more storyboards

I am so loving these storyboards! I love making them! It's kinda like digital scrapbooking... and it satisfies my need for order LOL! I hate getting all the scrapbooking stuff out and then having to clean it up... plus it's a huge time committment. If i had a room completely dedicated to scrapbooking... maybe. But for now, i'm likin that when i shut my computer, the mess goes away. And when I get one of these in the mail back from the lab, I nearly die at how awesome it looks in print :)

Well, remember santa baby? Ok, I guess he's more of a snow baby... but here's what his mom and I came up with together :)



He's so cute!

i'm melting... (rochester family photographer)

Seriously. This little guy has melted my heart. If/When I ever have children, I can only hope and pray that they could be a beautiful and happy as Josh.


From the second I met him, he was nothing but smiles and happiness!



I've taken an awful lot of family pictures... especially ones with a momma and daddy and a baby about this age... let me tell you, these guys were perfect! I can say without any hesitation that this was the easiest family picture I've ever taken :) Amazing.









I just love this :)



It's Santa!


I am thoroughly in love with the hats I've found. You will most definitely be seeing them over and over again... they're just too darn cute. Shout out to the Children's Place for selling adorable stuff at NON ihavetocutoffmyrightarmtoaffordthis prices!



Haha I think this one looks like he's on a toboggan about to fly over a jump LOL!



I can't handle how cute baby feet are...

Thank you Ben and Jamie for finding me and letting me help create these memories for you!

crazy kid! (rochester children's photographer)

Woohoo for 2 posts in one day! I actually have enough stuff to blog like 6 times today, but I'm gonna be a brat and only blog one session a day.

Like I said in my previous post, the mini-sessions were a huge success! These are pictures of a little girl that I watch once a week or so. She's a lot of fun, but boy does she have a mind of her own! Most of the pictures I took of her were in motion, thank God for fast shutter speeds and good light!



This picture cracks me up. We thought she had the ornament in her mouth, but turned out it was just stuck to her face and she was totally confused as to how it got there and why. This is a classic Danielle face, the one where you know she's just in her element and loving it!



Like i said, she never stops moving. I probably shot about 50 of her just dancing... and literally pulled 3 LOL! But seriously, so cute!



I have had these sunflowers for at least 3 years... I'm thinking it's actually been more like 4. And they have stayed in their protective wrapping that whole time. I've really never had a use for them, although i HAD to have them way back when. They were beautiful, they look amazingly real and they were WAY on sale. I think the 4 of them were somewhere around $50 retail but I ended up getting them for like $15 or something ridiculous like that.


This is bar none my fave of the session. So sweet...



Thank you Rob and Anna for believing in me and allowing me to capture a moment in time for your family :) I'm so blessed to have you in my life.

too much to handle!

Mini shoots last week went FABULOUSLY. I had a blast and a half... but by the end of the day, phew, man i was ready to be done.

It was a lot of work, Melissa and I shot cumulatively 4 babies, 1 toddler and 3 adults in just about 6 hours. Incredible.

I am so excited to share all the hard work and gorgeous models here... but I'm still pumping them out so their rightful owners see them all first! But I couldn't resist these two... they had to go up. So Erin, if you see this, I hope you're ready for cuteness overload. Your boys are beautiful and I am so thankful I got to capture them in all their baby sweetness :)



More to come later! I only have one session left to edit before I shoot not one but TWO newborns tonight and tomorrow morning... oh i can't wait for that...

santa baby (rochester baby photographer)

ohmygoodness this little one is toomuchtohandle...

and my use of words typed together are outofcontrol.

I had the privilege of taking care of Jonah for about 2 months for a couple days a week. He is one of the most laid back babies evah. Until you try to make him take a nap...



I bought this plate last week with my inspiration coming from Tasha over at Homeshade Photography. I brought it along with me not knowing if I would really be able to use it since he's a kinda wobbly sitter... but turns out, it we easier for him to sit on the plate than on the floor! I think it's cuz he had something to hold onto :)







I knew this shoot would be amazing from the time we started talking about it... Jonah is so stinking cute and he is an excellent poser, I think ;)



I've seen so many pictures with cute letter blocks and i finally got to do one myself! He was sooo distracted when we put them there! I think it looks really cute and you can totally tell it was supposed to say snow ;)





i'm sooooo glad I had my new camera for it too! I'm telling you what, the 5D is amazing. I feel like my photography has gone to a new level because of it. Plus I get to spend phenominally less time doing post editing... because the camera takes them so great to begin with!

Thank you guys for letting me capture your amazing baby! This is literally the fastest turnaround I've ever done on pictures :) hopefully, i'll start making this a habit...

at the pumpkin patch (Rochester family photographer)

Ok, so I seriously did this shoot like over a month ago... but there's this little thing called a LIFE and a JOB that have been getting in the way of actually finishing it up!

Bee is very talented in the graphic design area, and while I try my hand at it in some arenas, there are some things I just don't touch. So when I decided I wanted a brochure for my business I knew she was the one to ask.

So we worked out a little traderoo. although, she's so sweet, she probably would have just done the brochure for me... but I wanted to give her something in return.

So we planned this all out. I found this really great pumpkin patch and was soo excited about the location, but when we got there... not gonna lie, little Jordyn wasn't so into it!

She was all but ignoring me and I was slightly freaking out on the inside (hey y'all, i'm just bein real!) So I started shooting like crazy just hoping that she would give me some good stuff... and turns out she did.



Don't they make the super cutest family :) And you can't see, but there's a baby hiding in this picture too *grin*




There is a whole sequence of these pictures, but this is the last and (in my opinion) the cutest!







Thank you guys so much for thrilling me with your willingness to do these pictures. I had a lot of fun and I hope you did too!

a family of 9 and 5 hours later... (Rochester family photographer)

This was by far the largest family I have photographed. Nine in all! and the 5 hours of which I speak only accounts for the time I spent taking the pictures!

I won't even go into how many more hours it took to narrow them down... it's daunting I tell you. And that's the main reason I haven't updated in so long!

You may remember this face from a couple posts back, and now you can take a look at the beautiful rest of the fam :)







One of my favorite things when getting ready to take pictures is when my clients have an idea in mind, or a specific place to go. This was Sherrie's find and I am so glad she found it! Seriously, how cool is this fireplace? I fear, this may not be the last time you see it ;)

My personal favorite style of photography is close-ups. I've probably mentioned that before, and I'm sure I will again... but I'm always wanting to get right up in there and take a face shot.

And awesomely enough, that's Sherrie's favorite style as well :) So you can guess how much fun I had with this!

The one thing I struggle with the most as a nanny is the idea of having my own kids one day. However, getting to know this family has done the opposite of what you would think about my desire for kids. The difference between seven kids versus two or three kids is HUGE! There is a need for personal responsibility when there are a lot of kids around. Their kids are responsible for themselves and eachother, and I found that so refreshing. It made me realize that kids are indeed their own person, and while they will always need guidance, I don't need to hover (like I end up doing most of the time!)

They are all so well-behaved and honestly, the idea of having a family of my own like this someday is really exciting :)

So here they are, in order from oldest to youngest...



Connor




Jordyn




Mckenna




Avery




Whitten




Chase




Justice




I saw this pose just before I did this shoot and was sooo excited to have two sisters to do it with! How beautiful are these girls and how amazing are their eyes? the contrasting colors are almost too much to handle! I'll definitely be doing this shot again, because I really do like it :)




I love the fact that this job is always pushing my past my comfort zone and forcing me to try new poses and shots. This family was perfect for doing this stuff, since having fun was the main thing that she wanted captured. It's not easy! Onward I forge, trying new things and after enough shots, I'll end up with one like this that makes me smile everytime i see it :)



Notice the baby's face here. All that little guy wanted to do was be on the ground with as much access to leaves and sticks as possible. Pick him up, he cries, set him down, he is in heaven :) If he could talk, I think he would be saying, "look ma! stick!"




I feel this shot becoming something I do often... I'll have to work on finding new and different creative ways to do it... and with stuff other than shoes. but I seriously loooove this :)




Besides the fact that I think they both look amazing in this picture, I also wanted to point out how incredible I think the light is. I have read other photogs blogs and found that many find the light just before dusk has an element of warming magic. It's absolutely beautiful and casts an unmistakeable glow.

Thank you Sherrie and James for choosing me to capture your family at this time. You and your family is a blessing to me and I can't tell you how honored I am to know you and have you in my life...