The Kennedy Family

One of my silent auction winners from last year was the Kennedy Family. They were a family at Harry's preschool and have moved on to a new school as their girls are now in elementary school. Their girls were always smiling when I saw them walking in or out of school last year. I seriously don't know many children their age who are as happy and as smiley as these two stunning girls and it was so easy to take their photos!

The Trumbo Family

A few weeks ago I met up with the Trumbo family for their photo shoot which was a gift from their sister-in-law last Christmas. It was a humid day but everyone held up well and seemed to have a great time. Mom and dad were so cute with the boys allowing for many great candid shots. And that's almost all we are able to do with a toddler b/c posing is nearly out of the question! These boys are gorgeous!

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Low Key Lighting - Charlotte and Robbie

So this is something I don't do very often but it turned out okay considering. The mom of these perfectly behaved gorgeous children had low-key (another word for black backdrop in simple terms) portraits done of her son when he was 6 months old when they lived in Chicago. She wanted to replicate that with her 6 month old daughter this time. I was hesistant to accept the job, lacking confidence to do this right for her, but she convinced me and was very flexible with what I did. I told her I would do some of the low-key portraits but wanted to add in some high-key (white) as well. So here are the results. And her children were two of the easiest and most obedient I have ever worked with! That always helps with the final result!

Austin and Reese

A couple weekends ago I spent an hour or so with my good friend, Lisa, her husband Joey and their two handsome, vivacious boys, Austin and Reese who I have known since they were babies! We went to Old Town Alexandria for their photos and SOMEHOW the DC July heat spared us of its wrath and we were comfortable doing the shoot. The boys were total champion posers for me! Check them out!

Baby Leah

Meet Leah. Oh, and her mom, Amy, my good friend from my past life doing corporate work for Discovery Channel. This is baby #2 for Amy and Leah's big brother Zach is 3 1/2. He gets to star in front of the camera later this fall for their family shoot so stay tuned. Leah was not exactly in the mood for her first modeling gig when they arrived. After some tears, a good feeding (or 4), and a solid nap, she was ready to go. Thankfully, we were able to 'transfer' (all you mom's know what I'm talking about) her to an advantageous place in front of the camera as you'll see during the nap! I love my babies! Thanks for trekking out here Amy, I had so much fun!

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Visiting my best friend

Summer is nearly over and I can't believe it. Before it's over and before my good friend Paige heads back to the classroom to teach, I headed out to spend a couple days visiting her and her family on the Eastern Shore of MD. I took my boys while my dear husband stayed home and worked. Her 2 kids and mine immediately connected and had a ball together. Our visit was too short but at least we got it in before the madness of back to school and holidays.

Here we all are!

Finley James

I have the pleasure of introducing Master Finn here. I have had such fun editing Finn's photos b/c he is adorable and reminds me so much of his sister at the same age. Finn's mom is a friend of mine and a couple years ago I photographed her daugher around the same age -- 6 weeks old. I was pretty new to shooting newborns but we got some good shots out of that session and I'm trying to top that now with Finn's shoot! I say this with the utmost respect, but Finn's mom chickened out of doing a maternity session, unfortunately, so I don't have pre and post baby photos! **wink, wink** But it's remarkable to me how much Finn looks like his sister at the same age! That Condon gene pool is pretty dominant.

We wore Finn out pretty well that session as you'll see in these images...by the end of our shoot, he was snoozing pretty happily on my couch.

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