Quick Peek from my Holiday Mini Sessions

I had three families take advantage of my Holiday Mini-Sessions held at the Conservation District on October 21... luckily we had a beautiful day! It was warm, and sunny... can't ask for more in late October!

Here is a quick look at one image from each session... I'd say they're my favorites but I keep changing my mind! So I'll say that right now they're my faves and leave myself creative license to change my mind later :)

Thanks again to everyone who came out for my mini-session day... I hope you had as much fun as I did! Special thanks to my hard-working, underpaid (translate: unpaid) assistant Bob!

Double Trouble... in the form of identical 4-yr old boys!!

I had my work cut out for me with these twins... thankfully they were dressed in different color pants! As it was, I barely stood a chance at telling them apart - I kept calling them the wrong names and the poor kids didn't know who I was talking to!

Luckily, we started with the family pics at the lake and then moved over to the waterfall, because by the end these boys were both soaked head to toe!! While "N" splashed nicely in the water, "A" just about scared us all half to death because he kept running and skidding to a halt right at the top of the waterfall... Mom and Dad are going to have their hands full with that little daredevil!

And finally, my new fave ... I *heart* this shot! Now if I could only choose between color and b&w...

Another Fun Family Shoot...

Well, we finally got around to this... the original shoot was scheduled for late August, but we had a HUGE storm with lots of flooding and the clients lost power for the whole weekend... not to mention that the waterfall at the Conservation Area was under about 3 feet of water! It looked like a whitewater rapids!


So on this unseasonably warm Sunday morning we did this family session... first with a traditional family pose by the lake...

Then we headed over to the waterfall. I wasn't sure how much Dad would get into the whole thing, but by the end he was coming up with ideas for poses and locations and we were all having a great time! Here is one of his poses - giving the photographer some 'tude!!

And you'd never guess by looking at these kids, but yes, this photo actually was taken in October in northern IL!! (I believe the temp hit 90 that afternoon) I'm not sure what this pose was supposed to be exactly, but it made me laugh :)