Childhood In Spring. {Anabella & Sofia} :: Tampa Children's Photographer

I have been meaning to post these photos out into the inter-world.  This session was SO special to me.  My sister-in-law wanted images to match her daughter's newly designed bedroom.  She had a huge wall to fill.  Sooooo... we chose outfits to complement the colors of the room and my WONDERFUL husband drew amazing chalk drawings all over our circular driveway.  It was full of all things childhood: rainbows, hearts, flowers, smiley, animals---along with labels and the word "love" in several languages. Perfect.


Finally, I color processed the photos to complement the feel that my sister-in-law wanted. Here is what we came up with!

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Love. This. Family!

This family was more than fun to work with, because the handsome red-head is my former second grade student! They are such a funny and loving family, and I think it comes out in the photos. I also did headshots for little cutie, Mr. B. :) He has grown up so much since he was the shy little student I taught! And, his sister Miss M. is amazingly cute! You look at her and she just laughs and laughs. If only the sun wasn't beating down so strongly, I would have had even more photos! Oh well, what can you do... I live in Florida! Hopefully Fall will show itself sometime soon and I can start shooting clients in sweaters...

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Feet. Feet. Feet.

So, I think I'm going to create a whole section on the blog devoted to the great subject of feet. I like feet a whole lot better in photograph form than do in person, actually. Maybe it is somehow tied to my love of shoes... hmmmm. Anyway, I have lots of feet pictures and I think they need to be collected in one place. So, don't be surprised if your feet end up on here. And, if I'm taking your pictures in a session or just candidly at an event, be sure to have thought about how your feet look. For family or children's portrait sessions, I usually reccommend that you go barefoot. It looks so much more natural and real. However, this means that you should think about this ahead of time: how do you nails look? did your husband scrub the bottom of his filthy feet? does your toddler have sock impressions on his feet from a day's worth of play? I'm not saying you have to rush out and get a pedicure or anything... just give the subject of feet some thought when planning your portraits. You might just end up with a cute shot of your family that you were not expecting. And your feet might end up on here.

This week I entered this photo of my niece's feet in the i {heart} faces blog challenge. I took it while hanging out and playing around in the backyard with my nieces and nephews. Jillian is always up for a photo-op!

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Family. Pool. Veggie Burgers. :: Tampa Family Photographer ::

Today we are going to my mother's house for a fun-filled day of swimming and eating. Mmmmmmmm......eating. I'm going to enjoy the *smell* of barbequed meat and the taste of veggie burgers. I've been commisioned to take a mini photo shoot of all the kids together. Let's see if I can get them to all look at me at the same moment! We've instructed them to all wear (obviously) red, white, and/or blue, or plaid of some sort. How American of us!

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