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It’s the busiest and often, most stressful season for a child/family photographer. Lots of late, late nights and jam-packed days spent designing holiday cards, editing fall sessions and placing holiday orders. But today I answered the door to the most awesome surprise. She was picking up her images and arrived with a gift for me. It was a reminder of why this is such an amazing career … and a definite cause to stop and smile.  And be very thankful. I have the best clients who truly “get” the art in custom photography, the most supportive family and friends and the opportunity to keep growing this business. And despite being super tired right about now, I am incredibly thankful.

So, Melissa, you made my day with your heartfelt note and beautiful flowers! Thank you!

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Another fun session with from late October when it was super cold, super windy … but we braved the elements and you’d never know from the images it wasn’t sunny and 70. This is a great example of complimentary color scheme when dressing more than one person for a session. And I’m loving mom’s choice of orange blazer! Some of my favorites:

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I’m so behind on blogging, so here goes a flurry of posts over the next few days … we’ll start with a quick peek at a recent family session. Just a few because I don’t want to preempt their holiday card mailing. The design they chose is awesome and I’ll be sharing many of the final designs with client images later in December. Pray the good weather holds out for one more super busy weekend of shooting!

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The candy, that is. Those poor Twizzlers didn’t even stand a chance. And the Skittles … forgeddaboutit. Bat Girl was out in full force last night and we have the pictures to prove it.

Happy Day After Halloween … and day two of the enormous sugar highs.  (Forgot to mention: This one is for Aunt Judy who says I don’t post enough Bella images.)

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