Metropolitan Imageworks

It’s been an amazing journey with the M family, one that is not completely over yet.  I’m banking I will hang on until both Toni and Bianca get married!!!  From photographing their mom and dad’s wedding four years ago to photographing Toni’s first year milestones and now completing Bianca’s first year milestones, I honestly have become a part of their family.  Not to mention that mom and dad are pretty darn fun to just hang out with and we always find ourselves laughing together.  I cannot believe what a little lady Bianca has become and she is indeed the ringleader of all the antics between her and older sis’ Toni.  I just love the way they interact and of course I am in awe of how gorgeous and well spoken little Miss Toni is now at three years of age!  Of course not that I expected any less from her parents!  Now I will have to find excuses to see them every few months instead of just waiting until the annual portrait session.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart for entrusting me to creating your photographic memories for so long!!!

Here’s my friend Maddox, back on the blog for her 9 month portrait session.  I have this little munchkin trained, I swear each time I put my camera to my eye she looked straight at me grinned!!! Too cute!  Can’t wait to see her again in February for her one year session.  I’m excited to see what antics another three months brings.

See how Maddox hams it up for my camera?!

Even Grandma & Grandpa joined in the fun!

Still cracks me up!

One set of parents, three daughters, one son-in-law, one uncle and 5 dogs.  And I got everyONE looking at the camera!  I had been waiting to meet Winnie the doodle for months, as I had photographed her ‘mom’ and ‘dad’s’ wedding in Phoenix in 2008.  Former Chicagoans, they aptly named their pooch Winfrey and she is known Winnie for short.  I was in AZ for a day for portraits and the Thomas family had me photograph their whole group plus furry friends. I was in heaven for the entire shoot!

Look at this lovely little specimen!  I love working with newborns because they are so cute and squishy!  I was honored to photograph this little girl, as I had previously photographed her mom and dad’s wedding in 2010 and I like to carry on the photography traditions with clients.  Little Sienna was just perfect for her very first Metimages portrait session and she even went along with a few outfit changes.  I can see it already that she will be a daddy’s girl!

Oh my little Sammy, I have such a fondness for this little guy!  He has graced my camera at 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and most recently at 2 and a half years old.  I also photographed his Mom and Dad’s engagement photos and then their wedding photos in 2008.  And of course, one of my favorite childhood dolls was this cute little boy baby named Sammy (who was anatomically correct and could drink water and go potty!!!)  I have since gifted my Sammy doll to my bestie’s young daughter and I hope their dinner parties also entail the adults gathering around the loo . . .

For this session we met up at Cantigny and delighted in all the fall colors, perfect weather and of course Sammy LOVED climbing on the tanks and looking at the koi fish in the pond.  We even saw a hawk swoop down and rest on a wooden fence.  See you all again next fall!

Meet two week old Mildrid!  She was such a little smooshie newborn during her very first portrait session and I cannot wait to follow her milestones for the next year as well.  Older brother Coby has been a fixture on the Metimages blog since his debut in October of 2009.  We all agree that this time around, Mom and Dad are total newborn baby pro’s!

I met up with the Santos family last Friday during the last hour of daylight and capitalized on some wonderful fall weather and lush fall colors.  Sheila picked a perfect spot right on the river and her sons, Owen and Brian, gallivanted around and had a blast goofing off in front of my camera.  Even her husband Mark was a good sport!

I am in love.  Little Isla had major stranger anxiety when I first arrived, but it doesn’t matter because I am completely and utterly in love with her little self and her little antics and her little snuggles.  I’m positive she spent more time in my lap than in front of my camera and I am a-ok with that!  She is my new bestie!  I’m also sensing a theme here . . . her mom and dad were married in 2008 and :ahem: their wedding was photographed by yours truly!

Check out these two cutie- patooties!  Maddie and Lanie were such troopers during our very hot and humid portrait session!  I, for one, felt the trickle of sweat dripping down my back as we trekked around the gorgeous grounds of Cantigny.  I’ve had the pleasure of photographing both Maddie and Lanie as newborns and then again for a couple sessions in-between.  The girls are so much fun and do so well in front of my camera!  Mom and Dad requested a few shots of the two of them, something they haven’t done since their wedding!

The last time I had the pleasure of photographing Elise and Nolan, baby Nolan was a newborn and Elise was three.  Fast forward a couple years and now Nolan is a handsome two-year-old and my little friend Elise is five!  Time flies and I love to see how these little ones grow and their personalities emerge.  I must say Nolan is a total cutie and such a ham for the camera. And Elise is one of my new BFFs, we even held hands on the way back from the park.  Mom did a fantastic job of picking outfits . . . Elise’s dress and Nolan’s matching tie is definitely one of the cutest ensembles I have seen thus far.