Carrie Hasson Photography » Waikiki

august break. day 31.

Carrie Hasson — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:32:23 +0000

august, you were so beautiful to me. giving me a way to reflect and share on my blog that I had been missing…
thank you friends for following me on my august journey. thank you for all of the lovely comments. and thank you august, for you were just the beginning…

august break. day 24.

Carrie Hasson — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:32:13 +0000

my day on the 24th.
breakfast.lunch.
and dinner.
can you spot the moon?
*all taken with my iphone

august break. day 16.

Carrie Hasson — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:39:16 +0000

Culling through photos of my niece’s visit, and these just cracked me up. It was a beautiful day in Waikiki and here I was trying to play tour guide to three little girls who could have cared less, and would have rather just been having fun at home!
Gotta love the missing teeth flanking each side of the photo! And then, well, there’s always one sour apple in the bunch:)

the zoo

Carrie Hasson — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:47:57 +0000

As I continue to cull through my favorite photos of my time with The Throwdowns, I wanted to share a little something personal. I had the chance to go on a field trip with my baby girl to the zoo last week. She has been wanting to go to the zoo in a bad way since we moved here. Couldn’t have been a more perfect way to spend her first class field trip!

When I spend time with my kids, or my family for that matter, I rarely bring my camera. Not that I don’t want to capture the moments, but being a photographer, sometimes it’s just super important for me to just BE in the moment. Another reason it’s great to hire a photographer for your special family moments, so that you can actually be a participant rather than an observer

When I got to the zoo however, there was inspiration all around. It was stunning, the little pockets of details. I couldn’t help but pull out my iphone and take a few snaps. I’m sort of conflicted about the zoo. I know they do a lot of great work, and help a lot of animals, but sometimes I look at the animals and wonder if they would be better off in their natural habitats. On this day, the elephants were especially restless. And yes, I am completely ignorant on the subject- so it’s just an observation. Either way, we had a great time spending time together. We even played hookie the rest of the day from school and roamed around to explore a little more. We trekked all the way back to the opposite end of the park one more time to get one last glimpse of our faves, the chimpanzees!
Enjoy~ our day at the zoo, iphone polaroid style.

celebrating 11 years of life

Carrie Hasson — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:52:47 +0000

A few days ago my oldest daughter turned 11. Bittersweet but beautiful. As your children grow older, I think it’s easy to creep into denial. Oftentimes in your mind’s eye you still see them as a baby, as a child. But there’s no denying that they are growing, learning and changing…sprouting up with each new day in their sunshine-filled lives.

It had been awhile since I’d photographed my sweet girl. She is busy as ever, has lots of other things to do than hang out with her mom and her mom’s camera. But I knew that I wanted to capture these sweet days, savor the last days that my baby was 10, ten years of life, a full decade of love.

And so we ran out, captured the closing-in of the day. Scouting a new spot, helping her mama out, but really just stealing a few little glimpses into her world. Because they are just glimpses, such fleeting embers in time and then they drift away…and onto the next year…11.