Many of you will remember this face. She’s been gracing the Most Beautiful Baby Contest before. She’s certainly one of the faces we remember, since we also see her at the holidays. Santanna had a great time again, spending most of her time posing (she has this down to a science now).
Have you EVER had this much fun at a portrait sitting? I do, on a regular basis. Nobody knows quite what set Taylor and her younger brother Damion into this frenzy of laughter, but it took them awhile to get back to some semblance of sanity.
In the midst of all this, Damion ended up becoming our second entrant into the Most Beautiful Baby Contest. He and his sister were also being photographed as winners of the Cover Contest for Child Guide Magazine. Quite an impressive resume for one so young.
So Cathy calls us and says she wants to create a nice Valentine’s Day present for her husband. She wants some nice boudoir shots and Diana tells her about our portrait albums. So she schedules a sitting. And of course, she says to call her cell phone because this is a secret for her husband.
On the day of the sitting, she comes in… hesitates a moment and says “my husband came with me.” Apparently her husband works in construction, and got sent home early due to weather. As she’s getting ready to come over to the studio, he came home. So now she’s trying to find a good excuse for why she’s not at work, she finally caved in and told him. He didn’t believe her, so she brought him along.
He was with her throughout the sitting. I think he had a good time, too.
All of our boudoir sessions are private. Diana helps out with all of them, and everyone has told us how much fun they have. Not surprising, really… we’re fun people!
There’s something about a large family in the studio that makes for so many more opportunities than just a few people. In our studio, we make a particular focus on children in families, and this family was intent on making that same focus.
At less than three months old, this little one spent a lot of time being fascinated by her parents and me (I make noises during baby portrait sessions). This classic portrait of her lead her parents to get a few large portraits.
The baby’s cousins weren’t really posing, but this was a nice shot from a precious moment between the three girls.
Much of the family is in California, while others are on the east coast. Bringing everyone together for the holidays was a nice plus for this particular sitting.
Amy wanted unique bridal portraits. We spent an hour or so in the studio, but then went to a local farm property to do some more portraits. I was kind of in photographer heaven, because there was a pond, ducks, geese, a cat, a barn, and – well you get the point.
Setting up most shots involved nothing more than taking a position and telling the bride to be happy. This particular shot was made late in the day, which gave me some great shadow lines and a hazy sky.
This image, with some enhancement, is more in the fantasy realm. But with the swans on the right edge and the reflection of Amy in the pond, this could not have been a better scenario.
Amy was a wonderful subject, and she braved some cooler weather to take the kind of pictures that she wanted. The second picture shows her wearing a lovely hooded cape that she found online. Quite the shopper.
Amy’s wedding is on January 5, 2008.