To celebrate Baby H’s one year birthday, I met with the S family for a morning session at their home. Before the session, I met with Mrs. S to talk about the location of the shoot, clothes for the photos, and different kinds of portraiture . . . since my portfolio is in its early stages, I brought along a great book of stock photos that I’d picked up a few weeks before, which I’ll use until I can bring along albums of my own work to show clients.
On the day of the shoot, we started inside with Baby H and then moved outside for a little bit of play and pictures with her sister G; G loved being photographed and likewise the camera loved her too. So expressive, such a free spirit. After crawling around on my hands and knees and photographing the girls, their dog R and their roses, we regrouped for the family portraits. As a final touch, we drove a mile down the road to a gorgeous old barn and asked the farmer whether we might take photos in front of the barn’s bright American flag. Again I found myself crawling around and rolling around in the grass. Great great fun. Here’s a little peak at our session:
