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This shoot has been on the books since the last click of my camera on their 2015 shoot. It is SO awesome to get to shoot families year after year, catch up, see who has less teeth, who’s sprouted four inches, etc. 😉 The Winklers are no exception. I can’t believe how much these adorable (not so little) kids have grown up over the past year. It’s easy to turn a blind eye to the passing of time in your own house but WHOA, shoots like these can be an eye opener. Last year, Colin was the toothless one and now it’s Quentin. And just like that Aubrey is like 16!? (I mean she’s not but it felt that way, like where did this gorgeous young woman come from!?) Laura and Patrick, it was a pleasure AGAIN. I hope we get to keep doing this year after year, you know until next year when they’re all off at college 😛

But seriously, another top notch Winkler shoot in the books. Thanks guys for keeping me around 😉

Shooting friends is always a treat. And upon editing such a shoot, it’s a double treat when your kids look over your shoulder and say “hey, those are MY friends!!” After one reschedule due to unseasonably HOT September weather I finally made it out with the Fischers and it was fab! I mean, these kids are so adorable (just ask my Sam) and Chad and Lisa are smokin’ so I shouldn’t have expected any less 😉 Family shoots with an excess of two children are bound to get a little chaotic but the Fischers rolled with the punches. Lisa and Chad came prepared with snacks and bribes and that is really all that I can ask for! 😛 The kids even hung in there for a quick trip back to the house for a few pics back on the front porch and it turned out to be SO worth it.

Thanks Fischers for a great shoot! Here’s hoping you still think this is your best shoot yet 😉

Talk about a BIG, BEAUTIFUL family! Ya know, every photo shoot is different, and you never really know what you’re in for til you get going. This extended family shoot was a whole other animal-LITERALLY… in broad daylight a skunk showed up on the scene hoping for a cameo??? Aside from that… things went pretty darn smoothly seeing as how I was shooting my biggest group to date, with SO MANY littles!! Although I do my best to hide it, all photo shoots involving small children are somewhat chaotic. Having said that, when you shoot a large family, it’s sort of a “controlled chaos” if you will. My aesthetic is typically a bit more candid but with larger groups you really just have to wrangle em’ in and pose em’ 😉 . I mean, if I just let 11 small children run free around Busse Woods I can pretty much guarantee I wouldn’t have ever had all 11 in the same shot (not to mention chances are good at least one would’ve been skunked) !?!? 😛

Anywho… shooting all of these peeps was a pleasure. Big families are the best, so much love going around, and with the Petermanns it truly shows! Thanks guys for letting me be a small part of your big, beautiful world!