raleigh portrait photographer: alice, brad, + jed the cat. :)

quickie blog post this morning as i’m trying to catch up with everything and get a bunch of shoots and editing done before i’m in pittsburgh for a week!

meet alice! she is a lovely woman who owns her own business doing writing and marketing for software companies. she was in need of a few new headshots and, while we were at it, a few pictures of her and her husband and their adorable cat jed. :)

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they had a beautiful butterfly bush in their front yard with enormous butterflies…we’re talking about the size of my hand.

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and i just about melted when i met this little guy. he was super cute and nice and half-willing to have his picture taken. ;)

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day 73/365.

hung out at the park this weekend between shoots and baseball games. i’m pretty much always practicing my photography as i love love love to learn new techniques. i’m also always trying to attempt to perfect my old techniques. other times i just like to mess around and take pictures with no real end goal. thankfully, no matter what the scenario, geoff is usually always around.

aaaand usually giving me this face:

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or modeling dramatically:

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or asking me to take his picture while he “jumps like a ninja”:

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then geoff decided to get behind the camera and do his best photographer impression (hopefully not of me):

“give me tough.”

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“excited!”

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“show me scared!”

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why 365?

raleigh portrait photographer: the whiteheads

the whiteheads are such an amazing family…two wonderful parents and 5 beautiful children! we had so much fun on our shoot last year and even more fun this year. this family is just great! we took the shots at nc state arboretum where the kids ran around and had a great time. it was crazy to see how much the kids had grown in just one year!

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the light was so nice because we shot in late afternoon…it went back and forth between cloudy and occasional warm rays of sun. it gave us a lot of nice summery-type light.

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this little girl is amazing! she was very opposed to getting her picture taken last year, then she came back this year and started requesting poses and backgrounds! it was hilarious…not only is she adorable, but we have the same name! ;)

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this little tot had a photoshoot all to himself due to the one-year-old-ants-in-the-pants-syndrome that caused him to be absent from some of the shots with his older sisters. :) but he sure knows how to work it for the camera when he sits for a while! look at those blue eyes!

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great great family….thanks, guys!