2 yr old cutie

I had a photoshoot with a 2 yr old little girl today. She was such a cutie! She was constant smiles, which, I never get with toddlers! We were supposed to do on-location at a park, but they switched it to in studio because they felt that there would be too many distractions at a park. Toddlers are scary in studio, but she did amazing! This is the first time I've ever used the chef outfit. I thought it was so cute and have been wanting to do something like this for a long time. I'm just glad I finally got to use this idea, and on someone other than my own child. This wood flooring is one of my new fake floors. I have laminate wood flooring in my diningroom that I have used, but to move my entire studio to my diningroom is a pain. So, we went out the other day, and bought the wood flooring to use. I like the lighter color wood better, but felt I needed something in between light and dark. I'll have multiple color wood floorings as time goes by. This is the other flooring we bought. It's laminate but has that stone look. I really like it, and think it works well for a variety of different images. This picture and the very top picture are 2 of my favorites from this photoshoot. Overall, I think she did wonderfully, and I'd love to do another photoshoot with her as she was the best toddler I've ever had a photoshoot with. Her mom said they loved the pictures :) Maybe I'll be doing her maternity shoot in a few months.

The park

We went to a park about an hour away from us called Cosca Regional Park yesterday. It was very beautiful. I took some props, including my pettiskirt with to do some mini photoshoots of my girls and some friends of ours kids if I was given the chance. Yeah, I broke out the pettiskirt, put it on Addison and took 3 pictures!!!! After that, I had 4 kids surrounding her, kids I didn't know asking me a ton of questions. I ended up putting my camera away and getting Addison dressed in regular clothes. I really wanted to get pictures with the beautiful park but I couldn't even get any pictures of my own kids. I'm thinking that we'll need to go back after summer is over when it's not so busy. Fall may be a beautiful time to go since it's got a lot of foliage, the colors would be perfect. The picture above, I cut off her fingertips and she is pretty centered. Had I not centered her, I would have had another kid in the picture because where her pettiskirt ended, there was a kid sitting right there in front of her. Oh well! I'll get another chance one day. Went shopping today and got fake flooring for my photoshoot on Sunday. I have so many ideas, I just hope that she is willing and ready when she gets here! She's 2 yrs old, and I know that is a tough age in studio.. so hopefully all goes well :)

Just my girls

Took my girls outside today, and man, my girls have got to be the hardest to get pictures of. I tried an eyelash shot with Kayliana but I didn't get it in focus as much as I should/could have because she moved. I got a beautiful picture of Addison. Her eyes are absolutely gorgeous and the picture is so crisp and in focus. I love it. We had an old loveseat in my studio, and we've moved it out, throwing it out, to make more room for me. I only have a small studio space to work with and I'm trying to make more room so it's less crowded. I've been using a table to sit on for my studio work because I wasn't able to get far enough back with them being on the floor for the simple fact that the loveseat was there. So now, I have more room to work with, and now I can buy more props and more stuff to make my studio work better :)

Uneventful

I haven't been very busy lately... well, I have, just not with photography.. I've had so much going on that I didn't have much availability this month for a photoshoot anyways. I have a 2 yr old little girl on the 20th of July that I'm excited about. I have a lot of ideas. I really do enjoy child photography, I'm usually pleased and happy after the shoot is over. After that, my schedule for August is almost completely open, so if you are interested in booking in the Southern Maryland area, let me know :) On another note, my youngest baby turned 10 months old. She's growing up so fast! The picture to the side are my 2 girls together. Addison refuses to stand up by herself, even though she can, so Kayliana was holding her up. I needed a vertical picture of them and I tried a few things before they had had enough, but this was the best one I got where they were both smiling. My husband and I are celebrating our 10 year anniversary this weekend. I can't believe we've been together so long already! I'm very thankful for everything I have! I'm checking out a new park this week, it's supposed to be beautiful, so I can't wait to take the girls there and get a few photos. Hopefully they will cooperate and let me do a little photoshoot with them while we are there, and I'll be able to come back and post.

Rough

Things have been a little rough for me lately, so I haven't really updated much in the past few weeks. I have been keeping myself busy though, so I'll just show off a few of the photoshoots I've done over the past few weeks here shortly. I'm not sure how I feel about being a photographer here in Southern Maryland. Your locations are pretty limited. And, right now, I do newborn, childrens, teens/seniors, couples and family portraits, but I really think that once I get a bit more experience, I'd love to do newborn and babies only. I really like doing couples and teens, but I think I prefer newborn and babies. On a positive note, we are hoping to move to Sarasota, Florida in about a year. My family lives there and I really miss them. Just a heads up for any of my clients. :) Anyways, here are the pictures. The first few are a photoshoot that I did with 3 kids, ages 12, 10 and 1.5 (I think those are the right ages). Beautiful children! This little boy is absolutely adorable! This was my favorite capture of him throughout the entire photoshoot. He was so fun to work with too! These 2 are the oldest ones. Ofcourse, boys his age do not like getting pictures taken. LOL! I have noticed that with my own nephew. The girl was so willing to do just about anything you asked her to. I think she enjoyed the photoshoot. I have a lot of really nice pictures of her.

Then, I had a couples photoshoot. They seemed so in love and they were so fun to work with! Absolutely willing to do anything and everything I asked of them. They were both very nice people and I'd love to do another photoshoot with them again if they wanted me to!

They were a beautiful couple! And recently, I had a baby boy, 4 months old! I've been around him since birth so I love him dearly. But, ofcourse, as my luck would have it, he didn't really want me to take pictures of him that day. But, I did manage to get some really cute photos from this handsome baby boy. I'm sure he'll be sooo much fun for his 6 month portraits

Isn't he absolutely precious??

I think he's gorgeous and has beautiful eyes as well! I'm not doing very many photoshoots in July though. I'm pretty busy this month between birthday parties and my 10 year anniversary of being with my husband that I only had the adorable 4 month old, I have a 2 yr old on June 20th, and I *might* have an engagement shoot to do on the 13th, but we'll see.