Another Year

Another year has past and I had the pleasure of photographing this family last fall. We have done the family the first year and then just the girls for a few more years so it was time to update the family portrait in the home. When I first started my business (8 years ago) I did do yellow page advertising! Can you believe it? Well good thing because that is how they found me. We usually photograph in the summer and the last session we did in the fall was a memorable one. The littlest one was only 18 months lets just say we were not on the same page. A few days prior she had shots so I am thinking the whole new person, stranger thing was imbedded in her head. I would approach and she would scream instantly… the session went on and we tried to pull out all the tricks. I ended up getting one image with the 3 of them with her holding on to “blankie” and a bit red faced. The rest were of the two older ones. I knew not to push it because I didn’t her to have a more long term memory of the day.  So the next year she was a bit older (probably doesn’t fully remember how it all went down the year before) and she comes right up to me and says “Miss Abby, I am not going to cry this year” We have been on the same page ever since. I always start with posed ones in the beginning and then at the end let them get a bit crazy. I look forward to them each and every year. This year they got a puppy so I am super excited for our session.