The Marquart Family

Hi all! We have been BUSY with work to be sure! We have 5 weddings in 5 weekends straight along with all the family photo shoots we have been doing. It's been not stop craziness for a month now. On top of that, we are in San Diego visiting our friends and are going to be at Sea World for Thanksgiving to make it interesting :). I had the chance to shoot a small wedding with my friend Bobby yesterday. It was spur of the moment, as he texted me yesterday morning asking if I brought any of my gear. Being the genius that I am, and not wanting to add one more thing to keep track of (if you have traveled with kids, you know exactly what I am talking about), I didn't bring anything. Luckily, though, I was able to borrow some clothes and use some of his gear to come along (his idea was to do an entire wedding in black and white, all shot with 50mm lenses... he only had 1 50mm, so I shot a 135mm instead. Not ideal for the shoot, but it still worked). This was awesome as he is the best photographer that I personally know and was my biggest help in getting going with our photo business. If you haven't checked out his stuff, it's killer (www.bobbyearle.com).

Other than that, it's business as usual. It might not be ideal to be in San Diego and still having to edit, but business moves on and I don't want to get behind :).

We did a really cool photo shoot for the Marquart family a couple weeks ago up in Verrado. Connie found us online and decided that she wanted to go through us. Of course we are really happy that they did and they were such a fun family to work with! Here are just a few of the shots from the day. Enjoy!

One thing I love to see is when a family actually 'likes' to be around each other :) They just had fun with the shoot and that was perfectly fine with us!

They love their dog who is a part of their family :)

A Quick Holiday Mini-Session Post: The Bradshaws

Emily shot this session a few weeks ago. It was one of the first family sessions we did and it didn't go completely as planned because the grass at the location had all died. We have been trying to reschedule the shoot and it has been tough because of conflicting schedules. I was waiting until we were able to redo their shoot to edit their images so that I could knock them all out at once, but that is taking longer than expected. So here are a few from their first shoot and we are looking forward to a follow up shoot as well :)

How gorgeous is this little girl with her adorable chubby cheeks!

Threw this one in their just for fun :)

Holiday Mini-session: The Mortensens

A little over a week ago, Emily did pictures for the Mortensen family at a park downtown. Jacqueline, who is a photographer herself, wanted to get some pictures done of herself and her family. I can appreciate this because it is just too difficult to do them yourself :) We tried and we still liked the pictures, but were only in a couple of them. The rest were of Emily OR me with one or both of our kids. So here are some of our favs... bon appetit!

>Little man was really into his cars :)

Another Mini Session: Lee Larrisa and London

I had an unexpected surprise last week when I went to go and do a mini family photo session. I was meeting a couple and their son up in Verrado; when Larissa got out of the car, we immediately recognized each other and both of us had that look on our faces 'Wait... aren't you? Didn't I?' you know what I mean :). It turns out that we used to work at Starbucks together 6 years ago! It's a small world after all...

We had a really fun photo shoot and their son London is a awesome as they come. This kid was modeling for me the whole shoot. I got halfway through the session and realized 2/3's of my shots were of him and I needed to get some of Larissa and Lee ;)

Here are their images. enjoy and let us know what you think by adding some comment love!

SO rad :)

This little guy is so photogenic!

They call this his 'oh' face :)

It was great working with you guys! Hope you absolutely love your pictures! :)

BIG Family Photo Session!

Here is the follow up post for the Stockton, Mozell, and Phifer family photo session :) Again, we had an absolute blast with this family! It was the kind of family photo shoot that we just love to do; lots of kids playing around and having a good time. Honestly, they probably could have cared less about the fact that we were taking pictures, they were just jazzed about playing in a huge park with all their favorite people; we were just welcome guests into their fun and energetic little world. :) Kids are so real until you tell them to smile for a camera. That's probably why I am such a fan of pictures where my kids are crying and doing ridiculous things as opposed to them looking at the camera with a sub-parr smile on their face :) We definitely gravitate towards candid shots for this reason, which is why we aren't for every family out there. But we are so glad when we run into parents who tell us "We just want a LOT of pictures of our kids playing and having a good time." That's like music to our souls :)

These kids are so rough with each other :) Right when the Phifers arrived with their 3 boys and sweet baby girl, the boys all run over to their cousin Layah. Then they took turns body-slamming each other :)

(Above) Sweet little Bella getting the biggest kick out of her sister and cousins. Guard your hearts, people, because this little girl already stole mine and the same could happen to you :)

A portrait of Layah; possibly my favorite shot of the day.

Brittany and the newest addition to their family, precious baby Eva.

Eva (left) and Brielle (right) are first cousins and were born 1 day apart!

Tassie with her baby girl...

I LOVE this one of Isaiah with his dad, Mike. He's their shy one, but he warmed up in no time! Emily and I have a way with kids, I guess. ;)

The imagination that kids have is so incredible to see first-hand. They can turn anything into a story and let their mind take them beyond reality. A stage coach with no horses? No problem :)

We couldn't get Dave and Brittany to stop goofing around! :)

The Phifers. Notice how the kids, from left to right (or oldest to youngest) go from excited about pictures to 'who cares about pictures'... :)

Luke, Isaiah and Jeremiah

Stacked :)

All the kids with Ellie

The Sibs and Mama...

Auntie Affie loves her nieces and nephews!

Uncle Josh looks thrilled to have Isaiah on his back :)

So that's their family photo shoot! Thanks for stopping by and let us know what you think! :)