Introducing...

Will. Who's been long awaited for! I love it when parents want to be creative and make their sessions unique! Thanks D Family for letting me be the lucky photographer you chose for Will's first session and for wanting to play!

Fun Stuff!

Last week one of my photography friends, Dominique, called me and another photography friend, Maria, up to come do a shoot with her for an aspiring model, Lindsay. Boy did we have a great time! I have so many favorite shots I can't wait to work on some of them, but for now, I'll post just one, and sorry it's not even of her face. I just LOVED these hot red shoes she had on to begin with, and I loved this little shot I got.

Ok, now I have some more to post.

We started the evening out at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds and played around in several locations there...

Then we played at corn fields down by the University of Minnesota.













We tried to end the night with some off camera lighting, but the field we chose had a sprinkler system that was threatening to destroy our equipment, so we decided to save that for another night.

It should be illegal

to monopolize so much beauty in one family.

It's not often

That I get to do family portraits, and when I do, usually I refer them to my friends who do more family portrait photography than myself. I've mostly been doing babies and weddings. But I just couldn't pass up the chance to be this family's photographer. I was privileged to be two of these girls youth leader a few years ago and just adore their family. Their oldest daughter has graduated and is shortly going out west for college and their mom wanted family pictures done before she left.
Thanks A. for being such a trooper and walking all over the place to all the spots I asked (and Dad for carrying you!), I hope your foot heals quickly and you'll be running around soon!

When I loaded their session into my Lightroom, I couldn't wait to play with this one. I'd asked the girls to stand out in the grass and suggested they could do any number of things, play with the grass, look at the lake, talk to each other... and this is what they did.

Sisterly love... naturally.

brings a tear to my eye.

Dance

I love this image because of the way they are looking at each other. They aren't chatting like a lot of couples do during their dance. But there's the unspoken connection between them in this moment. I like that.

Love under an umbrella