Well, summer vacation has come to an end in these parts and the kids headed back to school this morning. I, on the other hand, took a vacation day so that I could have the house all to myself!
Goof ball!
Archive: ‘children’
Personal Post – First Day of School
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Family Portraits
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Way back in July, or maybe early August, I met up with Diana to take family photos of her family. I might not exactly remember the date, but I do remember that it was her father’s 80th birthday and that when I arrived on that hot summer night I was a offer a cold Labatt Blue and a steak just for showing up!
Her are the ladies of the family – sisters, sister-in-law and a niece/daughter (depends on who you are now, doesn’t it?)
The grand-daughter and the great grand-daughter….and some black-eyed Susans.
Cute baby is cute!
Bryan & Cassi + Roman & Lincoln
Friday, July 30th, 2010Cassi sent me an email about a month ago and called me as “Picture Paul”. Right away I knew she was sent my way by Austin and Oliva’s parents! O always calls me “Picture Paul!”
She said she wanted some shots of her young twin sons and a few of the whole family. We picked Mentor Headlands and planned to meet up last Wednesday – which turned out to be one awfully hot and rainy day. That meant I had to wait one more day, until Thursday, to get to meet two of the cutest little kids I have ever seen. Together with their parents, the family looked like it stepped right out of a magazine shoot!
Extended Family Portraits
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Michelle and Lynda sent me an email a few weeks back saying how much they liked my photos and that they would love to get together for me to shoot there extended family – they and their families have been close friends for years.
Then they gave me the whopper – do anything you want. I was talking with my friend Andrea about this just the other day. That kind of freedom immediately makes the mind go blank!
I managed to pull it together and we had a great, and hot, night shooting in Willoughby near the Chagrin River. They were up for anything I threw at them and the shots came out great because of that.
After walking the trials for an hour we finally ended up down by the river. It was a much appreciated too since we were all hot and tired by that point. Just splashing around for a few minutes gave us all some energy.
We made it back to the parking lot with just enough time to for the boys to flip a few tricks on their skateboards before we had to call it night.
It really was a great session. We’re already talking about getting back together this fall to do it all again!
Thanks Michelle and Lynda!
Family Style with Olivia and Austin
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010I’m starting to run out of fingers to count how many times I’ve taken Austin and Olivia’s pictures. I bring them chocolate milk and Smarties and they call me “Picture Paul”. I may have to put that on a business card!
Except for one big family photo I did a year or so ago with the Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins, I usually only shoot Austin and Olivia. This time around they wanted some nice and simple family shots in their yard – and it’s a great big yard that’s perfect for pictures.
And at the end of every shoot we have a little fun – mostly to burn off some of the sugar from all the Smarties they eat while we’re taking pictures! 
