Had a lovely fall weekday morning meeting these folks at the park to take some updated family pictures! They love this park where their active kiddo can run around the playground and ride his bike while his dad does practice runs for his marathons. I am quite honored that said bike now has CSP bat stickers on it. :D I love these folks and have worked with them for a while now and they’re SUCH good people raising an incredible kid and I’m glad that there’s folks like them in my community and in the world. We blew bubbles, drew Halloween chalk art, did mid-air flips, and went down slides, all the while taking pictures of the love they have for life and each other. Enjoy this fun little session.

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.

I always love photographing self-professed “nerds” because I am also a nerd and usually we can talk about nerdy things together. Kelsie loves musicals, Neal loves board games, they both love ridiculous movies, and so naturally several recommendations were passed between all of us for a bunch of nerdy stuff (everyone – go watch Solarbabies if you want to see something truly amazing and ridiculous). Just felt like being home photographing these folks. Their house is adorable and they have two beautiful and majestic doggos, Tonks and Granger, who became my best friends. Their son, who is a JOY, was quite the smiley and happy photography subject, especially when it came to eating sliced cucumbers, which are his favorite. Loved working with all of these guys and having a photography party in their amazingly wallpapered bathroom.