we met up this past sunday at fort williams in cape elizabeth…one of my favorite places to shoot.  there’s so much variety…you could shoot 4 sessions there in one day and have a different look for each one.

we started off at the lighthouse…bc…it’s maine, and you kind of HAVE to.  but it was CRAZY windy, and after getting the obligatory family-in-front-of-the-lighthouse picture…we moved to another part of the park full of sunlight and no wind.

this is sydney.  we bonded later.  she was my little monkey…mammy came along for child wrangling, and at one point, sydney asked to get down, and then walked over to me and put her arms up.  i happily obliged.  :-D

SUCH a beautiful family…

know how i got that smile out of these two?  i told them dora was inside my lens.  they TOTALLY bought it…kendall-on the right-kept saying, “i see DOWA!”  it was ridiculously adorable.  and VERY effective.

i love the interaction in this one.  i know the highest goal of a family photo shoot is to get a picture of everyone looking at the camera and smiling, but i think these moments of family interaction are just as important…capturing that family dynamic…freezing that moment of time…will evoke more memories down the road than the perfect fridge photo.  :-D

when 2 year olds decide to be unruly and rambunctious…make lemonade. i love this!

daddy with sydney (on the left) and kendall (on the right).

and of course, we had to take a few of just jennilee and troy.  because they’re still jennilee and troy, even if they’ve also become mommy and daddy.

we might or might not have trespassed in order to get inside this old building…totally worth it…you know…if we did.

thanks for coming to hang out with me, guys…i had a great time!

(pro of having a photographer for a friend:  cheap as free family session…con of having a photographer for a friend…she processes the photos at her leisure.)

we just went for a quick walk around the neighbourhood…hitting kids moods right is…a very…delicate…art, but we lucked out with some AMAZING light.

this is baby lily…who makes the very best faces.

and here’s clahra (yes, that’s spelled right)…who, instead of answering affirmatively, “yes”, says “right”.  it’s really adorable.  “clahra, are you hungry?”  “right.”

rocky the dog came with us on our walk…he was a pretty regal (and incredibly well-behaved) dog.

you’ve always gotta get the one requisite family portrait…this one took some doing.  (i won’t give everything away, but, uh…let’s just say PS helped me make sure everyone’s attention was on me.  or nearly so.)

clahra was NOT having it…i’m sure you see why i am happy with “sort of vaguely looking in my direction”. 

and finished up with a few rounds of “mommy-is-the-merry-go-round”.  (nb:  there was no photoshopping done to this image… )

please contact me if you’re interested in a family portrait session!