Category archives: Kids

  • Home Is Wherever I'm With You

    •     4 years ago my family moved from Sacramento to Los Angeles. My husband was starting school and we planned on only staying for 14 months. We picked out a little apartment online and moved our growing family to Park La Brea sight unseen!  I remember walking into our new home for the first time and looking out over the Hollywood Hills in amazement. The fact that the apartment was teeny tiny was over shadowed by all the beauty in our neighborhood and the exciting new things to do. Those 14 months quickly became 4 years when we decided that L.A. was where we belonged. During those years we welcomed, celebrated, loved, played, and dreamed (of more space!) Finally on Friday our family will  moving out of the 8th floor and back down to the ground. We are so excited to have a yard and more space (maybe even some home studio space.) Despite the elevators that often break, having to do laundry in the basement, our downstairs neighbors that hate us for all the running and indoor scootering... I can not help but feel a little sad to leave this 8th floor home that made L.A. home for us to begin with. My babies grew up here! My youngest was born in the bathroom! The view... I am going to miss the view! I am so happy to have photographed so many great memories in this house and even more excited to take many more in our new place!        

  • Live In The Sunshine- Los Angeles Child Photographer

    • Week 2. Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Kara lived it up in the sunshine last night! While the boys dug in the sand Kara danced her heart out while yelling "the tide is coming in" at each wave. I feel so blessed to live in Los Angeles where a Friday in January looks like this...     xoxo Christina Hultquist Christina is a Los Angeles mom of 3 and photographer who's 2014 New Years resolution is to take her babies to the beach on Friday nights! Be sure to share and follow her weekly beach adventures!

  • I Resolve To.... Los Angeles Beach photography

    • I resolve to kiss my babies on the beach more. Living just a short drive from the Pacific Ocean I am just not there enough. It is nice enough year round that there is no reason that we can't make it a few times a month instead of once every few months. So in 2014 I will take my kids to the beach. Often. Also while doing my favorite photos of 2013 it was very obvious that I photograph my daughter far more than I do my sons. Part of the reason is my daughter is willing to model. She enjoys dressing up. She has so many fun cute clothes that I want to play dress up with her! My boys are less interested in photoshoots. Now because I don't want to force them to take photos I will learn to photograph them just the way they are. Letting go of MY vision for them. Don't get me wrong I am sure I will take advantage of any oppertunity to photograph Kara, cause ummm, tutus. I will just make time for the boys more as well! Yesterday I did worked on both of these. We headed to the beach for the evening and plan on making Fridays "Beach Night!" Do you Instagram? Follow me @littlelaphoto to follow my families beach resolution! xoxo  

  • Santa Monica At Sunset - Los Angeles Family Photography

    •   What better way to say good-bye to L.A. than with a Santa Monica family photo shoot at sunset? That is exactly what this sweet family did. Just days before moving across the country they met up with me for some beach time! My favorite part of this family shoot was when little Z let me wear him on my back in his Ergo Baby for a few shots of his mama and daddy! That's my tick for not letting babies eat sand! Thank you guys for spending this precious time with me and I wish you many blessings as you start your new life in your new home ♥ xoxo Christina Hultquist

  • Top 10 Personal Photos of 2013

    •     Here is my top 10 personal photos I took this year!  Some candid, some I put more thought and planning into and some that were planned and didn't turn out like I had envisioned yet I love just the same! I am so excited to watch how my babies grow and change in the next year and plan on capturing it all! My 2013 personal favs! Our home. This little  space was meant to be our home for 18 months. 18 months turned into 4 years when we decided to stay in L.A. for second round at the L.A. Film School. We are in our last few months in this home and I am so grateful I took this imperfectly perfect shot from our life. Walking in on my 4 year old doing a little light reading... Fifth birthday shoot ♥ This photo is now my business card and Kara proudly hands them out to people she likes in public haha Lex's 3rd birthday shoot. This was a shoot photographers nightmares are made of. I picked the perfect time of day. Lex was well rested and seemingly in a good mood. I  dressed him in a shirt he loves and headed outside. He, in all his 3 year old glory, wanted NOTHING to do with taking pictures. I was so frustrated as I really was excited to have some 1:1 shooting time with him like (as you can see) I get with Kara so often. After a short time I gave up. I walked back to the house sure that I had got nothing from our short trip of chasing and bribing.. then I opened up the pictures on my computer and fell in love. Sand behind her ears ♥   This. Oh how he loves her. Fishing. 13! Sophie Dance recital What may be my favorite photo I took ALL year. My Banksy balloon girl. xoxo

