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Welcome!

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.





The tale of the traveling skirt.

Or one that should have traveled anyway!  I met these two sweethearts in my son’s music class last year.  They are both really sweet girls and pretty friendly, so Mom and I were surprised when the little one wasn’t really a happy camper starting out.  Turns out, we had put her in a jean skirt for the session and she hated it!  If we had taken it off sooner we could have gotten a ton more smiles, but she was so beautiful with those huge eyes and chubby cheeks it didn’t bother me in the least!

Here are those two being perfect little angels!  I know their mom will love this as much as I do!

Cristina Coco family photographer

Sometimes to get younger kids warmed up I play an expressions game.  Basically I tell them a feeling and they show me what face they would make.  In case you can’t tell – (DUH!!) first is a funny face, then a sad face, happy face, and a maaaaaad face.   It  gets great shots every time and they always loosen up for smiles after!  makeaface

Now, the skirt is still on here, so at this point the only thing that would make her smile was tickles from her big sister!

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And then Mom helped out with having her point to her ears, eyes, nose and hair!  Technically this is the “where is your hair” shot, but all I see are eyes!!!

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I have this Daisy Buchanan vision with big sister…  Beth, please forgive me that all your images of her are super dreamy – Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books and I kept going back to that while editing!!

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Thanks for a fun time ladies!  Beth, more to come soon!