Today, we had the pleasure of meeting Scarlett who has been out in the world about 90 days or so.  In that time, she’s become good friends with Emily - her multi-colored noise-making toy doll - and during todays shoot… Emily also became our friend as she offered great assistance in the “get Scarlett’s attention” department.  This was Scarlett’s first session as part of a series where we will capture her first year when changes come so quickly.  At the end of the series, we’ll build a beautiful album that will serve as a long-term keepsake for her parents - Shannon & Kevin whose wedding we photographed several years ago.  Thanks for spending part of your day with us, Everyone!

 -shaun

Judson and his mom Amanda came by today for Judson’s 3-month session.  It’s amazing to see the differences that develop so quickly between a 4-week session and a 3-month session.  Those differences expand the options you have for images such as when the child is able to support his own head and Judson certainly had no problems with that.  He was also full of facial expressions and even was “talking” to us in his own language.  No fussing at all either…. Judson rocked!  Thanks for another great session, Amanda.

-shaun

Wow, what an incredible afternoon it was with Katie and Sloan (sisters).  Our goal was to create a spectrum of images with looks that ranged from your traditional large wall portrait all the way to some looks that have more of a fashion or commercial zing to them.  In all our experiences shooting throughout the years, we’ve often found that sessions often include a few different looks to them because the subject in the image can have different tastes than family and parents.  For teens and young adults, that often is the difference in producing something funky and producing something more traditional.  It’s not difficult to produce images that cater to both tastes as well as the different decor themes where each print may be displayed, so it’s a win-win for everyone.  That was our goal with Katie & Sloan.  We wanted to produce a classic look used for a wall portrait that is commonly displayed in a size similar to 30×40 and that often has a classic look to it.  After accomplishing that, the next goal was to create some images that showed their youth and beauty in a less traditional format - all while having fun doing it.  Katie & Sloan were definitely rock stars for the camera, so we were able to create an awesome collection of images that capture their beauty in different and creative looks.

-shaun

This morning, Kate and her mom Aimee came by for a session to document what a princess Kate is at 3 years old.  What awesome blonde curls Kate has which made her even more like a fairy tale little girl.  Our objective for the session was to get a couple different looks - one that was more formal which Aimee plans to use as part of their art decor for their home and then we also wanted to get some more playful images of Kate that could serve for a wide variety of uses in frames, albums, and even for additional wall prints.  Kate was awesome and sailed right through the shoot and many thanks to Aimee for playing with us to get Kate rolling with her expressions.  Here are just a couple previews of our session.

 -shaun