I attending a workshop all day yesterday to learn something new – off camera lighting. There will be much more about this later, but I wanted to get one photo up to show here. It was so much fun and so different than anything I have done to this point 🙂 Now to just find the funds to buy the equipment and the couples to put in front of the camera!
Some of you may remember the adorable little cutie that I did a session for in November of last year – chubby cheeks in the striped Gap sweater dress with the red wall behind her. Well, she is back!! Nine months older, the adorable little M. is running all over the place and has grown in to the perfect little toddler. This time for their session, mom and dad chose to do it at the family business – Wright’s Dairy Farm. If you are local, you know this business – fabulous baked goods and, as I found out myself, to die for chocolate milk 😉 This was my first time mixing animals that weren’t dogs in with a session. Instead, I got to take pictures with cows. Big, giant, mooing, pregnant cows. And M. loved every second of it (so did I!!!). We saw big cows and baby cows, we climbed in and jumped off of hay, we fed cows, we ate corn off of the stalk, we danced, we sang songs, everything a photographer little girl could want and let me tell you – it was fun! It was so great to see how she had grown up and it was SO neat to see her interacting with what daddy does every day. Definitely a little out of the norm for me and I am absolutely thrilled with what we got!
P.S. And as a public service announcement – if you do visit the dairy farm, please *don’t* feed the cows or play on / sit on / climb the haystacks. There are a few things you can get away with when you’re with the owners 😉
I met up with the gorgeous C. and her husband last Thursday for one of my fresh bellies sessions. At 35 weeks, C was absolutely stunning. I wish I had looked like her during either of my pregnancies at 35 weeks!! We met up at the Temple To Music in Roger Williams for a few quick shots before we lost the light. Though it was threatening rain, it never did! Just a few from her session 🙂
When Matt first decided to leave his fellowship and go back to general OB-Gyn, he put his CV on one of the med-jobs websites, and within 48 hours we had heard from approximately 25 different recruiters calling for positions. One of the first people to call though, and one of the nicest and most helpful was Lee. Turns out Lee was just down in CT so knew the area pretty well. The recruiters typically ask “what does your spouse do” so that they can have information when they are presenting you to a hospital for a position and so that they know what they are going to have to be moving in case of relocation. When Matt told her that I was a professional photographer and gave her my website, she almost immediately contacted me and asked for a session. She said that she loved my style and it was what she had been looking for for her own family. One of her oldest boys was soon to be going across the country for school and they had not had family photos done in almost five years. So we set up a time for a session on the ocean with her and her four kids. This was really tough on me because it required me to go beach hopping to find the perfect location for their shoot 😉 Ah…you gotta do what you gotta do. We finally settled on Sachuest (Second) beach in Newport and were rained out our first time but the second time, even with small chance of rain, they hopped in the car, drove two hours and met up with me. And I have to say that it turned out really really well.
You have to love a family who not only loves each other, but is also just *fun*. This family was definitely FUN. Four kids 14-22 so they have had a long time with each other and are just incredibly goofy. I mentioned on my facebook page that I could do an entire separate gallery of outtakes from their session. This is a bigger sneak peek because I have so many favorites…
Ahhh…we have reached the last of the Chicago sessions. I had SO much fun on this trip. Didn’t want it to end!! (Okay, the dent that the car company claims was on my rental is a bit of a downer but the rest of the trip was awesome.) My last session was with the utterly gorgeous Gretchen (another photo board girl) and her family up at Northwestern University. Now I clearly don’t have a good grasp of what some schools look like. When I pictured Northwestern, I pictured it similar to Northeastern which sits pretty much smack dab in the middle of Boston. Instead, I found myself driving through beautiful Evanston, IL with tall trees, huge yards, gorgeous properties and all of it situated on Lake Michigan. The campus was so beautiful and while we only made use of a small part of it (which was good considering the almost-unbearable humidity and mosquitoes) it was still fabulous. Gretchen and her family were gorgeous, the surroundings were gorgeous, can’t really go wrong!
