Happy Fall! Family Day Sneak Peaks

We just finished another successful season of Family Day mini-sessions, and I'm so delighted with the families that came out! There is nothing I love more than spending time with my favorite clients on a crisp Fall day. What a great job I have!

This is probably the last year we'll be hosting Family Day sessions in this format, but fear not - we'll have plenty of opportunities for mini-sessions next year, all complete with all of the goodness that comes with it.

Happy Fall!

Your Family

Creating that perfect family portrait is incredibly important to me during our session. But what is a perfect family portrait?

Well, it's arguably "the" shot where each family is looking straight at the camera, beautiful smiles, hair in place, angled to look thinner, and no boo-boo's, wrinkles, blemishes or gray hair appear anywhere in the shot.

Sure, it's a beautiful portrait. And we all love it... But what draws us to look deeper into your family are the real moments. The moments that make you smile, remember, believe, and love. These are the moments I try so hard to capture...

Family Portraits and their Importance

We live in an era where stopping by the store on your 6 pm commute home to buy your morning's caffeine is more of a priority than gathering the family together for a meal, much less a portrait. We're so busy and consumed with everyday life (as we should be!) that documenting it is an after-thought.

Fortunately for me, my clients keep me busy enough to assume that they know the importance of taking professional images of their family life. What is often times forgotten (and make no mistake, I am terribly at fault for this), is including extended family members and grandparents in these precious photos.

I have been photographing Crawford since he was 4 months old. I see him so often that I know all of the things he loves (dogs, daddy, flying in the air) and all of the things he "dis-loves" (luvies, who knew?)....

When Crawford's mom asked me to take a few portraits of Crawford with his extended family, I gave her a huge pat on the back for her good planning and told her my first availability. When we got together for our session, I saw and witnessed the love they all had for this very special boy and knew how important these memories would be for him one day.

When Crawford looks back at these images many years from now, he will be reminded of what an integral part his family (near and far) played in his life. He will pass these heirloom portraits down to the next generation of little Crawfords, and the family memories will come with them.

I encourage everyone to plan your hectic schedules around taking photos. The younger generations will thank you for this, I promise.

Family Portraits

I receive a lot of requests to photograph family portraits. While I love shooting families, it's important to know that my style is less posed, less traditional, and more relaxed & fun. Evan's family wanted to capture a generational photo that illustrated their deep family connection & love they have for one another. Not only were they open to all of my ideas & direction, they were SO much fun to work with!