one of my pictures made it on the rose’s christmas card last year to great success. i heard about it from many. great advertising for sure! let’s see what they come up with this year.

we tried to get this shoot happening last year but it just wouldn’t work out. finally happened last week. luckily, just before the santa barbara monsoon season hit.

i have not seen hendry’s beach like this before. a winter beach with the rocks exposed and the tide way out. lots of tide pools to walk around and explore. add some pretty light and a good looking family and it makes my job real easy.

trying to make some clever pun with “by any other name” but that is just lame. instead, how about some pictures?

we’ll start with the kids.

but we won’t forget mom and dad.

the youngs have a serious problem: maddie loves horses and talks as if one of her own is in her future. i’m not sure if i helped the situation by suggesting we go to the show grounds for their family christmas card photo shoot.

we were going to do the pics before thanksgiving but trevor got in a fight and ended up with a black eye. we rescheduled for when the shiner went away. was good because there was a huge horse show that first weekend while we had the run of the place last sunday morning.