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orange county photographer: a piece of my hart

Tammy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:33:21 +0000

i got the chance to spend a fun saturday evening with this darling family. these girls are seriously the cutest…big sister wasn’t too sure about me, but little sister was sure all giggles for the camera!! how can those big brown doll eyes not capture a piece of your heart??? i’m sure glad that i have gotten the chance to get to know this great little family more over the last few months. here’s a chance for you to get to know them a little better too. enjoy!

can i say photogenic??? i was having such a hard time choosng what to share…i’ll stop here and save some suprises for mom in her gallery.

have a great day!
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orange county children’s photographer: sneak for mom

Tammy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:52:37 +0000

i know you’ve probably been checking several times a day since saturday mom… i would be too with cuties like this!!! waiting is always the worst part…so here’s a little something to help!

stay tuned for more!

have a great day!
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southern california children’s photographer: i {shoot} kids

Tammy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:15:57 +0000

lol! I always have to laugh when I’m talking about shooting my kids, or other people’s. It just sounds so funny!! I have been agonizing over this decision for quite some time now and I have just decided that right now, this is the best decision for our family. As many of you know, I am tackling homeschooling my 3rd grader this coming year. I am VERY excited about it, but also very worried about the time committment required to do a knock-out job. Combine that with being a mom, CEO of the house, cleaning lady, taxi driver, personal chef, running a couple of growing businesses and a husband with a schedule that is completely wild and unpredictable and life is crazy!!

I started in this business shooting kids and it’s really what I love to do…where my heart is….so I am returning to my roots. I am excited about the possibilites of refocusing just on the little ones in our lives. I love to create a scene and let them play. My philosophy and style are very photojournalistic, provide a fun environment and let them be.

As a result of these changes I will be making a few changes to pricing and packages too, so if you are planning on scheduling a shoot, please make sure to check those out. Pricing and Session Info

Throughout the month of August I will be running a special for children’s shoots…$75 for the sitting fee. Sitting fee includes 1 8×10. Spots will go quickly, so email me at tammy@tammymitchellphotography.com if you are interested.

Along with regular shoots I will be offering a few “themed” mini shoots throughout the year where I will set up a great scene and the kids will be invited to come and play. I am SUPER excited about these!!! It will allow me to combine my love of design and party planning with my love of photography!! Stay tuned for details of the first theme shoot coming in Sept. It will be a back to school shoot…details and session information/sign-ups coming soon!!

Here’s a little taste of what’s to come. A “fake birthday” I had the pleasure of creating for a client last week…watch for these shots in your local craft store and even on HSN and QVC!!

have a great day!
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orange county children’s photographer: the lemonade stand

Tammy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:23:57 +0000

A week or so ago I had the chance to meet up again with one of my favorite families for one of my favorite shoots. This momma is super creative and we love to bounce photo ideas off of each other. Last summer I had an idea to do a lemonade stand shoot, but I never followed through. Leave it up to this hard working, clever mom to not only make my vision a reality, but to take it one step further by adding the frog. LOVE it!! These three kiddos are probably the busiest group I ever shoot…it sure makes for fun photos!!

The blinged out pretty little girls stand…

We just let this little one play to her hearts content with the lemonade bowl. Needless to say she was covered in the pink sticky goodness by the end of the shoot, but she had SO much fun!!!

I absolutely loved the idea of the ghetto looking boy lemonade stand looking like he had just set up shop right next to his sisters. The spray paint, duct tape, the frog and the toys IN the lemonade pitcher were a crack up. See what I mean?? The details were PERFECT!

I wouldn’t call these the best pictures I’ve ever taken, but I do have to say they are my favorites. I talk all the time about shooting a ton so that you have a story to tell, and here is a perfect example. If I only had one of these shots it just wouldn’t be the same! It was the end of the shoot and we were trying to get these three little balls of spunk to cooperate for one last group picture. Well, they weren’t too interested to say the least! Mom had brother hold the frog and had the girls stand near him (they weren’t too fond of the frog when he was out of his cage) I just kept shooting rapid fire, simply because when you’re working with a squirmy group of kids, it’s the best way to guarantee a few great shots! Mom instructed the three to stand there and say cheese, but brother had other ideas. Now that I look back and these pictures it just makes me laugh. You can see him concocting the idea all along. Check out the devilish little smile in the first picture as he holds the frog. Well, on the count of three he flung that little frog directly at his sisters and then, as they screamed, he laughed, clapped and jumped up and down in total delight. It was absolutely hillarious!!!

thanks so much for another memorable shoot, pam!!

have a great day!
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orange county children’s photographer: frogs and snails and puppy dog tails

Tammy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:41:38 +0000

It has been WAY too long. I have put shoots on the back burner over the last few months with a series of major events that have been affecting our family taking center stage. Now things have settled down and I am back in full swing…well, sort of. (Stay tuned for a bit of an announcement coming early next week)

I kicked off summer this week with one of my favorite families. You know it’s going to be a GREAT shoot when you bring along this little guy…

I can’t wait to share more of these cuties!!

