Rein Family

Kristen and I are friends from high school so I was SO excited and honored when she asked me to do a family session while I was in VA.  I admit to internet stalking her adorable daughter so I was thrilled to get her in front of my camera.  We met in historic Clifton on a Saturday morning and just walked around chatting, finding nice light, and sometimes inadvertently ending up in people's back yards (oops.)  This is the nicest, most fun family and I just love this session.  Enjoy!

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Presley Family

Grace is a friend of mine and a fabulous photographer so when she asked me to do her family's pictures I was thrilled/nervous.  I had to push out thoughts of "I wonder if she thinks I should be standing somewhere different?" or "Would she use a different lens here?" but she made it easy because she was so reassuring that she was looking for my perspective on her family. We met up at a local park on a beautiful evening.  The light was fantastic, everyone was dressed and ready, and we had a game plan for our session.  The little guy, however, was not too into the whole idea.  When toddlers are part of a session you just have to roll with it and let them guide you.  Once we started exploring the trail he perked right up and I was able to capture some sweet family moments and some authentic toddler faces :).  Even though we would all love for our kids to smile and look happy in every image there's something so real about the love between a mom and dad and their slightly grouchy 2 year old.  Enjoy!

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Sidewalk Chalk

I'm super busy with client work (yay!) and I like to devote a lot of time to editing and preparing my clients' images, so when my friend Patty invited me to her summer memories blog circle I was excited to have a reason to take time for some personal work as well.   Last night my daughter discovered that if you dip sidewalk chalk in water you can "paint" with it on the stones in the backyard.  She was so excited about her discovery and I was able to capture her while she was totally engrossed in what she was doing.  I tried to play with the composition so that the images felt like my experience of watching her play.  Oh, and also she's wearing one of my childhood dress-up capes as a dress...backwards.  Perfectly her.  Now that the evenings are warm and light I'm excited for more nights just like this.

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