Fall mini sessions are here! Book your session for a quick and easy way to get beautiful portraits for holiday cards or gifting! Limited time slots available for these shorter sessions.
This is the sweetest little girl. After we did some shooting I got to hold her and play bounce the girlie while her mother tracked down a pen; she played seduce the photographer with the cutest, most endearing smiles you could ever want to see on a wee one.
Thanks for letting me capture this time for you. Your full gallery should be ready early next week. Until then, enjoy your sneak peek!
This sweetie came to see me on her third birthday to get her Christmas cards done. It was a chilly morning and she was a total trooper and kept giving me smiles until the very end. We took a break after about 20 minutes to go warm up at Starbucks and get some hot chocolate.
Mini-sessions are a great way to get cards done by a custom photographer; the session time is shorter and you get fewer proofs to choose from but if you know that all you want are cards and maybe a few gift prints its a great alternative to chain studios. The best way to know if I’ve got any mini-sessions being offered is to either become a fan on facebook or subscribe to the blog feed.
I remember this little one when she was very very tiny. And now she’s a big crawling, pulling up, foot-eating baby! Since she is the main image on the web site, greeting all visitors, I see her in her teeny tiny state every day and it was thus really jarring to see her as such a big girl because in my head she is itty bitty still. But it’s hard to quibble with a child as perpetually adorable as this one, even if she is insistent on growing up.
Last year I donated a session to a fundraiser for Families for Conscious Living of Connecticut to raise money to help with the medical expenses of a little girl born with two holes in her heart. Like all mothers everywhere the auction item winner has been a trifle busy with kith and kin and we finally had time to do her session today on what may have been the most perfect fall weather day ever.
I love this one because it is such a tender mother/daughter moment.
Bribery. In a full 2-hour session I don’t usually need to resort to bribery but for holiday mini sessions where we are getting the card pictures, and maybe some prints of one image for the family, in under 30 minutes bribery is a beautiful tool.
This gorgeous little guy was NOT having it until the lollipops came out.
Of course, some people don’t need encouragement to perform. Witness the future actress!
Thanks for coming over to play with me at the stream!
(Your holiday card mini-session comes with 24 folded cards so don’t forget to pick out the template you like when picking out your images! You can see all the template choices HERE.)
(You can actually see these two in their photos from last year – they were so cute they became a sample card!)
You may remember these little guys at 3-months corrected (that is to say, 3 months after their due date). Here they are again – could those faces be any cuter?
This venerable gentleman has just celebrated his 80th birthday and his daughter wanted to commemorate this milestone with a family portrait. Along with more conventional groupings I did a few that focus just on him, such as this one.
I did my standard spiel about how it takes adults a while to warm up to the camera, and that it is harder work to look natural in pictures than you might think at the beginning of the shoot. This is true for most people – most of us just look like a frozen deer in the headlights at first. About 5 minutes into the shoot I looked at the family matriarch – the gorgeous wife of the gentleman above – and said, “You’ve had your picture taken a lot, haven’t you?” Sure enough, she was a model in her youth. Her granddaughter has inherited this poise and, as you can surely tell below, looked great in every photo. Every single one.
I hope you enjoy your sneak peek – your full gallery should be ready early next week and then you’ll have the difficult problem of choosing which images you want!
When we were in Michigan last week I got the chance to do some family portraits for one of my husband’s cousins. Last I saw her she was posing for a snapshot with my babies at her wedding and now her first baby is older than they were then!
We don’t make the 12-hour drive to visit the Michigan family with twins often. We were going to do it last November but were struck down by some nasty virus the morning we planned to leave. This time the portable DVD player both destroyed our parenting ideals regarding limiting TV viewing and saved our sanity.
I’m glad I got there sane, however as I got to play (I mean, errr, take picture of) her gorgeous son and step-daughter for over an hour. I love this particular shot because it shows her stunning smile and has such sweet interaction between her and her babe.
Both the big brother and the baby brother of this family have the most beautiful eyes. Thanks for letting me capture their sweetness!
Every year I donate a session and print to the West Hartford Mom’s Club (of which I am not a member) auction and yard sale held to benefit St. Agnes Home, here in West Hartford. This year a pair of unbelievably sweet girls won the photo session. OK, actually their mom won. We met in Westmoor Park, which is one of my favorite places here in West Hartford so I was thrilled when their mom suggested it. This little girl, the younger of the two, may well be the sweetest angel I have photographed lately and picked a small bouquet of grasses, clover and flowers just for me.
Thank you for your donation to St. Agnes and I hope you have fun picking out your print.
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