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Newborn Session

I'm trying to play catch-up by posting more than one pic a day since I didn't post for about 5 days due to my role as au pair this past weekend.  I felt like I had no life while I was chasing after 3 littles from dawn to dusk, and then had to attend to one, two or three of them throughout the night.

So this is a throwback image of one of them from a few years ago.  Once upon a time I thought I wanted to be a newborn photographer, then I came to my senses and decided I preferred architecture.  I still like capturing images of children, but I'm older, get more tired, and I don't really have the patience needed to deal with ill-behaved children.

This morning my heart is grateful for:

being able to sit on the patio, working, in the cool of the morning before starting my day

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 Family Portrait Session

Yesterday I had the chance to do a portrait session with this fun family.

After making some images with their pets, we did a few with just the humans in the family. 

I'm so glad I decided to do this session in the studio~~it was a great way to contain the pets and the kiddos. 

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Finally Got the Strobe Slave

It's been over 20 years that I've wanted a slave system for my strobe light.  I don't know why it's taken me so long to bite the bullet and purchase one.  Maybe because I didn't really know what to get~~I'm so "gear-challenged", but I finally had help so I did the deed.

It's a Pocket Wizard and once I got the correct cord it was a breeze.  

Since I moved into a smaller space than I used to live in, I have very few photo subjects and definitely no models to work with so I recruited one of my houseplants to practice with.  

I have a family photo session coming up this weekend, so I'll post one of those images in the near future.  

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Fun portrait session

Several months ago I had the pleasure of working with these kids on a portrait session. The little kids were tricky but I finally got some images I like.  I think the parents will love these.