Saturday was a beautiful day for a session! The weather was just wonderful, maybe a little too breezy, but beautiful.
I traveled down south of the Twin Cities and met up with the L. family. It was so cute to see little miss N waiting for me at the door! We did a few shots around in their yard and at the park across the road then later went over to Lebanon Hills Regional Park. I love using Regional Parks for sessions because of their variety of landscape and grassy hills.
Here's a little sneak peek for the L. family, it was a pleasure to meet you and I hope you enjoy your sneak peek!

Koch Family

On Saturday I met up with the Koch family at Long Lake Regional Park for a family session. It was a warm sunny day but we had quite the wind going which made it a little trickier to get some non-windy hair shots. I love the colors they chose to wear, it's warm and adds to the feeling of the richness of fall and unity of family.
Hope you like your sneak peek!

Olivia

Saturday I was so happy to see the sun shine because I had Olivia's session that afternoon and we'd already had to reschedule once due to weather. This session was to celebrate her 3rd birthday. Isn't she so adoreable?! I just love those dimples and blue eyes.
Pretty soon she is going to be a big sister and I can tell by how sweet she is with her baby doll that she is going to be great!
Hope you enjoy your sneak peek!

Before the snow came

On Friday I had scheduled a session with my friend Amy and her family. We were getting a little nervous because of weather reports. It was cold and snow was on the way! After going back and forth on whether to go through with it or not we finally decided to try it and if it didn't work out to try it again another day. I don't think we'll have to do any retakes, I'm loving these shots and I hope you do to Amy!

Sometimes I like to play with images and try new things out on them, new looks, new texture, etc. Today I wanted to do something special with this image, but everything I tried didn't look right. Then I decided to try the Midnight Sepia action I have and there it was, what I was looking for.
I am actually excited about how it turned out.
It kind of reminds me of a mix of Greg Olson and Liz Lemmon Swindle look, only in a photograph instead.

Hill Family Reunion

Last weekend I spent some time at the Hill Family Reunion held in New Brighton Minnesota and what fun it was to meet the extended family of one of my favorite families. Thank you Erin and Matt for having me out to photograph your family!

Matt organized Erin's family to spell Hill on their back lawn, which incidentally was a hill as well!
I had to somewhat manipulate this image to fit for a 10x20 storyboard frame, and I think it kind of looks funny how the porportions ended up, but it's grown on me.



Some of Erin's neices and nephew.





Beautiful Erin and her dad... I LOVE this picture.

60 Years

Not many people get to watch their parents celebrate a
60th wedding anniversary, but these lucky people did!
A dinner was held in their honor at the Pool and Yacht Club in Lilydale, Minnesota.

Awwwww... still in love. <3

Two of their beautiful great-grandchildren.

Congratulations on your anniversary and on your beautiful family.
I had to add this one last image, I just ADORE it!

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!

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.