Babes in the Wood: Chantelle

  Spring is here and I've been psyched with the warmer weather and sunny mornings. Finding a super-top-extra-secret fern grove spot, Levi was kind enough to let me photograph his big sister Chantelle for my ongoing Babes in the Wood series. 

Wesley, Chantelle's Daddy, proved to be a whiz with a piece of ultra-suede and scissors. Hence her fashionable tunic:

Chantelle has a strong aversion to a spider walking on her foot

running with shoes on was much more fun than dancing with spiders

These guys were fun to hang out with for a couple hours, and of course we had to shoot a couple family shots as well. In the super-top-extra-secret fern spot....

Babes in the Wood: Diego

"Diego, he's a pretty fun kid", to quote his mom...

... I couldn't agree more. Give him an axe and he's killer!

We shot some fun family pics as well 

some outtakes:

And then I needed a child hand model for another Chronicle Books kids placemats cover, so I roped Diego's mom into dropping him off to be a model while she had a haircut in the city. 

teaching Diego the fine art of throwing a model's tantrum and demanding a nonfat latte before working any more.

taking a dirtbiking-posture-on-the-CL175 break

Babes in the Wood : Molly

Babes in the Wood project took young miss Molly to the hills of Berkeley for a shoot last weekend. Bringing along my firepit cauldron as a prop, I scouted the week before for a location that had surplus amount of trees but would also not be host to a carpet of poison oak.

After stumbling through a number of families' Labor Day picnics, I found the spot. Sorry, but if I tell you where it is, I'd have to kill you. Pretty sure Molly's father Bryan almost did want to kill me after almost getting us lost looking for it again:
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I met Molly and Bryan, Molly's parents, when I photographed their gorgeous wedding in the mountains four years ago:

 

But back to Molly.. making some great faces after licking the cauldron:

baby wrangling!

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