The drive home from downtown Houston

I had three sessions in between the unending rainstorms and thankfully they were in downtown Houston soI didn’t have to worry about wet grass sticking to our legs, puddles of mud and mosquitoes the size of baby birds!  As i was sitting in traffic on 610 on a Sunday night at 600pm I start thinking….all three of these clients had one thing in common…all three of these clients shared one major thread that connected all three sets of families. All three of these families had been trusting their most precious moments with me for almost 11 years!!!!  All three of them were original chubby cheek photography clients!  Yep then i started crying…the gravity of that weighed heavy on my heart, that I had watched their children grow up!  I had captured their newborn moments, their first steps, their 1 year milestone and so many other milestones after that.  I promise you this, i will capture their high school senior pics as well!  (little forgotten fact…I used to be a Houston Texas senior photographer!  but that a a story for another time)…

Unique and Authentic Family Portraits

So with 10 almost 11 years of sessions you have to know that I have to constantly be on my A game as the photographer!  I spend all year searching for the newest locations, create the most unique and custom styled set ups to provide my clients with the latest and greatest!  I am always creating my own path so my clients get the most unique options every year!  But the thing is I didn’t want minis to be about a single Christmas card image, nope I wanted this years clients to have ART for their homes from these images.  Because let’s face it when your kids are 9 and 10 you may only decide to have family pics done once a year, but not because you don’t want them simply because of time.  8, 9, 10 year olds are busy!  The homework mountain is intense and then there are all of the after school clubs and sports!

The not so “Mini” mini

So while these are mini session and they are fast they still result in my clients walking away with family albums that their grandkids and great kids will flip through!  SO i encourage you to reconsider what fall family pics really means to you…what if you can have your cake AND eat it too?  what if you not only get one amazingly unique Christmas Card pic but also an album of moments that you can enjoy now but that your great great grandkids can enjoy years after you are gone?!