I’d seen family photos of Will before but didn’t realize that not smiling was his personal policy! However, a few times I think his kids laughter at my oinky pig won out. Sara and her family participated in this year’s mini sessions, which were held at 3 Lakes Pavilion in Durand Eastman Park. It was
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Corbett’s Glen Family Photography Brighton
Corbett’s Glen Nature Park in Brighton, NY is a place that you can trip over photographers, but for good reason. There are waterfalls, flat nature trails, and of course, the iconic tunnel. This makes me want to go on a date with my husband! Simon would not smile for my oinky pig or imaginary spider
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Gro-Moore Farm Family Photography Henrietta, NY
When you choose a location for your portraits it’s not always certain that you won’t get kicked out of a place, so it’s usually a good idea to check first. The wonderful people at Gro-Moore Farms were incredibly gracious in allowing us to sit on their pumpkins. Because the background is 50% of a photo,
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Highland Park Family Photography ~ Victoria & Paul
Victoria has a 5 year old who is always dressed like she walked out of a Land’s End catalog – beautiful dresses, matching hair ties, tights, shoes, etc. It’s enough to make a mom of 90% boys a little envious. Not surprisingly, they had a great clothing theme going for their session. They used black
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Halloween Costumes and Growing Up
In the past I have been a Halloween Scrooge. I know quite a few people object to Halloween on principle and I don’t necessarily disagree with their thoughts about it. I’m not one for bats and skeletons. But we moved to a cul-de-sac style neighborhood where everyone knows each other and suddenly costumes and candy
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Child Portrait Photography ~ Black Bird Knits
Like many toddlers, Vera was skeptical about what the adults were up to. I guess if you think about it from their perspective, someone takes them to a new place, then three adults act ridiculous for a while. You can hardly blame them for their caution! Vera was quickly wooed by Kate Fisher of Black
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Penfield, NY Knitting Patterns Photography
Jenny was one of the first models for our Black Bird Knits photo shoot. She said she was very comfortable in front of a camera, having spent her entire life in front of one. I guess her life is well recorded by her father! She was amenable to pretty much everything – including wearing a
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Black Bird Knits ~ Rochester, NY Clothing Photography
Kate spoke cautiously. She was starting a knitting design pattern company. She would need photographs. We met over smoothies and coffee at Panera and talked about what it would look like – she wanted her images to be natural looking with real people in real places. She showed me some ideas she had. A few
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Outdoor Child Photography Chili, NY
Two women were waving at me through tinted glass so I waved back and pulled around. A woman I thought was Nicole walked over but then I realized she was definitely not Nicole. She was saying, “It’s so nice to finally meet you!” and I was thinking, “You have me confused with someone else!” Then
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Chili NY Senior Portrait Photography ~ Sarah
Chili NY Senior Portrait Photography ~ Sarah Sarah’s mom stressed pretty extensively about the location because we HAD to have a grand piano! The piano teacher was an option, but she was super busy, then there was a friend’s house which didn’t work out. Finally the very kind people at Robert’s Wesleyan College allowed us
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Bainbridge Island ~ Tara and Jeremy Family Photography
Amazon may be my favorite company… that is until they recruited the husband of one of my closest friends and enticed them to move across the country. Not to be deterred, we crashed their place for five days which ended up as an incredible family vacation including a stay on a horse farm, a visit
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Ithaca, NY 4th of July Fireworks Displays Cayuga Lake Style
The neighbor’s illegal fireworks were the closest and most magnificent but there was also something about being on a dock in the middle of hundreds of people setting them off in a sort of surround sound experience that added to the effect. My 5 year old son said, “This is the best night EVER.”
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Ithaca, NY Newborn Portrait Photography ~ Meet Derrick, 3 days old
Ithaca is one of my favorite places to be – especially outside but the session day was breezy so instead Yuli cranked up the heater and we spent the morning sweating. Despite concerns about fussiness he managed to give us some touching sleeping moments, which Yuli says have helped her through some sleepless nights. I
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Conesus, NY Family Portrait Photography ~ Sarah and Josh at the Farm
I have a vivid memory of Sarah on speaker phone saying, “Debra will deliver the baby, you just need to catch it.” She was talking to my husband. I was about to give birth. My faulty directions meant my husband caught the baby. Sarah is a midwife who’s been serving women in Rochester for quite
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