I’ve been wanting a tutu for a long time. And if you know tutus, you know Kaiya Eve has the best ones ever. Shannon passed this one to me that Madi had worn and Jillian was thrilled. This was part two of my cancellation photo series!
And what do ya think of Jillian’s new do? My friend Jessica babysat Jillian and did her hair, so I had to try it!
Jillian had so much fun with her new tutu. I already have several ideas for places to take it for photos. 🙂
-Kristin
What is that saying about the cobbler’s children that all have holes in their shoes? I don’t want my kids to end up with no pictures of themselves because I was too busy taking pictures of other people’s children!
So, when I had a cancellation this weekend, I decided to take Cooper out all by himself for a fun photo shoot. We explored and just had fun together!
Cooper is my little ham, so my goal with this session was to get some more serious looks…and not so many cheesy smiles. Although his cheesy smile is pretty cute. 
The stool is new…it’ll be popping up again. I love it!
-Kristin
No..I’m not going on tour. 🙂 It’s time to pound the pavement. I’ve signed up for another half marathon. I’ve talked my friends into it, which means I have to run too. I have two under my belt, plus a few other random smaller races.
I have to stop here and explain. I was the girl that got lapped in the mile run in high school. I’ve never been an athlete and the thought of running more than 5 minutes hurt thinking about it. So, if I can run for 13+ miles, then anyone can.
My ipod is my best friend during the whole training thing. I love listening to the band Down Here, plus a few other random songs like Boulevard of Broken Dreams, When did your Heart go Missing…stuff that makes me want to dance! Or run.
-Kristin
Yeah for Friday!!!
-Kristin
Way back before Easter I did some headshots for Darnell. He was discovered at Walmart of all places! I always ask my modeling clients how they got into the business. It’s so interesting to hear about the places these talent scouts are finding cute kids! 🙂
I’m equally impressed to hear about all the other activities child models have time for. Darnell is into orchestra, the math club, etc. What a talented guy!
And his eyes are just piercing. And this is no post-processing secret…he just has amazing eyes!
On another note, I’ve started a few new categories, so I’m going to be going back through my old posts to sort them out. I now have a new category…just for child models!
-Kristin
I had a first today. I met a 14 month old beatboxer! This one has rhythm!! He has to be the cutest little guy ever with his big brown eyes, amazing hair and he is FULL of personality.
Samuel did great with 6 outfit changes and was full of smiles and some pretty soulful looks!
And here’s the preppier side of Samuel…
I’m sure we’ll be seeing lots more of Samuel in the future!
-Kristin
After hours upon hours in the car coming home from spring break, I was rewarded with a nice little surprise in my inbox. I am featured on Blogs of Photographers right now…a site that I enjoy reading myself! It’s always fun to hear other people’s impressions of my work too. 🙂
She commented on my blog header, which is one of my favorite pictures. I thought I’d show a few more from that photo session that never made the blog.
These were taken at the very end of the session, I’m so glad that her mom brought along her dress up clothes, because it gave her that second wind. She was just prancing around the forest…as a true fairy.
Thanks Mary, for featuring me on Blogs of Photographers and to Lisa for inspiring this series of photos!
-Kristin
I wanted to share a few pictures from the Grounded magazine shoot I did a few days ago. We are still on Spring Break, so thankfully I have these pictures on my laptop and in a few days it will be back to the daily grind…and back to lots more posting. 🙂
In the meantime, here are Kae and Christian in one of my favorite super grungey secret spots!
Keep in mind, all the dead space at the top will be for print…
As we were shooting a Doritos truck drove by and parked to do some unloading. I had the guys stand in front before it drove away. Kind of a cool look!
You can think of me tomorrow as I’m sitting in traffic all day on the 5 coming home!
-Kristin
I met the Stutz family on Wednesday morning…literally on my way out of town. It was actually pretty nice to be out of the house while Brent packed the car for our day-long trip down to LA for spring break.
I’ve always wanted to do a photo session at Ardenwood Farm, so I was really excited not only to be able to work our schedules out to do this session, but also at such a cool place!
I took each of the kids away for a few minutes to grab some individual shots and here’s what I came up with!
I thought this shot was kind of fun, taken in the open doorway of a barn.
And Michelle kept telling me how unphotogenic her and Shawn were. Umm…I beg to disagree. 🙂
And this one of the kids is one of my favorites…it just looks like they are at home on the farm!
Thanks guys…it was so much fun hanging out with you! I hope you enjoy the rest of your spring break week at the beach!
-Kristin
This morning I met the youth staff from The Neighborhood Church up at Greenridge to take some black and white staff pictures. I ended up taking some of my own kids after the staff left, just to brush up on my black and white technique.
I had them each entertaining each other…in the end we were all cracking up hysterically!
The original ham was the most serious this time!
And here’s a few pictures of the staff…
And that’s not even all of them! They are a good looking bunch. 🙂 I know it’s hard to be in front of the camera…especially with all your friends watching you! But, they did great and we all had lots of fun.
-Kristin
