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Family Portrait Collections Golden-hour portraits on the Laguna coast — planned around your family, and printed for your walls.

PHOTOGRAPHING FAMILIES SINCE 2002

2026 – 2027

WELCOME

Your children will not be this age again next fall I have been photographing families on this coastline since 2002. In that time I have learned that the families who love their photographs most are not the ones with the best weather or the most cooperative toddlers. They are the ones who ended up with something on the wall.

So that is how we work. We plan your session properly, we photograph at the best light of the day, and then we sit down together and design artwork made for your home — framed pieces, an album, something your children will one day argue over.

Not a folder of files. Something you will still love in twenty years.

Kristin Karkoska Founder & Photographer, Blue Sky's Studio

THE EXPERIENCE

You show up. We have already thought about the rest.

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We plan it with you We help you choose the location and coordinate everyone's outfits — taking into account your style and the colors in the room where these will hang. Nobody arrives wondering what to wear. We also file the City of Laguna Beach permit for you.

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We photograph at golden hour About ninety minutes on the sand or the bluffs. We photograph everyone together, the siblings, and each person on their own — because in ten years you will want all three.

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We design the artwork together Two weeks later we sit down and design what actually goes on your wall. You see your images large, in the room they are made for, before you decide anything.

THE EXPERIENCE

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COLLECTIONS

Choose how your photographs come home Every collection includes the retouching of each image you choose, and artwork produced by the same professional labs we have used for twenty years.

MOST CHOSEN

The Coastal

The Laguna

The Legacy

$1,795

$2,995

$4,800

16×20 gallery wrap 10 digital files Ready to hang

20-page heirloom album — 10×10 or 12×9 A digital file for every image in your album 16×20 gallery wrap

40-page heirloom album — 10×10 or 12×9 A three-piece 16×20 grouping, or a 24×36 statement piece Every digital file from your session

Ready to hang

A minimum order of $899 applies to every session. Albums come in two shapes at the same price — a square 10×10 or a landscape 12×9. We will help you choose the one your images want to live in. Session fee $300, booked separately and not applied to your collection. Individual pieces are available à la carte; families ordering separately spend an average of 16–20% more than the collection price.

COLLECTIONS

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T H E G AT H E R I N G

When everyone is finally in the same place A reunion, a milestone birthday, a wedding weekend, the holidays — whenever your family is all in one place, that is the week to photograph them. We run these year round, at the coast or at the family home.

THE SESSION — $599

HOUSEHOLD COLLECTIONS — $895

Up to 20 people, up to three hours. Includes the

For each family within the family — an 11×14 of just

City of Laguna Beach permit when we photograph

your household, ten digital files of your own

on the coast, a wardrobe conversation with every

images, and your own album insert.

household, each family photographed on their own as well as together, and separate gallery access for each household.

Every household chooses their own. Nobody goes home with only the group photograph.

Available year round. Holiday weeks book first — tell us the dates everyone is in town and we will work around them.

We review the images with everyone together, and each household orders their own. Grandparents usually take the main collection; duplicate albums — identical to the original — are half price, and this is the session where everybody wants one.

T H E G AT H E R I N G

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INDIVIDUAL PIECES

À la carte WA L L A R T

ALBUMS

11×14

$495

8×8, 20 pages

$999

16×20

$895

10×8, 20 pages

$1,299

20×24

$1,195

10×10, 20 pages square

$1,595

24×36

$1,695

12×9, 20 pages landscape

$1,595

30×40

$2,295

10×10 or 12×9, 40 pages

$2,495

40×60

$3,400

Additional pages

$45 ea

Duplicate album same size, same design

Framed pieces add approximately 20%.

WA L L G R O U P I N G S

50%

The 10×10 and the 12×9 are the same album in two shapes, at the same price — square or landscape, whichever your images want.

Three-piece, 16×20 each

$2,395

Five-piece storyboard

$3,295

DIGITAL FILES

Nine-piece gallery wall

$4,900

Single image

$195

Five images

$795

Ten images

$1,295

Twenty images

$2,195

Every image in your album

$1,395

Full session gallery

$4,200

P R I N T S & B OX E S

Portrait box, 10 matted 11×14s

$1,899

Portrait box, 20 matted prints

$2,999

5×7 · 8×10 · 11×14

$95 / $145 / $245

H O L I D AY C A R D S

25 · 50 · 100 cards

$395 / $595 / $895

Card concierge addressed & mailed

+$450

Minimum order $899. Prices valid through December 2027. A 50% deposit confirms your order; the balance is due before artwork goes into production. Installment plans available on request.

À LA CARTE

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W H AT H A P P E N S N E X T

Three things, and we are booked 01 Choose your date

02 We plan together

03 We design your artwork

Weekend and weekday golden-

A call to settle the location and

About two weeks after your

hour sessions. After 1 November

your outfits, and we file the city

session, in the studio on Bent

the light goes early — sessions

permit. Two business days' notice

Street or over video if you are

run 3:30–4:45pm.

minimum.

visiting.

Holiday cards must be photographed by 20 November. The last session date of the year is 20 December.

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BLUE SKY'S STUDIO LAGUNA BEACH

462 Bent Street, Laguna Beach, California 92651 (949) 510-3862 kristin@blueskysstudio.com blueskysstudio.com PHOTOGRAPHING LAGUNA BEACH FAMILIES SINCE 2002