Setting up a shoot

So here is just a brief example of what I do when I go into someone's home to do a shoot!

On the phone Audra was telling me that their home had tons of natural light, but not too many locations to shoot in. Therefore we set up this brown blanket, held up by 2 chairs, and put the girls on it for a backdrop. We also took some household items (a basket and a super cute pink rocking chair) and used them as props. So above is the set-up and below is the final product. I did absolutely no cropping.

Have fun shooting

Israel and Ruby

These two little girls were so adorable and yummy I just want to eat them up! Audra is a long time client and when she saw I was running the winter special she contacted me and we set up a time to shoot photos of their beautiful family! Here are just a few to whet her appetite, more to come in the next week!
Check out this beautiful hair! Amazingly beautiful! One of my favorite shots of the day, I am not kidding this little sweetie was smiling almost the entire shoot! Check out isreal's face! So proud to be a big sis, and little Ruby is just adoring her sister.

My little Bride

Blog followers!! I have been pretty lax this week on keeping up with this. My hubbie was off in India which left me alone with my 3 kiddos and very little time to get on the computer, let alone check e-mail. Thankfully he is back in the US recouping from the 11 hour difference in jet lag and I am back at it! Many new posts to come this week. These quick shots were taken one of the days Lydia was given a bride dress by a friend of hers. So here we start with the "playing" pretend bride, and yes, I did shed some tears as I was shooting. Could have been lack of sleep though...

The Sharbono family

This is the sweet, classy, and kind Sharbono family. Before my oldest, Lydia, was born Rebecca was my boss at Career Professionals. She has the most AMAZING, contagious laugh! Last year she and her husband Justin welcomed their beautiful baby girl Addica to their family.

We spent a bit of the morning wandering around the Minneapolis Sculpture Gardens and just letting Addica be a kiddo. These are my favorite kind of shoots, where kids are just kids. You never know what you're going to get, but it is always great fun! (check out the much loved duckie... what adventures they have had together!)

Thanks Rebecca and Justin, I had a blast and it was well worth the time to see you both again!

Levi at 6 months

Ahhh, this little guy is so adorable, check out those baby blues! Jared and Lydia are wonderful friends of ours and were married in 2007. ( I think you can even see snippets of their wedding on this blog, they are one of the first posts that I had!) I think we are all looking forward to our boys growing up together. This guy was all smiles for the camera and we had a great morning together!

Jonas is 9 months

Claire is another previous client who was married in 2006. She is yet another client who has taken me up on the winter promo. We have been trying to schedule a time to photograph Jonas for a long time and Monday afternoon I was able to meet and photograph this handsome little man! I love it when history is incorporated in shoots. This little stool that Jonas is holding was made by his auntie and shows his Swedish background. Hopefully the next time I'll be photographing him, he'll be able to stand with it, he wasn't quite there yet...

A March afternoon

So after returning home with a day of shoots and errands, I ran down to my office to try and catch up on e-mails, leaving Lydia to do some "creative stuff" (her words) on her own. 10 minutes later she comes down looking like this (with Elise along for the ride) saying "mom look how creative I got, but it doesn't come off!" Very good Lydia, and we headed to the bathtub right after the camera was put away...