Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting (Makes a dozen cupcakes) Carrot Cake Cupcake | Tiffany Chi PhotographyOrange County, CA MATERIALS for cakeVegetable Grater2 Mixing Bowls or 1 Mixing Bowl & Stand MixerStandard Size Cupcake TinCupcake LinersIce Cream Scoop for frostingStand Mixer / Hand MixerMixing BowlPastry Bag & Star Tip or Small Spatula for Decoration […]

So much of motherhood in daily life is made up of so many small, imperceptible nothings. The tears that are wiped away from an exhausted meltdown, the bruises that appear and disappear as our children explore their world, the time spent shushing the baby to sleep, the cleaning and re-cleaning of toys and books and […]

Motherhood Photography | Unique Perspectives Motherhood | Maternity | Baby | Newborn | Family | Birth Orange County motherhood Photographer I really needed some good news this week. Working two jobs from home, taking care of my babies, staying up late nights, waking up early, being on top of the Social Media Game, general household […]

Maternity & Family Session Orange County, California I am excited to finally share with everyone my most recent Maternity and Family Gallery of the Chou Family. Beautiful mama, Mei, is expecting her first son and second child at 38 weeks in these images with her husband Andrew, and their 20 month old daughter, Emily. As […]

There was an old antique Parisian bookstore in the Quartier Latin that I passed by every morning and every evening when I used to live there. The store was probably only large enough to place a door, and then the remaining space was just books stacked high to the ceiling. The books were haphazardly stacked […]

Maternity & Family Session Orange County, California Outdoor Maternity Family Session | Tiffany Chi PhotographyOrange County, CA It was Labor Day Weekend, and a series of torrential wildfires were raging across our state: two that were newly incited less than 50 miles from us. Temperatures were up past the hundreds, leaving the air almost unbreathable, […]

Reflecting today about how this was the view I woke up to every morning 7 years ago, to date. I took this photograph from my window just before dawn — when the city was still fast asleep, and the sunlight peeked through rippled clouds. I remember hearing the sound of the bell tolls from the […]

Maternity & Family Session Orange County, California Back in the beginning of June, I introduced my Compassion Session initiative on social media. The initiative was borne out of a desire to come alongside a fellow mother to celebrate her life, and her story: to help her feel seen, valued, and loved. In the wake of this year’s protests against […]

Important conversations are happening, and need to continue happening. Some, for the first time are waking up from a deep sleep to the reality of systematic racial division and oppression against the Black Community. I know that I have. I’ve taken a breath. I realize that I am lucky to still be breathing, because so […]

Dear Aimee, Five. When did you grow up? I’ll look through photographs of when you fit in my arms and wonder where all the time went. I remember when you struggled to communicate your needs, and now you regale me of tales that you invented in your dreams. My sweet daughter . . . in […]