Sunday, July 27, 2014

FAMILY PORTRAITS by NCP

I can get great pictures of the girls smiling or at play, but it is so rare to get a good picture of
everyone together.  So when my friend Natalie started her photography business just over one year ago, I told her I had been wanting to get a family portrait on our wall and I was waiting for Marissa to look like a little girl rather than just an infant.  So this spring, we made it happen.  We met Natalie one morning at Harry Griffith Park for a 2-hour session on April 27, 2014.

Addisyn, age 6 1/2, had just lost her two top front teeth.  Piper, age 5, had an "Elsa" side braid in her hair (Elsa is the sister heroine princess/queen from the movie Frozen).  Marissa, age 1 (17 months), got brand new dress up shoes and promptly grew out of them before she could ever wear them again.  Chris & Karen have been married 11 years.


We took the opportunity to include Susan and Bernie, and Mike, Katherine, and Jacob too,
so we got a nice extended family portrait and some fun cousin pictures too.  Jacob is 3 years old. 



Natalie was well prepared, making nice with Jacob and even singing "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" to coax his cooperation.  It was her lollipops that got the best reactions though. 


Natalie posted proofs for us on her website and she blogs about her sessions in a fun conversational tone: nataliechiles.com   http://www.nataliechiles.com/extended-family-session/
    "Karen did a wonderful job coordinating her troops, putting together colors that all worked together but weren’t too “matchy.”  We also knew that this group needed to move- posing in group after group would not have worked for them for the entire session.  We opted for a giant bubble session at the end, and we also pulled out the ever-popular lollipops for them to bring on more smiles (and perhaps some bribery)."


Marissa likes to look at the 24x30 canvas on the wall of our family, noticing each person, including the "baby" (herself). 

My favorite is of the 4 cousins heads in a circle laying on the grass.  I took a picture like this with cousins Kateyln and Justin when Addisyn and Piper were little.


I really like the print album she made us, and the metal prints, and the phone app too!  She had everything so beautifully packaged for presentation.









Bubbles!





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