I am so excited to be sharing the Rodgers Family’s 2nd Annual Photo Session with you today. I love repeat clients–so I was super pumped when Janet emailed and asked if I’d be interested in getting together on their farm again this summer for some photos of their gang. Sometimes large family photos can be challenging–but these guys made it as easy as eating ice cream after dinner.
You can see last year’s images here. And–if you want a closer look at the senior in the house…check out Sylvia’s senior session here and here.
This precious family was first up for individual photos. Don’t these boys have the most stunning blue eyes?! Just gorgeous! As you can imagine with a two-year-old…photo day isn’t the most exciting day of the year. Soon after these images were taken we lost him to the trampoline. But more on that later…
I love observing how clients change from year to year. In the case of the Rodgers family they expanded by two new members this year. And when one of them was wearing a headband as fashionable as this one…it was hard to stop clicking away. Besides the headband…her sweet smile gets me every time.
These two are insanely photogenic. Right? Even when shoved in a tractor tire you can’t stop them from looking adorable. I love these photos–especially this black and white one!
Sylvia didn’t get any more solo photos –since we’d just done the whole senior session thing. But I really enjoyed climbing all over the tractor to get these awesome shots of her brothers.
And speaking of tractors…if you’re wondering how we nabbed these sweet sky-view shots…it involved me being hoisted up in the scoop of some heavy machinery. Don’t ask me exactly what it was. I wasn’t raised on a farm…and I grew up organizing my Caboodles {not playing with toy tractors.} At any rate, it was way fun and I love the images that we got from this perspective. On most shoots I have no way of getting up this high. So this made their photos truly unique.
Remember earlier when I said we’d come back to the topic of the trampoline? Well–it’s time. To keep this little one happy between shots he was playing on the trampoline. But the tactic worked too well. He was–in fact–so happy on the trampoline he didn’t want to leave. In a few of the full group photos he was bribed with sweets…but for a photo of all the guys together we left him in his natural habitat: the trampoline.
I think it yielded some good shots–and good stories to share in the years to come. “…there was this one year we couldn’t get you off the trampoline, so we just took our photos there…” That, my friends, is the art of the moment.
Like I said earlier, I’m so glad I was asked out to get capture images of this growing family, just how they are in this moment. What a fun bunch! I hope you all enjoy these photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.
xo
Amy
