Bright Waters Photography

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Adrea: Signs that she's Growing Up

Adrea: Girl Watchin'

Dude, that's my sister.

(sorry for the post post - I'm behind due to computer problems)

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Adrea: Santa Barbara Snapshots Part Two

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Adrea: Santa Barbara Snapshots Part One

Friday, October 10, 2008

Adrea: Abby... Character

Can't you just see it? Seriously. I'm not making fun of her. She's strong.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Adrea: Strength in Hats (toward the end!)

Okay, so I meant it to be all hats, but I couldn't resist PLUS most of my hat pictures were blurry as Jen had me laughing.

Adrea: More Strong... Less Hair

Stay tuned for "Strength in Hats" (Seriously!)

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Adrea: Tuesday Pictures on Wednesday

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008

Adrea: Introducing...

Johanna Rose

Family pictures to come tomorrow...

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Of all the incredibly cute kids that go to Abby's school there are a couple that DRESS. We're not talking princess dress or preppy dress (though, believe me I love photographing those guys too) - we're talking just a little bit punk.

Nina is one of these kids where I am constantly just mourning that I do not have camera shoot with her every day she wears her somewhat used up teired tu-tu with her rainboots.

So this is Nina's first mini- shoot test.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Adrea: AnnaMaria

Looking mussed from her nap, I just took a few for fun

Friday, October 3, 2008

Sarah: Nixon Maternity

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Sarah: Three generations

Steve asked me to take this very special photo to replicate a photo taken with his mother, himself and kathryn ... when k was the same age as Ellenor (the youngest lil gal in this photo)...

It is not a traditional portrait ... but it holds nostalgia for these clients... however... I think most can feel the era of the original...

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Adrea: Disneyland

Who We Are

Sarah and Adrea share in-laws, an appreciation for chocolate chip cookies, and a love for photography.

Adrea grew up in Southern California driving her family and friends crazy by taking random pictures of them. She graduated Westmont College double-majoring in Art and English. She currently stays home where her job is to keep three beautiful kids and a super cool husband happy and generally well fed.
Adrea adamantly believes in the power of a picture and thinks everyone deserves a really artsy photographer to come into their home and document their family in a beautiful way. She does not, however, know how to get anywhere, so that is an obstacle.

Sarah grew up in Northern California, and clearly remembers her first photo (of a beaten barn) taken with her father's camera when she was 7. Her love of photography, and things beaten and run down, grew from there. She worked as a photographer throughout high school and college, and to this day cannot resist snapping up old chairs and armoires (and the occasional home) to refurbish.
Sarah has a degree in Social Work and is a busy collector of hobbies; anything that explores her three loves: people, music and art. Most days you can find her at home nurturing her curious son, hilarious husband and holding either a measuring spoon, a paint brush, a sewing needle, or a camera.

Sarah and Adrea set up this site as part portfolio, part experiment, part team-building exercise.

We hope you enjoy our journey.

**We are looking for willing models, but we would probably prefer to know them, or know someone who knows them as we are not officially in business... nor have we figured out some rather important logistics... like printing our photographs independently for example.

** We love that people are starting to actually ask for us - we have started to institute a sitting fee in order to justify our time away to our husbands.