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Glimpses into recent San Francisco Bay Area maternity, newborn, and family photography sessions. Tips and advice for planning your upcoming portrait session with Rebecca Pattison Photography. Reflections as a mom of two.
While I was photographing this couple, a Mercury News photographer noticed us and quietly captured the moment himself. He came up afterward and asked if he could use the photo, and just like that, this couple went from having a maternity session in the redwoods to being in the newspaper. They came expecting a maternity […]
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If you’re planning a session at Filoli in Woodside, California, one of the first questions to work through is when to go. The gardens change dramatically throughout the year, and each season gives your photographs a completely different feel. I’ve photographed maternity and family sessions at Filoli across several seasons as a Bay Area Filoli […]
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Ella was about a month old when we met for her Santa Clara newborn session. Her family had recently moved into a new home, so this was the beginning of two new chapters at once: settling into their new home and getting to know their brand new baby. Her parents were settling into life with […]
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This Redwood City newborn session was for the sweetest new teammate, two and a half months old and already surrounded by a nursery full of history. Dad played football through college and went on to coach afterwards. Mom took that history and built a nursery around it, weaving the sports theme into nearly every detail […]
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Third pregnancies are different. There’s a knowing to them. A confidence and ease that comes from having done this before. And then sometimes there’s a plot twist that makes everything feel brand new again. This was her third baby. Her first boy. And his two big sisters had a lot of feelings about it, all […]
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As a Presidio maternity photographer, I love introducing families to the quiet beauty of Woodline and Lover’s Lane. This San Francisco maternity session took place at 37 weeks pregnant with an energetic three-year-old, a little rain, and so much love between this growing family. Richa reached out hoping someone could fit in a maternity session […]
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I had already packed up my camera, but then…Amanda was sitting in the grass with her two young daughters, four years old and not quite eighteen months. The girls were picking tiny daisy wildflowers and tucking them into their mom’s hair and shoes. Nobody asked them to. Nobody staged it. As a Golden Gate Park […]
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We are so lucky to live here; Bay Area photography locations are genuinely some of the most beautiful places to photograph families and expecting mamas. Within an hour of almost anywhere in the bay you have dramatic coastline, ancient redwood forests, manicured gardens, golden hills, and neighborhoods where the light does half the work before […]
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It was a rainy morning in San Mateo. As a San Mateo newborn photographer, I arrived to document baby Lukas at one month old — and his big sister sang me songs from the moment I walked in. I left having witnessed a Man Yue celebration, a traditional Chinese ceremony I was honored to see. […]
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When Sydney received her gallery from her San Jose Rose Garden family photographer session, she responded: “Omg HOW DID YOU DO THIS. It looks so much less chaotic than it was lol. I honestly thought the kids would look feral in every photo 😂 Magician with a camera.” That text made me laugh. I’m not […]
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