As I said on my home page, My life is my family.  I have an amazing husband, Jules and four healthy, beautiful kids. I'm blessed.

 I've spent the last 17 years being a mom. My oldest is 17 and my youngest is 4. Yes, they get photographed a lot, mostly candids though.

I focus of documenting moments, not just taking portraits. My days are filled with errands, volunteer work for San Marcos Pop Warner football or SMYB baseball, SM High FFA and all the other day to day stuff in life. By the end of the day, it's hard to remember all the moments. At the end of every year, I take a few days and review the years pictures of my family.  I reflect on what we've done, achieved, laughed about, cried about and just did. That's what I do. I document moments. It's how I remember my year. In all the daily hussle and bussle of life, my pictures document the moments of me and my family.

As a child, Family Photo Day meant a day of..."Don't move!", "smile", "say cheese" type moments. I dreaded it! This is not what I do. If I have to roll around with your child to capture their moment, then I will.

In 1989, in Buffalo, N.Y. My family lost most of it's pictures in a house fire. As I started to have children of my own, I would often wonder what did I look like as a child. This rekindled my love for photography. My whole life, I've always been the one to  grab a camera and capture a moment and capture a memory. Photography is my passion.

Photography is a reminder of what was. A window to the past. I have a horrible memory when it comes to events, so I  use photography to remind me of things I would otherwise forget.

Contact me at: northcountyphoto@hotmail.com
I live in North San Diego County and do travel.

Photographically yours,

Deanna Ghani- Martin
(858)603-1281