Forgot to post these! Isaac and Avi in April

Ok,I am standing up typing this because Isaac has stolen my desk chair so he can play his Lego Star Wars game on my laptop. It's all downhill from here...

These are photos I took of the kids over spring break in April that I forgot to post. I just love them. They are sitting on our picnic table at Clearlake. This table is the center of pretty much every stay at the lake. It's location is a fixture to everyone in my family. It shows up in many many of my photos.

Isaac is holding up the newspaper because it's his birthday. April 6.

Summer is Here!

Well, the kids are out of school, and now they are hanging out at day camp...but before that, we went up to Clearlake. A great week. A week of NOTHING, but just being. Loved it. We had rotating friends come up and hang with us....and I am embarrassed to say that I barely took any photos....I was enjoying the air too much to even pick up the camera....nice to give my visual brain a rest though. I am attaching a few photos, not all of them, I'll get to that later (after I get back from Texas, yay Bonnie!) next week.
But here are a few snaps of Avi, (headless, he barely let's me take his picture any more...booo...) Isaac, Bea and others...I'm not going to name everyone's name, but they are all dearly loved. The second round of friends (you know who you are) will be posted next round.

Happy Summer!



GNATS!! ARGH!

GO ALAN!











Go Dayna Go!

Yay Avi! And also fun with Remote Control Cars

Hooray!! Avi is graduating from Preschool!! Onto bigger and better big girl school. Here are a few snaps from her graduation ceremony, as well as photos from this past Sunday eve. My husband and son have FINALLY found a hobby that they can both geek out on. Which leaves me and Avi to run around and take fun pictures...great for everyone!






And now for the cars...

Holy Smokes, Seriously Cute Henry

So, this is Henry, I photographed him this past weekend. Seriously? He is out of control cute. Loved photographing him. And his mom, makes these AMAZING framed collage-like pieces of art work with photos etc. It's based KIND OF on the whole scrapbooking thing, but the finished pieces are these intimate/powerful/super cool pieces based around simple design and photographs. In the coming weeks I will be posting some samples of her work, and she is starting to take this on less as a 'hobby' and more of something to offer others! I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, here is her cutie-pie Henry.

Lots of work, Little Blog time

I'm not sure how many people actually check out this blog, but for those of you who happen across it from time to time...I apologize for being very delinquent in my postings. And now I am about to leave for a week, so there goes that...but in the meantime I feel like I ought to explain myself with a list of my goings-on as of late...
Two weeks ago I photographed an AMAZING wedding in Upper Lake, Ca(some of my faves are posted in this blog post), which if any of you know where that is it is on the North end of Clearlake, where I (my parents/family) have a vacation home, and have been going there since birth. So when this wedding came up there, on a weekend that I already planned to be there...I accepted. And am so happy that I did! So, there was that, and then I photographed ANOTHER beautiful wedding the next weekend at the Pelican Inn at Muir Beach. Hopefully I'll have a few from that one to post soon! (I have to get permission first of course.) I've also been filling my time photographing preschools. So much fun, and it works great with my own children's school schedule etc. I've also done some photo work for a great baby company called Lifefactory.com, and I will post some photos from that as well very soon. The make super cool, toxic free, glass baby bottles. They are unbreakable, because they have this non-toxic squishy (patent pending) silicon stuff on the outside. And they just look very cool too. I've also had my share of very cute chubby babies to photograph....so I've kind of been all over the place with my work, but it's been great. I love keeping it so diverse!

So one more thing I have to mention, my son, Isaac, today finished 2nd grade. Tomorrow, is my daughter Avi's LAST day of preschool. In the fall it's off to kindergarten! What happened? It's all moving so fast! I plan on taking some time this summer to be with them, go swimming, go to Clearlake, you know...live a little. And hopefully, I'll remember to bring my camera with me from time to time....

Here are some snaps I loved from the Upper Lake wedding. I'll post some more photos again soon!

Great Clothes! - Amy Perl Oakland Photographer

The clothing brand is Bunny and Bee, and it's GREAT! Way back when, when I was a part of my own start up baby clothing brand, I met a good handful of other moms who were doing similar things. These are creative people, with great ideas, and with the experience of a mom to get what other moms want for their kids. That being said, Jennifer and husband Faez started a super cool brand called Bunny and Bee. Faez is a graphic designer and comes up with the most unique screen print designs. They've recently started doing more cut-and-sew fashion, and I love it.

I've photographed for them a few times, here are some snaps from our most recent session!

To see their ADORABLE clothes go to, www.bunnyandbee.com.