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  • Welcome to Ian Grant Photography

    Thank you for checking in on our blog! My name is Ian and I'm a photographer in greater the Los Angeles area. That's my wife Tanya over there too- she's great with clients and has a fantastic design and fashion sense.   I specialize in Wedding Photography and LA Headshots but you'll often catch me out shooting landscapes and traveling insane distances to visit National Parks in my spare time.

    In my wedding photography I like to combine both, so I guess I'm a landscape-wedding photographer.  I love long roadtrips and have been all over the US from Rhode Island to California. I enjoy planning far away trips and going over to Europe to drive around aimlessly for an extended amount of time. Tanya and I run Ian Grant Photography out of our beach spot in the Los Angeles suburb of Playa del Rey, CA. Enjoy your stay, and feel free to introduce yourself!

    Wedding dates for 2012 are quickly filling up! If you're interested in having us shoot your wedding or event, please contact us and we'll get right back to you! Feel free to let us know your wedding ideas and how we can help!

    Thank you for visiting!

Birth Story: Introducing Lily Madeline Grant

Hi everyone, You might have noticed we've been absent from this blog lately, and rest assured there's a very good reason.  On November 20th we welcomed our daughter, Lily Madeline Grant.  She was born at 3:23 am, was 19 inches, and weighed in at 5 lbs 14 oz.  She's been our biggest and best project...

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February 2, 2012 - 5:30 am

photovideoart - Excellent. It would be interesting to see how this baby growing up.

2011 Family Postcard: It Was a Long and Perilous Journey...

You knew this year wouldn't go by without a family postcard right?!  This year has been a bit crazy as we just welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Lily into this world [click the link to see daily photos of her].  Quite literally we haven't slept and days have been blending into other days without me...

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December 12, 2011 - 11:40 am

Kristy Rowe - I love this so much. There are no words. Adorable! Happy Baby!

Manhattan Beach Baby Photography - Madeline [7 months]

Manhattan Beach Baby Photography Little Madeline is growing up!  Last we checked in with her she was barely 1 month old, now she's already 7 months and getting into everything.  It's been so much fun seeing her grow from a little newborn and keep that crazy personality we saw from the start..and such perfect facial...

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Los Angeles Headshots: Orson

Los Angeles Headshots Check out this guy-  His name is Orson and he's a working actor in LA and has an incredible wide variety of looks.  He can pull out the executive down to the drugged out street criminal.  Such a pleasure to work with him, be sure to check out his reel on Youtube! ...

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October 26, 2011 - 11:10 am

RedSphere - Awesome headshots, love the light and processing!

Adamson House Wedding - Jeanine and Rob

Adamson House Wedding - Malibu, CA Getting Ready Venue: The Shangri-La Hotel, Santa Monica Wedding Venue/Reception: Adamson House Wedding Grounds Well to say this was a unique wedding would be an understatement. Rob and Jeanine had an absolutely gorgeous wedding from getting-ready straight through the wedding and reception.  You might have already seen a few...

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December 13, 2011 - 6:03 pm

Dallas Wedding Photographer - Very creative and artistic !!! I love these images !!!

November 28, 2011 - 1:54 pm

Mark - Plymouth Wedding Photographer - Ian, that's a really classy wedding and amazingly well captured. I'm totally loving the shoe shots and the colour scheme is one of my favourite combos, blue and yellow, not sure why, just always love it. Oh, and that location, I would love to be able to do outdoor weddings in the UK, but well, we can dream!

Lily at 26 weeks

Our little wombmate Lily is getting pretty huge and Tanya and I are getting more excited by the day!  As of today she's about 30 1/2 weeks developed and has gone from floating around and sneak kicks to constantly pressing against Tanya's belly and giving nice little skin moving jabs.  I usually get in bed...

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September 28, 2011 - 11:24 pm

Rob - uhh... in that last picture Lily looks like an alien who wants to eat your face.

September 28, 2011 - 9:14 pm

Ian Grant - hahahaha! That's hilarious! Tanya has been starting the waddle, it can only get worse from here.

September 28, 2011 - 9:12 pm

Julia Nardelli Gross - Oy. It was well past 32 weeks. It was really hard to roll over to the edge of the bed, and I pulled a muscle in my leg scooting over one day. I foolishly said that "my scooting leg' hurt. But the story has been bastardized by some people :::cough Jeremy Gross cough::: to include a hill billy accent and moaning.

September 28, 2011 - 8:37 pm

Jennifer Danis Carter - She needed it to get out of bed towards the end of her pregnancy. Hysterical!

September 28, 2011 - 7:38 pm

Ian Grant - What's a scooting leg? I'm afraid.

September 28, 2011 - 4:04 pm

Jennifer Danis Carter - Ask Julia Nardelli Gross about her scootin' leg - I think it started at about 30 weeks!