Julia’s Blogfest

This is a session where I just appreciate the warm, summer evenings all that much more.  Great light, great temps, and it certainly helped to have a happy, sitting up baby!  Funny enough, this family found me thru the internet but lives in my old community!

This was an EASY family to photograph — great day in terms of weather, everyone was in a great moods, such a pleasant family to be around!  Look at these children…..precious….and their eyes sparkle!

My apologies on slacking with my blog world.  I have had a few sessions and weddings to show off from the past 2 months but no time — my computer was at new house while the boys and I lived at my  mom’s for the past 6 weeks until school ended 2 days ago.  I am finally in my new digs FULL time.  It has been a bit surreal to realize I will not need the day to day of my hometown of Alexandria.  But I am adjusting and it’s glorious in this new spot here in Fairfax Station. I just hope our friends do not forget us since they will not see us as often!  We love our Alexandria roots!  And for me, a sense of comfortable that I’ll never let go.

Anyway, on to the Facey family.  I actually did their session twice!  I never do this but once in a while I have to for various circumstances.  In this case, we had an April session and it was a crisp, breezy late afternoon when we met.  But strangely, when our session started, the winds picked up to some 25mpg gusts.  So couple that with spring cool air, and it’s cold!  So snotty faces, red noses and hair everywhere were the result.  I usually micro manage my weatherbug app on my iphone to check for session conditions and saw breezy, but not WINDY.  It was ridiculous.  So we persisted and after reviewing the images when I got home and had time to edit, I wasn’t thrilled with my results and asked them for a reshoot.  So we did and it was more than perfect.  yeah!

it’s funny how I always feel “rusty” at my first on-location session of the year.  I usually don’t take spring sessions in March b/c it’s chilly and blah — trees are naked and the flowers haven’t bloomed yet and the grass certainly isn’t green.  But the Sadliers are friends of mine and they were headed to CA for spring break and wanted to give the gift of family portraiture to Grandma.  We did the session mid-day and I forgot how much SUN peers thru the trees thsi time of year b/c it’s lacking leaves.  So the lighting was extremely tricky this day — I was grabbing every tiny shadow possible for their portraits!  But I think we got a great session!

If only I had a photo of what their parents were doing behind me to crack them up!!!

My promotion from last week went swimmingly well!  I am thrilled to have raised nearly $500 from this which will go to Food for the Poor to aid in the Haiti Earthquake relief.  Thanks everyone!