christmas 2009

I spent Christmas with my family in Muskegon. Here are a couple photos I took from the day.

My cousin Alena and her son, Trae. Alena is probably the most outspoken and loud person I know. Growing up, she was extremely rambunctious. It's interesting to see how reserved she becomes with her child and how caring she is as a new mother. 

Sienna and Gabrielle are my cousin, Roselea's children. Rose'lea is a couple months younger than I am and we grow up together. We're more like sisters, so I call these girls my nieces. They are so smart and incredibly adorable.

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jimmie again

Yesterday, I photographed Jimmie Deeghan again. This time we had more direction and I'm so pleased with how these turned out. I'm actually super excited about these. I had a hard time choosing which to post. There are so many more.

We started out at my loft. I love window light and instead of busting out the lighting equipment, I took advantage of the nice light coming in. Jimmie had the brilliant idea to create a sign with the name of his album and it's release date. So before photos, we had an arts and crafts hour. Or rather he did. I contributed to the number "2"'s since he writes those loopy two's.

He looks like Michael C. Hall (guy who plays Dexter Morgan in the show, Dexter) especially with the red paint and the white shirt.

We snuck into the Bean building on Cedar St. to get these shots. Thanks Chris VanWyck for the idea to shoot there! The building was a little creepy, but it was the perfect location.

At Elderly

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jimmie

Last Saturday, I snapped some photos of Jimmie Deeghan of Every Avenue. He's releasing his own ep on itunes in February. Buy it. This kid cracks me up. Whether it was him sharing that he loves the author Nicholas Sparks or giving me lip about making him sit in snow (his response to telling him to sit on a step with snow, "you mother f@$%r.") I took a variety of photos since he didn't really know what he wanted and here are a few!

and this one is my favorite, so cute!

More at my flickr..working on getting most of them on there

Christmas tree choppin'

Today, I headed out to Mason with Tom and Matt in search of the perfect Christmas tree. I decided to live vicariously through them and not actually get a tree myself. You won't see many pictures of Matt since he didn't do anything, but sip hot cocoa and disagree with me about which tree was best. They chose one I didn't like, but out of the interest of time and since I was freezing, I pretended it was a great selection.

Typical Tom

What did I tell you? Matt sipping hot cocoa..

the lawatsch fam

I photographed the Lawatsch family last weekend and Julie was absolutely precious. So curious and cute. I had so much fun following along as she bounded around the playground with Jen and Stephen close behind. Here are a few from the session!

I just about melted when I saw Jen put this hat on her.

Entering the playground!

Julie climbing up for some more playground adventure

the whole family!

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the prosen fam

Last weekend, I photographed the Prosen family at Michigan State University's 4-H and perennial gardens. The day was perfect and I just adore these two little girls.

Sophie & Addie

A mischevious Addie

Sophie is a doll

The whole family!

erin

My stylish friend, Erin. <3

bryan

I finally photographed Bryan this weekend! I work with his mom, Lisa and we have been trying to plan a day for the last month or so. Since I ended up staying in town this weekend, it worked out. It was the most perfect day to photograph a senior! The weather was warm and Bryan had this genuine smile the entire time I photographed him. They also live out in the countryside, so I had old barns, ponds, an assortment of trees, grasses, fences and other cool stuff at my disposal to use in the portraits.

Leah, Bryan's girlfriend joined us at the end of the session. I snapped a couple photos of the two of them. So cute. I also work with Leah's mom. Now that I think about it, I wonder if Leah and Bryan met through their mothers..I think that sounds about right.

piggott family photos!

I photographed my previous boss from Girl Scouts, Nikki and her family this past weekend. I absolutely adore her and her fam!

Caiden

Caiden and his cousins, Addy and Sophie. Caiden is a natural at this picture taking business.

Nikki, Nate and Caiden

Addy

Sophie and Addy

Jasmine & Matt Wedding

Jasmine and Matt married last Friday, October 23. It was a gorgeous, intimate wedding. It was a really fun experience to shoot a wedding for one of my closest friends. It never feels like a job to me to shoot weddings, but this one especially was fun. It's crazy to think that it wasn't too long ago Jasmine and I were bagging groceries at the local grocery store talking about whoever we were dating that week and here she was, absolutely stunning in her wedding dress and marrying a wonderful man who shares her sense of humor. Congratulations you two.

jasmine's adorable niece