We have a history together, the Family B and I.  Their oldest, R1, and my oldest have attended the same schools since preschool.  We’ve attended countless birthday parties together, swapped techniques on how best to handle highly verbal and intense children without going insane, waited curbside in the rain to pick up our kids from school, and it was an immense pleasure to finally get the chance to create some portraits for them!  D – tell R2 that I posted more pictures of her to make up for the pool party photos!

It’s finally here; the last year of high school.  More responsibility Freedom is so close you can smell it, taste it, touch it.  A lifetime of preparation bondage and mentoring domination by parents and teachers and others have forged from the cradle a young adult ready to enter the world and make something happen!

Jay and I met up for a senior portrait session (with his buddy B in tow – awesome job holding the flash!) and then Jay set up his drums.  There were plenty of on lookers wondering why the drum solos in the vacant downtown parking lot!  More here:  Jay

I was thrilled when I got the call to shoot their family portraits – I always love it when I get to see past wedding clients with their children.  More of my favorites are here, on a slide show:  Steele

When photographing kids, it’s all about going with the flow, having a good time, and not putting any pressure on them to perform- to hold still and smile.  The real moments will happen, you just need to be patient and wait for them.  I spent about 45 minutes with Mathew and Andrew last week and real moments were happening left and right, no waiting necessary!  The slide show with more of my favorites is here:  Matthew and Andrew