Jules Trandem Photography

bloom workshop birthday celebration!

Jules Trandem — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:21:05 +0000

The fabulous women (Brenda and Kristy) with Bloom Workshop are celebrating a wonderfully successful year of workshops!

I took both workshops last spring and LOVED every minute of it!

Go check it out … they are giving away TONS of great goodies!!!

friends {2010} san diego child photographer

Jules Trandem — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:44:52 +0000

I LOVE February … not only do we get to celebrate Valentine’s day but we also get a week of vacation. So many of our friends took off for the slopes and sun this past week…Puerta Vallarta, Mammoth, Big Bear, Bahamas, Tahoe, Hawaii. We weren’t able to get away for vacation so once again we took advantage of the gorgeous weather we had in San Diego… you can’t beat 70 degree weather in February.

I love this series of images that document the fun afternoon Brooks and I spent at the beach with the Stanleys. The light was beautiful! As you can see, these crazy kiddos had a blast digging, racing, and jumping in the waves!

xoxo

heart breaker {2010 family} san diego child photographer

Jules Trandem — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:43:11 +0000

Last year about this time, Brenda and Kristy started Bloom Workshops. I participated in the second workshop and was forever changed as a photographer. They helped me with exposure, creativity, and most of all confidence! As a refresher, I am participating as a ’silent member’ in their current workshop and have loved hearing their words of wisdom all over again.

Last night I was inspired to go out and work on the beautiful sunset light. Brooks and I took off for the creek … he went in search of an adventure and I was looking for light, inspiration and confidence. Even before I uploaded these, I knew I had found what I was looking for. I’m so thankful for my little heart breaker for stopping every so often so I could practice. It’s great to feel like I’ve got my grove back after feeling lost for the past couple of weeks.

One thing I love about these is that they were 99% done after just a couple clicks in LR. I just finished them up in CR4 with some sharpening, a bit of texture on a few and resized for web. It couldn’t have been easier!

Sorry if I posted too many, but I LOVE these and I LOVE my kid.

These make me happy!

xoxo

p.s. I’m running a special through the end of February … $100 off the session fee for a session at this location… only two spots available. Session must take place in February!

Happy Valentine’s Day {2010}

Jules Trandem — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:44:53 +0000

That faint pink plus showed up on Valentine’s Day six years ago … so this day will always be extra special. I LOVE my sweet Valentine boy!!!

I was able to sneak away from class for a few minutes on Friday to be with Brooks and his class as they celebrated Valentines day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

xoxo

gechoff family {2010} san diego family photographer

Jules Trandem — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:13:07 +0000

Finally! After too many rain delays, we were able to meet up at the park on a beautiful morning! These handsome boys were so much fun to work with!

Thanks Gechoffs for a great morning! I’m already looking forward to our beach session this fall! :)

xoxo

mortensen family {2010} san diego family photographer

Jules Trandem — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:22:07 +0000

I’ve know the Mortensen family since the beautiful Miss Y was in my first grade class 10 years ago. She was the smartest, sweetest little girl and her mother was always there ready to help out with anything I needed. Fast forward many years and two schools later, I had the pleasure of Miss B in my first grade class. Again, her mom was right there, always helping in any way she could. Her presence filled a room with love, laughter and voice! Shortly after the 2007 San Diego wildfires (when this family lost their beautiful home), Fayme was diagnosed with cancer. For over 2 years, she fought with everything she had against this terrible disease. With great sadness this fall, her family and friends said goodbye and celebrated the life of this incredible woman. Fayme’s favorite place to be was at home with her family at sunset. I know she was watching out for us on this beautiful evening and she couldn’t be prouder of her incredible husband and two beautiful daughters.

xoxo

our first stop of the day was to ‘color me mine’

we thought we were done for the night, but Miss Y came jumping back into the house … she wanted to show us this… stunning

and I really L.O.V.E. this …

boys only

Jules Trandem — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:35:34 +0000

Brooks and I planned an adventure in Little Italy and brought along good buddy C and new friends Sylvia Borgo (another fun photographer friend) and D. C was so excited that he was up at 4:00 am … Brooks got his day started at 5:30 … we should have planned for a sunrise shoot! :)

The boys loved climbing, jumping, running and chasing their airplanes through this beautiful neighborhood.
Sylvia and I loved watching them laugh and play!

this one rocks the fierce look!

look out girls … little c is too cool!

catchin’ some air!

she loves me… she loves me not … she loves me

LOVE his concentration!

I used ‘one willow retro candy presets’ once again and it couldn’t have been easier! Just a touch in CS4 … played with some textures (still working on how/when to use them) …and a quick resize and these were done!

a new year celebration

Jules Trandem — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:24:33 +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!

rose parade {family 2010}

Jules Trandem — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:52:13 +0000

What better way to celebrate the new year than a curb side seat at the Rose Parade!

Thank you so much to the Newman family for inviting us to join the fun with their friends and family!

Brooks and I got off to an early start by leaving Santa Barbara at 4:00 am. … and no, Brooks didn’t fall back asleep for the drive. It only took 1 1/2 hours to get to Pasadena, but more than an hour to go just a few miles to our meeting spot. Extra thanks to Rich who spent 2 chilly nights curbside to save a great spot for the viewing crew.

As you can see by the photos, the marching bands were my favorite part of the parade … especially the bagpipes toward the end. Brooks loved the snowboarding bulldogs!

These photos show just a bit of the spectacular parade and they also show that I don’t have much of a future in parade photography! :)

Brooks was mesmerized by the knights waiting for the parade to start!

Love the flippers these duck fans were wearing!

OK … he was not as happy with the marching bands as I was near the end

These photos were done in Lightroom using my new ‘one willow retro candy raw presets’ … I lOVE them! I especially love that I didn’t need to do a thing in Photoshop except for resize and watermark! :)

carter at cardiff {family 2009}

Jules Trandem — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:34:08 +0000

Brooks’ cousin has just started to surf competitively and lucky for us, many of his competitions are in SoCal! The weekend before Christmas, we met Carter and Uncle Joey for the morning in Cardiff! Little Santa Brooks didn’t seem to care that it was December, he just wanted to hang out in the sand and surf while watching Carter surf!

A little pep talk from dad…

Brooks would have loved to follow Carter right out if he had a wetsuit on…

his own little happy dance…