The Joys of Photographing Your Own Children

As just about any photographer and they will tell you...they HATE photographing their own kids!!! I loved it until they got to be just about a year old and then things started going down the crapper. Until then, they were my happy little models - sitting and smiling for mommy! Around that year marker was when they could not only walk but RUN and would RUN right out of my scene as I was trying to grab my camera! I'm finding that my 3 year old will pose now, but he's only good for a couple of shots...then he checks out.

Another random thought about photographing your kids. We all love (me included) the sweet photos of our kids, smiling and sitting nicely. But, that's not really our kids (or monsters, as I call my own). The bloopers are the ones that are our REAL kids! So, I thought I'd share one of the "blooper" photos with you from my son's 3 year old session. Enjoy!

Children's Portrait Session

I'm running an Easter Children's Portrait Special. See the main website, under "Specials" for more information. But I quickly shot this photo of my two kiddos this morning with the scene for this particular special. It looks very "spring", which is what we're all hoping sticks around now! I also did another fun shot of my daughter...so cute! (I'm biased of course.)

Also, following up on a previous post...did anyone see me out painting backgrounds in the garage this week?! I'm pretty excited about how they turned out. My husband (also my tax guy) came home and gave me crap for buying "more backgrounds", but I was so proud to tell him that I just revamped old ones! Even he was impressed, which usually takes a lot because he doesn't get the artsy stuff.