It wasn’t long ago that I met the Pinon family when I photographed Mr. L’s first birthday, so I was thrilled when they called to get the whole family in the studio for an updated portrait. Family portraits with a one year old is a lot of trial and error, as the one year old is clearly in charge of the session! Mr. L was a great model as usual and let us get lots of great images with his whole family!
Happy birthday to Grayson! To celebrate his first birthday, we all braved the cold to do a family portrait session at Southwood and G even stripped down to his diaper to dive into a smash cake! It might have been chilly, but the laughter at Grayson and his cake absolutely warmed my heart!
The Watson family got together for Thanksgiving and made the most of their family visit by scheduling a family portrait session at Maclay Gardens. I love that we got to join them in between all the football games to create a family portrait I know they will always treasure!
We still had the Christmas tree set up from our Storybook Santa sessions, so when the Mitchell family wanted portraits of the kids with a holiday theme, we just moved a few things around in the studio and made it work! Christmas is my absolute favorite time of the year, so I love displaying holiday images in my home year round. It always reminds me of that cozy time of year when you have time together with family, great food to eat and so much to be thankful for! I am so happy that the Mitchell family will have these images on their walls to also remind them of those feelings!
Maclay Gardens is always one of Tallahassee’s most popular locations for portraits. With is beautiful landscaping, brick pathway, secret garden and reflection pond its easily Tallahassee’s most iconic location. Because of its popularity, we try to offer mini-sessions twice each year at the Gardens. Once in the Spring when everything is in bloom and once in the fall in time for the holidays.
The lastest mini-sessions at Maclay Gardens were back in November and I love the images! The sessions were a great mix of posed family portraits with candids of kids playing, hugging and being their natural selves! Be sure to sign up for our email newsletter to be the first to hear about the next mini-session date at Maclay Gardens!
Isn’t it funny how kids will behave exactly OPPOSITE of what you expect? I was warned that the Franklin kids would be shy and I would have to work to get them comfortable and warmed up. Well… these boys walked into the studio for their family portraits and it was as though we were old friends. They were funny, silly and not even a tiny bit shy!