  • 10 Favorite Client Images of 2013 -Los Angeles Chrildren's Photographer

    • As I am wrapping up my sessions from 2013 I am so thankful for all the beautiful opportunities I had with my clients families. Choosing my 10 favorite images from the year wasn't easy. I chose these images for the emotions I feel when I look at them. I feel so blessed that these families chose me to share part of their life with them. Some for only and hour or two with their future baby, their newborn or their toddler. Others I spent days with patiently waiting to photograph their baby coming Eartside. Each time I felt like family as your welcomed me into your homes, let me swaddle up your newborn and trusted me enough to be at your birth. Thank you ALL from the bottom of my heart. These images are in no order as I can not pick a favorite. Also there are many many more I would have added but a "top 100" seemed a bit excessive!   This moment candid moment at a nursing session. These two mamas waiting for their son. This angelic mama with her newborn. This smooshy baby girl ♥ My adorable friends in a field hehe Soren's backyard garden birth!! Runner, cautiously allowing me to take his picture.   Dana glowing on the beach in Santa Monica.   Nursing in labor. This. THIS. This moment. Is why you must hire a birth photographer!! And this. ♥ xoxo Christina Hultquist

  • My Digital Christmas Card - Los Angeles Children's Photographer

    • I spent the last two months shooting and editing for all my beautiful clients holiday cards and totally forgot about my own! So THIS is my holiday card! 2013 was a crazy for my family and business. My husband graduated from The Los Angeles Film School as Valedictorian with honors in the spring. My kids started school for the first time ever! I met and photographed so many beautiful families as well as many past clients! (thank you all!)  Now that many of those big changes 2013 brought are out of the way, we are ready to settle into the new year. My husband just started a new job in the film industry. #livingtheLAdream right? hehe I am launching my new boudoir site and and booking for Valentine's shoots NOW! My kids are making many new friends, Kara is just the cutest little dancer at Sophies. So we say BRING IT 2014! We are ready for all the awesome you have in store for our family! And now for my official digital Christmas card.... So next time you give me that look like "So sorry my kids are goofing off" during your shoot, trust me I  don't mind, my kids do it too! I want to thank you all for believing in me and trusting me with documenting so many precious moments! I can't wait to capture many more! I wish you all an magical holiday and blessed New Year! xoxo

  • Vacaville Family Photography -Los Angeles Photographer

    •   Over Thanksgiving vacation my family headed north to our hometown to be with family and friends.  I don't mind working on vacation when "work" looks like this! This shoot was shot on my friends farm in my hometown of Vacaville. When I arrived I was greeted with a glass of white wine and this gorgeous sunset! Mid shoot we were visited by a horse and a goat and we wrapped up with a dinner at my favorite restaurant will many friends. It was so wonderful to capture this for your family this year Lindsey ♥    xoxo

  • Fall Family Photos- Los Angeles Family photographer

    • These kids may be my most photographed kids, my own excluded. Their mother Margaret was one of my first friends here in Los Angeles. We met at a quilting club. My son Lex was about 2 months old, her son Runner just a few weeks. After a minute of talking we found we had much in common. Both having just had a homebirth = instant friends. haha A short time later she invited me to attend the homebirth of her second son Emerson.  After a few years, many play dates, a few photoshoots, and a birth.. I present you with their latest family photos! Thank you my sweet friend for trusting me with capturing your family so often!           xoxo Christina Hultquist