Connor is 6 months old!

I met Kelly, Jeff and their son Connor a few weeks ago and had such a fun few hours photographing them. Connor was very cooperative, he just kept smiling and trying to eat his hands and toes...









For some family photos with the dog, we set up a row of theater seats I spotted in their building's lobby. Thanks to Jeff for helping me lug them out to the alley (they were heavy!).




Then we headed to Humbolt Park for some more photos. 6 months is a great age for photos because they can't run away on you yet (but they do tend to fall over if left unattended)...











This is a video of some of my favorite images:

Fun in the Rain

I photographed Anna and Morgan when Morgan was just a wee baby so it was really fun to spend some time with them again this past week. They are such busy little girls that it was hard to keep up. Even though the weather didn't exactly cooperate, we made the best of it, like kids usually do!

Morgan


Anna


Goofing Around


As soon as we stepped outside Anna stuck out her tongue for raindrops.
This is why I love hanging around kids!








I can't resist showing a few photos from our first session:






And finally this is a slideshow of my favorite images from our photo session:

Melanie & Mike's E-Session

I recently spent a very fun weekend in Galena, Illinois where I met up with Melanie and Mike for their engagement session. I'm photographing M & M's (I just made that up) wedding this September in Wisconsin and they were originally going to travel to Chicago for their engagement session. When we were checking our schedules to pick a date I mentioned I was headed to Galena in May and we all agreed it'd be fun to do a "destination" session there. You gotta love a couple who is up for anything to get some great photos...

Night Shoot in the City

Last Thursday near sunset I got together with a group of fellow wedding photographers for a fun practice shoot around the West Loop. We had a few brave volunteer models and lots of different lighting equipment to play around with. Here are a few images I created:























Ray Pryor of Emotia Photo shot video of our adventures with the new Canon 5D Mark II and made this great video:

Irene & Eric's E-Session

Friday was the perfect spring day and I got to spend it outside photographing Irene and Eric's engagement session in and around the Lincoln Park Zoo. Irene and Eric were so relaxed and fun they made it easy to get some great shots. Here are a few of my favorites:

















Looking forward to their big, fat Greek wedding on the fourth of July!

Retro Pin-up Studio Shoot

Last Sunday I got together with some fellow photographers for a photo shoot at a West Loop studio. Females in Focus is a peer group of other women in the industry who share ideas, contacts, and talent for the sole purpose of having fun and getting better at what we do. The theme of our photo shoot was "Retro Pin-up" and the makeup artist and hairstylist did an awesome job creating the models different looks. The models were such sports and really channeled their inner Bettie Page.

These images will give you an idea of what a Boudoir shoot can look like (for any brides/ladies out there thinking about doing a Boudoir session for themselves or their man...)

Getting Beautiful




Carolyn




Rebecca








Sunny