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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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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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Outfit stress is real. Figuring out what to wear for family photos in the Bay Area is probably the most common question I get asked. I put together this guide to take the guesswork out of it completely. Bookmark it, share it with your partner, and come back to it every time you book a […]
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This session was a joy from start to finish. This mama and I share a love of flowers, and the timing couldn’t have been better — the magnolias were in their prime, and Filoli, although busy, was buzzing with spring just around the corner. She tends her own garden at home, so walking into Filoli’s […]
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Pregnancy is beautiful — but it’s also a lot. You’re growing a human, carrying a mental checklist that never ends, and trying to stay present in a season that moves faster than you expect. Maternity photos are one of the few things on that list that are entirely for you — a chance to pause, […]
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Some sessions feel like hanging out with friends you just haven’t met yet. This was absolutely one of them. Erin and Willie met me at Old Borges Ranch for their Walnut Creek maternity session on a beautiful afternoon and from the moment we started shooting we were laughing. That’s the best kind of session — […]
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