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If I had to choose a few words to describe the type of photography I desire to create, it's fun, natural, funky, creative, fresh, different... for seniors, I'd throw in casual, edgy, classy, stylish, simple. I don't prefer the forced smiles and poses (though when working with a large family, it's sometimes the necessary evil)- I want to capture the natural smiles and expressions that make you...well, you.
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Dawson’s three months already! Here he is at 2 months… playing with big brother and Daddy. He’ll be in on the action soon enough!
We couldn’t get Hudson to pose with them so at least we got Dawson and Adam.
Ahhh… so sweet.
Loving his smiles and laughs!
I purposefully took Dawson’s 2 month portraits in the same outfit I took Hudson’s to compare them. I’ve had most people say they don’t resemble each other and I’d have to agree. But a few think they do. What do you think?
Hudson at 2 months.
I am always looking for new, different or better products to offer my clients and recently became aware of the album I’m blogging about now. I currently offer an 8×8 and 10×10 album but wanted a smaller option… I ran across a different album company that offers a 6×6 that was perfect!
It has different qualities than the two larger albums so in a way, it’s a product of it’s own. Instead of the pages being printed on “photo paper”, it’s printed on art papers: watercolor, linen, pearl and art recycled (a beautiful paper made from 100% recycled content for all the earth conscious folks out there). Thus the name: art album. The cover material is linen that comes in a variety of colors BUT you can upgrade to this beautiful custom designed metallic material (see images below). It’s way cool.
The pages are sturdy instead of being like magazine pages. They’re very sturdy.
And of course each album is custom designed by me to best tell your story and display your images.
This week, myself and two other photographer friends ventured out to the beautiful new 7th street area to experiment with a new kind of shooting that lends towards a greater “high fashion” look. Our guinea pig, Nicole, was INCREDIBLE. I’m so excited to start offering this new look for my seniors!
You may remember recently my mentioning my good friend, Laurie, who has recently written the book “Founders’ Fables”. I had the opportunity to photograph her headshot for her website. Check it out at www.foundersfables.com!
Founders’ Fables is a children’s book to help explain our most treasured American values, based on the principles of our Founding Fathers and the concept of limited government. Through the use of funny and memorable characters, ten simple fables address these American values, often believed too complicated for kids to comprehend.
If you’ve been following me over the last two or three years, this family will look very familiar to you. Our good friends have added one more to their family. This sweet little girl is now 4 months old! My how time flies. What a sweet family enjoying one another during this sweet moment.
Amanda is excited to start offering framing! She just ordered a beautiful variety of samples and is ready to show them off! She’ll be offering a fall special on framing so keep an eye out! More info to come.
Okay, so maybe it’s been awhile {since Dawson arrived}. Posts don’t make it up on my blog as quickly as they used to! But my baby, Dawson, was born April 21 at a whopping 9 lbs 8 oz! And, excitedly, I had a successful VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean)! I was planning for a natural (non-medicated) birth as well. As badly as I wanted that edipural at 6cm, I was progressing too quickly for it and I got that natural birth I was wanting (like it or not at the time!).
Perhaps surprisingly (considering Dawson’s my second child), I actually photographed his newborn portraits AND sent out a birth announcement. Since I sadly couldn’t send it to everyone, I thought I’d post it below for everyone to see!
Great news! After a busy work week, I was able to finish and deliver (today!) the JWC Easter Tea portraits to the department presidents’ boxes. For those awaiting yours, they should be delivered to you via your president at your next dept meeting! Happy Easter!
And I can’t post without a few images! This darling little girl couldn’t take her eyes off the bunny. Seriously. Of all I shot, 75% of them were of her doing this. She was smitten!
I was finally able to get her to look… not with too much of a smile- but she was looking!
Here is a sneak peak of Saturday’s session. Do you guys remember Saturday? It was a beautiful day, but extremely windy. Man, was it windy. In spite of that, I think we got some darling shots. These three kiddos are cousins. We had the grandparents and parents there for the shoot. They were all so helpful. I couldn’t have done it without them. Seriously.
Here’s the oldest cousin. I was so thankful for her. She did exactly what we were asking (sit, look at the camera and smile) and did it beautifully!
This little one was just too adorable. She had so many expressions, it was hard to narrow them down to the cutest! I just loved these of her.
And this little guy did exactly what two year old little boys do… move around! He was all over the place. He wouldn’t hardly stay in one place for very long, but he really took to my step ladder.
All boy. Flying that plane around making the “plane” sound with his mouth. Too cute.
And getting all three to sit, smile and look at me was a bit of a challenge, but we captured a couple. Here’s one!
Well, this weekend I had my last two sessions for awhile. I’m hoping to take several months off to adjust to having two little ones at home but am booking sessions for the fall. Saturday, I photographed three cousins, aged 8, 2 and 1. It was quite a high energy time and it definitely wore me and my 38 week pregnant self out. I came home, put my toddler to bed, picked up the house and was asleep by 8:30! I’ll be blogging these hopefully later this week.
THEN (what I was thinking, I’m not sure!), the next afternoon, I photographed Easter Portraits for the Junior Woman’s Club’s Easter Tea. I did this last year and photographed 25 little ones. This year, however, the Bunny came out of retirement and brought many of it’s followers with her. I photographed 45 (yes, 45!) children/groups of children/families in 1.5 hours. It was very high paced and exciting! Shockingly, I wasn’t too tired the rest of the day. I thought I’d blog a few of the sweet/funny ones.
You might recognize this little guy from last year. He was full of energy last year, but a little somber (tired, I’m guessing) this year. He didn’t want to sit by himself so we tried getting him with momma. He wasn’t really interested in looking at the camera, but I captured this sweet snuggly moment of the two of them. They came back towards the end of the time and we tried a family portrait instead. He had a few more smiles to share then!
We had children of all ages!
We photographed families this year, which provided a little more variety.
This was one of my favorites! We absolutely could NOT get all three kiddos to 1) sit 2) look at the camera and 3) smile all at the same time. A very tough combo indeed! But we got them all having a good ol time. I just loved this one in black and white.
It was so great to have the bunny out this year, but he definitely caused a little slow down in the pace as some kids had what I call the “santa clause” syndrome. They cried when the bunny came anywhere near them! It was quite the miracle we got the one we did on the right of the little girl not crying. The mom was SUPER sweet in reassuring me she’s okay if we only get one of her daughter crying. Low expectations are awfully nice sometimes!
And then we had a few who wanted to be in the picture with the bunny, just didn’t want to get too close!
This was the second who didn’t want to get too close. It just cracked me up.
Oh, Amanda, those are GREAT!!! Can’t wait to take pics of my new one!