My friend Wendy is my go-to girl for all things cool. So leave it to her to send me the coolest family session ever!  This bunch was so much fun, I was sad for it to end! Happy travels to the boys heading back to California – hope you are all together again soon! Here is a preview of this super fun session.

Another session with great repeat clients – did I mention that watching kids grow is the best part of my job!? We met at the mill for this session, then drove to a hill for the final silhouettes. It was great seeing this beautiful family again, and the kids were so adorable!! Here is a preview of our session,  gallery will be coming soon, folks!

Yesterday I had the great fortune of photographing a client who lived directly across from a location I had used once before, but had not been able to find again. I am so happy to know how to get there, now! This Mommy-to-be was a blast to photograph – so comfortable in her skin and in front of the camera. I can’t wait to meet her little guy in just a few weeks!
Enjoy the preview:

I have always said that watching kids grow is the best part of my job. The last time I photographed these kiddos, they were so little! Now they are “big kids” – playing sports, talking about iCarly, and super easy to photograph! One thing that has NOT changed is that these three have the most amazing eyelashes I have ever seen. Here is a little preview of our session:

J (#3) wins the summer model contest! Thanks so much to all of the gorgeous kids who participated – everyone is a winner in my book! J will receive a monogrammed gallery mount of her winning image, and will be featured in my blog header and on my website for the entire month of July – watch for her!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Thanks to my out-of-town friend Caitlin for this great referral…
We had a nice (if somewhat WARM) stroll through the garden for this session – it was a little close to bedtime, and very hot – but the girls did great in the end, and we got some great shots. Thanks for coming out and braving the heat! I think we were all just glad that at least it wasn’t raining again!
Here’s a preview of the session:

Thanks to all the great families who brought their kiddos out to my June GoCity Kids promotion – the Summer Faces Fashion Model Contest! The winner of the contest will receive a gorgeous monogrammed 11×14 gallery mount of their winning image and will be featured on this blog and my website throughout the month of July!

Here are the entries, in no particular order…you may vote (and have friends and family vote) once per day. This should be a close contest – all these kiddos were gorgeous! The voting buttons are at the bottom of the entries.

PLEASE NOTE! I know that #8 looks VERY much like my daughter. But rest assured, she is not! I did not enter my own child in my contest, I promise!

Something not as common for me… early morning. I am generally an early-evening shooter, because I don’t normally get “up-and-at-’em” early enough to avoid harsh late morning light. But with all of our swim team obligations this summer, I decided to start making some early morning appointments and just toughing it out with an alarm clock.

The light IS beautiful at 7:45am…

*Apologies again for any color inconsistencies while I am proofing on the laptop – I suspect everything will have to be tweaked once the Imac comes home…

That was the subject of much speculation leading up to this session – LOCATION!  After going back and forth several times on possibilities and pros and cons, we ended up at the park closest to home. Funny how that happens. And, as usual, this location pulled through with flying colors. Add in a great looking family and you get a beautiful session. Here is a quick preview. Thanks for being so wonderful to work with! Your gallery is coming soon.

This was a session that just clicked and went like clockwork. As soon as we met, I knew it would be great – such a nice family, so laid back and easy to work with. The whole time I kept thinking that these grown “boys” could be MY boys in 10 years. The similarity was really striking, and at one point, I said “I want someone to do this session for me with my guys!!” It was tons of fun, and the preview is a bit overdue, because of my computer melt-down (which should probably be a blog post unto itself.)
Here we go – a preview of the gallery: