Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!
Hope everyone had a safe and fun weekend!

Here are some halloween themed pictures
I've dabbled in over the past couple weeks...





oh... and,
happy trick-or-treating!

Monday, October 17, 2011

The Sweet Southern Sutter Family

So last week, another co-worker of mine, Katie, asked me
to take photos of her kids
(...yes, I think I'm becoming the Unit 5 photographer!)

There were a couple of cool things about this shoot
A. I had not one subject, but 3! (and well for some 5)
...and I thought getting 1 toddler to smile was hard, so it definitely
made for some good practice. 
Tip: Candy is very helpful for cooperation! 
B. Katie is one of our travel nurses, and is originally from Alabama.
I instantly fell in love with their southerness, accents and all.
(I had a hard time convincing them that the winters here weren't THAT bad... ha!)
C. It was my first time shooting when it was cloudy, which scared me
but I think the photos turned out pretty well considering!

Huge thank you to Katie and her husband, Hutch
for giving me this opportunity!! 

and so, I give you the Sutter family from Alabama:
Katie and Hutch,
Bailey (4), Rawlin (3), and Brooklyn (almost 2)

The Whole Family
(and my best attempt at getting all the kids to look at me!)

the boys were SO helpful in getting Brooklyn to cooperate,
it was absolutely adorable.
Rawlin (3)
Brotherly love, absolutely love how this turned out

Bailey (4)



We plan to do another photo shoot 
tomorrow at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis tomorrow
in an attempt to get more family shots!

Stay tuned!!

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Sean: 3 years

On Monday, I got the chance to take
another one of my co-workers children's photos!

We hit up an apple orchard in Lakeville

Unfortunately they no longer did the 
pick your own apples, 
but they had plenty of things to keep us occupied!

So, this is Sean, he is 3 years old
and he was a trooper!

Thanks Sarah for asking me to do this! 
I think it was a success and hope you do too...












I don't know what it is about this photo, but I'm obsessed. 


don't you just LOOOVEEEE his red hair!!?

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Happy Fall!

One of my closest friends, Kelsey, and I 
decided to take advantage
of the beautiful fall weather we have been having
and hit up an apple orchard,
(which was followed by lots of baking!)

We visited Afton Apple, located in Hastings, MN
It was pure fall loveliness. 












will add our baking results... 
stay tuned!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Newborn: Amelia

Ms. Amelia was born September 16th, 2011
and I was lucky enough to be asked to take her newborn photos!
It was such an honor,
and all I can say is, boy do I have a lot to learn about newborns!!

We did 2 sessions with little Amelia,
because the first time around, she was squirmy,
hungry and not in the mood for pictures (or so we thought!)

Turns out there are 3 very important things 
you MUST remember for taking newborn photos:

1. You need a SMALL heater that is able to 
blow heat directly on the baby. This is KEY!
2. Make sure s/he is fed right before! And believe me 
when I say, they will need to eat again during the
shoot, so make sure Mom is prepared!
3. You need an assistant: to hold the heater,
to rearrange props, to rearrange baby, to grab this, grab that..

(Jessica Zupke, I am forever grateful for your help!!)

Thank you Megan for letting me 
photograph your adorable new baby!

All in all I love the results....
So here is a sneak peak of my time with Ms. Amelia












don't you just love that hair?