After doing Halloween portraits for the MOMS Club of Newport Beach, I was asked to do Santa Portraits for a Christmas Party put on by the MOMS Clubs of Newport Beach, Newport Heights and Huntington Beach. Here are some photos from the party . . .

Here's some photos from Audrey's 18-month / holiday photo shoot. She wasn't really "feeling it" for the first half of the shoot and we almost thought we were going to have to reschedule, but, we gave her some open room to run around and she ended up having a great time!

Finally, after a busy holiday season, I have a chance to update the Shafer Photo Blog! Here's a handful of photos from the Randolph family's portrait session at Irvine Regional Park back in November . . .

After partnering with Moms of 2005 for a couple successful Photo Play Dates, we joined forces again to offer a great deal on family beach portraits. The shoot was at Aliso Beach in Laguna, one of the few beaches in Orange County where you can legally do professional portrait photography, and it showed . . . there were tons of photographers out that day! With a lot of patience, some very precise camera work and as little Photoshopping as possible, I managed to hide anywhere from 5-10 other photo shoots (not to mention a few skimboarders, fishermen and neverending flow of passers-by) behind my subjects in most of the photos you are about to see. Aside from the challenging distractions, it was an otherwise perfect day - 73 degrees, lots of sun, light wind and some really great company.