Winners of the Tales & Toys Photo Contest | Venice, CA Child Photographer

October 19, 2010

A big thank you to all of you who voted!!

Congratulations to the winners! 🙂

Sunday’s Family Session | Los Angeles Child Photographer

October 14, 2010

I had a wonderful time with this lovely family on Sunday.

The last photo is a new favorite of mine.  I love the way the light falls on her face, and the way her window reflection falls on the blurry trees.  🙂

Here are a few of my favorites…

H Family | South Pasadena Child Photographer

October 10, 2010

The first time I met the H family was at the Bellini meet and greet back in August.  Before I even said hello, I exclaimed “Oh goodness!  Look at those chunky little thighs!”  So, it is safe to say that I was thrilled when they called about a session.  🙂

Here are a few of my favorites from our session…

Tales & Toys Photo Contest! | Venice, CA Child Photographer

October 9, 2010

I had a wonderful time photographing 11 families last weekend at the Tales & Toys mini-sessions event.  Venice is such a colorful fun place to take photographs!  A huge thank you to Elizabeth over at Tales & Toys and all the wonderful families who came out!

Elizabeth and I are holding a contest for the top image from each session.  The four images with the most votes will be displayed over the children’s book section at Tales & Toys.  The winners will receive a free 8 x 12 print of the winning image.

The Contest Details:

– All images will be listed with a number.

– Each comment counts as one vote.  Please refer to the number when you leave a comment.

– We will total the votes from this blog and from our Facebook Fan Pages to decide the winning images.

Voting ends Sunday, October 17th at 7pm.

Winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 19th.

If you have a Facebook page, you can stop by our Facebook Fan Pages to vote too!

Original Kids by Tanya Alexis – http://www.facebook.com/originalKIDSbyTA

Tales & Toys – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Venice-CA/Tales-Toys/151652798880

Ann & David’s Son Turns 2! | Pasadena Child Photographer

September 29, 2010

I want to take a moment to say I am thrilled that Ann took a chance on me back in January when I walked into her store asking if I could put up a display of my photography.  Since then we have built a really great relationship, and I am very happy to be a part of the Jumping Jellyfish family 🙂

Ann and David invited me to their youngest son’s birthday party a few weeks back.  The detail was unlike anything I have ever seen.  Ann, you (and your helpers) did a phenomenal job!  I kind of had an idea of what to expect, because for the first few weeks of September, every time I walked into the store, Ann was gluing something together, whether it was all the individual strips on the invitations or the little pom-poms on the little birthday hats that were put on each cupcake.  She made all the mustaches on a stick too!

Ann, you are amazing!

I hope you enjoy the photos 🙂

The first one is by far one of my most favorite shots.  I know you don’t see L’s face, but to me it is the perfect example of the innocence of a child.

Pets are family too! | Los Angeles Pet Photographer

September 25, 2010

As a pet owner, I find it hard to resist a client’s pet when we are at their home for a family shoot.  I snap a few quick shots just in case they want to have a photograph of their other furrier little ones (although sometimes they are not so little).

While I am not officially starting to venture into photographing pets, I am seriously considering adding it to my business.  If you are interested in having your pets photographed, please let me know.  This is a limited time special offer for all portfolio building sessions!  For every paid session fee, you will receive a discount on your order.  Please contact me for more details regarding this offer!

Have a great weeekend!

Email: tanya (at) originalkidsbyta.com

Phone: (323) 399-5535

Jumping Jellyfish Photo Booth Fun! | Pasadena Child Photographer

September 13, 2010

I had a wonderful evening over at Jumping Jellyfish on Friday during One Colorado’s Fashion’s Night Out! 🙂  I met lots of lovely people, and I got to take photographs of some super cute little ones.   I want to give a huge thank you to Ann & David, and everyone who helped out with this evening!

Here are some of the photos from the evening…

The adults had to have some fun too!

My assistant for the evening was a lovely miYim stuffed elephant.  I love this company!  They have a wide variety of products, and they are all organic.  Plus, they are very soft.  They just came out with a Dr.Seuss line too!

A special thank you to Amber over at Whisker Workers!  Your mustaches were loads of fun and very durable!

I know this next image has nothing to do with photo booths, but I just had to share it.  This may be the cutest little onesie I have ever seen 🙂