Yay! The fall leaves are almost upon us! Which is awesome because I was getting a little bit tired of the stifling hot weather.  But it means winter is fast approaching… ok let’s just not think about that part. I love all the color in the fall leaves… there’s a very short fall leaf season that runs 2nd week of October into the first week of November (the earlier into it, the more leaves that are still on the trees).  This is actually the most popular time of the year to get outdoor pictures done… last chance before the cold weather hits too!

As of right now, I have still available 10/3 @ 9 am, 10/3 @ 4:30 pm, 10/11 at 9 am, 10/24 at 5 pm, 10/31 at 9 am, 10/31 at 4:30 pm, 11/1 at 8:30 am, 11/1 at 3:30 pm.  If you were thinking of booking an outdoor shoot, and are constrained by the weekend, then you’ll want to call fast, because these slots will fill up.  (call 614-323-3147, just say the Blog sent you).  For my outdoor park photography sessions, I do one in the morning and one in the late afternoon, since this is when the light is best in the sky.

Want to see a recent session? I thought so!  Here’s a little sneak peek!

Ok this one looks kind of scary but cool at the same time.  They were really having a blast!

This is their new baby… what a sweetheart, and look at all that HAIR!!  I photographed this same family a year ago, and it was so nice to see them again, and see how their older son had grown (but still had the same spunk!)

We had awesome weather, and some fantastic light that evening.

Here he’s going PEEK A BOO! One technique that I use to get natural, happy expressions from kids is to play games with them.  If the kids are having fun, they will have natural smiles instead of forced “cheesy” grins. (which if you catch my son with one, it looks more like a grimace of pain).

I have a lot of catching up to do with my blog.  So you’re going to see a slew of new posts to follow.  I really want to post some of these recent weddings that I’ve done.  They were so much fun!  Have a great evening!

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Yep, I’m still here. This past fall has been really crazy.  I had 2 months worth of photography crammed into one month, for the month of October, and I’m still working on catching up from that. November is quite a bit quieter (outdoor photoshoots in 30 degree weather isn’t anyone’s cup of tea!) and right now I’m doing mostly maternity & newborn photoshoots, and a few in-home family shoots (indoors with maybe 5 mins of outdoors).

So, I haven’t been posting to the blog because it’s a lot faster to just edit the whole shoot than to first deliberate which ones to post to the blog, and edit those, then go back later and finish the rest, and I need all the extra time I can get.

Here are a few fun favorites from a few of my recent sessions!

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I had the pleasure of photographing this lovely family up at Inniswoods earlier today.  The weather sure has gotten colder out in the past week, it was a tad chilly!  And we’re quickly losing light at around 6:30.  But we got some great fall pictures, here’s a little sneak peek!

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WOW, Inniswoods is so beautiful right now! The fall colors are amazing, and the majority of the leaves are still on the trees.  I go up there at least once a week, sometimes more than that, for shoots, and in the span of one week, it went from having just a few colors to being gorgeous, with bright orange and yellow leaves.  Amazing! (of course they’ll all drop off just as fast, and then I’ll be grumpy about the bare trees until spring.  That’s when we start doing photoshoots in the city rather than at the park)

This past week, I had a lovely family with a very active almost-2 year old!  He sure did give me a run for my money.  But such a cutie and a lot of fun.

I need to change to a different blog style that lets me post bigger pictures (this one screws up the formatting if I do that), because you can’t see their faces as well as I’d like in the small pictures.

This one was the wobbly bridge that he thought was a lot of fun to jump on:

This last one, it’s hard to see in the little picture, but he has this HUGE grin on his face, and it’s just the epitomy of happiness.  He loved to be swung by the arms like that.

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