mini-session sunday

snuggle :: the sessions

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Instead of the more usual outdoors-at-a-park mini-sessions this winter I ran a little series of cuddly, indoor mini-sessions on a couch or bed and called them The Snuggle Sessions!

Though the weather that day turned out to be the least wintery of any of the days before or after it, rendering the promised fire and hot chocolate less desirable, these cozy sessions still had such a great feel to them. I love seeing all these lovely families enjoying one another with such affection and playfulness, and I really like the results! 

Stay tuned tomorrow for one more Snuggle Session feature, along with a special and very limited time offer. 

snuggle :: the sissons

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one of my recent rather impulsive ideas was indoor mini-sessions on a couch or bed in an otherwise empty room on a cold winter day. with hot chocolate and a roaring fire nearby. because is this not preferable to being outside in the frigid cold in your possibly not-very-cute winter gear?! yes, i think so. 

i needed someone to demo this idea, however, so i could show you all what i was envisioning. so i recruited these cuties to come over and test drive the concept. they rocked it. 

if you want a snuggle session for yourself, the tickets are on sale NOW.

here are the sissons, snuggled up -- complete with slippers, mugs, and blankets! 

mini-sessions :: richmond park

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Before you get to these sweet little highlights from fall mini-sessions, I want to draw your attention a rad give-away I'm running now until October 14th. It's for a short family photojournalism session. Entering requires a fun little creative exercise. You can see more about the give-away HERE. You'll need to click on the box that says "ENTER" and it will take you to the FB post that outlines the steps required to enter. 

Now onto mini-sessions... :)

Families are the best. Spending time following around six of them in a single afternoon is such a fun adventure! Each one has it's own unique culture, it's inside jokes and quirky little ways of connecting. And all of them are so special.

You guys, your family is special. Keep at the work of building your best life together, loving one another well, and playing.

I know mini-sessions are a hot ticket (they sold out SO FAST), and I've had lots of inquiries about whether or not I'll be offering them again this fall. The answer is no; at the earliest I'll offer spring mini-sessions. 

In the meantime, I have limited availability for family photojournalism sessions and have added two variations to that, so head over here to read more about that. And as long as I'm updating you on availability, I have availability to take one birth in each of these months in 2016: february, april, may, june, and july. Smile Sessions are on hold indefinitely.

mini-sessions :: wilcox park

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my fall mini-sessions happened before the colors started changing, while things were still rather green, which i like. 

i did a few sessions in the morning hours this time around, at Wilcox park, which has the best trees ever, and this is just the tiniest peek at what came out of those sessions.

each of these families are repeat client-friends. and as you know if you follow my blog, i LOVE repeat clients. it's so so so fun to see them grow over the years, and my fondness for them is huge. 

in a few days i'll post some images from the six mini-sessions that happened later the same day at another park. :) 

mini-sessions :: fall 2014 (Part 2)

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We had the prettiest evening for the October mini-sessions, and some beautiful people to work with. Though this is definitely not the point of having a smile session or mini-session, it is a perk: to get outside and wander around in natural beauty, when you might otherwise have stayed indoors in front of a screen. 

enjoy this little sampling of images..

For those who wanted to get in on Mini-Sessions this fall but missed the boat, I'll be offering them again in the late Spring, probably in May sometime. It will be one of my first post-maternity-leave activities. Stay tuned!

mini-sessions :: fall 2014 (Part 1)

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This fall, I split mini-sessions into smaller clumps on a couple different dates. It seemed like it would open up more options so more people with different sorts of schedules could choose to participate. Honestly, it also seemed like it would be easier to reschedule a clump of THREE sessions in the event that I was called into a birth, than to reschedule SIX. 

May I be transparent with you for a moment? I'm sitting on the fence with Mini-sessions, guys. They don't seem to be as popular as they used to be, and I'm not sure I do them as well as I do other things. What I do best is the raw stuff, the unscripted, the natural. I don't excel at posing you and arranging you and trying to make your toddlers look up at my camera with genuine smiles dancing on their faces. There are many other photographers out there who do those things very well, so maybe I ought to send you to them instead? 

Or maybe it's time to creatively think about how to apply the raw, unscripted stuff I love so very much to the mini-session concept, since the lower price point and short, to-the-point sessions really do work well for many of you, and I do want to keep seeing you. I'm kicking around some ideas of what that could look like. But if you have more, leave me a comment, ok!? Let's put our heads together on this and see if we can come up with something stellar. 

Meantime, mini-sessions keep on truckin' and we are still getting lovely results! Here are just a few highlights from the first little chunk of mini-sessions in September...

So much thanks to the two families and the awesome 8th grader who came out to be photographed at Riverside Park.