BOSTON CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER

If you are FB friends with me, you’ve already seen these, indulge me in looking twice.  Having a few images with my kids means the world to me… I think I’d fall over if I ever had an entire session of lifestyle candids.  I just can’t imagine.  I know I shoot almost weekly with my kids.  In fact, I am working towards an overhaul/revamp/massive update of my family blog.  But rarely do I capture the moments I really want… with me and my husband… and the kids… just being us.  Typically a simple shot goes something like this “Alright, I’ve metered and I’ve pretty much composed… the focus point that is red is the one that should be directly on my face, please don’t let it hit the wall behind me.”  Never mind going on about chopped limbs or rule of thirds.  And keep in mind that although he’d never dream of shooting with me, my husband actually has a wonderful eye.  So he shot these and I love them.

But more important, I went out and found a total “stranger” photographer to shoot a session for me this summer.  I have so many very talented photographer friends… in fact, I am really looking forward to a swap with Jennifer this summer… but I wanted to find someone who doesn’t know us, and more importantly, shoots and processes incredibly different than me and would treat me like a client, and I would pay like one.  So I tracked down an extremely talented woman whose blog I stalk and begged and pleaded (actually, she was cool and said yes right away!) and so we have set up our session for sometime this summer!  It’s a 5 year anniversary present to us.  I am hoping it’s also a “Congrats on losing all the weight” present to me.  I really can’t wait!

Until you can see her artistic wizardry, here we are.  [And yes, I'll post who she is a little closer to the session!].

I see this one and I just scream “MUFFIN CUPCAKE!!!!!!!!!” and Owen rolls his eyes at me.

We had a tough love talk.  “If you don’t smile, you get cropped out of the picture.”  “You’ll take me out?  Don’t you love me anymore?”  “Oh boy.  Never mind.  You’ll just be the only one in the picture making a funny face.”  I am guessing this was a good conversation to have with my own child, not so much with a client’s.  As he would say “these make my heart feel so happy.”

These make my heart more than happy.  These make my heart sing songs.  Really.  Until it becomes painfully obvious that I have given both of my children matching combovers.  They are so young, do they need a part so low?

If you’d made it this far, you’d know that I actually thought this title was perfect because I thought it was Monday. Until I realized it was Wednesday.  Except that is after midnight so it’s Thursday.  So I edited the title, sort of embarrassed.  Until I went back and looked again and saw the date said Wednesday.  So now I look like a dope.  Like everything else that is too big for me to wrap my brain around “it is what it is.”  Good night.