Angela and Chris

What a fun couple! Chris and Angela are on fire, lucky they have that fire gear for when things get hot. I really enjoyed photographing them and I can't wait to meet their baby girl!!!

3 Brothers

I am getting behind on updating this blog. It seems to make it on every to do list and each week I notice it make it on the list again. Well, it made it to the top of the list tonight!!

Here are 3 brothers, so adorable and so much fun to photograph. I am looking forward to photographing the NV's baptism this coming weekend.

A Beautiful Singer

Clodagh came to me for some headshots and we had a blast. What a gorgeous girl with a great personality to match. As she heads off to school to study music with the goal of becoming a professor of music as a back up career. It was such a pleasure to photograph such a pretty head that is so well grounded.

Well I have to say that I was so impressed with Rosa and Sal and their children. Two beautiful boys and just one more makes 4. Yep, twin girls was a bit of a surprise only a few months after her sister gave birth to twins! The girls were 5 weeks old and had beautiful dark brown eyes that I just sank into. The boys are such sweethearts that are still finding it a challenge to tell their two new sisters apart but fortunately mom can tell so we were not worried about having to figure it out. I found a couple of tiny ways to tell them apart which was like an a ha moment when I figured it out!

Back in May I met Sandi, Jamie and their first son during their maternity session. I had so much fun with them! They had just moved into their new home and so much to deal with in settling in, and running between the old and the new house and preparing for their baby to arrive. They made time to fit in an special maternity session to capture this beautiful time in the life of the mother and the baby along with the excitement of their family. We moved around some furniture and boxes and made a make shift studio in their family room. Thank goodness they live on a lovely quiet street as they didn't have any window coverings up yet.

I got to go back once they had settled in a bit more and I was able to meet their new baby. He was going to make us work for our images but with a good stack of diapers and wipes on hand and we did manage to wait him out. I am sure that one day when he is having his looking at his own newborn child that he will be very happy that we did.

Sandi, I had so much fun with you and your family.

Well, I had a blast at this high school senior party in Burlington. What a fantastic group of kids. Parents were invited so it was great to see everyone interacting and supportive. Some of the kids were a little apprehensive about jumping in to get their portrait taken, but it didn't take long before having your photo taken became the thing to do. I had climbed up on a 3 step ladder to get above the subjects, and I had them sit on a bench I had positioned in front of me. This is a great angle for shooting just about anybody!

As you can see, all of the students were already so youthful and beautiful, full of life and excitement and they images came off the camera wonderfully. I did do some glamour retouching to the photos here so that you could see what the difference is in a re-touched image.

Retouching is generally subtle little changes that make people look their best, like they do in real life. The camera will often pick up small things that are missed when you are with someone in person. For that reason alone, some people avoid the camera or don't think they take a good photo. As you will see from the re-touched examples below, the edits appear to be minor, but the image just has more impact.

If you click on the image you can see a larger version of it.

Maya

Well, Juliana and Rob had their beautiful baby girl in January and brought her down for a great session. I completely see her mother in her eyes. What a little doll!