We photographers like to talk about the clients that have been with us since the beginning. We feel we owe a piece of our success to those that came to us when we were still figuring things out, still learning, still growing our businesses and still come back year after year. The Bellamy’s are one of those “with me since the beginning” clients. Jessica is a great friend of mine, and her family’s first session was back in 2015 - a portfolio building session. I used things like a wagon and pinwheels to engage the kids. There was so much I didn’t understand about lighting and posing and session flow back then. But that’s what hundreds of sessions gives you: the experience to know what works and doesn’t and how to see light and how to engage kids without busy props.

Below is the Bellamy’s session from fall of 2019. I’m super proud of this one as I scoped out two new locations for their session (when you photograph families over and over again, you start to run out of locations) and it was absolutely perfect. And location #2 was fun and colorful - perfect for their kids’ vibrant personalities (:

I may have include a few shots from Session #1 at the end of the blog for some extra entertainment.