child
portrait photography workshop
it’s official: i’m offering my first workshop to teach folks how to take better photos of their kids. check out all the information HERE.
colorado jen
jen and her family moved from colorado to our neighborhood last summer and she instantly became known as colorado jen (to distinguish her from several other jens in the neighborhood). the name stuck even though they’ve been here over a year and i was thrilled when she emailed me to see if i was available for a session with her family. she has four beautiful kids and jen, herself, looks like she should be in an ad promoting some sort of healthy, natural product (“you, too, can look this beautiful after having four kids if you buy our product!”).
i met up with jen, her husband, dave, and their four kids: noah, luke, georgia and grace. luke is the same age as my daughter and they were in the same class last year and my son is the same age as georgia. he’s had a mad crush on her since he met her but i found out yesterday that her heart now belongs to another boy in her class.
we had a great time yesterday. after days of torrential rains, the weather was literally picture perfect and jen and dave were relaxed so the kids were free to just be themselves. i could photograph them every weekend and never grow tired of them.
the last of the flash (for now…)
emilee was my last off-camera flash guinea pig and she was fantastic. i’ve been photographing her and her family for a few years now and i’ve always meant to have her come model for me. she has a serenity and calmness about her that comes across in photos and i’m going to be using one of these photos (don’t know which one, yet) as a sample in my studio. thanks, emilee!
sydney and gabe off flash
i told you i had a bunch to post from my off camera flash practice sessions (really, i only have 1 more session to post. hang in there). this is sydney and her little brother gabe (who makes a cameo appearance due to his mother’s pleading). gabe and jack were in the same preschool class last year and were pretty much joined at the hip. we don’t see him as much; it was nice to be able to take photos of sydney while the two of them played. sydney was a terrific model – except for when i told her to look serious and she burst out laughing. thanks, sydney 
sarah and alex v.2
sarah and alex were my very first clients back in march of 2006 when i needed to do some portfolio building. their mom, amy, was a friend of a friend and – as we soon found out – used to work with jeff at the first agency he worked at out of college. fast forward 4 years and alex and sarah are practically grown up. i see amy around town a lot but rarely see the girls so it was such a shock to see that they weren’t little kids anymore.
the first four photos are sarah and alex from way back when and the remainder or from our shoot a couple of weeks ago:
