Clear Sky Portrait Blog

As I work through editing pictures from this December wedding, I have to post a few of my favorites, thus far!  Here you go, Peter and Heather!  I hope that you enjoyed your beautiful day!

The groom and the groomsmen.

The poor bride and bridesmaids FREEZING outdoors. 

The sweet little flower girl…

The beautiful bride…

I love this picture!  The bride’s sister and niece.  Look at those cute little feet!

The first dance….

Oh, and I love this picture.  The bride and groom’s sweet little baby.  Isn’t she precious peeking over mommy’s shoulder?

If it’s above zero, we take pictures outside, right, Minnesotans? 

I had already posted pictures of the cute little two year old.  Here are some of the big brother!

Doesn’t she have the most beautiful eyes?  What a cutie and by far the most compliant and well behaved two-year-old I’ve photographed (and yes, I’m including my own in that comparison)!                 

With her big brother–I can’t help it, I LOVE this picture!

We took pictures in a local church–look at how sweet these two were, sitting patiently in the aisle, looking at hymnals:

And then we braved the cold for a few minutes to get a couple more pictures.  

Pictures of the whole family yet to come…..you know me, I LOVE LOVE LOVE pictures of little kiddos! 

I can’t help it…..even though we don’t get to see his cute face, I just love this picture!

A. had a formal dance the same day as pictures, so we were able to get some pictures in his suit, too.

A sneak peek for my friend!

Her three boys and her little girl:

We did some pictures indoors and then moved outdoors.

I loved capturing the sibling relationships–they have so much fun together!

Individual pictures to be posted soon!

That is what these pictures give me because I can just hear all the girls giggling when I look at these pictures.  This family loves to laugh (which is why I love to be around them!) and you can tell by just looking at their smiles!

I learned something new, too.  My friend, who is Finnish, informed me that the “family on the front step” picture is a uniquely American pose.  So, here you go, Kata…..you are officially American!

And kids still want to do the same thing….play in the sand, of course!  I took pictures for a good friend of mine and seeing this one made me smile!  Those girls were good to go along with all of my directions, “Stand here!  Smile!  Can you stand here?  Look here!” (some of those will get posted later) but they were so relieved when we told them, “Ok, you can play in the sand!”  I love the look between Mom & Dad here:

It was here last week and luckily I got in two family fall sessions before the snow.  The first session was with this sweet, perfect family.  They are always so easy to work with and this time was no exception.  In fact, they are all so cooperative and good-looking that I hardly had to spend much time editing!  (Thanks for making my job so fun and easy!)

This next one is easily one of my favorite pictures ever….doesn’t she have a great smile?

And sorry humans, the dog was totally stealing the show in this picture (can you tell I love dogs?).  Look at his patient expression!

One of just the girls!

And a couple of just mom and dad!  We even got dad to give his real smile (I am pretty sure he is laughing in the first one!), right Kim?  I love the last one and the way she is looking back at him.

Thank you guys!

A few of the pictures that I took at their September wedding:

Thank you for sharing your beautiful, personal, and unique wedding with me!  Many blessings for the journey!

My friend has sweet kids…I believe it’s rooted in good parenting and a good marriage.  Every time these two love birds snuggled up to one another, their kids whispered, “Sarah!” and pointed, hinting that I should get a cute picture.  I loved this because it showed that they are used to seeing Mom and Dad so affectionate with one another and it helped me get cute pictures!

These are a couple of the “on the sly” shots:

And when they were expecting it…..

And some individual shots….

A couple of final family ones: