Katie DiSimone :: San Luis Obispo Wedding Photographer, Paso Robles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and beyond

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04.15.09

After a dramatic 26 hours and 12 minutes, my website and blog are finally back alive. Thanks for your patience everyone while that unscheduled downtime happened. Believe me...I was just as lost without my own blog as you all were. I got on my computer and stared at it blankly, lost without the comfort of my own site to share my thoughts and photos. I was doing some simple domain name things with my host company which I had not expected would impact the hosting of THIS website, thought it would only affect an old website of mine. BUT, Murphy's Law prevailed. Anyways, to celebrate the rebirth...I'm going to share a secret. There is this program called Skitch that is one of my favorite things of all time. I have been using it for about 8 months or so. Of course, this is only for Mac users because we are, after all, better than everyone else (ok, little joke there). But, seriously this is not for Windows users. Skitch is this little program that allows you to do screen captures on a Mac in a simple click. You just drag and click...voila...instant jpg. How do I use it? For everything. If I see something online that I want to send someone on email quickly...I skitch it. If I want to send a screen shot to a friend on iChat, I skitch it and it goes in a second. If you frequent forums where you post images, you can use Skitch to not only capture your screen image...but skitch even uploads it with the click of one button and hosts it for you to post elsewhere. This is especially cool for bloggers!!! You can skitch anything you see online and easily make reference back to it in your blog.

AND IT IS FREE!!! no spam, no fees. i love skitch.

So, if you click on the image below (which yes, was skitched from skitch's website) you too can get addicted. Now, don't share this secret with everyone. It is something special. Only give this link to people who you owe favors to, or want to kiss up to.

I have to give credit to Pete Lawrence for originally sharing this program with me. Thanks Pete!

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Keith Lang:

Thanks Katie!

We're always so happy to hear stories of Skitch helping make sharing easier. And just to let you know, we do plan to release a version for PC as well, but don't have a release date for that at this stage. I guess you could say we want to share the love ;-)

We always love to see how people use Skitch and to hear feedback, so just let us know if there's something pro photographers like yourself would like to see in Skitch or skitch.com

*Beautiful* photos btw!

Keith
skitch.com

(04.16.09)

Philippe:

Hey Katie, we are so glad to see your website back up and running. We were worried for a while there. Glad to see you back!!

(04.17.09)

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Come here Caleb, look at this

04.12.09

An awesome family session in San Miguel yesterday. Caleb and Dylan are sweet kids...and their 'rents are super cool too. They live on acres and acres and acres of land, with lots of rattle snakes. They killed over 80 rattlers so far this year! (and those were only the ones hanging out near the house and kid's playground!!!) So, when I asked them to go off-roading to get this super cool family shot...they luckily didn't bat an eyelash. We tried lots of places here and Caleb loved them all. A lot. In fact, so much so that he was WAAAY more interested in the places, rocks, sticks and things than photos. Bonus! I loved exploring the new places he led us to!

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Kristie Chadwick:

These are all so fun! I want fun family pictures!

(04.13.09)

terrie:

Great looking family and great pictures. Love them

(04.16.09)

Tressa:

I love the feel of these images! What a gorgeous family!

(06.02.09)

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Baby Kate

04.11.09

Look what slept over at my house last night! I am thrilled to have an extended visit with Baby Kate and her parents (my friends John and Kaira). It was like Christmas morning for me today...waking up knowing that I got to hold this beautiful baby today. Kaira and I know each other from swimming days years ago and I've been dying for the day she got jumped into the parenthood club! So...this is just a quick tease while Kate finishes her breakfast snack. I'm off to go play with her again.

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Ellen:

Good grief, are you kidding me with those eyes? She could have anyone in her grip just by flashing those baby blues. So stinkin' cute!

(04.11.09)

Jennifer:

Gosh - that lip-drop is soooooo cute :-)

(04.11.09)

Lisa:

That first one is angelic!

(04.11.09)

meghan:

AMAZING!!! Oh man she doesn't even look real -- she's SO precious and those pictures are GORGEOUS!

(04.11.09)

Annie:

Oh that face!! I agree with Meghan, she doesn't look real! Absolutely beautiful!

(04.13.09)

Kymper:

OMG- I cannot wait to meet her myself!! You guys did so good! : ) These pictures are beautiful. Kaira, you're so lucky to have a friend with such talent.

(04.16.09)

Sabrina Martinez:

Kate is absolutely adorable!

(05.05.09)

Claudia:

What a cutie! What a beauty! Is that red hair I'm seeing? Katherine Jane with RED hair? She's gonna be England's next Queen!!!

(05.07.09)

Della:

Katie is absolutely beautiful, and so dainty. You and the Lord did a great job! So glad that you have a precious daughter to take care of. And, you have great grandparents to help out, and they are SO proud!
Blessings to you and your family, Kaira & John!
The Lord bless you always!
Love, Della and Jim Wuertz :)

(05.10.09)

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A family portrait

04.07.09

Meet Oliver, Owen, and Reed...three cousins. Mother nature provided the session's entertainment with wildflowers, gopher holes, dirt, and cow poop. It's times like these that I'm glad Jason doesn't ever come to sessions with me. He'd be so jealous of the way the boys played vs the way our girls play. The boys didn't once put a flower in their hair, complain about their shoes getting dirty, or pretend to get married. They grabbed sticks, climbed logs, and looked for wildlife. It's a different lifestyle with boys. One quick note too...Jessica (the girl on the right of the family photo) and her husband Glenn (the guy conveniently next to her) are the owners of The Beneficial Bee. They gave me a tube of their organic peppermint lip balm, which I've been using at an embarrassingly frequent rate cause it tastes so good. If you're into organic products, or interested in bees...you can check out their stuff by clicking HERE

And finally...one of my favorite images from the afternoon...I'd exhausted my supply of whistles, fake farts, and cow noises trying to get Reed to look up from the dirt he was handling. Kate nuzzled into him in the hopes of distracting him. While it didn't distract him, it sure made for great photos. I love it when something doesn't turn out like you expected.

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Jessica BB:

Beautiful pictures as always! Thanks for such a fun and easy photo shoot.

(04.07.09)

meghan:

Love these pics SO MUCH and -- as it turns out -- I also love lip balm so I ordered one.

Great advertisement, Katie :D

(04.09.09)

ken kienow:

that last one is SOOOOOOO awesome. so are the rest, but i really love the last one. :)

(04.09.09)

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Wedding: Kristin and Chris, Paso Robles Part II

04.06.09

Kristin had jotted down some notes for what she wanted to say to her guests during the reception. She wanted to thank all her family and friends for their love, support, and attendance. Her note was very sweet...

Kristin trustingly gave the notes to *someone* to hold and when the notes were returned to her just before the toasts...some new phrases had been added to liven things up.

But, unfortunately, even the little jokes on the paper couldn't keep Kristin from choking up. She tried twice to start her thanks, and each time had to hand the microphone off to Chris for him to finish her sentence before she started to cry. So sweet (and a little funny too).

And the father-daughter dance made me weep. That crazy song "Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle got to me again. When I hear it, I imagine Jason dancing with Anna at her wedding...and I'm toast.