Thanks for finding my photography journal! My name is Cristina Coco and I am a portrait photographer in the Westchester and Fairfield County area.
I love what I do. I love what I do so much I left a very cool, high paced, world-traveling job in fashion to photograph kids. I know, I know, I must be nuts, right? Well I hope this blog will give you an insight into why I left what some might call a dream job to run after a bunch of munchkins with my camera.
You'll notice that a lot of my images capture those kiddies looking straight at me, straight through the lens. That is the shot I aim for at every session I do. I love that moment when everything else fades away and that child really sees me. Only a kid can naturally look at you like that - most adults can seem posed or even look away in embarrassment. A child can look straight through you and capturing that moment for parents - that look that they know so well? Well, that is why I love to do this so much.
So enjoy my little neck of the web - I hope that it helps you get to know me a little better and makes you comfortable about choosing me to capture your memories.
I’ve photographed my dear friend Melissa before. (Photographer playdate) She’s my local photographer buddy – the one I call when I need someone to listen to me vent about business, a new lens, a problem with photoshop… she kinda gets what I mean and she is a GREAT sounding board. I’m so lucky to have...
I wanted to share what a basic family session with me looks like. I had this session a week or so ago and seeing it’s at my favorite location and a beautiful family I thought it would be a good one to share!
Custom portrait photography is much different than your average simple studio session. I...
After a great year with my business, I decide to run a little contest in December to give something special to a family who might need a little pick me up. I didn’t have a lot of rules, I just asked that people nominate someone they thought could use a little joy in their lives,...
This week is always a busy one with my family. My brother, Grandfather and I all have birthdays four days apart. Needless to say, it’s one birthday dinner after another (stemming back from my brother and I getting equal celebrations as kids – nice job Mom!) and by the end of the week we’re all...
Just because you eat rigatoni by putting them on your fingers and eating them one by one.
Just because you can’t just give a little hug, it’s got to be a really big one and usually with a running start.
Just because you say thank you without me having to remind you.
Just because you ask me to...
Every year in April I start looking out my kitchen window and wait for my yearly sign of warm weather. Not just spring, but of a hope of summer days at the beach and late nights on the patio drinking wine with my husband as he smokes a cigar. Crickets chirping, kids playing outside, fireflies...
Ok, I know I’m a little pushy on the canvas. Listen, I was a sales person for 15 years, sometimes I can’t help myself when I love something. I do love framed prints too! There’s just something about canvas though – something that makes a statement and makes your images even more important. Oh, and...
Anyone who knows me well knows I love gadgets. If it’s new and all tech-geeky, I’m on it like white on rice.
I love my iPhone. Love it. Ok, so I hate the battery… but I love everything else about it and being the visual person I am, any way I can make it more interesting...
Interesting, I feel like all my posts have been about giving lately. It’s funny because I think motherhood has made me a little more aware of what is going on in this world I brought my son into. I try to do what I can, and photography is what I live and breathe – that’s...
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