Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Waltemyer Family

March 18, 2011

Little kids are adorable. But they don't always make for the easiest photo shoots. However, I still love working with them. Since they are just so cute, you are bound to end up with some fabulous shots, unless they are just crying (which luckily wasn't the case with the Waltemyers).

I knew the Waltemyer girls back in middle and high school at Harrison. We're all grown up now and two of them have families of their own. Tiffany asked me to do some photos for her parent's anniversary. A big old family photo, that's a great gift idea in my book! And since one of the sisters, Brandy, was in from out of town... perfect timing.

Anyway, let's get back to the kids. First, there's little Allie. She is just so cute, and such a happy little girl. Justin and Tiffany are proud of their little almost-two-year-old. She had an adorably infectious laugh and we got lots of cute little shots of her! And then their's little Casey. He is a cute little man at three-years-old, and although I was told he's usually fine with getting his photo taken, after our first few shots, he wasn't feeling it. And he was NOT interested in photos outside... sigh... My favorite part about being a photographer is that sometimes you get to prove that photography is fun, especially to little guys like Casey. In order to get most of our shots of him, I showed him how to take a picture. I'd frame up the shot from his point-of-view, focus, and he would push the shutter (although he tended to hold it down for a little longer than necessary, haha). He LOVED it! And of course he wanted to see it immediately after he took the photo. He took tons of everyone. And even better, we convinced him that once he took a shot, he had to get in the photo next. And of course, we could show it to him afterwards. Good job, little guy!

It was fun working with everyone! Hope you guys enjoy your images!

^The whole clan! With the snow still hanging on, we didn't have a lot of locations to work, but we made do. 

^Cute little Allie.




^Giving Daddy a smooch!


^Aunt Brandy and Allie have the same hair! Love this one.



^Casey is finally letting us snap some of him!

^Oh you big cheeseball! :-)

^Aunt Brandy can always make the kids smile!

^Kissin' cousins. These are so cute of Alli and Casey.



^I just love this one of Casey, he's got that look on his face like "For real?!? We're not done yet??!?"

^Grandma cuddling with the kids. You wouldn't belive how hard it was
to get a shot of them with her. At first Alli was all for it but Casey wasn't. Then
we finally convinced Casey and Alli was DONE! Haha, I love this one though. Hugs for Grandma!
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