Baby Hana was born on April 1, 2010 to my past wedding clients Nami and Ray. Just a few weeks ago, Nami and Ray were in my Los Gatos photography studio doing their maternity photos. Just a few weeks later I got the email that Baby Hana had been born! I quickly came to the family’s home in Fremont to take her first “professional portrait”.

I am so amazed at the miracle of life. Once a baby is born they transform so fast. Each day they gain weight, get taller, and learn more and more about their surroundings. This crucial time in the first couple weeks of their life, only lasts that, a couple weeks. From there they start to change and adapt to the world and their personalities take shape. Truly, at this stage of life, they are innocent and totally pure. That is why it is so important to have this fleeting moment captured on film. It is such a brief moment in time.

Baby Hana is going to be a diverse and cool person. She is half Japanese and half Mexican. She will have both cultures as her heritage, but will be a true American girl as well. How sweet it is to have amazing parents who are rooted in their traditions, but have also become Americans themselves. She will be a really cool trilingual girl that is going to be very unique. From our shoot, which lasted a little less than one hour, here are Nami and Ray’s favorites of their special little girl!