Just one quick one from Saturday evening's session with a couple of really cut girls! I love light like this, especially the happy glow from a late summer sun. Because frankly, it's still crazy hot here in Texas, but as the sun sets earlier and earlier I know fall will arrive eventually. :) More to come from this session!
I'm totally phoning it in with this one. I shot this last week right before a wedding we were shooting and never had chance to reshoot it! I did take some 4-year pics of Ben today, but he was not exactly thrilled with taking pictures of his shadow again. Not to mention it was 1pm and the shadow casts are so short that time of day, anyway! So I give you my shadow pic! One thing I do love to do to shadow pics is flip them. Much like John's awesome shadow pic from this shoot, I flipped it to give it a little more interest. It always makes me a little dizzy looking at them upside down, but I still think it's kind of cool!
What I really wanted to do was get a pic of Ben jumping so it was just his shadow and then flipping it, but I might do that again sometime to see if I can actually successfully do it. But if I were to shoot this particular image again, I'd either shoot wide open to give the shadow more depth or I'd shoot at a really high f-stop to get it completely in focus. I'll have to play with that another time. :)
I think most people would agree that taking pictures of 2-year-olds is hard. It's even hard for parents to get good pictures of little ones that won't sit still or are more interested in what's going on around them than staring at a camera. So when some friends of mine called to see if I could take their family pictures before baby #2 comes and to also get some 2-year pics of their son I was excited! And scared. Two year olds are hard! I think I cried when we came home from our own family photo shoot when Ben was 2. He just did not cooperate! So I always come extra prepared for sessions with toddlers. This session was no exception!
So we started the standard family picture so he wouldn't have to sit still long. He did really good!
Then dad had to pick him up since there was so much to explore at the park we were at. And he still did great!
After that I started to get a little creative because, well, he's two. But he was not a fan of my big bucket.
And the lollipop I brought broke the minute he bit down on it.
Now after this I was chasing him around and totally broke the strap on my flip flop. My favorite brown and silver flip flop. Awesome, right? Luckily the mom (owner of this great etsy site) had brought an extra pair of shoes since she was over 20 weeks prego and let me borrow her shoes. Thank you, Amber!!
So we were back on track. He loved running on the bridge and being held over the edge by his dad.
And lying down on the bridge was one of his favorite things. And included two of my favorite images of their session.
But the clencher was when his dad pulled out the bottle water and soaked the little guy! This kid LOVES water. It was the perfect way to end their session!
I've been clearing out all my CF cards for a wedding we're shooting tomorrow (which we're so excited about!) I came across this picture of Ben that I took at my mom a couple of months ago...before I had Shelby and before we cut his hair! Man, I miss that hair. But I love this picture. :)
Keep an eye out for a preview of the wedding!
I've photographed this family before and was excited to shoot them again because their kids are so cute! We battled mud and really patchy afternoon light and my 3-year-old who I had to bring along. He's good buds with these kids, which made for more distraction than anything! But it all worked out! Thankfully mom and dad are tall so they helped block the patchy sun for the kid pictures. I'm so glad they did because the portraits are my absolute favorite parts of this session! We love you guys!
This family are great family friends of ours and for many reasons I was so honored they asked me to take their family portraits. We shot at the Botanic Gardens again (same location as the previous session) and had a lot of fun. Here are just a few!
Oh how I LOVED this session! The light was just beautiful, the family was just beautiful and the weather was perfect. I can honestly say they are the nicest people I have ever met and I really love how all of their pictures came out! I could post so many more from this session, but I'll just post these! I'm hoping to blog a few more sessions in the next couple of days. I'll also post information on my schedule and maternity leave! I'm getting so excited!
You may remember miss Baby Kate from this session. This is her now at 10 months. Could she be any cuter? I squeezed in a session with her great family today while John stayed home continuing the drama of a demo job in our guest bath! It's gonna be a late night fixing things up, but I wanted to post just this one from today. :) I promise to have some highlights from some of our recent sessions soon!
You'll recognize one of the families here from another shoot. The mom coordinated with me on sessions for her family as well as for her in-law's side of the family. This day was for her family. When I got up the morning of our shoot and it was cold and rainy I chuckled a little, then when we all arrived at the location, she joked that she was really great at picking days for photo shoots. The same cold drizzly weather both days! But I've know this side of the family since I was a baby and I was more than happy to brave the weather with them! Plus it was my first chance to meet the beautiful daughter of this awesome couple!
We kept the shoot as short as possible with all the babies involved and made it work! Thanks, guys for being such troopers!
