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

This post has been in draft for a long time, I saw it sitting there as I began the arduous task of re-categorizing and cleaning up my blog, web site, life.  Even though it’s not current, I really wanted to share it.  Especially since we’ll be working on this canvas display next week.

I shot this session with this one.  It was the perfect late afternoon in the fall, leaves still pretty, weather warm, but a little bit crisp.  I was so happy to be shooting this entire family since last year I just captured the boys.  I was also excited because we really like these guys!  They were first introduced to us through Guy & Erica when we moved to town, and since then we’ve gotten to know them and their boys and we are so happy to call them friends!

Anyway, this might be one of my most favorite sessions and the images have made their way to my updated web site (yes, finally new images).  So my apologies for the delay, enjoy!

I have this exact same image in B&W from last year…. I hope I can take a variation of this next year too!

Quite possibly my favorite “parents” picture.  Ever.

This session was one of them.  Kacie did a lot of advance planning with me to make this session happen for her family, and for her daughter’s first birthday.  And wouldn’t you know it, the day arrived and it was gross and rainy and dark.  We were sort of hesitant to reschedule because who knows what November can bring weather-wise, but we took a gamble on pushing it out one week and we hit the jackpot!  It was chilly, but not so much that faces were red… it was windy, but just enough to give Kaycie’s hair this awesome lift (this is where I pipe in that I drag huge fan around to make mom’s look like wella-balsam wind blown… and if you don’t know what that is, that should tell you that I am pretty old).

Anyway, the day was awesome, the family was awesome and I really had a great time hanging out with them, learning about their lives, blabbering mindlessly about mine (they humored me).  I think my mother-in-law thought I was a little crazed last night because I just kept saying “Really  Robs, I love my clients… I do… I love them all… really, I love my clients…”  I will say it once and say it again, I am really, really fortunate to be doing this and to meet such cool people that feel like old friends.

So that’s that… check out how seriously cute this little girl is.  I am not joking, just look at her eyes!  Love!

I had a really awesome Saturday.  Owen was a rock star and handled the kiddos all day while I shot three sessions.  Usually I am totally overwhelmed shooting three sessions and I am pretty blurry eyed by the end of the day, but for some reason, it was easy!  Must be because I was looking at such beautiful people all day long.  Yes, not to disappoint, I seemed to have stumbled upon yet another crop of beauties, pretty people, scrumptious children, what-to-wear examples… you know the drill.

I met up with Deb first.  I am so glad we were able to work it out with our schedules, considering the disaster that my schedule is.   Deb is new to town and I was really excited to shoot these for her.  I know it can be so hard being far away from your homegirls, especially around the holidays.  You meet people, but it’s not like you know them well enough that you can just stop by their house, dump your kids, open their fridge and pour yourself some wine… (except that I think I did that the first day I even went to Stephanie’s house, but that’s another story).   And even though I know Deb has met a ton of girls, it’s still not quite home for her yet.  So I am hoping that by showing her these images, she’ll be a little more excited about her transition up here and will feel just a little bit more like it’s home when she sees them on her walls.

Sophie and Mia are so pretty, and they had on the cutest outfits, and they were really well behaved.  What is it with everyone’s kids being so well behaved and mine just seem to get better and better at throwing tantrums?   We ventured a little further back than I normally go and I absolutely LOVE the images of the girls in their dress up clothes in front of the country estate… it just seemed to work so well!

Enjoy!

My plea paid off and  I was able to get better (turns out it was just a nasty sore throat brought on by too little sleep), I caught up on a bunch of galleries (but I still owe slideshows and more galleries) and now just have a backlog of cards to design!  I am getting there, I promise.

I was able to catch up with Michelle who runs the fabulous stationary store (The Write Expression) in town… I purchased Betsy’s shower invites there and they were ADORABLE!  Anyway, for those of you local, look for some cool things happen with us in the winter and spring (think cute Valentines Day photographs on their awesome cards!).

Here are two from the afternoon… shooting in the most perfect late day light (Corin, you were right, it was perfect!)

This is my reminder that I love love love black and white sibling shots.

One of my favorite houses in our town, owned by one of my favorite families. Year three of photographing these kiddos and I am thrilled that this year the parents jumped in. It makes me so happy to see their entire family, grandparents included, in on the session. I love love love photographing families.

It makes me so happy that I can shoot these sessions for Terri Lee. She met me morning one of our new life here in town, in total disarray, picked up Christofer and my gallon of milk and walked me to my car. Ever since, she’s been a really awesome, very real, honest and funny touchstone for me. I am so happy to have her family in our life.