Family Fun!

Summer is a time for families to gather and every summer I am called upon at least a few times by different families to capture their time together for them. Ever since the shoot we did with her own family last summer, my friend Angie has been talking about doing a shoot with her husband Steve’s family. Just a couple weeks ago, Steve’s brother Mike was in town from Florida and I joined  the whole gang at the family’s beach house on Camano Island!  Of course the group photo of everyone together was the first order of business and once we got that out of the way, we focused on photos of the individual families and of course, lots and lots of candid documentation!  Here’s a selection of some of my favorites…

This photo cracks me up. Apparently Gus was not going to be shown up by Maya’s impressive skills and showed off a few of his own!

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Ty, Gizmo & Gus were part of the fun, so of course they had their pictures taken too!

Despite the bright sunlight making all of us a little squinty-eyed, we had a fun time playing down at the beach on this gorgeous summer day.

I can always count on Dayton to have a stick in his hand. In this shot he’s showing me how his snake stick hisses : )

This final series of brothers Dayton & Cooper also cracks me up. Apparently Dayton didn’t hear me ask for their best silly faces. I was laughing so hard at the crazy face Coop gave me that eventually Dayton caught on : )

Gardenview Family Photo Day!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm always thinking of ways to keep my photography services affordable for young families. More specifically, I've been wanting to figure out a way for clients to get family photos to share during the holiday season when they are already spending a lot of money on gifts and travel. One of the ideas I've had rolling around in my head for awhile now is the "quick shoot"... where I schedule several families for back-to-back 20 minute appointments at a reduced rate.

I decided to experiment with this idea by offering Family Photo Day to the families at Gardenview Montessori. My goal was to create group, individual and different combo shots of all family members and provide an average of 20-25 images to each family. Six families signed up to be my guinea pigs and I'm happy to report the experiment was successful! I learned a few things I needed to learn and I am pretty sure I will be planning at least one quick shoot day in November. Thanks so much to all of the families who participated... it was fun seeing the Gardenview kids with their families and I hope you all will enjoy your photos : )

Thanks again to everyone who participated... I really appreciate your patience and flexibility while I worked out the "bugs" in my idea : )