And Part 2 of the Massachusetts sessions, Beth's family. Beth is a kindred soul to me. We are both gregarious, and often just a teeny bit bigger than life. So when she told me her vision: Formal wear. Red. Pearls. A rakish dad with loose bowtie. I was like:

WOOOOOOHOOOO!!!!

I ADORE concept shoots. ADORE. And if anyone could make this idea look FABULOUS, Beth could.

Check it:

 
Oh. My. Goodness. Did you see the littlest one? More of him later, and you will SWOON. And the sweet princess daughter? And the WILLING DAD, who let his wife rent a tux for him??

I love this family.

and I love Beth. How lovely is she with her daughter?

And the boys-- so cute!

And again with their solo shots- I LOVED getting moments with each kid, one-on-one, to slow down and get to the heart of THEM, as an individual:

And the oldest son is QUITE the individual!! Ha!

But this youngest son?? Oh, he had me at "hello". *swoon*

And Beth's hubs--- what a good sport! You KNOW she is drooling at these shots of her hubs in the tux... :)

And how cute are they together??

But my favorite shot-- the one I imagined, then worked INSANELY hard to make a reality in post-processing... is this--- The TRUE portrait of a family of three kids:

 

Right? Right?? I feel like this every day, and I only have ONE kid!!

Thank you Beth (and Marc!) for letting me make this wild, wonderful vision a reality for you. I hope you adore these as much as I do!

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Sarah's Family {St. Louis Family Children's Travel Photographer}

Did I leave anyone hangin' last week?? I fell off the face of the blog after Friday, and am just coming back.... and I wonder if anything feels unresolved to any of you? Is there any aspect of my random writing last week that I wasn't conclusive about that you'd like to know more about? I'm an open book!! Leave me a comment and I'll happily ramble on whatever part of Life-ness you wish I had talked more about... :)

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Until then, I really really really really need to blog the rest of my summer sessions. I have so many, and loved each one, and it's just SAD they haven't gotten to see the light of day on here... 

So--- I'm posting two today, both from Massachusetts, both amazing women with three kiddos apiece. We shot their session concurrently, and it was a wild evening of kids, cupcakes, flustered mamas, manic photographer singing wild songs to keep attention, and magic moments of actually pulling it all together when the moment counted. I know both Sarah (the mom of THIS session) and Beth, the other mama, will agree that it was.... interesting.... But it was also thoroughly fun (for me ... and probably the kids) and ended up in a very satisfying success of a session. 

Still... Next time I suggest to a client that we can do two families of 3+ kids at the same time, remind me I am nuts. 

Sarah, I love looking at these again--- miss you!

these shots of just the kids are my favorite--- LOVE the light, love their sweet faces, love their three totally different personalities!

And then the beach--- We had to get some at the coast! the sun was nearly GONE, but we made it work!

 

*LOVE*

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