Dodging the Showers...

I did a family and children's session on Saturday and had a great time with a fun family and extended family. We ended up having to dodge a few drops of rain but all in all the overcast and cloudy conditions were quite welcome to me. Anyone who receives my newsletters will quickly recognize that overcast conditions are some of my favorite type of light. Not only that, but it helped keep the temperatures more bearable as well. We did the session at the East Cobb Park which is where I originally met the mom, Kim, at the Ultimate Play Date a few months ago where I had a table set up.

The family was great and their nearly two year old daughter was absolutely precious. I got the feeling she has her Dad wrapped around her finger which is quite understandable. I certainly know my daughter gets some preferential treatment at times... Also along for the session was the father's (Josh) sister, Casey, and her daughter Ashely. They were great fun and added to the enjoyment of the session. Above are just a few of the many portraits we created. Enjoy!

Incredibly Fun Family...

I had a really fun session Saturday with a great family who are fairly new to the area. They have two absolutely beautiful little girls, Ally and Kaitlyn. These two were fearless! Apparently this fearlessness has led to them excelling in gymnastics which does not surprise me in the least. They were climbing trees, playing on the biggest slides in the playground and also feeding the sometimes aggressive acting ducks of the pond. They were such a fun and good looking family and it was really nice watching them interact with one another while capturing their expressions.
Thankfully the weather cooperated for us and the clouds help to keep the temperatures fairly moderate for the majority of the session.

So above is just a few of the promised "teaser" images from the session. I cannot wait to get together to show them the rest...

Fun Family Session...

This morning I had a fun and exciting family session with a young family of four. They have seven month old Sebastian and a two and a half year old boy named Everest whose name is derived from the World's Highest Mountain. And he is doing his part to live up to that name as he is a tall, striking young boy. He is probably as tall as my soon to be four year old girl. Anyway, we all had an interesting time keeping the boys attention and I got the distinct impression that their parents, Patricia and Stephen weren't counting on many successful images. As I mentioned in a recent entry, this is a fairly normal response from parents during a session because their focus is their children. I try to sneak between all the squirms and frowns to capture those fractions of seconds where I see an expression that is memorable. Above is a few of those moments. I told Patricia and Stephen that I would do my best to post a few images prior to leaving town (which is now about T-minus 6 hrs and counting), so here they are. I have quite a few more that I know they'll really enjoy; until then...

Bloggin Misbehaving...

Pardon me for being a bit slack with my bloggin', but its been awfully hectic and I'm doing my best to get a couple posts in before splitting town for a Corporate job in D.C.

I did want to get several images up that I had promised to one of my favorite clients, Maggie and Jack. Maggie gave birth in June to another beautiful girl, Bailey Josephine, to accompany their other daughter, Sophia who recently turned two. So we did some portraits of Bailey and then did our best to get images of the two girls alone. That proved more of a challenge than we had hoped. In photographing Bailey, she did start to cry after a few minutes and of course I kept clicking away. For anyone who will listen, one of my favorite images that I have done of children was done last year of Bailey's sister Sophia. Her mom was wanting to change outfits and she was having none of it and in turn started crying. Of course it could have been she was scared of the photographer, but whatever the reason she was crying. Since I had images of Sophia crying, it was natural for me to photograph Bailey crying as seen above. To me its just part of a child's many moods. Perhaps we only display our children's portraits with smiles on their faces, yet I still am moved by my children crying and sometimes will document it before consoling them.

Back to the session. Sophia didn't seem too interested in the session for quite some time until finally coming around toward the end. It may have been me, the weather or she could have been just sleepy. But in the end she came around and for that I was thankful. All in all I was very happy with the results of the combined session and have thus displayed some random "teaser" images above. Enjoy!

Playing Blog Catch-up...

I got behind a few days with my blog and will do my best to catch up as I can. Things have been thankfully crazy good with no let up in site so I'll do my best to stay on top of my blogging.

I had the pleasure yesterday of creating portraits of Heidi Morris' children at the East Cobb Park. For many of you who already know and those of you who don't, Heidi is the current President of the East Cobb Park. I spend a great deal of time there with my family and we thoroughly enjoy it. It is a nice clean, well maintained park that is really convenient for my family and seemingly the perfect size. Heidi has done a tremendous job with the park and has big plans for it. We cannot wait. For those of you who haven't been, you really must check it out.

Back to the session. Her kids were really fun to work with. I do feel a little sorry for Ella because she has to at times deal with two older brothers who are full of energy and possible mischief. I felt like I was traveling in time back to my youth and looking in a mirror. All in all they were very well behaved and did quite well despite the hot, humid conditions. I hope you enjoy the small sampling of portraits above...