In 2016 I had the opportunity to photograph many families and kids! I don’t specialize in any one type of photography, which I really enjoy because I love being able to dabble in everything. Family & kids are obviously very important parts of peoples lives and so much fun to capture the relationships between a family. Each type of session is special in its own way and fun for different reasons so I love that I am able to experience all different sorts of situations.

One thing I love about photographing families is being able to sometimes step back and just photograph them just interacting together. My favorite images are always the ones that are not posed and that just happened. Moms looking at their babies with so much love in their eyes. A Dad showing a dragonfly to his boys (look through the images and find that one! Its definitely one of my favorite 2016 images!). Its just fun to photograph families laughing and having fun together.

When photographing families, it is my hope that I am able to photograph real interactions. Yes, I will do the posed photos, but its my hope that I am able to just be able to photograph and focus on the love shared. My style isn’t very posed and I don’t spend a lot of time making each perfectly spaced. I know that families are beautifully imperfect, and I hope my photos in some way reflect that.

This year I photographed 40+ families or kids and I am so excited to see what 2017 has in store! I pray I have the chance to photograph these families again as well as meet many new families and kids as well.