portraits

Last Saturday I visited a young friend of mine.  His name is Jude.  I photographed his mom and dad’s wedding in 2014. Then in January of 2015 I photographed Jude while he was in his mommy’s tummy.  Last year I met Jude for the first time outside the womb and we had lot’s of fun making photos together.  This year I got the call from Antonia and Rance once again with an invitation to make historic family photos.  I got to know little Jude a bit better this year and you can see in the photos that he is a happy, intelligent and loving little guy.

When shooting with an almost 2 year old boy, things can be really wild.  It takes just about every trick that I have… and other’s I sort of have to make up, to capture and keep the attention of a busy young boy.  Then, add to that two dogs (brother and sister) and, well, they gave me a run for my money!

Here’s some of my faves.  smiles!

I have had this photo session on the books for a few weeks now and each time we tried, the weather just didn’t cooperate.  Yesterday was different. All systems were go!  We shot for about 35 minutes and towards the end something very special happened.

Oskar has been pulling himself up lately and had found some poles in the ground to hold on to.  He was looking pretty determined and focused, so I sat down in the grass to grab some images of him at his own level… then he proceeded to take his first steps!  It was amazing.  He let go of the pole, he bobbed, he weaved, he looked like a surfer without a board and then took some steps.  He repeated this several times to the cheers and joyous shouts of his parental units.  It was awesome!

Oskar ‘the great’,  it was a big day!

Oskar is our next door neighbor… along with his parents Chuck and Emily Raymond.  We love Oskie!   Enjoy!