Family Portraits

My kids get plenty of test time in front of the camera with me being a photographer in my spare time. I often bring them with me to test out new locations:  to get my depth of field, lighting, and timing down. I often disguise it as "a fun car ride with some hiking & playing" thrown in the mix.  

They are awesome sports.  

  You would think they would have down the classic family portrait by now....

#1) Gwenyth has obviously spotted something scary off to the right, unbeknownst to other 4 kids. It looks like she has spotted a Wholly Mammoth.
#2) Addie can rock a sister on her hip and the most amazing Christmas gift boots ever.  I told her we were going hiking, but she could not bare to spend a minute away from her burgundy patent leather beauties.
3) Titus likes to pretend karate chop in every photo I take lately-this afternoon was no exception. That is a tape measure he is holding & yes, he is wearing snow boots. No one can don snow boots in 80 degree weather quite like my little man.
4) Good job Emma and Nehemiah-you pass the family portrait test with flying colors!!

Enjoy the images below, because progression shots are always so much fun when you have kids or lots of them.  Notice the karate chopper on the right.  He has his own thing going on and he couldn't be more proud.

This was our Christmas card picture this year.  This is as good as it gets & I think it is perfect.  This photo captures each kiddo perfectly.  They are 5, very different from one another, little people :)  Each kid is truly owning it... and no hiking was involved.  I quickly ran them onto our street, had Brian play peek-a-boo behind me and we were done.  Quick, painless, perfectly perfect.