The Expressive Blog

This is a last-minute notice, but a very worthy cause...

Nancy Grace, Santa Cruz local musician, teacher and community leader, was severely injured when she was struck by a car, last December. Her miraculous journey to independent living continues, but she still needs our help. You are welcome at the auction, even if you cannot attend the other presentations. It will also be available while you are enjoying the music and other activities featured at Nancy's upcoming celebration & fundraiser on May 31st (at Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel CA) A Time For Grace, please do take a stroll to see and bid on some of the wonderful merchandise, services, vacation opportunities, art, and other items being offered at the Silent Auction, being held from 4:00 PM -- 8:40 PM. Please see flyer below, for details.

Expressive Photographics has donated a creative portrait session and a 20x30 portrait. If you have been wanting to do a photo-session with us this could be a great opportunity!

I appreciate all of my clients, because they give me the opportunity to do this work that I love so much. There are, however, certain very special people who have been returning to Expressive Photographics for many years, and I am especially grateful to them. I first met Ron and Stephanie when they hired me to photograph their wedding. That was at least 16 or 17 years ago. Stephanie, feel free to help me out here on how long ago that was! Well, life has certainly moved forward in beautiful ways for them, and they are now a family of 7... Um, that's four humans and three doggies!

I've had the honor of documenting some really beautiful times of their lives with photographs, like the portraits of Ron with their first daughter, Abigail, when she was just so tiny and only a few months old. There have been some great family portrait sessions at gorgeous locations, such as Panther Beach. There was Abigail's Bat-mitzvah, in August of 2006, and now it's just about a week until Rebecca's Bat-mitzvah. For all of these important times, they have called on me to help them commemorate the occasion with photographs.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for so many opportunities to work creatively with them! All of this is a lengthy introduction to my latest portrait session for the Morse family. Last Wednesday, we did a portrait session for Rebecca, in honor of her upcoming Bat-mitzvah. We also had the pleasure of including Abigail in this session.

This is my first post of photos taken with the new Nikon D3, which is my ultimate dream-camera! Here are some of my favorite images.

Our family portrait galleries also showcase family portraits in a variety of beautiful locations. Click to see!.

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