New school year - part 1

The start of a new school year is a great time for new portraits! I took my 2 children out for a walk last week to take some new ones of them. They cooperated, got annoyed, fought and laughed; all within the first 10 minutes of our outing! They did have the reward of a trip to McDonald's to keep them going and here is a sample of our efforts!

The end of summer

It's not quite the end of summer, but getting close. I was very excited to fit this session in before school starts. I loved the pink. The kids were lots of fun and kept me moving. I have lots of photos of the youngest guy smiling, but I loved the serious look from him. I also enjoyed watching the youngest girl twirl on the beach.

painted portrait

It was a little bit of a challenge to get this family portrait as the space was limited and there were many family members to fit! Plus the kids had already had many photos taken, so I was very impressed that they handled this photo so well.

I created the painted version in photoshop and had it printed on canvas which was framed and given as a gift to the grandparents. It's a little hard to see the full effect of the painting on a websized photo, but the canvas was large and the 'brush' strokes were more pronounced.

Later today I will be posting another beach session.

More from the latest beach session

I planned to post these yesterday, but got a bit behind. This part of the beach was quite popular the evening we did this session. There were several other photo sessions, a very small wedding, people walking on the beach and some people still in the ocean. I was very impressed that these young children were able to focus on our session and weren't too distracted!

Instead they were very charming!

A preview of what's coming

I had another beach session and it was also a great time! I really love being on the beach and happy to be heading back at least one more time before school starts.

I will have a proper sneak peak from this session tomorrow, but I couldn't resist posting this teaser. I can't think of many things cuter!

In her garden

We snuck in this session with a grandmother, her daughter and 4 grandchildren in between rain showers. It was pretty humid, by it didn't show on those in the photographs! Her garden was beautiful and offered a great backdrop for these family photos. Of course the bugs like the garden too, so we occasionally had to take a break to push them away!

The Beach

It was such a nice afternoon hanging out at the beach before this session!

We had perfect weather and the beach wasn't too crowded.

These 3 were very easy to work with and were so polite and agreeable, not to mention how photogenic they are!

Fun Family

We had a little of everything during our session: lots of heat, a few tears, a frog, jumping, dancing, walking and some posing!

This is just a small sample of the photos from our annual session!