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I must interrupt my typical wedding-related content to share this lifestyle session I did with my cousin and her family last week, just a week after they welcomed a beautiful boy they named Hayes River. And of course, I know all of us currently enduring a record-breaking cold spell in the Midwest could use a vicarious experience of the Southern California warmth captured in these images (even if they make us a bit envious at the moment!).
Katie, Michael, Clark and Hayes: I’m so glad I got to document a few of your early days as a picture-perfect family of four. I can’t wait to see you all again and hope for many more beach sessions in our future!
– feature film –
See the occasion come alive in these video highlights!
I have to close this post with the very last photo from the trip, taken right before I left for the airport — because just look at Hayes looking and smiling at the camera! He’s a natural, for sure.

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