When you both love — and I mean L O V E — the Giants baseball team and will become a blended family when you tie the knot, well, you...

I don’t hide the fact that sometimes I come up with (*ehem*) interesting ideas during a photoshoot, but hey, it’s because I am working...

Why do shampoo bottles have instructions that tell you to “rinse and repeat”?  How many times are you supposed to shampoo your hair?!!...

Aside from it being Thanksgiving week, I feel incredibly grateful for having a business that I love.  ATP (Annie Tao Photography) is like...

What I enjoy most about photographing families with teenagers is the parent-child dynamic. Sometimes disagreements, dissents or...

There are always silver-linings to anything that goes not as expected or originally desired.  “Problems may suck, but they are gifts. ...

There is beauty in the light that shines within people when they are around those they love.  Those that make them happy.  Those that...

To be honest, rain can wreak havoc on photoshoot plans.  Rain can also lend some really great light immediately after it stops.  There is...

When every where you look, sit, lay and play triggers a happy memory. When asked when you built, planted, or remodeled something in and...

I met The A Family for the first time this Sunday, and their little 1.5 year old daughter, Akira, was so full of personality that she was...

I’ve photographed The L Family for seven years, so when Julie told me her idea of sticking to her own neighborhood, I was like a little...

Twinkle twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Heather, Brent and big sis...

This shoot makes me want to have every shoot in the forest. We were there early in the morning, so the forest was a private setting, and...

You can spend countless hours coming up with the photoshoot location, but let’s be honest.  Does the location REALLY matter? This is one...

Mateo and Anea are the same ages as my first two kids, so watching them grow up is like being in a parallel world in many ways.  I adore...

Rachad and Priti look at each other in such a way that I swear I see cartoon hearts come out of their eyeballs while loud horns sound! ...

I met The L Family for the first time over Labor Day weekend.  During our half mile stroll to the beach, Julie told me how they haven’t...

Luke may have turned one year old the very day of his photoshoot, but as some say, age is only a number because Luke can walk, run,...

It seemed like a lifetime ago when I had to drag myself out of bed to go into an office, and at the end of the day, I’d go home feeling...

Sophia and Isabella crack me up.  I can’t imagine them in the same room without talking with each other or laughing or making a funny...