While I was in San Diego for a whole three days, in between two weddings in the Bay Area, I had the pleasure of shooting a family portrait session with the McDonough Family, Aidan, Sandy, Paige and Mark .

We went to one of my favorite San Diego spots, Sea Port Village, along the downtown waterfront. This is a pretty touristy area but I will always love it because it reminds me of the weekends spent with my brothers and dad flying kites. Its a perfectly windy and picturesque area with great views of Coronado Island. There’s also a carousel which we went on twice. When I was a kid there used to be a brass ring on a stick that you tried to grab as the carousel went round and round for a free ride. This was the second thing that I experienced while out on my California trip that took me back to my youth. The other was rollerskating and that will be in my next post.

Being in beautiful Seaport Village, riding that old carousel and taking pictures of this lovely family hardly seemed like work to me. The kids felt very comfortable with me so much that they started directing me in what pictures to take of them and then their little personalities really came out. Again, I can’t believe I get to take pictures of adorable kids for a living. Here are some of my favorites of the day…