Elfin Forest Family Session

 Say hello to some of MY family! This is my brother, Todd with his daughter (my ridiculously adorable niece) Ruby, and fiancee Karie! While I was visiting for the holidays I did a quick family session with them and it was super fun. The location is in the Elfin Forest which is this cute little forest with a trail/boardwalk through it right near my parents' new house. My sister had taken me there and I got so excited I wanted to do a photo shoot there. So it was awesome that Todd and Karie were up for a walk with Ruby on a beautiful Sunday morning.

It's nice to be able to do some work in a different part of the country. You don't see this kind of stuff in Chicago! I'm currently going through lots and lots of photos that I took in California over the break and there will be more blog posts to come because I can't keep all of the beautiful scenery and fun to myself!

I hope everyone else had a lovely holiday and a very happy New Year!

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The Rose Family

Meet the Roses! These guys are actually my boyfriend's family, so I was a tiiiiny bit nervous to take their family pictures, because what if I messed it up? That, and I didn't want them to think I was bossy after 30 minutes of me telling them what to do. Haha, but in all seriousness, the session turned out great! It was fun and easy. I spent Thanksgiving with them this year (first time without my family which was sad, but I was so grateful they took me in for the holiday), so we found some time and a great location (although going into the barn may not have been the safest idea... it was just so cool though I couldn't help myself) to take some time and do a few family portraits during the holiday. 

This was also the first time I shot a family with all older kids, which was kind of strange. I'm just so used to spending half the time trying to get everyone to look at the camera. It was pretty nice to not have to worry so much about that and just focus on getting great images. So this was what we came out with! They were so fun to work with and I think you can really tell in the photos!

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Family Fun!

I had an awesome family session with these wonderful people a few weeks ago! They were super fun to work with and we had a perfect day. I think the photos turned out great, so I'll just let the images speak for themselves!

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