Engagement Session Special

Please note special price is for sessions booked by February 28th, sessions do not have to take place by that date. 

Alex

Alex

Oh my gosh...this boy...

I just adore this little man! 

When his mama called me to take his 3 year old photos I was so excited!  I had done his 2 year old photos the year before and I couldn't wait to see how much he had grown since then.  (He grew like a bad weed!) 

We had his session at one of my favorite parks in State College and he had me laughing for just about every minute of it.  

I've found it's usually best when working with younger children to kind of just let them go and do their thing and follow them like the paparazzi, snapping away.  It's so much more natural and that always makes for better photos. We went on a bird hunt and had a lot of fun looking for fish and throwing rocks into the water.  We even got to watch some older kids playing basketball!

Did you notice his saddle shoes??  Love them!

I loved the hat too but he had other feelings for it.  He was such a trooper though and put up with wearing it when we asked him to.  (I believe it was a gift from grandma.) 

 We ended up with a ton of great photos that day!

 

The Sunflower Field

Yesterday as I was looking at wedding availability for this summer all of the sudden I was reminded of one my photo sessions from last summer.  It wasn't that I had forgotten about it, I just found myself reflecting back on that day and what led up to it. 

I've gotten some strange requests over the years for photo shoots so when someone calls me and says "I'd like to book a photo session but........"  I usually hold my breath and wonder what is going to come next.  This was not one of those calls.  B called me to schedule a photo session but she wanted her photos in a sunflower field.  Living in central PA I can't say that sunflower fields are something you see every day but I told her I would try to find one for her.  I hung up the phone and scratched my head, I don't remember ever even seeing a sunflower field other than in a photo or on tv.  So I started calling family and friends asking anyone if they knew where I could find a sunflower field.  It was my mission to find these sunflowers.  It took a few days but we had located not one, not two but three sunflower fields.  All within a 20 minute drive.  Sweet!  

When I drove by to check them out I realized it was going to be at least another month until they were blooming.  The fields were actually on the "back way" that my parents would drive to work sometimes so every week I would call them for a sunflower report.  In early August my mom called to report that she had seen some of them starting to bloom so I waited a couple more days and I went to check them out for myself.  This is what I saw!!

It was time!  So we scheduled the session.  If you remember anything about last summer you will probably remember that it was hot.  The day of our session was at least 95 degrees, even later in the evening when we had planned to shoot.

 

We waited a little while to get to that golden light while we dabbed the sweat from our brow with baby wipes.  (Did I mention it was hot?)  It was well worth it though!  

 

Is there anything cuter than this little guy with his sunflower??

 

I have to say....I love the sunflowers!

 

 

Please note no sunflowers were harmed during this photo session.  We made sure to be respectful of the field and to not cause any damage.  The cut sunflower that we had was found on the ground at the edge of the field, we saw several stocks that we cut and figured someone had been there before us to cut themselves a bouquet.