updated with the latest San Diego blackout news while mom and I enjoyed our little models. We shot for the next three hours, and these little guys were just so adorable… we even got a few smiles from ‘big’ brother. Oh and check out those cute hats – do you remember the triplet newborn babies I photographed a couple of months ago? Well just like for those little dudes, I had my mail lady whip up a couple of ’twin’ sets for me again this time – she rocks, and she’s fast!

Mom and dad are rock star twin parents – they are totally organized with feeding and sleeping times… totally necessary when you have two! Thank you so much, B family, for allowing me the opportunity to photograph your adorable twin boys. They are going to have so much fun growing up and being best buddies.

Ohh, and don’t forget that tomorrow is Play Town’s super fun Halloween Mini Sessions! I will be there, photographing your dressed up kiddos from 10am to 12pm, so come on by!

Angelina turns ONE! | San Diego Cake Smash Baby Photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:58:30 +0000

Meet Angelina – San Diego’s happiest, smiliest and most fashion forward one year old girl. We had so much fun during her one year old session. The weather was so gloomy, but Angelina’s smile sure did light up the sky. With the weather being so gloomy, it got darker much earlier than I had hoped, so it was a mad dash to get Angelina changed into all of her cute outfits. You should have seen our shooting space – clothes, props and stuff just tossed all around covering the grass… too funny! I love photographing babies for their one year session – the cake smash is always a ton of fun. Isn’t her cake so cute? Mommy had to help peel away the fondant layer -so beautiful, but hard to dig into with one year old fingers.

Thanks, F family for allowing me to photograph your beautiful little girl!

Baby Chloe | Downtown San Diego Newborn Photographer | Sophie Crew Photography

Sophie Crew — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:34:11 +0000

Happy almost-weekend everyone! I can’t believe I have let the blog go a week since updating… I have so many great newborn, family and maternity sessions to catch up on blogging. Bad me!

Meet sweet Chloe. She was such a cute chunk of love! Mommy called me when Chloe was already past the ’10 day window’ of newborn curliness and sleepy period, so we had to get her session in as soon as we could. I met her at just over two weeks old, and although she made me work for it, we got some great shots of this little sweetie. At two weeks old, babies begin to sleep less deeply and begin to grow out of their womb ‘curl’, which makes it more difficult to get those perfect poses, but Chloe sure did a great job of posing!

I had a great time photographing sweet Chloe – thank you, C family for a wonderful session!