Why Every Child Deserves to Be Celebrated As parents, we spend so much time helping our children learn, grow, make good choices, and find their place in the world. We encourage them to try new things. We remind them to be kind. We hope they’ll find good friends, discover what they love, and grow into…
Your kids don’t want perfect pictures, they want to remember you There’s a pattern I see over and over again. Moms are incredible at making sure everyone else is taken care of.The kids are dressed.The family is coordinated.The moment is planned. And then… mom steps aside. She adjusts a collar, fixes a strand of hair, hands the…
It doesn’t have to be January 1st to begin. We’re a week into the new year, and if you’re anything like most people I know, the year didn’t magically slow down just because the calendar changed. Which is exactly why I’m starting this blog today. I’m not posting on the first.Everything is not perfectly planned.I don’t…
2nd Annual SANTA ON THE BEACH is NOVEMBER 12!!! It’s that time again! I am so excited to announce that the Images by Valerie’s 2nd Annual Santa on the Beach schedule is open! For those of you that haven’t heard about Santa on the Beach, I created this event during the Covid lockdown. As a…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!If we haven’t seen each other or connect since the clock ceremoniously ticked off the new year. I wish you an amazing 2022. I am a fan of even numbers, although 2020 was a hard one to accept, I stand strong in the support of 2022. Being born on February 2nd, my daughter…
It’s Fall!!! 2021!!! Have you thought about your family photos this year? How many times? I LOVE FALL! Basically, I love the seasons change and even though here in Santa Barbara, they don’t really change- there are local blocks or parks that have the trees that I LOVE to walk through. I look at the…
Do you celebrate the big moment or make big of the little moments? Many photographers have been drawn to photography as a profession because there are no images of them growing up. Either they were not the first child and their milestones weren’t documented or it just wasn’t something that was of importance in their…
Fall Today, holiday music tomorrow! Now that fall is in the air, we are thinking of school starting, leaves turning and the weather changing- so obviously holiday music will be playing tomorrow in the stores! I thought it was only right to try to put a little light under you. As a mom I learned…