History

I adore photographing families that I have a history with. It's so easy to capture honest expressions when you know your subjects personally. Take these siblings... I've known them since the day they were born. Their mother and I have known each other since college and she was one of my first portrait clients when I was building my photography portfolio. It's families like these that make my job look easy.

Here are just a few images from our 30 minute mini session...

Easy Peasy!

Now that Family Portrait season is now in full swing, I'm working every Saturday until the end of October. Hint Hint... those of you who are putting off booking your family sessions, if you want a Saturday, call soon! :) I usually hire an assistant for my family portraits but decided to risk doing this one alone. It's definitely not that I like to live life on the wild side, but I knew the youngest subjects were school age, and girls. No squeaky toys or silly games would be necessary. This family was so incredibly easy to photograph, they had me considering the need to change my specialty. The images speak for themselves... just look!

Foursome

This lovely foursome was a winner of the Relationships Blog Contest several months ago. Their son took a little warming up, and typical to his age and gender he wasn't thrilled with the idea of a photo shoot, but with a little coaxing we were able to get some wonderful images. See for yourself :)

This was a great way to start, if we could have had a photo shoot with only tickling and wrestling brother would have been so much more into it. This is one of my session favorites. Just makes me want to smile and then go tickle my own babies.
Little Miss here, was not the least bit camera shy, and actually busted out with some of the best smiles when she had the camera all to herself.

Have no fear mom and dad, this is only one of many wonderful family images. No head swapping necessary!

Ahhh... brotherly love. Don't you just love how big brothers show affection to their sisters. He kept telling his mom that he HAD to have his hand there so she wouldn't fall. Putting his hand on her shoulder was not good enough. :D