[life] beach fire bbq
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Last week I sent out a spontaneous email inviting some friends and family to join us at the San Clemente State Beach for a beach fire and BBQ. We showed up at 3:00pm and fortunately my good friend, Chris had already arrived and snagged the last table available next to a fire pit. By the [...]
[life] off to the camp
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I had the opportunity to join my girlfriend, Aggelige, up to The Camp to scout out the new location of her shop, Organic Designs. She was wanting to get a feel for how to prepare her inventory and displays for setting up shop in a refurbished airstream trailer. It was a great afternoon for me; [...]
[life] off to camp gramma grampa
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On my way home from dropping Merrik off at the train station today, I got all choked up. I am so fortunate for the family I have and for the family I have married into. My kids are the luckiest kids around and get to experience so many fun things with their grandparents on both [...]
[past life] yacht log
Whenever I think about my weblog, I think about the first “log” I ever did. When Jim and I sailed to Polynesia we kept a frequent log of our position, wind, weather, sail combination, and observations. I decided to look up to see where we were on our sail from San Diego to Hiva Oa [...]
[photography + life] new favorites
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I just love these new images of Merrik and Maliea. It’s all about the ever so important light. Photography IS light after all. I was trying to capture Maliea with her new favorite toy Friends With You‘s Super Malfi. Jim bought this at MOCA in LA on one of his work outings for Merrik but [...]
[blog] comments
I just wanted to mention that I love to receive your comments on my blog. It is a great way for me to interact with you and I am always thrilled that someone has made a remark or opened my eyes to something new that I didn’t know about when writing the post-especially if it [...]
[life] father’s day weekend
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We had a fabulous close to home weekend with dad. Saturday was chilly so we stuck close to the back yard and Merrik and Maliea could not resist taking their clothes off as usual-especially when there is water involved. Merrik wanted to strip down last weekend at State Beach. Maybe Linda Lane, but definitely not [...]
[photography + life] father’s day album
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I am totally loving the Finao album that I created for Jim. It arrived quickly, was easy to put together and is beautiful. I can only imagine what some of the other fabrics would look like-especially on a larger format book. Kristianne Koch Photography Kristianne Koch specializes in artistic portrait photography of families, children and [...]
[photography + life] art direction
I have always struggled with art direction in my photography and now that I have finally given in to doing portrait work, I am finding that art direction necessary for stepping up the distinction of my work is somewhat at odds with my lifestyle. When I was studying photography back in the ’90s, I realized [...]
[life] merrik and me
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We went to the beach yesterday, just Merrik and me. He’s been needing a little mom time lately so I decided to let Maliea get a good solid nap at Nana Papa’s while Merrik and I went to the beach to soak up the sun that has finally emerged from behind the clouds. We went [...]
[photography] new work
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These are images from my new series ‘SUCCESSION’ in my fine art body of work. I have been working on this current series for the past several years and it was inspired by a project my husband and I made out the back window of our home once a day for an entire year. You [...]
[life] lunch dates
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If you haven’t noticed already then I’ll tell you now. We (Merrik, Maliea and I) do a lot of things with Nana Papa (my parents) who live over on the other hill in San Clemente. It is a fun and easy way for the kids to spend time with them (and vice versa) and for [...]
[photography is life] messing about
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There is NOTHING–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. – Kenneth Grahame We headed out to Dana Point Harbor at the last minute today to check out the Ocean Institute’s Build-A-Boat Challenge. We arrived early so grabbed a bite to eat at our favorite lunch place there: Proud Mary’s. We [...]
[life] my outside girl
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I caught Maliea trying to brake through the bars on our gate the other day. She followed Tiki outside and around to the front of the house where he slipped through the gate to the front. She desperately wanted to go with him. She loves to be outside. First thing every morning she will walk [...]
[life] game night
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We had fun gathering around the game board the other night. The kids were goofy and we never actually finished an entire game but it was fun to attempt to reach Candyland. Even Maliea was poised with her red gingerbread man game piece when the cards were being drawn. She pretty much won by picking [...]
[life] yardwork
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I can’t think of a more rewarding way to spend a Saturday together. We all love to work in the yard. Both Jim and I have fond memories of helping mom and dad in the yard when we were young and both of us had mowing the lawn as our chore. I loved to hear [...]
[photography + life] getting out
I was actually able to pull off being out after dark two nights this last week. The first night was “date night” at Kid’s Day Out and I had already made plans to go out with my good friends Aggelige and Yvette. We all met at seven4one in Laguna Beach. This boutique hotel is a [...]
[photography + life] don’t always mix
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While we were in Yosemite I tried my best to do some nature photography. It was a challenge. Doing fine art photography with kids in nature is kind of like trying to surf where you anchor-dangerous. Every time I would spend a few moments-mere seconds-composing an image, Merrik or Maliea would be on the verge [...]
[life] at the pier
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Another one of our famous visits to the pier. This is the location of my ongoing series titled pierside in my current portfolio of work. It was the one warm and sunny day we’ve had in a week. Thank goodness we took the time to get out. Kristianne Koch Photography Kristianne Koch specializes in artistic [...]
[life + photography] overexposed
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I took these images at Dana Point Harbor at one of our family picnics. I had just photographed at Miss Pattie’s where the light is very low and green. So, in turn, after not bothering to reset my camera settings I obtained a whole series of beautiful pink and grossly overexposed images of Merrik and [...]
[life] beach trail
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The beach trail is like a lifeline around here. It is the source of the outdoor community in San Clemente. It is always wonderful to go down to the shore but not have to just play in the water or sit in the sand. Today was an especially gorgeous day at the beach. I think [...]