julie & her boy: family session

julie’s mom was in town from Tennessee and was a big part of our session together- which i love because i know how important it is to share these moments and further down the road.. i know how important it is to cherish these moments.  i love that these four (lola the dog is always in b/w) showed up in b/w and i love the lighting of the trees. mason kind of set things in motion by just being his perfect little self. he had a thing for my camera & wanted to take pictures & have himself a look. it became a great reward. i’d say ‘ok mason go sit and have your picture taken’ & he would.. and then he’d come and snap a picture.

i think it would be so dang hard to ever punish a face that looked up at me like this. just saying.

& then we ran over to the beach- stripped mason boy of his clothes & let him run around with his dog.. in a onesie and then nakeds of course. for julie & i the weather, albeit a bit breezy- was perfect.  for her mom from tennessee? not so much. i think she even mentioned her thoughts on someone calling child protective services on us when we stripped mason naked and had his toes in the sound. it was a perfect evening- the sound was littered with sail boats, lots of people on shore with their hoodies on. a really great evening in the pacific northwest.

i love this one in b/w. absolutely love it. i didn’t even set anything up in any of these grass shots. mason was just playing around.. sometimes looking out and me and my camera just followed. i feel like i got lucky.

we were totally done shooting, packing up our bag and chit chatting when i said to julie ‘can you guys just sit here?’  at that point, it was just mason & julie and all of a sudden, lola came up and i got the perfect ‘family shot’. naturally. again, so lucky:)