Family portrait for Lisa & Mike
Five kids, two dogs and a lot of laughter – that’s how I can describe my recent family session in Downingtown.
Once your kids ale older, taking a family picture is not as easy as one might think. You have to do a lot of planning and coordinating to get all of them together in one place and at the same time. It does not happen too often in Lisa’s family life – that’s why she contacted me and scheduled the session just before Christmas!
For Lisa the most important thing was to get a family picture where they are all together – so she can always remember them together, and have a large print of that. I loved the idea and here you can see a little sneak-peek at what we’ve created that day:
While people grow up and change, family portraits are something that never changes. Something precious – that will be cherished forever for many generations.
Sometimes I hear people say they don’t want to be photographed – they don’t like the way they look on photographs. They feel uncomfortable and want to wait until they loose a few pounds here and there. That always makes me sad – in my view that’s a great mistake! Don’t they see, the pictures aren’t actually for them? They are for their children and their families, who will look at those photographs later and be glad someone had the foresight to take them. No one will say “mom/dad should have waited with this picture until [something]” – trust me on this one. In the end, family portraits and albums will be the thing your kids would look at with greatest fondness.
Love the photos!! Love the dog sprawled all over his people’s laps, so darn cute!! And yeah, getting a large family (in our case cousins, uncles, and aunts) together for a photo is hard to accomplish. Finding the time to get EVERYONE together can be challenging.
PS: love the session 🙂 awesome shots.
As a past photographer, it is difficult to get self-conscious people to take a photo, but there are ways they can take a picture and still look great. They just need to remember that these photos will become memories forever!
By the way, I love the prop picture!
You have a beautiful family!! I love doing family photos my little guys are 3 and 6 right now. THe 3 year old never wants to sit down lol we have gotten some interesting photos it always looks as if I have him in a bear hug 🙂
These pictures are wonderful! And oh my gosh, that huge dog!!! I want him!!!
I know! I feel the same (about that dog 😉
looks like loads of fun was had here!
Oh my gosh I LOVE these photos! Especially the ones of everyone being silly. This is great!
Thank you.
Such a lovely family! Love the photo with the dogs. 🙂
You have such a beautiful family 🙂 I think my family only has one family portrait and you’ve reminded me how important it is to have them. We need to schedule some pictures to get taken and SOON. I love the idea of doing fun ones, too, like your mustache one 😛
I love the pictures! They are so natural looking and fun. You have a very beautiful family!
Those are wonderful shots of the family. Love the fun props and the huge puppy dog is just the icing on the cake 🙂
This is beautiful family.Great session.
Patrycja congratulations.