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Happy Haunting!

twice as nice

As I mentioned earlier, I have really missed photographing babies in the midst of the holiday family portrait season.  So photographing this beautiful brother and sister was a real treat.

fun fall family portraits, part three

I met this family under very special circumstances a year ago and I just fell in love them.  

Can you blame me?

please note

that this time of year there is no way to post a sneak peek from every session I photograph due to the sheer number of sessions divided by the hours in a day I have to work = impossible to do.   I never was very good at math : )  

Just know if you don't see a sneak peek posted here your gallery will be ready for viewing shortly.  Thanks!

baby, times two

This time of year I photograph a lot of families, but I miss the babies that I LOVE to photograph.  That's why it was so nice to photograph these two, tiny brothers.  

 

fun fall family portraits, part two

I never quite know what to expect when a family asks to include their pet.  I completely understand wanting to include a furry family member, I'm just not sure the pet wants to be included sometimes.  Not to worry in this session, Toby did a great job.

These brothers were so fun to photograph (yes I am talking about two teenage and one soon to be teenage boys) with lots of personality.

 

fun fall family portraits, part one

I have had the most amazing run of photographing gorgeous families for holiday portrait sessions.  This family was so fun, the kids were SOO well behaved, I didn't have to coax a single smile from them and do the parents even look old enough to have a teenage son?  

Stay tuned, more to come...

sweetness

look ma, no hands!!

Maybe it was his eyes, or his cheeks or his curls...

but I LOVED everything about this little guy!

country mouse, city mouse

Do you remember the story of two cousin mice who, each thinking the other's home in the country and the city was greener than their own grass, upon visiting one another were grateful for their own home.  I am the city mouse.  I have a very dear friend, who is an amazing photographer (she has actually been my mentor for quite some time) and who lives about an hour from DC.  In the country.  When I look at her work filled with images in wide open fields, with dirt roads and wooden bridges, I must admit, her grass looks greener (it probably is, not as much traffic gridlock on dirt roads in the country.)  There is a part of me (the part of me that grew up in Texas in wide, open spaces) that just wants to shoot a portrait session in a field of tall grass with nothing for miles around.   The problem is that where I live in McLean, Virginia there is nothing wide or open or undeveloped.  Except for one hilly terrain that backs up to a very windy road and a housing development.  As I have driven by it the past few weeks a little voice in my head has said, just try it.  So tonight I set out with my in house model in tow to do just that.  Let me just say, wide open fields aren't all they're cracked up to be.  There were lots of thorns and thistles and every step I took I just waited for a snake to bite me -since we have a real snake problem in the city  : )

And my model was even less enthused.  She kept saying to me, "we go now mama" the further we walked into the thorn infested, poop-filled field.  This is what I finally got from her, not too happy:

So when my friend, the country mouse, called to tell me she was coming to the city in search of an "urban location" for a photo shoot, I had to smile.  If by urban she means, overdeveloped, overcrowded and not as green- we've got you covered.  And there's no other place I'd rather be.