Many families love to photograph the milestone of the turning one – and rightly so! What a perfect time to do a big shoot! This is a one hour studio session, and you can see that we can squeeze a lot into an hour. We can usually fit some family photos, classic one year old images, the birthday dress, and even a couple of shots for the holiday card into an hour long session. It’s takes a little planning on the front end, but is well worth your time as you can see!
People remember to bring their babies in for photos, but this sweet girl is a reminder of why to keep photographing our babies even when they are 5 and 6 and 7 and up. I love shoots with older kids – they can be directed in a way that my tiniest clients cannot, and that can be really fun! It was also great that she had a loose front tooth and she was hoping and hoping that it would fall out during the shoot! At one point it was wobbling and almost popped out, and I have a great bloody tooth grin photo (which I sent to her mom, but am sparing you!)
Introducing Karly – an amazing knitter. Not only did she make all the pieces in this modeling session, but she created three of the patterns and is starting to market them online. She is so gifted (and beautiful) that we didn’t even hire a model. Karly is wearing her own pieces, and we talked her daughter and my two girls into joining us, and paid them in ice cream! It was a really fun shoot, and I’m excited to be helping Karly get her beautiful work out into the world.
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Nothing like a rainy, hot summer for producing a bumper crop of berries. Half of these went to a blackberry/rhubarb crisp for friends, the other half head to the freezer for jam day.
This is a true confessions post today. I wanted to get some photos of my own kids on vacation this summer. As a professional photographer, you may think that this would be a small undertaking. I did get photos that I love – that were worth all the work. But I also want to post the outtakes. I feel like every now and then we need a reality check- life doesn’t go perfectly, people don’t always get along, our kids don’t always run down a sunset beach holding hands. You can see in our outtakes that the sun shines too brightly in your face, and the bugs bite you, and your brother squishes you. And if you are wondering what my 12 year old is (laughingly) writing in the sand, it’s “help me”. As in “save me from this photo shoot.”
This is the reality check. We did have fun that early morning – but that was not the only story going on- and sometimes it’s worthwhile to let people see both stories. I post this just to be real – and to say to all my dear clients, I know how much work it is! You want so much to capture a stage, a moment in your family’s life, and sometimes you can, and sometimes you cannot. For me, the effort of doing the shoot was worth it. I would encourage you to soldier on at taking photos of your own kids – the images that only you as a parent can get. We professional photographers will be here to get you some occasional “children in the glorious sunset” shots, but you parents can get the best shots: sleeping in their crib, reading with Daddy, dirty in the sprinkler. You know, real life.
Here are the photos I love:
And here is the reality check:
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