Happy birthday to my beautiful friend Keren! 🙂

With her adorable and incredibly loving son Adley (who will be a big brother in a few months!):

Love the joy these two get from each other:

Happy, happy birthday, metuka!
Posted in Children, Families, Sarasota area, tagged children photography, family photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota photographer on July 30, 2010| 1 Comment »
Happy birthday to my beautiful friend Keren! 🙂

With her adorable and incredibly loving son Adley (who will be a big brother in a few months!):

Love the joy these two get from each other:

Happy, happy birthday, metuka!
Posted in Children, Families, Sarasota area, tagged children photography, family photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on July 26, 2010| 7 Comments »
I photographed 7-year-old Aidan and his 2-year-old sister Addison last week. Their parents, the editor and projects director of Edible Sarasota magazine, Tracy and John Freeman, are awesome people, so I knew their kids would be fun to photograph. And they were!
They are both budding stars – They will not be taking the backseat in life, that’s for sure. Aidan already belongs on the screen. This boy is so animated, has not a lick of shyness, and already aspires to be either a GAP model or a cast member on the TV show “iCarly.” Not bad for age 7.
Addy is absolutely hilarious. She goes for what she wants and is knowledgeable beyond her years (“Are these pictures going on Facebook?!”). These two adorable kids are going places, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it is they’re going and what they’ll be doing!
Here’s the good-lookin’ foursome:

Aidan and Addison’s silly faces:

A little bit of Aidan:

And Addison’s adorableness:

And lastly, I think this is my favorite shot of the session – maybe one of my favorites ever:

Thanks for suffering through the heat and hunger with me, guys! 🙂
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, Newborns, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, family photography, newborn photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota newborn photography, Sarasota photographer on July 12, 2010| 1 Comment »
This weekend, I photographed 3-week-old Liam and his family. Although it took us a while to soothe him to sleep for a signature newborn pose, this boy is adorable, alert, and already so handsome (and big!).
Here’s a preview…
Check him out with his gorgeous sister Mia (I adore their names). I love how she is looking at him here, almost like she’s assessing him and his existence in her house. And you can see the amazing blue eyes this family all has:

The whole crew (Liam in his favorite nook):

And Liam with his beautifully blue-eyed and loving parents, Rich and Angie:

And finally, the newborn pose:

Congratulations on the scrumptious addition to the family, Rich, Angie, and Mia!
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, Newborns, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, family photography, newborn photography, newborn photography props, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota newborn photography, Sarasota photographer on June 28, 2010| 8 Comments »
It’s been a newborn kind of month! I love it. 🙂
I met 4-day-old Max (as well as his awesome 6-year-old brother Jake and amazing family), and he was such a sweet, easy little boy. I love that people welcome me into their homes during such a special time and let me share a little bit in their new baby’s adorableness.
Check out this peanut package:


Jake looking out the window for his baby-brother-delivery:

Max gets some love from his dad and brother:

A loving snuggle from his mama:

And lastly, my favorite photo from the session… I love it for many reasons…

It happened sort of by accident (Kim wanted Jake to feed Max to help him relax a bit for this pose, so we took one shot of this, which I didn’t touch in post-processing). It speaks for sure of brotherliness to me (even without the “little brother” outfit Max is wearing, but made more so because of it). It shows how they look alike. It’s so summery. Jake is feeding Max but focused elsewhere (like he’s saying “I’ll take care of you, little guy, but I have other things to do, too.”). And Max is so super teeny next to big-brother Jake… That’s why I love it. Just me?
Posted in Babies, Boston, Children, Cleveland, Families, My Family, Newborns, Sarasota area, Teens, tagged baby portrait photography, Boston baby photography, Boston children photography, Boston photographer, Boston photography, children photography, Cleveland baby photography, Cleveland children photography, Cleveland family photography, Cleveland photographer, family photography, newborn photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota newborn photography, Sarasota photographer on June 20, 2010| 4 Comments »
Happy, happy Father’s Day to the many incredible dads celebrating their first – or 20th (and beyond) – Father’s Day.

And to my Papa – Happy Father’s Day, and thank you for everything you have done – and continue to do – for me. You are the best.

(Photo taken by the amazing Craig Litten.)
Posted in Babies, Boston, Children, Cleveland, Families, My Family, Newborns, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, Cleveland baby photography, Cleveland children photography, Cleveland family photography, Cleveland photographer, family photography, Mother's Day, Mother's Day photography, newborn photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota newborn photography, Sarasota photographer on May 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Happy Mother’s Day! 🙂
to my sister on her first Mother’s Day…

to my mama on her, well, she’s done this before:

and to the many, many other moms I know (and don’t know)…
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, family photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on May 5, 2010| 1 Comment »
Apparently I’ve missed photographing little ones, because I’m having a tough time narrowing down the shots for posts… Oh well. Lots of photos again.
I’ve posted about Summer before. She’s the daughter of our good friends Steve and Karin. We hadn’t seen her in a while, and she is growing up fast – talking, laughing, dancing, and just generally being a really cute 18-month-old. Since we didn’t get to do a real photo session during our last visit (was it really 35 degrees?!), we took the opportunity to try it out again. This time, it was about 90 degrees (where did spring go??), but at least it was sunny and Summer could play outside.
First, this adorable girl in her super-cute summery dress:

Summer has so many precious and hilarious facial expressions – happy waves, tongue-out-in-concentration, big-toothy-grin, pure joy, lower-lip-stuck-out-in-confusion, etc. Check them out in the many shots below.
Gathering some fun things to take outside:

Out in the yard now, playing with a drumstick (Summer’s random choice), a coffee pot (J’s also-random choice), and the beautiful flowers:

I felt that this one should stand on its own – so girly, so springy/summery:

And some cuteness with her mama:

Family time:

New outfit, new toy – bubbles!!

Lastly… Bye-bye from Summer!

Posted in Babies, Boston, Children, Cleveland, Families, Newborns, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, Boston baby photography, Boston children photography, Boston photographer, Boston photography, children photography, Cleveland baby photography, Cleveland children photography, Cleveland family photography, Cleveland photographer, Cleveland senior photography, family photography, Mother's Day, newborn photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota newborn photography, Sarasota photographer, Tampa photography on April 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Children, Sarasota area, tagged children photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota photographer on March 24, 2010| 1 Comment »
Posted in Children, Random, Sarasota area, tagged children photography, family photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on March 10, 2010| 1 Comment »
Happy 4th birthday to our friend Danni!

And some in full color:

We love this superhero 4-year-old.