Latest News and Photography by Children

Wow! Has it really been almost 2 months since I posted on this blog. I have so much to tell you all about. Wedding season started a little early this year, so far I have 3 weddings to share with you...with a 4th coming very soon. I also did an engagement session and two portrait sessions with really great families. Of course, I am still doing Central Coast Songwriters photography and helping out a little with marketing. That project has led to some other opportunities with local musician and music festivals which I'm sure you'll hear about soon. I even started a blog to talk about music and photography.

We'll get to some of the photos from these session but what I really want to talk about is my Photography by Children project with SLO Children's Museum. For about 2 years I've wanted to do a photography project with children. It started when my neice got her first kid's camera. I walked around the neighborhood with her taking photos of plants, road signs, bugs, whatever she could find. Then I bought a batch of disposable cameras to give away at bridal fairs. The kids at bridal fair always look so bored but when you give them a camera they get excited. One boy came back to my booth 3 times for another camera. Two weeks ago I decided to take the leap on this project. I started researching cameras kids can use, writing a plan and I emailed the SLO Children's Museum about helping me recruit participants. Michelle at the museum emailed me back very quickly and said she loved the idea. I met with her and we discuss just doing it through the museum in conjunction with their summer program Dig In. So now I'm working on finding some funding to pay for cameras, prints and website hosting for the project. It's all very exciting! I've decided that all the donations for the music photography I do will go to this project, so keep donating people. Now it's going to a better cause than just feeding me ;) I'll be updating everyone when the project starts.

BRITTANY AND FELIPE AT THE UNIVERSITY CLUB IN SANTA BARBARA

HEATHER AND SHAWN AT CASS HOUSE IN CAYUCOS

JESSICA AND TAREK AT PEACHWOODS STEAKHOUSE IN SANTA CRUZ

KATIE AND RAVI'S ENGAGEMENT SESSION AT THE SANTA CRUZ BOARDWALK

FAMILY PORTRAITS AT THE CLIFFS IN MORRO BAY

FAMILY PORTRAIT SESSION IN CARMEL

Looks like we are all caught up now. -April Wise