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Erica is a friend of my make-up artist and came in to the studio yesterday for a maternity shoot, and of course we got her husband AJ involved a bit as well. It always makes things easy for the photographer when the subjects look as stunning as these two! Warning, the “Click to continue reading…” link below the first photo has images that contain implied nudity, view at your own discretion.
I spent Saturday afternoon at the Sunrise Optimist Club in North Topeka taking photos of guests of all ages with a certain Mr. and Mrs. C who made an appearance! It was a lot of fun, and even my daughter who was along to assist with the on-site printing took a turn on the bearded-one’s lap. And what did she ask for…? “A Car!” Keep dreaming Emily, because it would take an actual visit from Santa for that one to happen, lol!
OK, I was busy this summer and Phillip never got his photos blogged, so I’m playing catch-up. Can you tell he likes guitars, at last count he had 6 different ones!
I’ve known Forrest for years and he recently got in touch with me to do a portrait session since he was having a lot of family in town for the holidays, especially his dad. Not only is this special because his dad was in town, but it will also be his families first Christmas in the new house he’s been building for the last 9 years. Ok, not really 9 years, but it’s been quite a bit longer than they wanted, so congrats buddy! The running joke was they were moving in “on Thursday”, but they just didn’t know WHICH Thursday.
This was a session from late summer that went oh-so-horribly wrong, yet I still managed to salvage some usable images.
Since earlier in the year when I had photographed “Stephanie’s Little Zoo” we’d been talking of doing a complete family session outdoors somewhere and we finally found a time that worked for everyone’s schedules.
So shortly after starting the session the new camera decided to quit. I knew the batteries had been getting low, so of course I had spare ones with me which I quickly changed out. Still nothing. Normally this is where I’d just switch to my backup camera, but I had loaned that to a friend who needed it for a wedding that weekend. I finally managed to get the camera working (communication between the digital back and the camera body), but I still didn’t really trust it. Then I found that the digital transmitter that triggers my portable lighting equipment was no longer working either. Try changing the batteries, still dead. As I’m still trying to figure out what was wrong, a gust of wind blew the portable lighting equipment over onto the gravel road.
At that point, we decided that the stars were just not aligned and that we’d have to try again another day. Thankfully, all the problems have been worked out and I haven’t had any issues since that day several months ago, and I’ll be getting back together with “the zoo” in the springtime to have another! In the meantime, thanks for your patience, Stephanie + fam!
I’d spoken with Jennifer a couple of times over the last year about doing a family photo session for her but the families (very busy) schedule just hadn’t allowed for it. This weekend the stars aligned properly and they were able to come in for a brief studio session, can you guess who the ham is in this family?!