Have a great day!
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everyday life: my little fish

Tammy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:58:22 +0000

Our first summer activity this year is getting the kids in swim lessons to make sure they are good and ready to spend the summer in the pool! Big kids lessons don’t start for another week, but Ash got to start this week. Unlike Andy, Ashley is afraid of EVERYTHING…and I do mean everything! It’s been quite the challenge getting her to try new things and warm up to things like strange noises, dogs, rides at disneyland, water, just about everything. I thought for sure we were in trouble when we drove by the pool on Sunday night as kind of a test run to make sure she felt more comfortable on Monday and she started telling us she was scared of lessons. (nevermind the fact that she had been swimming just the week before and in the pool for nearly two hours swimming like a fish) When Monday morning rolled around she couldn’t stop taking about how much she didn’t want to go to lessons, how her tummy hurt, the teacher might not be nice…etc, etc. Amazingly enough, when we got there she hopped right in the pool and then begged to stay when lessons were over. Each morning since she gets out of bed, puts on her swimsuit and asks when we get to leave for lessons about every 2 minutes. That makes for a VERY long morning considering her lesson aren’t until 1pm!!! Hopefully all of these lessons will make her a great little swimmer this year! Even if she can’t swim she sure looks adorable in the gear!

a little after workout nourishment…

my little bathing beauty…

(on a side note, I bought her three swimsuits to get her through the summer because they are usually thrashed pretty quickly…(yay for $4.97 suits at the gap!) but each morning she comes down in the pink one assuring me that she will wear the other ones “tomorrow.” )

have a great day!
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orange county children’s photographer: it’s a…..

Tammy — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:39:10 +0000

GIRL!!!!!! NO, I’m not pregnant. But my cute sister-in-law is and I couldn’t be more excited!!! We’ve been anxiously awaiting the news and it came today. I will have a little model for all the Pink Peppermint Design headbands I can create here in just few more months. I am going to be an aunt and I CAN’T WAIT to spoil this little cutie!!!

To hold you over until then here’s a few of another new cutie that I got to spend a few minutes with last week.

have a great day!

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Orange County Children’s Photographer: The Impromptu Shoot

Tammy — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:18:02 +0000

Yesterday I received a package I had been waiting for…some super cute new hats for Pink Peppermint. I ran Ash outside to snap a few pics for the store on the driveway. Within a few minutes I had a crowd all asking me to take their pictures too…it was too cute! Here are a few of these cuties…more to come.

this little one is such HAM! she was totally working it for the camera…LOVE her!

this little one has the most piercing eyes…i could shoot him all day.

I am LOVING these new newsboy caps with the cute little brim!

those freckles…those blue eyes…the teeth!! i am dying over here!!!

i love how kids are just so comfortable in front of the camera and actually ASK you to take their pictures. I wish we could get more comfortable as adults in front of the lens!!

more to come…

(oh, and there’s a mother’s day sale running now through Sunday…more details here: Mother’s Day Sale )

have a great day!
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Orange County Children’s Photographer: Can I eat her???

Tammy — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:43:27 +0000

We were lucky enough to have some of our very best friends come out for a visit for Andy’s baptism last week. I heard a quote once, don’t know who it’s from, but it said: “friends are the family you get to choose.” these guys definitely fall into this category! we LOVE them. and I love even more that the have the CUTEST little girl I may have ever seen. she is ALL sugar and everything nice. Just an absolute doll. In the two days she was here I don’t think I heard her make a peep. i just wanted to snuggle her and eat her up the whole time she was here. she was all smiles and i’ve got the proof!

some cute little piggies and little sneezes…

come visit again soon little girl!!! we miss you!!

have a great day!

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Orange County Children’s Photographer: The Grassy Knoll

Tammy — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:50:49 +0000

I LOVE this time of year here in So Cal. Especially this year. We have gotten SO much rain this year that everything is extra green. It won’t be long before it’s dried out seeing as how temps are already in the 70′s and 80′s these days (hallelujah!!). There is this AMAZING hill right behind our house that I keep driving by and thinking “i need to gotake some shots there” then the other day i was driving by and caught a wedding photog with a bride and groom halfway up the hill. It made me feel better that I’m not the only one who drives around town thinking about backdrops!! lol!! so, i had to take advantage of it as many times as I could this week!!

I’ve decided that I’m a whimp of a photog. I have a serious aversion to any kind of insect or reptile. All of these visions of grandeur in my head…hiking ash up the hill…grass up to her knees…well, that kind of went out the window as soon as I realized that the hill was FULL of life. Swarms of insects, rushing in the bushes from squirrels, rabbits and lizards… YIKES!!! I was actually worried that we would run into a few rattle snakes…we’ve seen a few BIG ones in the road near there over the years, so I decided that my little girl was not hiking up that hill! I planted her at the bottom of the hill, tried to get over the goosebumps that over took my body everytime a lizard ran by and took some shots!

If you want some pictures of your little ones on this gorgeous hill, give me a call quickly before it’s too late!!

Have a great day!

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