Jules Trandem Photography | San Diego Newborn, Child, Senior and Family Photographer » Santa Barbara

sweet millie {santa barbara family photographer}

Jules Trandem — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:25:04 +0000

I only have 2 openings left for the San Diego beach mini sessions Sunday, May 16th (more info can be found HERE). Contact me ASAP if you’re interested in capturing some beach time fun!

Before we left Santa Barbara during spring break, we spent a perfect evening celebrating Carter’s birthday. Millie, my parents’ new puppy got to join us for the party. She is just 3 months old here … we can’t wait until we see her again this summer.

On a different note … today we are celebrating Brooks’ half birthday! He’s 5 1/2!! How did that happen?!

Carter wanted to make lemonade for his birthday drink so the kiddos went out back to pick some lemons. It was delicious!!! There’s nothing like homemade lemonade. :)

My mom and her dogs!

a new year celebration {san diego family photographer}

Jules Trandem — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:24:33 +0000

Before we left Santa Barbara, I got together with a photog friend, Tamara, from SLO to do a red and pink shoot! With inspiration from New Year’s and Valentine’s day, we had a great time with all of the kiddos. They, of course loved the treats, balloons, flowers and ‘snow’. We’ll be using some of these captures for Valentine’s day cards … there’s nothing like a darling personalized card with your child’s image!

Yes… I know I posted too many, but I was so excited to have these beautiful girls to shoot and play with. Our favorite hill in Santa Barbara never looked so good! Brooks didn’t mind being the only boy at all. :)

Thanks Tamara! Can’t wait for our next session together in SLO!

mees family {2009}

Jules — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:49:23 +0000

During Thanksgiving break, I also had the opportunity to do a quick session with my sister’s darling family to get some shots for their holiday card.

Before we left for the beach, Brooks enjoyed showing off some of his new reading books. His cousins are always so sweet and encouraging! Love this family!

we tried to sneak a few of Brooks in but he just wasn’t ‘feeling it’

mom mom and grampy with all of the grandkids!

this is always my favorite time of a shoot , when all of the more posed shots are done, the fun begins … too bad we had hungry kids, I would have loved to capture more of this fun!

Brooks {a 5 minute Christmas shoot}

Jules — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:35:58 +0000

2009 Christmas card!

One of our traditions on Thanksgiving day is to take a walk up to our favorite hill … Elings Park … it overlooks the ocean on one side and the city of Santa Barbara on the other. B.L.I.S.S. This is one of Brooks’ favorite places to be! Before dinner was ready, we went for our walk with all of the kiddos … I brought along my camera ‘just in case’. When I asked Brooks if he wanted to take some pictures, he politely answered ‘no thanks’. I still had nothing to put in a Christmas card so I offered the big bribe … hot tamales! He’s a sucker for hot tamales! All he gave me was 5 minutes and he earned his prize box of hot cinnamon goodness. I love these captures because they truly show who he is right now… sticks and all!

I had picked out a tri-fold template last summer and couldn’t be happier with how it went with the images! I picked my favorite for the full panel center image…4th one down … that’s my boy!

Merry Christmas!

xoxo

wintersteen family {2009}

Jules — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:00:51 +0000

I couldn’t wait for this session with 6 beautiful girls…including the gorgeous mom! We had tried to schedule this session last summer, but just couldn’t get the timing to work. I was so glad to meet up with them when I was home in Santa Barbara for Thanksgiving. They spent the holidays at this beautiful family ranch outside of Santa Barbara. The days leading up the the session were filled with warm weather and a blue sky… perfect fall weather. The evening of the session was soooo windy and cold … the girls were such good sports … you can’t even tell that they were freezing. :)

Thanks!

xoxo

clayton family {2009}

Jules — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:29:37 +0000

During Thanksgiving break I had the pleasure of capturing the beautiful Clayton family in Santa Barbara. This gorgeous mama and I have known each other since I was 6 … my sister and I loved to walk down the street to their house. Fun memories!

We met up at Santa Claus beach on a gorgeous late afternoon. Miss P and Miss D were fun to play with and very cooperative. I love the light at the beach in the late afternoon in the fall … perfect!

Thanks so much Claytons … looking forward to seeing you over the holidays!

xoxo

grampy

Jules — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:30:12 +0000

One of the biggest reasons we spend so much time in Santa Barbara is so Brooks can have a chance to spend time with his grampy. My dad is such a kind hearted, loving man and I adore watching Brooks and grampy hanging out together. Grampy was diagnosed with alzheimers and parkinsons a couple years ago and that has completely changed him and our family. He is a completely different person and I know he can’t remember Brooks’ name at this point.
It’s important to me to capture as much of their time together as possible so that Brooks will always have a memory of his wonderful grampy.
Their days together were always busy … walking the dogs, playing catch (Brooks was always so encouraging to grampy when he had a hard time catching the ball), eating root beer floats, kicking the soccer ball, playing hide and seek and so much more.
The night before we left to come home, the three of us took one more trip up to our favorite hill for an evening walk. I love these images of two of my favorite people at one of our favorite places.

Love you grampy!

adventures

Jules — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:54:14 +0000

Whenever we have a perfectly beautiful day, Brooks suggests we grab the camera and head out on an adventure. Lucky for me, we have had lots of perfectly beautiful days this summer in Santa Barbara. On Saturday, our adventure took us to Alice Keck park to see the turtles and to the rose gardens in front of the mission. I love adventures!

day trip

Jules — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:58:31 +0000

What’s a trip to San Luis Obispo and Farmer’s Market, without a visit to bubblegum alley?! Brooks and Skyler were both in LOVE with all the gum surrounding them.

skater boy

Jules — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:11:58 +0000

After such a busy day yesterday, Brooks fell asleep before his head hit the pillow at 6:00 pm. It was so nice to have a quiet evening, but I knew he’d be up extra early. I was right …at 5:30 am, he popped right out of bed with a cheery ‘good morning, mommy’! We decided to have a quick breakfast and head out the door for a fun shoot. I love that he’s always up for a shoot these days.

These are some of my favorite shots of him! I’d love to get some of these printed BIG (that’s how much I love them) for his room, but I need some help choosing. Please … leave me a message at the end of this post and let me know which ones I should choose. Thanks for the help! :)

Thanks again for helping me choose!

If your skater boy or skater girl would love a mini session like this, let me know! Brooks had a BLAST!!!