Monday, September 29, 2008
Look who's 2!
I've photographed this cutie pie since he was 4 months old! I'm so thrilled and honored to watch him grow into such a big boy and I just love that he called me Aunt Christi during his 2 yr session.
Sweet Siblings
I had so much fun photographing these siblings. They are not only adorable, but very sweet!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
It's been awhile....
... since I've blogged. I had a wonderful summer and enjoyed my sweet boys and family. I sent my oldest off to Kindergarten just over 3 weeks ago and it's amazing to see how much they change and grow just in a summer!
I've had numerous calls lately from clients wanting to schedule sessions ASAP for various reasons - "my son's tooth is loose and I want to photograph him before it falls out", "my daughter's about to have her first tooth come in and I want to photograph her before it does", "my children are without scrapes and have good haircuts".
There are so many things that inspire people to photograph their children. I think it's important to record the above milestones. In fact, my son's bottom teeth are loose and I've already instructed him that NO ONE can pull your tooth unless they have permission from your mom! I want that last photograph of my big boy before he loses his first tooth too.
I also think that the most simple, every day moments are wonderful opportunities to photograph children. My favorite images of my own children were taken of them playing, eating watermelon or ice cream, swimming, catching bugs and just being kids. Being a perfectionist, I had an expectation of what an image needed to look like to be perfect .. by the way what is perfect?, but after soul searching over the last few years, after attending a few soulful photography workshops where I discovered what type of images envoke emotion in me, I realized that each image is beautiful in it's own unique way. I began to look at my personal photographs of my own children differently. In finding my style, I realized that I am most moved by photographs with emotion and interaction. The photographs of my children eating watermelon or enjoying ice cream, laughing, running around in their silly batman outfit expresses who they are today, the rain boots, shorts and mismatched shirt with sunglasses (yes my son really wears this) remind me of my son's independence and strong will. Don't get me wrong, I am a GAP junkie and love photographing kids in fun, cute clothes, but their clothes don't always need to be ironed and perfectly matched for a photograph to be wonderful and meaningful to me. I love the interaction, the expression and the moment more than the expectation of a staged photograph. I love capturing the laughing, tickling, jumping on the bed moments.
Enough chit chat from me, here's a few photographs...
I've had numerous calls lately from clients wanting to schedule sessions ASAP for various reasons - "my son's tooth is loose and I want to photograph him before it falls out", "my daughter's about to have her first tooth come in and I want to photograph her before it does", "my children are without scrapes and have good haircuts".
There are so many things that inspire people to photograph their children. I think it's important to record the above milestones. In fact, my son's bottom teeth are loose and I've already instructed him that NO ONE can pull your tooth unless they have permission from your mom! I want that last photograph of my big boy before he loses his first tooth too.
I also think that the most simple, every day moments are wonderful opportunities to photograph children. My favorite images of my own children were taken of them playing, eating watermelon or ice cream, swimming, catching bugs and just being kids. Being a perfectionist, I had an expectation of what an image needed to look like to be perfect .. by the way what is perfect?, but after soul searching over the last few years, after attending a few soulful photography workshops where I discovered what type of images envoke emotion in me, I realized that each image is beautiful in it's own unique way. I began to look at my personal photographs of my own children differently. In finding my style, I realized that I am most moved by photographs with emotion and interaction. The photographs of my children eating watermelon or enjoying ice cream, laughing, running around in their silly batman outfit expresses who they are today, the rain boots, shorts and mismatched shirt with sunglasses (yes my son really wears this) remind me of my son's independence and strong will. Don't get me wrong, I am a GAP junkie and love photographing kids in fun, cute clothes, but their clothes don't always need to be ironed and perfectly matched for a photograph to be wonderful and meaningful to me. I love the interaction, the expression and the moment more than the expectation of a staged photograph. I love capturing the laughing, tickling, jumping on the bed moments.
Enough chit chat from me, here's a few photographs...
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