And one of the best things about Southern California are the palm trees that grace our neighborhoods and campuses. Orange County is covered in this iconic tree.

One of the best spots for CSUF grad photos is at the very large TITANS logo in the middle of the Fullerton campus. It’s larger than life, unless you use forced perspective to get your subject larger than it!

And here is the California State University Fullerton Seal in a graduation photo.

Here is the main entrance on the south side of the Fullerton campus, framed with iconic palm trees.

And we LOVE this awesome grad photo of the CSUF gate and our soon-to-be grad framing it perfectly!

Our grad is a product of the visual arts program at CSUF, so it was only fitting to get a few images after dusk in front of the visual arts building.

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There is this amazing spot for graduation photography at UC Irvine, where there are the arches covered in green, leafy vines. It creates an awesome frame to any grad photo, and has a disappearing point due to the many linear arches. When given the chance, we love to squeeze in extra photos with family members. Here is one of our soon-to-be graduate with his parents, and then individual photos with the mom and dad.

And of course we have to get our UCI grad walking it out underneath the arches.

Here is a closeup of the UCI stole for the year of 2025, along with the cap and gown.

And we LOVE using flowers and greenery to add to a photo. In this case, some star jasmine was blooming and made a great foreground. The background has some of the many scenic trees on the Irvine campus.

Here is a really cool grad photo of the Samueli Science and Engineering building. We love how the glass reflects some of the blue in the sky.

And more UCI graduation photography in front of the engineering building.

And you can’t represent UC Irvine without any anteaters. They do make the cutest plushies in any UC gift store.

And of course we found even more mustard yellow flowers, which grace the rolling hills of Irvine in the springtime.

And if there is a swing, there is an obligation to take a grad photo on it!

We do many photography portrait sessions in the city of Irvine, which you can find on our blog. The university campus for UCI is yet another beautiful place and perfect for a recent or soon-to-be graduate.

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When we see good light, we have an obligation to play with it to create dramatic and artistic graduation photography.

That also includes playing with black and white grad photos, bringing a classic and traditional feel.

CPP is short for Cal Poly Pomona (or California Polytechnic University, Pomona). It’s a gem hidden in a valley between freeways.

This is a CPP graduation photography portrait session. Cal Poly Pomona is a polytechnic university located in Pomona, Southern California, on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County.

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We always love to see photography from a unique and different perspective, so when we see angles like this next one, we have fun with it!

Here is a closeup detail photo for the College of Agriculture.

And when we get the chance, we love to get a quick photo of family and friends that happen to be there during the graduation photography session.

We always encourage bringing props for some fun photos. We also clean up afterwards (which we wish some other photographers would kindly do)!

And you have to love the decorated graduation cap.

It’s quite a beautiful campus near sunset at CPP. The funny thing is the campus has changed since the CLA building was removed, as seen in the background of this grad photo session.

When life gives you flowers, we like to think our pictures get a little rosier.

There is a gazebo in the middle of the Rose garden at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP for short).

There is also a lovely bridge in the Japanese Garden at CPP also.

And what grad photo session wouldn’t be complete without a large CPP logo at dusk?

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The great thing about photography at this park in Pasadena is that there is an iconic and historic bridge in the background of any photo pointing up.

And it’s always fun getting images of the siblings (in this case a brother and sister).

We love the lush green backdrop in this family photo.

And here’s a wide shot of them being under the bridge.

And this is a just a super cute image of the parents kissing while the two children hug in the background.

And it’s always nice to capture the love that started this whole family.

This is a Pasadena family photo session at the Desiderio Neighborhood Park, a relatively new park that sits underneath the Colorado Street Bridge near the 210 freeway. Make sure to check out other examples of our family photography on our blog, such as sessions at the iconic Pasadena City Hall.

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We started the grad portrait session at the Kube, a really cool place of glass and water at the Karvis Center.

Our grad is a student athlete for the Claremont McKenna football program, where the acronym CMS stands for Claremont Mudd Scripps.

We changed the tone of the shoot in the middle with some beer pong with his college buddies. We’re guessing that being in an athletics program helps with tossing ping pong balls.

We then hit up the John Zinda Field, a place where many hours where dedicated.

We next went to the Fritz B. Burns Stadium for more Claremont McKenna Collage football grad photos.

Claremont McKenna College Graduation Photography

This is how we cover the campus and lifestyle of a student athlete and football player at the Claremont Colleges. CMS stands for Claremont – Mudd – Scripps, which represents a prestigious group of acclaimed colleges. Our grad attended Claremont McKenna College,

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