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...

Children's Portrait Session

I had the pleasure yesterday of creating portraits of two amazing young children. Their mom had them dressed in their Sunday finest and I was doing my best to capture the images I wanted before they got dirty or wet. When we walked across the bridge and they saw the creek, they mentioned getting in the water. While I was up for that and their mom seemed to be also, I was hoping to finish the session in the water rather than start it there. Luckily mom and I prevailed. They were really a joy to work with and seemed almost in tune with one another. As many parents with multiple children can attest, being in tune with one another is certainly not a given. These two were not only in tune when they needed to be but played off one another quite well for kicks. Case in point, as the session was winding down and they were starting to tire, one would yawn while the other smiled and visa versa. It was quite comical. Talk about toying with the photographer! All in all I had a great time and hope they did as well. Please enjoy the above images.

Family Portrait Session...

I just created some family and children portraits of a really fun family of four. The husband, Aaron, is a policeman which leaves his lovely wife Amy to handle the kids. She/they obviously do a wonderful job as the boys were very easy and fun to work with. The only real difficult part was trying to get the youngest, Andrew, to smile. Someone else commented that he has far too serious an expression at his age. Perhaps that expression comes from watching too many Braves games with his Dad, a definite Braves-aholic. I myself am a huge Braves fan and covered them for many years when I was doing my professional sports photography, but I'm probably getting an ulcer watching them lately... Honestly though, I had a blast during this session and thankfully they agreed to any idea that I presented even though the heat and humidity was starting to get intense. So without me rambling on too much more, I'll let the images above speak for themselves.