Here are  a few from the last dance session for the calendar. We were goinf gor the October month. I love the results!

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I am a busy little bee editing over here. I just had to share this one with you! I love it so much! More from the session soon, I promise.

Just because this blog has been mostly adults I need to show you we have just as many babies and children around here lately. Be on the lookout for this little one’s big sister in the next week or so before they move to another city. I was so happy to hear mom call me to tell me they were expecting a few months ago. I did big sister’s pictures last year and I was excited to meet another sweet girl!! This nursery pictures are extra special because this was the nursery she was brought home in but in just a few weeks, they will have a new home! They will always be able to show her the nursery that they decorate just for her while she was in momma’s belly.

I was more that a little nervous when an agent from New York called me about model photography. I am not a fashion photographer but I love to take pictures. It took us a few months to work out the details with this model. She is in school in Mobile and couldn’t get away to Birmingham but we were able to work out a session while we were at the beach last week. We met in Fairhope for the session and finished up on the bay. I was very excited about the location. I so love downtown Fairhope. It is the perfect little town and I want to live here! We walked all over Fairhope looking for nooks and crannies for the perfect place. I am so excited about the results! They are very much my style… I really love the sun flare pictures!!

(On a side note…. things are a little hairy around here! 4 weddings in 4 weeks, more portrait sessions that I want to count AND we were out of town for a 8 days! I feel like Dori in Finding Nemo…. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. This by far is our busiest fall ever and we are LOVIN it! We have so many exciting projects in the works the last few weeks and I hope to give them some blog coverage but emails and editing come first! I think I will blog all winter when it is cold and we are a little slower. Will  it be strange to see people in summer clothes on the blog during winter?!?)

Now on with the fun stuff….

We all know how dancers have a special place in my heart. But this dancer is extra special. When I first started I asked for volunteers to model some ideas I had and she was the first dance to sign up. Now over two years ago she is back for her senior portraits! I was so excited when she contacted me for her session. She is so beautiful, of course, but her spirit is beautiful too. I was very excited to photograph her without her dance gear on too! I learned something about her at the session too… when she puts on her pointe shoes you can see her confidence come alive. She holds her head a little higher and you can just tell, when she is dancing… she is everything she wants to be in life. She wants to pursue dancing after high school and I can’t wait to see where she goes! Incredible talent and I am honored to capture her in print who she is now.

And it rained during this session too (what is it about senior sessions and the rain?!?) but she was totally game to jump and dance in the rain. I have the best clients in the WORLD! The fan is from her Mom’s senior portraits. I love it when we use something that is special to the family.