Logan and Bryce

This handsome young man's name is Logan.

Bryce is his younger brother. Isn't this picture sweet?

Of course, it rapidly moved into this picture... :)

Look at all those muscles!

I love the intensity in this one and how he folded his hands around his arms .



It was a chilly, windy day when we shot these (despite our best efforts at finding a good day...Febuary can be like that) but these guys were troopers and you'd never know the weather was nasty!



I love grass as a background. It does such nice organic shapes.

This is also a grass background, but from a higher angle.

Caleigh

Le sigh. I am awful about updating this thing! I have so many shoots to post up here too! Maybe if I post less pictures and more frequently? Yes. Let's try that.

This is little Caleigh, she was about a week old when we did her shoot. Isn't she a lovely little thing?

Tagged

So I got tagged to list my 5th picture in my 5th folder of images.

This is that picture.

It is not the best of pictures, but I kept it because I thought it was funny. These two are my neighbor's twins, Reese (in green...two E's in green, two E's in Reese) and Riley is on the right.

From looking at this picture you would think Reese is the loud, feisty one and Riley would just like more sleep. However as they are 1-year-old now, I can assure you this is almost completely opposite of their true personalities (at least as far as one can stereotype 1-year-olds).

Here are a few more from that shoot that I kept on my computer (for over a year now!) to add to my website. In these Riley is on the right/bottom and Reese is on the left/top.

Edwards Family

I currently have 12 shoots to finish up in the next 3 days.

Whew. *Is tired just thinking about it*

At something like 100 pictures a session, that's 1200 images to edit, which explains my absence in posting on this blog. Additionally, I am currently blogging images from sessions that haven't been delivered, so if you have recently gotten a CD from me and are wondering why your kids aren't on the blog yet, that's why. (They will be on it as soon as I catch up.)

This is the Edwards family, we had a great shoot about 2 weeks ago!




This is the oldest daughter Neely. She was very easy to work with and I really like a lot of her images. Check out those big blue eyes!





This is Macky, she's 13. Doesn't she look much older?



Brayli is 7, and was the only one willing to wear a hat for me. :)
Recently I was gifted with a reflector set and man, does that ever make a difference! This was the first shoot I used the reflectors on and I love them! Of course they would be virtually useless with a crazy busy two year old, but with older, slower-moving subjects they work excellently. (This is my favorite image from the session).





Last, but not least, is Mr. Jaxon, who was one of the easiest to shoot 4-year-olds I have ever photographed!



Jaxon's dad used to play for the Aggies, back in the day when we were good, and thus has a championship ring that they wanted to incorperated into some images. It was really cold, and the jersey was short sleeved so we worked really fast and Mr Jaxon was so tough and smiled for the entire time. I was really impressed.

In fact, I told my sister when I got home, "That Jaxon was tough like Hickory wood! He stood fast like a Stonewall!" which earned me an eyeroll. (And if you just got that, you should probably get out more...maybe get a hobby...like photography.:P)

For the Kiwis

This shoot was tentatively planned way back in March and I think the long wait was worth it :)

This group of siblings is composed of Hunter, Anne Elizabeth and Preston.



Hunter was such a pleasant boy to work with, very well mannered and photogenic!







Anne Elizabeth is at my favorite stage (err, besides babies that is) I love toothless wonders! How cute is this smile? (This picture is probably my favorite of the shoot.)



Ah, the reason I love my 50mm 1.4...I love the shallow depth of field it gives... it really helps the subject stand out, and I thought this picture turned out really well.





2-year-old Preston is enjoying his last few days of being the youngest child; he is about to be promoted to a big brother as his family is adopting from Ethiopia!









That's all folks.:)