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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Freezing Gunnar’s Toes Off

I promise I am not in the business of freezing cute little kids, but that seems to be happening a lot for Gunnar and Addison since I’ve met them!  One of Addy’s sessions earlier this year was terribly cold, and now we’ve turned Gunnar into an ice cube despite my best intentions.  I offered to reschedule their session from the previous weekend because I thought it was going to be too cold to shoot but I’m pretty sure we ended up with almost the exact same weather I was trying to avoid.  Poor guy was a champ, though!  He’s such a sweet, happy little guy!  And I always love a chance to get to visit with Sydney, even if we never make it to that lunch we have been planning since Gunnar was born.  (Love ya, girl!)

Yeah, Gunnar is outta here…

 

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

The Johnson Sisters

We just about froze our extremities off during Ryleigh and Raygan’s session, but we managed to have a good time anyway, and I don’t think they look too cold in the pictures.  ;)  These two have the distinction of being the first kids to give me a hug at the end of the session without being prompted by anyone.  If a child does NOT want me to walk away and get in my car at the end, that tells me that I’ve done a good job before even seeing the pictures.  (Although I do feel sort of bad for the meltdown mom had to deal with because I did, in fact, need to get in my car and leave.  LOL)  It means that I was able to connect with them on a level where they see me as a friend or playmate, and they were comfortable during the session.  It’s during those sessions that I get the best smiles, the best laughs, and the most real images of the kids being themselves.  I love it!

Parents often cringe when their kids want to have their security object (whether it’s a doll, a stuffed animal, a pacifier, whatever) with them during a session, but I secretly love these images myself.  I know they probably carry these items around the house and it is a part of THEM at this stage in their life.  I don’t see a problem with capturing their attachment to that particular item.  No, I don’t want it in every image…  but this one of Raygan and her duck?  She loves that duck, and that makes me love this image!

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Noah the dapper

Amy found this awesome diaper cover and bow tie for Noah’s three-month session and I might just have to try to find one for myself to keep in my baby boy prop bucket.  It was so simple and yet so awesome!  He was one of my best three month sessions ever.  He gave us plenty of smiles and even a few funny faces.  If this blog still exists when he reaches middle school and his friends happen to find it, he may hate me for one of these images I’m about to post… but I can’t help it.  I laughed, David laughed, and so I’m going to share it with the rest of you!  You’ll know it when you see it.  But I’m really more concerned with whether or not Ben is going to hate me for the picture I’m going to post of him with Noah.  He said Amy took up all the happy baby time and didn’t leave any for him at the end.  Oops!

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Amy - December 10, 2013 - 8:17 pm

Thank you so much! We love all the pictures!!! FYI – I ordered the diaper cover from etsy :)

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Merry Christmas from Maelee

I just adore Maelee’s sessions!  She’s too stinking cute, and she goes back and forth between purposely posing for me and playing shy with me.  She makes me work for my images, but I can usually turn it into a game with her.  The outtake I posted on Facebook (there’s a special folder just for outtakes – you should check it out!) is where I was asking her for a high five.  She was willing to give me one, but silly me didn’t get my hand out of the frame.  Ha!  At least my nails were done that day!  Anyhow, that’s my long drawn out way of saying I had a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to her two year session!

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Ami & Tyler | Pensacola Pet Photography

It always seems like we spend more time at the vet’s office than normal people should.  We’ve just had that kind of “luck” with our pets over the years.  But we love our vets and the staff at Safe Harbor Animal Hospital, and I wholeheartedly trust them all with my pets’ lives.  When Ami posted a few pictures of Crush on Facebook a few months ago I immediately fell in love…  he had been bitten by a dog and had a skull fracture along with a pretty nasty infection.  The left side of his face looked pretty rough, but I thought he was adorable anyway.  So when she said the owner had officially asked them to find him a home I was all over it.

But this post isn’t about my crazy house full of pets.  I wanted to do something to thank Ami for helping us add Crush to the household, and so I offered to shoot a session of her and Tyler.  If I’m remembering correctly he is twelve years old.  He goes to work with her so I’ve seen him around the clinic many, many times.  He’s so handsome!  She adopted him when he was four and worked with him to arrive at his currently sweet and awesome temperament.  (I think Ami and I are very much alike in that we would rescue many more animals in need if we had endless funds and space.)  We walked around downtown with him off lead, and even when he saw the squirrels that he really wanted to chase, he never actually made a move for them.  (Bailey would have been testing the strength of her leash and my grip on it!  ;) )

I’m really glad I had the opportunity to capture these images.  Not only is Tyler an awesome dog and Ami an awesome person, but getting to capture their bond together was a pretty rewarding experience for me.  And a big change from chasing around toddlers!

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