The Sumner Family

Things here have still been crazy busy..I had last week "off" from shooting, but have been working on editing like crazy. I'm now back in full swing for the remainder of May so you'll be seeing plenty more action here.

In the last post, I got together with the Batchelor family - my friend Brooke was a Batchelor before she became a Sumner when she married Marc, and now they have 2 beautiful boys. She told me they have always had family beach pictures taken, so this time, she wanted some with some green...










These next couple of pics crack me up.... I told them to make a funny face on the count of 3 and this is what I got!

The Batchelor Family

On Saturday night, I was invited down to Ocean Isle Beach to take pictures of this gorgeous family. I used to work with my friend, Brooke and she has 2 sisters from out of town. The whole family met at the family condo in OIB for Mother's Day Weekend. Diana & Edwin came along too since we love Brooke :) and we had met her mom and sister's at a scrapbook retreat in March.

We had a beautiful evening and the kids were really well behaved and a lot of fun. Poor little Harrison - the 1 year old - was not too interested in having his pic taken, but I still got some cute ones.

This is a long post since there were basically 4 families involved.

Thank you guys for having us!!! I hope you like the sneak peek! Oh, and as always, click the pics to make them bigger.

The Denning Family

One of Brian's cousins and his family had never had a family picture done...so I was honored when they asked me to take some for them. One night last week, we met for dinner and then headed down to the beach. It was pretty sunny when we first got there, but we made do...and then the sun went down and we got some nicer/softer lighting..love it! These guys were a lot of fun and were willing to do anything I asked....well, except Donnie didn't want to take his hat off...lol....I stole it at the end when his wife was kissin him!

Thanks guys for the fun evening - we'll have to do it again sometime :)

(Click on any of the pictures to make them bigger)













Here's 2 of my favorites...I love doing "jumping" pictures, especially with big groups/families. It's so funny to see the expressions on their faces etc...


And then here's one at the very end.... Joey played in the water with Anthony and got soaking wet. I had brought extra clothes for Anthony because I KNEW he would get wet....so when we got back to the car...the only clothes they had for Joey to wear were a pair of Emily's sweat pants that had writing on the butt! I threatened to take pics then, but decided to be nice...haha

The Harley Family

The other night I met this family downtown to take a few pics. Within about 5 minutes of getting there, my flip flop broke and I had to go barefoot the whole rest of the shoot all around downtown - it was pretty funny!

I love Downtown Wilmington - there are so many different textures on the buildings and it's fun to see what kinds of pictures I can come up with each time.

This family was a lot of fun and the kids are so so cute!! We had to work quick because the sun was going down, but not before we got some pics with the nice soft light behind them.

I hope you guys like them!