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Sturtevant Family

Let me paint this picture, 3 girls in home, all are very strong individual girls, each beautiful in their own way. Can you imagine the fear that must go thru Daddy at the thought of them each eventually dating! LOL! Good thing the baby is going to be a boy! This family has become some of my closest friends, I am so fortunate to have had them come into my life. I might also add they are all so easy to photograph! Sherri, I miss you girl. Time for us to catch up soon, very soon!

Meet Chandler, Olivia, and Tyler

I have to admit that this family are some of my favorite people to photograph. Their mom has always allowed me total artistic control and we have captured some of the most awesome natural moments in my history in the business. These 3 little ones personalities are as different as night and day. Not to mention the looks Olivia can give me, love her dimple! Chandler, you always look like so grown up. Tyler you are still my buddy, seriously he can give some of the best hugs! Their custom in home session was the perfect backdrop for each of their personalities, not to mention the amazing layout we got for the coffee table book for their mom!

Meet more of my Seniors!

This is Kiersten, talk about a girl whose inner soul will just reach out and grab you. She had the most amazing eyes! I expect to see great things out of her, things that will change the world!

The Photographer's Kids!

You know those moments as parents where you freak out right before your creation session, everything flashes through your brain from...
Do your socks match, don't drop anything on that shirt, you are going to smile if it kills you, don't touch your sister....LOL!!! Ok, seriously not all that but if we are taking the time to capture our families moments we "WANT" them perfect. I can handle any child but my own without stress, flash forward to my recent family pictures...
We are on the beach, the wind is 15+ mph, the last session of the trip is my own, West has his resort band on his arm and says..."don't worry mom I took care of my arm in the picture". I should have known to be worried, but NOOOOO, I wait until home to look close at the images of our family. He has tucked his arm into his shirt, it's completely MISSING from his body. I laughed so hard I cried, needless to say that will be getting enlarged just so I can enjoy that moment of innocence when they think they did something big. Just had to share that even us photographers have impaired "posed" family photos in our albums.

Meet Lucy!

Lucy is one of my reps for 2008 Seniors. She was incredible to work with and would do anything I wanted to try. It was so much fun to just cut loose and see what we ended up with. Here are a couple from her session. Lucy I can't wait to see if you qualify for that album!!!

Destination Family Sessions!

Life has never been sweeter! I've had the pleasure of photographing some amazing families on Santa Rosa Island, Pensacola Beach, FL. The Portofino Island Resort was the perfect backdrop for some amazing photo ops! No matter whether we took candids or the posed images you just couldn't go wrong!!!!!

There were a total of 10 families in all and they all had sessions right there where we were staying at the resort. The beach was perfect, it was private and the dunes were built back up even better...there were hardly any people around, PERFECT!!!!!

I am seriously thinking that I might just have to offer this annually, this was the 2nd year for doing something like this. What is really neat is some of the families have been on both so it is really neat to look back and see how the kids have really grown!

Here are a couple of my favorites!







Brynn and Katie are a couple of sisters I met for the first time while on the trip, both their mom and Isabelle's mom let me have the pleasure of capturing moments while on the beach. They are going to be breathtaking young women before you know it! Look out momma's!

Isabelle, what a vibrant 2 year old! Those eyes and that grin had me the minute I saw her. I had the pleasure of working with her the day before I left at her home and on the trip. I'd have to say that little one was so much fun to watch on the beach!

Last but not least are a few shots of some of the kids from the group we traveled with. Wow, we had 18 kids just in the one group alone. The kicker is that, only 4 of them were GIRLS!!!! Sydney is the blond with the blue eyes that just shine. The brother and sister are Reid and Rachael, they live in Clinton and are one of my closest friends children. It's so neat to see them growing up.