What better way to end my week than with a session with this sweet little baby girl. This was the second time I’ve gotten to work with her, and I was so happy to see her smiley face. She looked like quite a classic doll in her heirloom Christening gown.
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I was honored to photograph the brave man and women for the second annual breast cancer survivors issue of Fairfax Woman and Alexandria Woman magazine. When the issue came out a few days ago I picked one up and enjoyed reading everyone’s stories. They are truly inspiring.
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I was happy to have a little newborn in the studio today to distract me from the fact that I dropped my kids off for their first days of 1st and 2nd grade. This little guy had the most perfect head of thick hair, and such a perfect little face. I was glad mom and dad brought some of their stuff to personalize the portraits. Isn’t he an adorable little Yankee’s fan?
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Each year I do a little virtual shopping around for outfit ideas to share with clients leading up to the fall family portrait season. When talking with clients about their wardrobe selection, I suggest sticking mostly with solids, maybe with just one or two prints to help draw the colors together. I find that the best dressed clients in the fall tend to wear warm colors that match the outdoors (browns, oranges, greens, golds). I started with those basics and added a few colors to accent like cream, plum, and dark pink. All of the outfits I picked are currently in season and available at the websites/stores I credited.
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I’ve known this beautiful mother of three since our early days of motherhood and I have always admired her patience and ability to handle anything that life throws at her. Back when we first met she had the thankless job of being our technical contact for the Vienna Mom’s group, right when we were in the process of switching to a new email/website system. Now I got to see her again as the mother of 3, and do a session celebrating the adoption of her charming son. The last time I did portraits for them was when their younger daughter was just a newborn. I’m especially honored to her her as a return client because I know that she has a nice camera herself, as well as a photographer in the family.
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It’s been two and a half years since I have seen these little guys. They had moved overseas and now that they are back, I was honored that having updated portraits done was one of the first things on their to-do list. Check out their first session to see how much they have grown!
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Congratulations to Veralana client, Amanda Carroll on starting her new national radio show this week! I spotted her glowing smile on the K-LOVE website this morning.
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I first met this new mom when she came in for some professional headshots, and now she was back with her sweet baby girl. Mom had demonstrated her yoga skills during our previous session, and this time it was her little daughter who was showing off her flexibility. She was such a happy, sleepy baby for us–a newborn photographer’s dream.
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It’s great when I get to meet up with fun, relaxed repeat clients and help them capture more family memories. With this family it felt more like hanging out with friends and taking some photos along the way than working. The kids were having a great time exploring the surroundings–climbing on the caboose, riding in the wagon, playing in the stones *especially playing in the stones*, climbing on the stone walls and checking out the gardens (they were more excited about the spider webs than the flowers, though!). At one point when the boys were in their little red wagon, I moved the wagon a bit to get them out of the sun and as I was moving it said “Chugga chugga”, to which the older boy corrected me for mixing up my transportation sounds. Of course, silly me!
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I’ve been so busy with shooting and catching up on the business while my kids are at camp this week that it’s taken me a little while to blog this family’s session, but I think it was totally worth the wait. What adorable children these were! There were so many cute ones of the kiddos I didn’t get to proofing the ones of the extended family yet, but I do think these little ones’ grandparents may now hold the record for coming the farthest for a session–they were visiting from China!
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