Sweet Babies Mine

Upon being born into this family, my children faced the harsh truth that they would be photographed very often. Luckily, both took it in their stride and decided to be beautiful children. I'm happy with how this has worked out. (Side note: My daughter is also excessively smart, and we make sure we compliment her intelligence more often if not just as much as we compliment her gorgeousness. As for my son, he's not extremely capable of demonstrating his personality yet, but I'm sure it's great.)

So in our family, we do things like setting up home studios in the nursery. But the light was great, so can you blame me? Anyway, here's my cute kiddos. I love them a lot (again, not just because they are cute. See above)

Aaaaaand I'm Back!!

Had a baby so BYE BYE BEDREST! Memo to future children: y'all will stay in until 37 weeks minimum and you will not attempt to leave before then. Do not test me on this. I am your future mother.

So anyway, with my sweet baby boy on the outside and my post partum body putting itself back together, I am taking pictures once again! No better way to jump back in than with my best friend/ serial model Sierra and her sweet family. Twist this time: after taking a shot of the Barwicks, we switched places. Sierra came to stand exactly where I was (bless her, she made the best human tripod) and Todd herded our kids over to where Joe held the subject spot while I instructed Sierra on how to take the shot. So I got pictures of my family, too! Because the 16x20 in our living room was a print from our reception, so, two kids later, I figured it was time for a new centerpiece photo.

(For anyone wondering, this is the one in the big frame now)

Cloudy Sunset Bridals

There are few things that fill my photography heart with dread so much as waking up to rain on a session day. Now, if I have learned anything from Instgram, it's that amazing pictures can happen in the rain. I guess The Notebook taught me that too. But there are some sessions that just won't work when it's wet and muddy outside, and in that category are bridal portraits.

Ain't no way that dress needs to be getting dirty before the big day.

So when a session day for bridals started wet and stayed cloudy, I was concerned. BUT THEN the clouds began to part just before sunset. And I pulled up to my shooting location at the time I had adjusted with bride to catch the light and started saying over and over, Man, I love my work. The light was perfect. Perfect perfect perfect perfect. I'm happy just remembering how perfect that light was. And I wasn't the only one who noticed: maid of honor/best friend had come along to assist with the dress, veil, flowers, etc., and kept saying "Wow! The light is so pretty!" She was correct.

This was my last shoot before I resigned to my sentence of pregnancy bed rest, and I'll tell you, I couldn't have picked a better one to go out on.

Books and Balloons

Okay, so we never really got to the book section of the library. It's kind of underground, so the light isn't optimal. But I was elated when this cute mom suggested we do her one year old's birthday portraits at the library. I helped my dad take my brother's engagement photos here eight (?) years ago, and I've been wanting to come back for another shoot ever since. And, fortunately, someone came to help us when we lost our grip on the balloon string (though they did think originally that we were just going to abandon it, which is the helium equivalent of leaving trash on the floor). Such a fun shoot with this sweet baby and her mama!