Portraits

04-26-2010

Family Photo Shoot Nuevo Vallarta

Daniel, Stephanie, Cate, and Rand make up this awesome family who I had a chance to do a family portrait shoot with a few weeks ago in Nuevo Vallarta. It’s always interesting doing family shoots because there isn’t as much contact before hand like there is with weddings. I’m basically walking into it blind and hoping that everybody is cool with me and my style. I was lucky this time because they were super fun. As a family from Austin should be I think.

I had this great idea to get balloons for the kids and do all sorts of fun photos with them, but the hotel only had balloons without helium. They were sad balloons, but actually worked pretty well to keep Rand occupied. Not that he needed it.

Here are a few shots from the day together…

I absolutely love this shot. A little random, but it reminds me of summer.

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01-21-2010

Family Portrait Session Nuevo Vallarta

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Rena Bruins contacted me to set up a family portrait session for the four generations of her family that were going to be down here in Mexico! Unfortunately when I got to the hotel in Nuevo Vallarta the afternoon of the shoot there was a pretty somber vibe in the air. Rena’s grandmother had heart problems the night before and was rushed to the hospital. This meant we were without the grandparents and parents plus a few others, not to mention the fact the everyone was preoccupied with what had happened. We switched things up a bit and I ended up doing a session with who was left over, including Joel and Wendy who had gotten engaged recently!

Then came the rest of the family… how cute is Rena’s daughter Anya!

There was this great fence that I saw as we walked down to the beach. These are definitely some of my favorites from the day.

And who doesn’t want to take photos of super cute kids on a giant chess board?

When we got to the beach I took some more of Joel and Wendy…

They were all really psyched to do a jumping photo, but the sun hadn’t gone down enough to do a shadow jump so this is what we got…

And then it was time to say goodbye to Mexico…

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08-25-2009

Funland!! (impromptu portrait shoot…)

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I went to Funland with my friend Todd and we met up with his sister-in-law Katie and her daughter Lainey who just might be the cutest little girl ever. Seriously. So we had a little impromptu portrait session which was so much fun. Ha, you get it? Funland! I’ve still got some really cute ones of Lanie and her mom Katie to come…