Clear Sky Portrait Blog

I recently had the honor of photographing the wedding of a childhood friend.  A friend came along to get all the right shots with me…..hers are attached in the following post.  We had fun shooting from different angles and sharing in the creativity.

The day had all the right ingredients and made for a memorable wedding.

A beautiful location….

  Beautiful flowers….

A beautiful bride & lovely bridesmaids…

A handsome and adoring groom…

Plenty of smiles and laughter…..

And a couple clearly in love….

Thank you for sharing your special day, Jesse and Jamie!

The bride was so much fun….she gave us wonderful expressions to capture!

The groom’s family picture!  (Great idea, Sheri!)

The groomsmen….I wonder what they’re considering here.

The ring bearer was adorable!  (And fell asleep during the ceremony, which of course made for some great pictures!)

Newborns always remind me how miraculous life is.  This sweet little girl and her mommy are a testimony to that….these pictures were taken 11 days after she was welcomed into the world.  Mommy and baby each endured a surgery (mom had two when you consider the c-section), hospitalizations, and a few bumps and scares along the way.  But here they are home and recovering and beautiful!

I have never met more adoring or attentive parents than these two.  Thank you for sharing your little miracle with me!

Pea in the pod!

Perhaps because I am the mother of two little girls, I admit that I am a bit partial to photo sessions with little girls, especially when their mother has fun clothes and accessories for them to wear!

I enjoyed this smiley 5 year old, who wasn’t a bit camera shy.  She was so easy to work with!

There is just something I love about this picture…maybe simply the fact that I “caught” it when she was paying attention to me (those are usually my favorites!).

Although they were itchy, she was willing to wrap up in the feather boas for a couple of minutes, at least!

And here is the baby sister who is three months.  She has changed since I took her picture as a newborn but as adorable as ever!

I LOVE this next one….look at that fun expression!

Nothing like a baby in a basket….

This flower was big sister’s idea….I loved it!

And some fun ones of the sisters together:

Okay, so baby sis isn’t super happy in this one, but I loved the red wagon and big sister’s attentiveness too much to discard the picture.

Do pictures from April count as archives?  I’m not sure.  These pictures were taken for a Father’s Day gift for a friend in Iraq.  His wife arranged to have the pictures taken and mailed to him in time for Father’s Day.  I never posted any of them on here for the slight chance that he might come across my blog and have the surprise ruined!  So here they are, even if “archived” already.

This first picture cracks me up…..can you just feel the sibling love?  I can relate to this all too well!

I know that my favorites may not always be a client’s favorites, so I am admitting that I am posting these only selfishly as my favorites!  These kids are so gorgeous–it makes it so easy to get fun ones!  The first one of the little guy makes me smile…..