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the crow family
This family has quickly become one of my most favorite to photograph. Not only are the kids sweet, good looking, and photogenic, but Mom and I think the same. There’s a lot of “ahhh…just leave it like that. That’s what he/she is all about right now” when it comes to thumb sucking, face making, etc…the lack of “perfection” during shoots- which ends up being actually perfect. Love that about them.
We crammed this shoot in on a Monday morning and let the big kids miss a little school for about an hour (well, the biggest boy was really the only one missing a little school, the little girl goes to preschool) and Daddy went into work a little on the late side. We had rescheduled a few times due to rain and other circumstances so I think we were all happy (well, Mommy and I anyway) to finally get this shoot done. So thank you to the whole family for working this shoot into your Monday schedule!
The kids are seriously great! Mr. T is such a good kid and we talked some about baseball and the myriad of other sports that he plays. He was patient and great with me and his siblings, and oh so polite.
Little Miss Z is such a little pip. She had a card that she made for me all ready when I walked in the door. Ummm, can you say LOVE?? She’s fiercely into the thumb so you will see that reflected in some of the pictures. And apparently the scrunched nose with mischevious eye twinkle is totally HER. Glad I caught it and that Mommy enjoys that I did!
The majority of the purpose of the shoot was to document the 6 month mark for the baby. So after Daddy left for work, Mr. T went to school, and grandma took Miss Z to the library, mommy and I got to work with the baby. The baby of yummy basket sitting, feet grabbing, chunky all over, leaning to the side, huge toothless grin giving, round peach fuzz headed, twinkly eye deliciousness?? Yeah, that baby.
Uh huh….I told ya. YummyDeliciousness he is.
Hope you enjoy all the pictures, Crow family. To see all of the images from the shoot, please click HERE.
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the gove family
This adorable little family from out in Brooklyn came to me by way of the roma family, who’s pictures I took a few weeks back. The shoot was a surprise gift for daddy for an early Fathers Day present. (love that)
So I saddled up and headed out to Brooklyn (yay for GPS) and spent a really fun afternoon with this great family walking down to Prospect Park and then all around it.
Their little girl was such a sweetie. She was full of energy and fun and smarts. She reminded me so much of Timmy’s best girl Olivia when she was 2 (so much so that I almost called her Olivia a number of times, and so much so that I had Olivia’s mom come look at the pictures on the computer while I was editing and even she was amazed about how much Miss N looks like Olivia).
The neighborhood was so great– photo ops galore. And the park…how I love Prospect Park. I recently learned that it was designed by the same people who designed Central Park. No wonder I like it so much.
I knew we would get along just fine when I saw daddy’s shoes! (so had to do the family feet shot on a Brooklyn street!)
The weather had been touch and go all day and it started raining JUST as I left their apartment to head back to my car. We lucked out. And I even found the cutest little kids clothing shop and stopped in to buy Timmy a few cute dress up things. A successful day all around!
Hope you enjoy the photos!! To see all of the images from this session, please click HERE.
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the d’amb communion
This is my very good friend G, and her husband and son. G and I used to work together at the shoe company another lifetime ago. I was so happy when she asked me to take S’s pictures on his communion day. But there were lots of warnings for me on how S didn’t like pictures and wouldn’t smile for me at all. Well, it was only partially true.
I got to the church early and caught him on line waiting to go into the mass. Smiles.
There were no pictures allowed in the church, so fast forward to outside shots immediately following the mass and some shots with extended family. Smiles.
Then onto a pretty park nearby for the family shots and portraits. No smiles. No eyecontact. Only pouting despite my best efforts and offers of gum and a million dollars. Which lasted only for a little while and then some shy, begrudging smiles.
I mean seriously, climbing a cool tree in your communion suit and playing around with your mom and dad in a park that was empty– how could you not smile?
Showing me his moves.
Mom & Dad are pretty hot themselves.
So really, despite a little speed bump, it was mostly all smiles afterall. Hope you like the pictures G & A– I had so much fun taking them. To see all of the images from this shoot, please click HERE.
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the clea communion
After yesterday’s break in communions, I am back with another special girl on her special day (girls are outnumbering boy shoots this year which is always a nice change of pace for me!)
I was so thrilled to get to know Miss H so much better during the course of our time together. Her parents are our friends and her older brother is my big boys’ friend, but I don’t see H very often. What a total sweetheart!!! Really, I had such a nice time with her– she’s so nice and polite and just a good girl. Not to mention beautiful!
Caught a few at the church. I knew it was going to be a good shoot when this is the first picture I took.
This is H’s cousin who’s pictures I will be taking in a few weeks.
Some shots with proud and happy parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts.
We tried to get all the family shots out of the way first thing as her little brother really wanted to get out of his dress up clothes and just PLAY. He hung in there so great for me and gave me some great, real happy smiles. The whole family is just so nice and so good looking. How did I get so lucky with my friends/clients??
I think these are probably my favorites of the day. Pretty pretty princess.
To view all of the images from this session, please click HERE.
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the mahe family
Skipping around a little bit here. I know I still have a lot of clients waiting for their pictures, but I had to fast forward to this shoot for today. You see, the family pictured are the children/grandchildren of a special mom/grandma who is celebrating her 60th birthday this weekend. And the children/grandchildren put together this shoot as a special gift for her. So, needed to get the pictures up in enough time for them to get the gift together for her.
Another connection here that I didn’t even know about. Not only does one of the ladies in the photos own EAT Oceanside (and by the way, yum! If you haven’t eaten there, you so should) with her husband, that husband is friends with John from highschool. C, I hope that after seeing the photos, you won’t still think that the park was an odd idea!
As soon as they got out of the car and I saw the colors they were wearing, I was sorta in love.
Anyway, fantastic kids who were so helpful and great listeners and I think they had a really fun time on top of that. And do I even have to mention how gorgeous they all are? Ya, didn’t think so…
Hope your mom/grandma LOVES the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them. You were all so fun and sweet.
To see all of the images from this session, please click HERE.