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The summer is going by quickly with not enough hours to get to blogging sessions. Here are a few from an evening in a Chicago suburban field with a lovely senior. While driving around we stumbled upon this lovely field where we stopped for a few pictures. It was was a nice change of pace for me from chasing little ones.
If you had asked me a couple years back, I was pretty clueless about Ugly Dolls. They were somewhat of a craze at my son’s school and we ended up getting a few. I wasn’t quite sure about the “Ugly” in the name but found out that it meant unique. Soon, I discovered that the Ugly universe was made up of the adorable plush toys, each with a distinctive personality and a story. The kids loved them and enjoyed having interactions through their dolls. So much better than electronic interactions, don’t you think?
One of the boys is my son’s buddy and I asked his mom to bring their dolls for the shoot. You can see how much fun we had! That’s about it for the sneak peek! But there will be several others without the dolls in your gallery.
I will be away from office from July 7-13th and returning emails/phone calls on my return. Happy summer! If you are interested in the Short Story Summer Mini’s please drop me a line. You can read more about them here.
Since I can’t have a blog post without pictures, here are a couple from a recent session. This was a rather spontaneous shoot for me but I loved the way it turned out. Beautiful light, beautiful baby girl + parents with some water play. What could be better than that? Since it was the couple’s anniversary, it made it an extra special day to capture these memories of their sweet little family.
…I could photograph this little guy all day long. Besides being adorable, he is such a happy little guy. I loved every minute of being with him and his gorgeous mama. This is our third photo session together at almost two years old. I met him and his gorgeous family as a wee little newborn and have loved documenting him since. Mommy brought along some fabulous props including the gorgeous vintage high chair that used to hers as a child. Here is a sneak peek for the B family!
i so adore your work!! love that first image .. and his expression in the last!
They are really good shots- love the fact that the edges have been burned in a little like we used to do with wet printing- plus the garden looks like mine! Grant
my birthday boy.
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
– storypeople
He is beautiful. I love “dipping his bread in tea”…must remember to pass that on to my kid. I know I loved doing that as a kid growing up in India.
Happy Birthday! He’s such a handsome young man. I could have written that same list for my 7 year old boy — they love the same things.
What a gorgeous guy you have there! Love this portrait! Happy birthday to him!
That is such a perfect image! Just beautiful. I love the likes, too.
aw, thanks for the comments and the wishes Anu, Michelle, Julie and Jane!
Anu, Nothing like toast with chai and dipping your bread in it!
and well-behaved ones too! A fun afternoon with these three siblings and their mama, the fabulous Rosa of Level 5 salon.
For this session, I trekked out to the Marin Headlands to capture this family in some of their favorite spots. I fell in love with this gorgeous family and spent a wonderful evening documenting their time together. Our original session was intended for little William’s one year photos though we ended up doing them around fifteen months due to a home remodel/move. He was a busy little explorer with a love for rocks. You can even see some of the rocks from his collection in the picture below. Amidst, the exploring I got moments of pause here and there and a gaze into his blue eyes. Nine year old Jack was such a sweetheart as well playing his role as a protective big brother keeping a watchful eye on baby W and keeping him entertained.
In honor of Father’s day I put together this storyboard of pictures that celebrate this beautiful family…
these are beautiful 🙂
Beautiful images. I’m sure the family is thrilled with them!
Gorgeous selection of images. Love the one in the VW van!
Gorgeous images – love the VW one. The family is beautiful and wow, that little guy in the first shots is so cute! Makes me miss Marin (I grew up there :))
What a lucky family! These are gorgeous- and the processing is perfect!
I love them!! Great compositions and colors.
What a gorgeous family, and such beautiful images!
SO touching, they make me want to weep. You are so incredibly talented at showing emotion through your photography. Just beautiful!
Fantatic session and wow! Those eyes! And I agree ~ the processing is just beautiful.
Great session! The set of images has a wonderful mood – I really love them all (and as a former childhood rock collector myself, that first set is my have LOL)
Wow, your work is just gorgeous. Can’t help but think of “Little Miss Sunshine” with that bus shot!
Love every last image! Really beautiful processing and you can really feel the love from this family!
Gosh, what amazing eyes that baby has. Really nice lifestyle shoot.
oh my, what an amazing session! Absolutely fantastic family captures. So free and fun, love it!
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.
~ Storypeople
Love this Storypeople quote so much. Baby J was a long awaited princess that has brought so much joy to her family. To me she has been a special baby to document as well having watched her grow over the past two years. I had to have a post to share my journey documenting her and also my growth as a photographer (I hope!). I am behind blogging this session as I had to dig up some of her early photos that you might recognize if you have been a blog follower. Isn’t she just adorable? I feel so fortunate to have had this opportunity to document her over time and am thankful to her lovely mama for trusting me to create these beautiful memories. And hard not to get attached to a little person that I have watched grow from a wee little one to a little person full of personality.
I photographed baby J at three months, six months, ten months, one year and now at two years old. I am often asked what the best age is to photograph babies? Three months is a difficult age since they are sort of in-between but every milestone captures that moment in time. You can see for yourself how quickly she has grown specially over the first year!
then…
and now… little Miss Independent. I love this storyboard of an attempted picture of mommy holding her as it is such a testament of this busy age. Nope, she didn’t want to be held. But maybe she thought about it for half a second. Nah, decided she just had so much exploring to do and took off.
I love the first year photos of Baby J. What treasures for Mom to see her first year like this. Beautiful work!
They are all amazing, but the one year shot of Baby J with her face in her hands is absolutely classic!
Stunning! How lucky is her mom to have such amazing art to document her little life?! Love them all.
I just stumbled across your work and fell in love. I’m a new photographer out in Chicago and have to just tell you how beautiful you work is. Your images bring such an emotional response. Just beautiful. I’ll be following! 🙂
What an adorable girl!!! And how wonderful that you were able to have the opportunity to capture her in photographs and watch her grown!! These are beautiful!
What a great blog post – so neat to see the baby grow over time. Love your work!
Seriously, could anyone be cuter? That close up should be HUGE on the parents’ walls. Wow, she’s adorable, and you did an awesome job.
Gorgeous images! Those first three show so much connection and I love the story you told of her now. Beautiful work.
Beautiful! So awesome to see them growing up. Love that capture of independence!
love these!!
What a beautiful set of portraits to document the first year. Lovely!
Soooo cute! These are STUNNING!
love those b+w’s documenting her first year .. amazing! and her latest session too .. love the color on the storyboard!
What a beautiful blog post. Such precious images. Just gorgeous!
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heather ++ - so fun! so boy! love!
Corey Sewell - These are too cute!