Hi there! My name is Kristianne Koch Riddle. I am a photographer based in San Clemente, CA and this is my photo blog. I have been passionate about photography for over 20 years. I am also passionate about surfing, sailing and yoga but haven't been able to do as much of those things as I like since having my 2 beautiful kids. I don't like crowds or trendy things.

My blog is where I share my thoughts and a selection of favorite photographs I have made: portrait sessions, my family adventures, personal studies and fine art images part of a series.

I am so glad you stopped by for a visit.

As a vocational photographer, I bring to you, my clients, a fine art photographer's eye and a commercial photographer's preparation and technical skills. I love to spend time with families creating memorable, artistic, storytelling images of their time together. I also love designing out beautiful, contemporary ways to display your images: whether it be a custom session album or framed or mounted print clusters for your walls.

View my portrait portfolio or my fine art portfolio to see more of my photography.

[photography] is my great little valentine

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I am very excited to have some great resources for displaying and sharing your photography. Valentine’s Day is a fun time to give images of your family and kids to those you love. I have a couple of specials that will help you pull images together to share in a beautiful package. One is a wallet . . . → Read More: [photography] is my great little valentine

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[photography] is preschoolers: I just can’t get enough of them

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I love Merrik’s Preschool. I mean look at how much fun they have and all the cool things they get to do. I had no idea I would love Preschool so much.

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Kristianne Koch specializes in on-location portrait photography for the contemporary family and child for all of Southern California. . . . → Read More: [photography] is preschoolers: I just can’t get enough of them

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[life] is sticking with what we know

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After doing hours of research about the closest and most accessible places to reach the newly deposited piles of white stuff in the local mountains, we decided to stick close to town. Neither one of us really wanted to drive 4 hours to get to a place where the rest of Southern California was going to . . . → Read More: [life] is sticking with what we know

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[life] is inside

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It has been raining here all week which is an extremely rare occurrence. If we do get rain it’s usually for only a day or two. The week has been filled with lots of indoor activities that is starting to grow old. It just makes us all appreciate so much more than we already do the . . . → Read More: [life] is inside

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[life] is manna from heaven

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I have been literally overwhelmed lately with the separate demands of Merrik and Maliea. I think I have just been trying to cruise on through this period of our discontent but finally realized that there is just too much for my body and brain to process. The week long experience of feeling seriously ill and drained . . . → Read More: [life] is manna from heaven

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[life] is bikes and beaches

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Redundancy is prominent in our lives right now: watching and rewatching Curious George, Dinosaur Train, Polar Express and other movies; reading and rereading Meet Kai Lan and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Our other redundancy is the beach: bikes, swings ocean and sand. With it in our backyard it’s feels weird to not go.

Later the . . . → Read More: [life] is bikes and beaches

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