Clothing Ideas for Pumpkin Patch Portraits

Here's a list of some places to go for some fall outfit inspiration:

1. Children's Place

2. Gap

3. Old Navy

4. Mini Boden

5. Crew Cuts

6. Cookie Magazine

7. American Eagle Kids

Have fun looking!

Pumpkin Patch Minis

It's that time of year again! I can't believe it's already October. This year has been flying by. Whew!

This mini session is one of my absolute favorites. Kids can't help but smile thinking about pumpkins (and candy). :) We may get really lucky this year and have some nice, cool weather too. It's such a fun way to kick off the fall season.

Here's all the information:

Please call Beth at 941.321.0621 to reserve your session time. Sessions (20 minutes in length) will take place at my home. Hope to see you there! 

More After the Rain

The 2 P's: pre-historic and pink.

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This guy was sneaky and did not want to have his picture taken. :) Was the bird camera shy or just worried that I might wade through alligator-infested water to get a closer shot? 

Dove has it right ladies...

As a photographer I try to capture the beauty and spirit of every girl I photograph. I think that oftentimes we get a very distorted view of beauty from fashion magazines and ads. Dove has a great set of videos for girls and women that show just how unreal the things that you see in magazines can be. If you have a daughter, please show her this video and discuss it with her. :)

After the Rain…

Last night we went for a short bike ride following some afternoon storms. We headed out as a family, but the beautiful light and the amount of wildlife activity was amazing, so I had to turn around and grab my camera. 

The little guy above was right outside of our garage door. He was SUPER DUPER tiny. Not too fond of the paparazzi either. :) Most of the animals were a little camera shy last night. 

I will try to post more images from my bike safari soon…

Yummy!

My son and I made these deeee-licous Raspberry Swirl cupcakes today. Here's the link to the recipe at Eating Well.

Obviously, they take longer than cupcakes out of a box. I like to think of them as the "healthy" alternative to box cupcakes - even though there isn't such a thing as a healthy cupcake. The part that got me was making the raspberry puree. Pushing smashed raspberries through a strainer to get rid of the seeds is a bit more time consuming than I had hoped for. But I think the end result was worth the extra pain and effort. Sounds like childbirth instead of cooking. :)

The homemade frosting is to die for. I think everyone should just make the frosting, put it in a ziploc bag, cut the corner off and squeeze it in their mouth. Dinner is served! :) Hee. Hee.

Hope you enjoy the recipe at some point.

Swirlicious

Don't you just love the swirly swirl? I couldn't not take a photograph of it. Once her hair gets long we won't see it anymore. Just one of those adorable newborn traits that I love to capture.

This little girl did NOT want to sleep even though she had been up quite a bit the night before according to her mom. Mom was so ready to take a nap, but you wouldn't know it. She looks great!

There was a lot of this going on, but not a lot of what you see below. I think I must give off some kind of wake up vibe because most of my newborns never sleep during their session. Weird.

♥ Sweet dreams little one. ♥