Mallory and Madi are sisters and are both graduating high school this year! They may live under the same roof, and both did color guard this year, but everything else about their fashion and personalities is pretty different from each other. That’s what made their session so fun – focusing on their unique styles and makeups as well as capturing the fact that they are hitting this milestone together!
The first time I photographed Maddie was when she was 1 day old in the hospital! Then she grew up, moved away for a while with her family, and just recently returned to Lakeland. Which meant I had the sincere privilege of capturing her senior photos! It was so amazing to see her again, so beautiful and grown up, and to catch up with her mom. Maddie’s older brother and sister were actually some of the VERY first kids I ever photographed when I was first learning photography. Her mom let me use them as my guinea pigs, even though 20 years ago I wasn’t even sure how well I would do working with kids and families. This session was very much a full circle moment for me in so many ways.
Congratulations Maddie and welcome home to your whole family!
A few months ago I met these amazingly beautiful and funny twin sisters. They were 10 when we did this session, but they actually just turned 11 last week. I wished so much that I had had more time with them! I loved watching their interactions with each other and with their mom. And I think the pictures show just how much personality they each have in their own unique ways. Enjoy!
Last fall I was fortunate to meet and spend a couple of hours with one of the members of the Class of 2015. I had so much fun working with Madison for the 2 hours we were together. She is a gorgeous girl with a beautiful personality, and great style I might add! 🙂 I love how all these images turned out…and was excited to play around with my off camera lighting a little bit.
Wanted to mention that the chair in these pictures belonged Madison’s grandparents. I love love love when a family incorporates a sentimental piece like this into their session. It makes them that much more special. Thanks Madison for being the perfect model!
I’m thinking it’s now safe to share more fun family sessions that I had in the fall….everyone’s Christmas cards should be sent out by now. 🙂 It’s January 5th and I’m so excited to say that even mine are done and were sent out a week ago as well!! I think that’s a record for me! (I’ll share my family’s images soon too.)
This family is near and dear to my heart….friends from church first, and now clients and small groupies as well. This mama and I even formed our own band in 2014….but that’s a long story. 🙂 I just love this family and had a blast with them again this year with their family session. I think this is one of the fastest sessions I’ve had….the sky was threatening rain…it was dark and dreary. We got in, got the shots, and went to dinner. My kind of night! Here are a few of my favorites.
Happy New Year everyone!! I really can’t believe it’s 2015 already. The older I get, the faster time flies I think. 🙂 The fall has been as crazy as ever for me with family sessions for the holidays. I actually stayed in town for Christmas this year, so work hasn’t really slowed down yet. I had the priviledge of photographing several families that had all their relatives in town for Christmas….something I don’t usually get to do when I’m out of town for Christmas. So I’ll be spending the next couple of weeks playing catch up, and during that time I hope to share all the amazing families I got to meet over the past couple of months.
This first family I’d like to share asked if I could meet them at one of their favorite hotels over near Disney. I love exploring new places, so I was very excited to meet them at the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando. What a gorgeous hotel! We had a blast walking around the lobby, the golf course, and the pool deck. They really wanted some posed family shots as well as some journalistic style candids that captured them just enjoying their time as a family. Mom is due to have a baby any day now, so they really wanted to capture their life as a family of 3 before it all changes. 🙂 Hope you enjoy looking through these images as much as I enjoyed taking them……
So…I realized today that I never shared the images from this family session I had with good friends from church. Looking at the date stamp….um….we did these in (cough, cough) November (cough, cough). Woops!! Better late than never I always say!! 🙂
Like I said, these are great friends of ours from church who we really just got to know well last year. I had never spent a lot of time around their boys before this, and I had so. much. fun! Really, they had me laughing pretty much the entire time we were together. We met at Florida Southern (where we all happened to have graduated from college). Loved their outfits, loved their family banter, loved them. Not much else to say. 🙂
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting up with this hilarious and super fun family. Forecast showed evening thunderstorms, so we moved their session up an hour – which was HOT!! We were all a hot sweaty mess, but we still had a blast together. We started with some shots with Dad’s sweet car and ended with a friendly game of football.
This is what happens when you aren’t specific about what you want from a couple of brothers. I think I said “Hey guys, wrestle for me” – too funny!
When they told me they wanted some “football” shots, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’m no sports photographer, but I tried to keep up with them! 🙂
I had the brilliant idea to lay on the ground while they “huddled” above me. It was worth every drop of sweat that fell on me! 🙂
Back in November I met several families out at the beach for some mini sessions. I already shared one of them with you, now I’d like to share the other three. Great weather + awesome families makes for some great images! Can’t believe I’ve waited this long to post these!
The first folks to come out were this brother and sister. Even though it was bright, these kids were troopers and even let me run them around a little bit. 🙂
