Alami Family Portrait - westlake, ca

at first glance you might swear that we traveled far and wide to find such a beautiful location to photograph the alami's family portrait. we did...their front yard! we had but 5 minutes before the sunset and the result was proof that "when you see it...you see it." more often than not i find beautiful, sometime, down right spectacular locations in the families home, yard or neighborhood. this does a few things. it allows the family to be comfortable in a surrounding that is uniquely their own, eliminates undo stress of traveling to an unfamiliar location and most importantly documents their life in an environment that they will never soon forget. i have to comment on one thing however; i have never protested to be nor have ever been called a "whisperer"...but take a look a the yorkshire terrier. even the family was in awe.