Happy First Birthday To Mr. G | Avon, OH Children and Family Photographer

We had a stunning night in Avon, OH to be the backdrop for my session with this crew of five to help celebrate the littlest dude’s first birthday!

Being a Mom myself usually allows me to bring a lot of patience and perspective to a session.  While I know everyone’s family dynamics are different and every kids’ personalities are unique… I’ve learned in my almost 6 years of photographing that there are a lot of things that are the same, too.   And so I’ll bring some of the techniques I use to engage my own kids with my client kids.  But with this session – I truly felt like I was engaging my own kids! ha!  The trio of personalities (and ages!) in these kiddos were hilariously similar to my three.  The loving, older one who follows the rules.  The middle one who is sweet, independent and an edge-walker.  And the baby… who loves life and goes with the flow.

SO MUCH family dynamics and personality awesomeness came pouring into my lens this night and I loved everything about the colors, the love and the connection that came through in these photos.  I’ve photographed these guys when they were a family of three and a family of four… and they make a pretty phenomenal party of five, too …

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Avon Lake – Cleveland, OH Children and Family Photographer | Mr H | One Year Session

I always say it – one of my favorite things that I’m privileged and humbled to get to do as a photographer is to photograph my friends and their families.   The Dad in this little trio was my first boss when I came to Cleveland, and now we are so lucky to call him and his just-as-kind-as-she-is-gorgeous wife friends of ours.  Two of the nicest people that you can ever want to be around. Ask anyone that knows them and they’ll say the same.

I was so lucky last year to get to photograph their little man as a newborn when they became parents for the first time… and it was awesome to get the email to be asked to work with them again to document this little dude’s first birthday.

Outside of having the most beautiful lakeside morning (with a lake that was blue as I’ve ever seen it!) … this little guy couldn’t have been more cool,  happy, adorable and content…  An awesome little combination for a photo shoot.  They came with some amazing photo ideas (and Mom came with an amazing dress) – and put it all together and this happened.  😉

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Rocky River, OH Children and Family Photographer | Mr. C. is One Year Old

Hey blogging land!  It’s been a while – but it’s nice to be back.   And it’s really nice to be back on the blog with this family that I photographed last month as one of my first transition-from-summer sessions!

I met these guys for the first time last year when they welcomed this little dude into their world.  We had an incredible newborn session just full of adorable-ness and a meeting with these parents that made me feel like I knew them forever.  So – I was pretty excited to get to see how much has changed in a year and what kind of personality/spirit this little guy had taken on.

Well, I could tell you all about him… but I’ll let you see for yourself what kind of sweetness this one possesses.  I could have packed up my camera after the first 15 minutes and called it a day … but good thing we didn’t. This session was magic… start to finish…

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Cleveland, OH Children and Family Photographer | Miss C is One Year Young

I will always remember this little girl’s newborn session for so many reasons.  One – she was an absolute ANGEL during her session… rocking her ruffles and headbands like she’d been practicing doing it for 9 months.  Her parents were two of the nicest people (you know those kind of people where you just look at them and it makes you feel positivity?!) And of course, who could forget the grand finale when I had Dad holding the little angel with no diaper on and she officially welcomed him into the not-so-(let’s say…)-“clean” part of parenting.  Needless to say – I was so pumped to see this crew again and they did not disappoint.

It was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL evening in early May with some of the softest, most perfect setting sun lighting that we could have asked for… These guys ROCKED with their outfit selections… They brought a whole lot of fun and authenticity to the session.  And well – this once-tiny-peanut that I photographed last year has become a big-grinning, eye-twinkling little princess in just a year. Check her out.

 

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Olmsted Falls, OH Children and Family Photographer | Mr. K is One Year Young

May was an absolutely awesome month – full of a variety of different types of sessions to fast-pitch me back into the swing of things after having my son a couple of months ago.  (More blogs to come – I can’t wait to share all of them with you!)  I was very lucky to have some really incredible people as clients this past month to help me do that…  and seeing familiar faces made it that much better!  Including these guys…

I was so excited to come back together with this Mom to photograph her youngest little man after our unbelievable newborn session a year ago.  I remember this little guy being so sweet and serene during his debut in front of my lens…

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… and 12 months later, while he has grown from a sleepy baby into a full-blown, active, curious toddler… that same sweetness that oozed out of him a year ago has just grown right along with him…

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