A Fun, 5-Minute Portrait Session
Posted on June 9, 2010
When you see this picture, what iconic comic strip comes to mind?
Anything yet? 
While I most love capturing real moments and unscripted joy, I still have fun with creative portraiture. For some reason, I got it in my head (maybe about four months ago now) that our good friends’ son, Luca, looked kinda like Charlie Brown. And I don’t mean that in any derogatory way, because Luca is already one of the cutest, happiest kids I’ve ever known! But a round head is a round head 
and I can say that because I have a big biscuit myself. I tell all this to his parents, Anthony and Linda – who like the idea too – so I went to Amazon.com and ordered the shirt.
Of course at this age, he is growing up so fast. So I don’t know how much he still looks like Chuck (or for that matter, if he ever really did.) But the shirt still fit him and we were wrapping up a low-key, fun Friday night barbecue at their place. Luca had just woken up from a late afternoon nap, so we weren’t sure he would be in the mood, but it didn’t take much prompting for him to unleash the cute on us all. 
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Heidi, Danny and Baby Cooper
Posted on January 7, 2010
Danny, Heidi and I go waaay back and it is always great to get together with them and now, their newest family member – their newborn son Cooper!
Danny and I first met in college and though they now live in Sugar Land, TX, as coincidence would have it, Danny grew up not far from Dayton. So this past Christmas, Toni and I got to spend an afternoon with them and enjoy a lunch of chicken enchiladas and catching up. Aaand we took some pics – these are a few of my favorites!
Get These or About 340 Other Prints of Heidi, Danny and Cooper!
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Nicole, Scott and Baby Jacob
Posted on December 14, 2009
What better way to celebrate a new blog than with pictures of a beautiful baby?
Nicole and Scott are two friends of ours who recently welcomed their first son, only a couple weeks ago. The proud parents both wanted to do something that wasn’t “typical” (love it! 
) so after we got the requisite family Christmas card shots out of the way, we got to experiment with a few looks.
Jacob is about a month old, and as a photographer, this is such a special time to take pictures! Yeah, I’m a wedding photographer, and while it’s awesome to work with brides and grooms on one of the happiest, most incredible days of their life , I’m also blessed to be able to photograph the special nature of the “every day” moments in our lives as well!
While an infant at this age may be aware that there is someone else in the room he doesn’t recognize (who is also popping the flash off repeatedly ), he won’t pose or alter himself or his expressions. He doesn’t care! And there is such an incredible intimacy shared between parents and their newborn baby; one that an observer can “feel” but can’t express in words! All I can do is take the pictures and hope that they capture a fraction of the love that Nicole, Scott and Jacob experience together.
So that is why I loved this shoot. Oh, and last but not least … Jacob is a *cute* baby:
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A Portrait of a Family Portrait
Posted on December 7, 2009
So this weekend I had the privilege of taking a few family Christmas portraits for some of my inlaws. Though we had a fun time and did get a few winners, this one pretty much sums up the session
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