This was one of those weekends where the weather really didn't care about our good intentions. Saturday on the beach was cold and windy. The kids were miserable, and wanted to go get warm in the car. Sunday's Bridal session in Winston Salem was a monsoon, but we still managed to pull it off. Here are a few from the beach. Though I don't photograph kids all the time, when I do, I find myself having to trick them into being themselves in front of the camera. It's like they are trained from birth to look at the camera and give a smile. As a parent myself, I value the images that depict my kids being themselves much more highly than the ones were they are looking directly into the camera with a pleasant smile. Those smiley images are cool too, but not half as cool as when you can see their personality really come through in a photograph. Brooke and Brianna were troopers. They braved the cold which wasn't so bad. It was the cold carried by the wind which was constantly smacking us in the face that was the problem. I generally like wind. Hair flying in faces, creating movement, but this was the kind of wind that your grandma would yell at you about catching pneumonia, so we kept it short. Thanks you two for a fun session!
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Nearly every week we are given the opportunity to share some very special moments with our clients as they are married in beautiful places with touching and highly personalized ceremonies. The thought of creating a compelling visual record of our clients' personal history motivates me greatly and want to take that thought a step further. I am launching a personal project to create warm and engaging portraits of couples who have been married for fifty years or more. For me, there are few things more enjoyable than creating imagery that is inspired by a great story. Any couple who has been through fifty years together has more than enough stories to inspire a great image. They are a generation we can learn a lot from and I would love to show our current clients where they could be in fifty years. So this is a call to action. If you know of a couple who has been married for fifty or more years, tell me about them, put us in touch, get us together. I plan to shoot these sessions at their home and am willing to travel outside of Raleigh. Email is the best way to reach me, but my phone works too. My number is 800-344-4914 so call me. Since this is a personal project, there are no charges associated with these sessions, so there's really nothing holding you/ them back is there?
This was the last FOH session before the new pediatric caner center opens at UNC hospital. After we finished shooting, we were treated to a behind the scenes tour of the new building and got to see all of the great new things they have in store for the kids who need treatment. I have such a great time working with these kids and seeing their strength and the magic in their eyes. If you would like to learn more about the Flashes of Hope organization, check out www.flashesofhope.org