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Check out another cutie-patootie baby boy of former Metimages wedding clients!  Mom and Dad were married in 2008 and I am delighted to continue working with them as their family photographer!  Will is a little stud, check out that flipped collar!  He was a little serious in the beginning but soon warmed up. And I have to admit, we timed the fall photos wonderfully – the colors were phenomenal and the Indian Summer temps were just perfect!

Laura and Todd needed some head shots, they also wanted some updated pics of the girls and of course while we’re at it, why not get the holiday card photo out of the way too?!  They came to Chicago for the long weekend all the way from Minnesota, and as it so happened, I was in town too!  I photographed Laura and Todd’s wedding in 2004, Laura was one of my own bridesmaids in 2002 and we go way back to our high school days in the early 1990′s.  It was such fun to see Maddie and Sasha as little girls and their interactions as sisters are just so cute and sweet, mostly!  We were also very lucky with some great late summer weather in Chicago. Can’t wait for the next session and I hope it’s sooner than in seven more years!

Four outfits, 30 minutes and only one set of tears!  Let me say that Gemma and family have their Metimages portrait sessions down to a science!  I wouldn’t expect anything less since I have been photographing them since Momma was pregnant with Gemma, and then Gemma as a newborn and every three months thereafter.  Our sessions might be speedy but there is no shortage of scenery, cute Gemma-isms and of course some great family shots!  See you guys again in December!

Here’s just a sampling of what’s to come!  I am working on a couple new projects with some of my engaged couples . . . yes I am that possessive, they are MY couples.  Hilary and Wayne and I met up for a half day of fun a few weeks ago to work on sort of a Day in the Life.  I’ll be photographing their wedding in the fall and I wanted to do something different and creative with their engagement session.  Which means I have a lot more editing to do!  In the meantime check out some of the still images I captured.  Stay tuned for the finished piece!

Don’t they clean up so nicely?!

* And note to self, next time you are out in the woods photographing a client racing by on a single track and you ask him to jump a puddle and he warns you that you will get splashed with mud . . . you will indeed get splashed with mud.

Maddie and Liam and their parents joined me again for another Fall themed portrait session, this time in Naperville. Thankfully the weather held out on Sunday morning and we only had to contend with a few sprinkles early on. Working with Maddie and Liam is very fun, especially when we made Star Wars references through most of the session thanks to Liam.

And the two responsible for it all.

Back in January I spent some quality time photographing Anneliese as a newborn. I can’t believe she is already six months old, sitting up on her own and showing me her cute personality. We got some smiles early on, indoors.  Like most babies, she did not take too well to sitting in the grass.

Way back in 2005 I photographed Leti and Carlos’ wedding. Then we started to do family portraits when they added Mason to mix.  Then their family grew again with the addition of Nathan, who has his own special portrait session with me last fall. Georgie the pug has joined us for all the outdoor portrait sessions (and he made a guest appearance early on during the wedding day!)