Chase and Leila came and had their portraits taken at The Studio.  I photographed their parents wedding a few years ago.  It really doesn’t seam like that long ago, but time flies!  Look how big these kids are already!  They were full of energy… but also a little shy!  We were still able to capture some great images of them!

Thanks Brandi for bringing these sweeties in!

I was blessed to go to Colin’s house to do his newborn session this week. Babies are so precious, and I love to photograph them! Colin was one week old when we did the session, and I can’t believe how wide awake he was for a lot of the images! They had a beautiful piano, and I couldn’t resist getting a couple shots on the piano!  We made sure to include Colin’s brother Liam also!

Well, last Saturday was a PERFECT day for an April wedding!  You could not have asked for a better day!  David and Becky were married at Thornapple Evangelical Covenant Church, in Cascade Michigan.  The sun was shining, it was warm, and love was in the air!  

On the way to the reception, we stopped at the covered bridge in Ada, MI, to take a few more wedding images.  The location made the photography beautiful!  

Then, the reception was at Egypt Valley Country Club.  My last wedding was there, and it was beautiful!  That is a beautiful Venue.  The DJ’s for the evening were from Complete Music, and they kept the Dance floor hopping!  In fact, the Village People even showed up for the event!  (Ok, it wasn’t really the village people, just Becky’s relatives!)

If you want to see a few more images, watch their slide show HERE!

Richard and Gretchen came and saw me last week.  I am SO glad that we were able to get this session in.  We had the session scheduled, and then Gretchen ended up in the hospital with early labor the night before the session was supposed to take place.  Luckily, she was able to come home, and we were still able to do the session!  Gretchen and Richard are having twins, and those babies needed to bake a little longer!

Thanks Richard and Gretchen!  I can’t wait to see those little babies!

Here are some images from my new niece’s newborn session! It is such a joy to photograph newborn’s! It was even more special that this newborn was my niece. Here are some of my favorites from our indoor session!

After the studio session, we went out to lunch, then did a lifestyle session at their house!  Molly was such a good girl!

And of course we couldn’t leave their first “baby” out of the day!

Ashleigh FINALLY got her braces off!  She has been waiting all school year to get her braces off.  She wanted to get her senior portraits done after they were off… so last week we did her senior portraits!  She had a gorgeous smile too!

Little Avonlea was so precious for her newborn portraits! She is the 6th child in her family… after 5 boys! (I would have to guess that she is going to be a little spoiled!) Their household is definitely BUSY! I was tired out after only 2 hours with their family last week! But, the boys were SO good, and little Avonlea was just adorable! Here are some favorites from the session!

Thank you Kim for bringing your family in to see me!

Just a fun little thing… my son lost his front tooth last night.  I kept telling him that I need to get one more picture of him with his baby teeth in front… well, that didn’t happen.  But, we celebrated that toothless smile anyway!

Graham came in to the studio for his newborn session last week.  He was such a good baby (except for a little poo… ok a LOT of poo during the session!)  

I finally had time to go through some of my OSP Indy images.  OSP stands for Open Source Photo.  OSP is a photographers forum that I am a part of.  It is made up of photographers from all around the world, and we discuss photography in the forum on the internet.  There was a gathering in Indianapolis last week, for the mid western region of the United States.  It was 3 days of learning, playing, and socializing with other photographers.  I had a riot meeting some new people, and also hanging out with some photographers that I already knew.  

This is Mark Adams from LaCour Photography.  He taught one of our classes, and also led one of our photo shoots.  During the shoot, we talk with the other photographers about our ideas, and our techniques.  We compared how each other would shoot the image , and then tried some new things.

This shows Mark joking around and having fun with our model Sarah Parent (who also happens to be a great photographer)!

Here are a couple shots I got….

Here are a couple photographers taking their turn photographing the model.  

On the last day we were there, we had a creative challenge to do.  We broke down into teams, and had an assignment to shoot.  The topic of our assignment was “UNUSUAL”.  That was it.  It was up to us to create something  unusual.  Well, Bobbi Sheridan from Bobbi+Mike Photography was the captain of our team.  Let me tell you…. she was out to win!  She was competitive!  We came up with the theme “Feet and Faces” for our topic of “unusual”.  All our images that we took contained feet or faces, or both.  Here is Bobbi trying to win….

And here is what she was taking a picture of!  Let me tell you… we had a fun time!

Here is just one more fun picture that I took of Amy Carroll,  a fellow Grand Rapids Photographer!