The Pates (take 2)

It is always very special and unique to photograph a friend, and this family is no exception. Cat and I were neighbors off base here in Okinawa for a year and a half, our kids played together, our husbands are both very outdoorsy, yada-yada-you get the drift. We were scheduled to do photos last year when Blake was visiting from the states, but I was hit hard with the flu that week and unable to do it. So, fast forward a year later Blake is back and now going into the 12th grade (!). So we were able to capture some senior photos along with everything else. It was great revisiting the ‘ole back yard with you guys! (btw-thank you, Pates, for your patience while we shift through all this moving mess =)

This captures Lauren & her daddy’s relationship to a tee! Cutting up, lovable, silly, and spontaneous. =)

I need to start bringing my own musician to every photo session; it was so pleasant listening to Blake play while photographing him. =)

Often times as a couple has children and a family begins to grow, the walls and albums become over taken by the little ones over the years (guilty as charged!). At every family session I love for mom & dad to have their moment (because they deserve it, right?!), and capture in a photograph that spark between the two that isn’t ordinarily reproduced in everyday point and shooting. Something different. Something to wow you.