Last Saturday I was outside in my Laurel Canyon compound I like to call "Shangrila Skwarczek" shooting some shots of my Goddaughter Reece. She was visiting from WI and wants to try to do a little modeling so I'm putting together a comp card for her (blog entry of some shots soon!).

As we wrapped up a shot, my friend showed up with this little guy! This is James and his Mom. They are friends of my friend and she brought them over for a swim because they were visiting from Seattle. I've never had so many visitors since I moved from Chicago to LA and I LOVE IT! So I had my camera out anyway and I couldn't resist him.

I have so many great spots to shoot here, I've never had a studio before but now I can shoot right here in addition to shooting on location! It's not great for infants outside (I have some nice light inside tho!) but perfect for bigger kids and those closely supervised on all the stairs outside. I'm wrapping up the little finishing touches on the office and then I'll post the grounds and work studio.

Thanks for the visit James & Timi, it was fun to play with the light spots around here in such an enjoyable way!