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I love having fun, learning new things, making people smile, and telling stories. I love seeing life through fun angles. I enjoy inspiring others as well as being inspired by others. I have the most supportive husband, best friend, and partner. We enjoy hiking, traveling, our furry kids, snowboarding, weddings, and of course, photography.

I love weddings.  Weddings are filled with thoughtful details and emotions, and I love capturing those precious memories. I love telling vivid wedding stories. I put my heart into every photo, so you will see personality, new perspectives, a great story, and life in my photos.

I work unobtrusively, using my mix of photojournalism, candid, and fine-art portraiture style.  I document those important moments with the most interesting, truthful and beautiful perspective.  I understand how much time and thought is put into each wedding - that’s why it is so important to me that you to experience your big day all over again every time you see your pictures.

The opportunity to capture your memories and tell the story of such a special day is truly an honor to me. I enjoy developing relationships with each couple, which allows me to make each set truly unique & memorable.

This blog is where I will update my most recent photos along with random bits from my life. It is a casual place to get to know each other. If there are specific photos you want to see more of, you can click on the categories at the top to see photos of that category. I hope you find what you’re looking for here. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments!  I’d love to hear from you!

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los angeles children photographer | linberg family

LA-family-beach-photo-01Happy Monday everyone!  The weather’s cooling down and it’s starting to feel like the holidays, my favorite time of year!  Holidays are all about family and the people you love, so I thought it would be appropriate to share a happy family session!  The Linberg family contacted me to do a shoot for them and their adorable little girl.  When brainstorming locations, we thought it would be cute to go back to where they got married!  They got married at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, and did their wedding portraits on Santa Monica beach.  I thought it was cute to come back to the spot where their family began.

LA-family-beach-photo-03Kate was really shy in the beginning.  I think it was PNS – post nap syndrome.  She found comfort in clinging to dad this day, which I thought was so precious.

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LA-family-beach-photo-07We walked down to the beach and Kate quickly brightened up!

LA-family-beach-photo-08One thing I love about wedding slide shows is seeing baby photos of the bride/groom with their mom.  When I look at my baby photos or my husbands baby photos, I think about how young our mom’s were, how fashionable they were, and happy they were to be new parents… and how that could be me now!  These photos of Kate with her mommy reminds me of photos I would see in a wedding slide show.  When I take family portraits, I always think about how it’ll look in a wedding slide show (or whatever new technology they have by then!).  And I tear when I think about these following photos in Kate’s wedding slide show because I empathize with Kate’s mommy!

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LA-family-beach-photo-12I just love how happy and silly Kate is, and how happy their family is.  I especially love this next expression…

LA-family-beach-photo-13This next diptych symbolizes her growth.  She was super afraid of the water, but eventually started walking that direction herself.  I think she was still scared of the water, but was taking a few steps closer!

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Congrats you two on a beautiful family!  I look forward to watching Kate grow and documenting Kate’s many milestones… and perhaps even her wedding many many many years from now!

Oh yeah, and it’s the last few days of a buck a comment!  We’re at $117 now to charity:water!  This Thursday at midnight is when I will send over our donation!

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November 23, 2009 - 1:25 pm Emilie - Gorgeous soft colours!!! I love your photos!!

November 23, 2009 - 1:50 pm connieMchung - so cute! and yay for all the comments! :) her little blue dress is soooo adorable.

November 23, 2009 - 4:07 pm little room la - i love how you brought out such smiles & laughter in the little girl! she looks precious :)

November 23, 2009 - 4:45 pm jenny - just precious!!

November 23, 2009 - 5:56 pm Debbie - Amazing! We hope you'll photograph our little one (whenever THAT may be, haha) some day... :)

November 23, 2009 - 8:26 pm Jenny - Love this family session ! She's so precious ! Taking family portraits at the beach without any shade is so hard ! Yet you manage to do such a good job at it always :) *hugs*

November 23, 2009 - 9:39 pm Carolyn Egerszegi - You always rock the family sessions Caroline. What an inspiration. Thanks!! drip drip.

November 24, 2009 - 3:09 am Kathy - Hi Caroline! It was great to meet you and Jonathan this weekend and we all had so much fun during the shoot! Hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your time in Monterey! We went to the brunch spot the next morning and Eric and I ordered a very yummy (although really heavy) crab cake and lobster benedict:)

November 24, 2009 - 9:24 am Alexandra - Wow. What a cute family! I can definitely see these being in a wedding slide show! They are so beautiful, you are so talented :)

November 24, 2009 - 1:05 pm Bobby Earle - Um... you KILLED it! These are gorgeous. Sidenote: I freaking love your PPing. I think it's closer to what I shoot for -- but then I end up screwing up :P Bobby

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