Another glorious family photography session with Bread Boy, his brothers, and his parents! I meet a lot of kids, and usually they’re extremely energetic or extremely cooperative, but they’re rarely both (I say this with love). All four of these boys actually are both, and they’re truly some of my absolute favorite wild yet cooperative subjects. I don’t think I’ve ever explicitly posed them – they just pose for me. All of them – including the one year old. They were all just born knowing how to pose. All four brothers will pose themselves and smile directly into the camera for 2 minutes, and then scamper off into various directions to cause mayhem and mischief, and then suddenly all end up in a different spot, arms around each other, smiling delightfully into the camera again. It’s truly wild. They are hilarious and full of life and LOVING life. They just spent some time in France and when I asked them how their time was, they replied, “Je suis une pizza,” which just means “I am a pizza.” They then put on fake mustaches, sat on the couch, put their arms around each other, and smiled for the camera.

pittsburgh visit.

this past weekend and week has been a total whirlwind for us. we went home knowing we’d already be busy enough with my mom’s birthday and visiting my grandma in the hospital, but with added engagement news on top of that we got really exhausted really quick. lots of talking, lots of planning, lots of discussion. we didn’t get back to raleigh until late sunday night and have been rushing to catch up on all the business we missed while we were gone while simultataneously trying to recover. geoff has a cold and i’m exhausted, but we’re slowly catching up. i’ve been editing from last week’s shoots and preparing for the wedding i’m photographing this weekend in cary.

i uploaded some of the photos we took in pittsburgh this past week – all of which were taken at PNC park. we took my mom there for her birthday as neither of my parents had ever been to the new stadium. the pirates lost, of course, but going to that stadium is always so much fun – and it was fireworks night! plus the pittsburgh skyline never gets old.

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magic hour in the ‘burgh.

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the sister and me…cheesing it up at the game.

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seriously – who mows those lines so straight?

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there was a giant red moon that night that, when photographed properly, reminds me of a bad 80s music video.

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“even fireworks at pirates games dwarf most cities’ fourth of july.” – laura

p.s. go steelers!