In the beginning...

One day, I was photographing a 2 year old. I actually knew her prior to her coming for the session, so was a little surprised when she was totally not excited about it. She was down right scared. This is a common reaction to getting your picture taken, I feel the same way most of the time. I decided to ask my daughter to come down to the studio to see if she could help. (She knew this girl as well from church.) My daughter, O, was wonderful. She would play with the girl and then I would say, "sit down." and she would sit down and pose. Well, the little girl was copying O, so she posed as well. I was able to crop O out and have great pics of just the girl. I then asked O to come sit by me. When she did the little girl started posing for me no problem. While I was photographing her, O sat beside me and said "B, smile at my mommy." Since then, I love it when she says that. So this will be my blog dedicated to my photography. I will put in a few pics from different sessions with the permission of the parents. I will also add little quips about the sessions, so every parent will know it is totally normal for the newborn to pee all over, the 18 month old will almost always scream and in every family there is a goof ball and that's okay. So to start the blog, here is a picture of my daughter from the smile at my mommy session.