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The Jack & Will Show – July (7.5 months)

Kristina — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:34:51 +0000

This month’s Jack & Will Show was quite possibly the best one yet. I have to extend a big thank you to the “team” that I had helping me, which was comprised of 2 woman (ensuring safety), one man (ensuring laughs) and one 3rd grade girl (ensuring bubbles). Oh, and 2 dogs (ensuring barking and herding).

I am off to photograph Monica & Todd’s wedding today, so I am out of the loop… stay tuned for images tomorrow or Monday!

Beautiful Girls

Kristina — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:48:35 +0000

Sometimes things just come together so perfect. Monday night was one of those nights. Kelly and I did some back and forth on the date… a little nervous it might rain, a little nervous a tooth might fall out before we could get this done… but when I arrived at the simply stunning grounds where we’d arranged to meet, it all just came together. The light was divine. The temperature was perfect. There were no misquotes (if you know me, you know I have an obsessive hatred of them right now). The outfits were straight out of “What to Wear” and the girls were truly wonderful.

I am simply beyond thrilled with what I captured. Kelly, thank you so much. I cannot wait for your big family session!

North Shore Peeps… stay tuned… next week I’ll be announcing some local mini sessions that you can take advantage of in preparation for holiday card season… yes, it’s approaching that fast!

Family.

Kristina — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:06:13 +0000

What are the chances that within 24 hours I would photograph two families with adorable boys and both of the moms are from Texas? Houston I think! And both moms are awesome, and both dads are cool? I am lucky. Very lucky.

I am even more lucky because I have known Josh since before he was born. Really. No joke. Our families are BFFs. Really BFFs. It doesn’t matter if we don’t see each other for months on end, we are still BFFs. I can’t actually even put it into words the connection we have with this family. When I was like 6 or 7 I was looking out the window at the neighbors getting ready to go to Prom and I apparently said “Josh Chaffin can take me to the prom.” When I was reminded about that in later years (as I am actually reminded whenever I see Josh or my mother wants to embarrass me), it’s really really funny!!

I found a prom date other than Josh… and a few years later, Josh found Maisie who is a dream. She is so kind, open, and brings an amazing spark to not only Josh’s life, but also to Peggy & Nate’s (after 39 years, I apparently have the green light to call Mrs Chaffin “Peggy”). She is beautiful and has a lovely spirit. Josh grew into a handsome, articulate and caring guy. Together, they have Issac. And he is beyond yummy. I spent about 30 minutes with just Issac and I was IN. LOVE. Everything about this boy is the bomb. It was so fun to see this family together, and to watch how careful and loving they are with their boy, and to see how much they love each other.

Thank you for an amazing morning. You guys really are like my second family. Can’t wait until you are living state-side again!

Perfection.

Kristina — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:29:24 +0000

There is one image from this session that I think is Perfect. I’ve asked some other photographer friends their thoughts and this is what they came up with “Love the swinging hair,” “I love that she is both thin and strong at the same time,” “That one of her walking toward them is somehow both sexy & sweet. It’s like, it shows she’s still a gorgeous woman, but a mom, too, and that you can be both.” “I want to be her.” That pretty much summed up what I was thinking when I shot the image of her skipping down the beach [in a way more eloquent than I could have].

As for the rest of the session, it was lovely. I met Holly at a workshop and I think we totally clicked so I was super psyched to shoot her session! I was equally psyched to meet her husband because he works at Adobe and you know how I love my Brands. I figured two cool people would make an awesome kid, and I was right! Their son is a gorgeous little boy filled with a lot of expression, determination and a little bit of spunk!

I had a great time! I am so glad everyone hung in there through the sun and the heat and we got it DONE!

Sitting.

Kristina — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:16:41 +0000

Baby Jason can sit! And he can do it really well! Erica and I tried to schedule this session a few times, but things kept coming up… and in hindsight, we are so glad we waited until he could sit! He is seriously delicious. And he loves… loves… LOVES his mama. As it should be. Train your son to say “Mom, I love you and you are my best friend” and you will be a happy woman for life. Until he gets married. Then it will be weird. But until then, he’s yours.

Kit-kat came home from school, literally RAN past me to the shower so she could look all awesome for our session… and she was a ROCK STAR… no, maybe more like a Gap model. Sort of like Christofer, she’s a little excited because someone else is around, but WHAM she can turn it on for the camera in a split second. She is ever gorgeous, ever a teenager at age 5. Love her.

And Erica is beautiful. Really. What else is there to say? I stinkin’ love her too. She and I have these off the wall conversations that I think about after I leave her house and I kill myself laughing.

I want to post more, but I have to go pay a few moving violation fines so I don’t end up in the clink… and as much as there are about 30 more I’d love to show you, we really want to keep them a surprise! We’ll share another time!

Can you believe I made her wait so long?

Kristina — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:50:07 +0000

I can’t. Shame on me because you know how I love these sessions. This is the April installment of the Jack & Will Show. Technically, I am right on time because it’s only two weeks from the session date, but usually I at least hook up Carolyn with a sneak peak!

So here is our sneak peak from April with a gallery and uploaded Facebook albums (and a canvas display wall diagram) all coming at you! It might be fun for you to see my logic in suggesting canvas displays, and I have a few others I need to complete (Terri Lee)…. so maybe I’ll share that thought process as well!

Back to the boys. Love these two. They are doing SO well at sitting. I would be they are even better two weeks later, so when I am there at end of this month, we’ll have way more to show you as these guys develop, the grass is greener, the temps are warmer and we move outside! I already have grand plans for those rose bushes and just wait ’til I can get into that barn!

We might need to revisit the baseball theme next month so I can do it up right!

Jack & Will – 4.5 Months

Kristina — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:59:45 +0000

Loved our session this month! I walked in thinking “What am I ever going to do with these guys to make it special? It’s raining and grey and none of the things I thought up even feel feasible in this cold…” And this house, and these babies, they never fail to disappoint. It is probably the best thing I can do for my photography growth and development… every month looking for new and unique challenges, not re-using props or locations, working with the babes so that I document their evolution and show their uniqueness and bond! I also keep thinking about all the One Year albums options there are… and Carolyn’s fabulous canvas wall… this has been way more fun than I ever expected!

I am seriously loving these babes though. They have totally distinct personalities, but are so cute in that they still grab for each other, knowing they are connected. And I think they weigh more than Janey… and Will for sure has more hair than she does! Hopefully she’ll like younger men…

I am

Wear This.

Kristina — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:52:09 +0000

Seriously. AMAZING.OUTFITS. When Tracey emailed that she had the kids outfits picked out, I was psyched. I was probably 10,000 time more psyched when I saw them in person. It’s like she said “sky, grass, road, trees, we are are showing up in these colors, now you match.” And everything did! Enough of that, Tracey’s kids were really good. Like really good. And really friendly and knew my name right off the bat, new my friend Harry’s name, new my kid’s name… they conversed with me, I totally felt like I was “in like flynn” with them. Love. We checked out the old haunts of River Road and then they were such awesome sports about checking out a new location with me. And man did I LOVE the new location! I am so excited to shoot there more often, esp at sunset. But the cool thing is that no matter how many sessions I shoot there, Tracey can say “oh, yeah, well, we shot there first…”

I’d say my only regret about the entire morning is that I didn’t get to chill with Tracey enough. She is so cute (and in such great shape, triathlon girl) and there were a ton of things I could have caught up talking to her about. But I guess we’ll get to that if we figure out holiday cards + a bottle of wine!

Tracey and co, awesome morning (I know, I overuse the word awesome). Can’t wait to get you the full gallery! Thank you!