Christine and Bill’s children must be used to having their pictures taken because they are both naturals in front of a camera. I love her look on this one, and the background color is COOL!
Told you he knows how to look at a camera.
The fact that I managed to capture Bill smiling seems to be a topic of great discussion among his extended family.
No problem getting Christine to smile though. No wonder, since she has such a beautiful one!
It was fun coaching her to give me a Mona Lisa smile because she kept breaking up laughing. It worked though!
Watching over his family.
And a sweet hug off in the distance.
He’s really into Star Wars. (This is not unlike both of my sons, so I know this picture will be special to him!)
She’s so CUTE!
Such a perfect big brother/little sister shot. (I know because I grew up with three older brothers!)
I love how the playground shines like ice in the background.
So handsome.
Eyes are SO interesting.
I love father/daughter shots.
The kids seemed to enjoy our “silly session” moment. So cute.
Is she adorable or is she ADORABLE?
She’s into cheerleading.
Mom is her spotter.
After every handstand, a big hug. Sweet!
Everybody seems to love my fall sessions where the family throws the leaves up. Unfortunately, it rained the day before this shoot, so the ground was soaked and the leaves were wet. But alas, some leaf throwing was tried anyway. Christine took it rather well, don’t you think? (Good thing this happened at the END of our shoot!)
Click here for the sweet slide show!
Thanks, Christine and Bill! Give the kids a hug from me!
posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 9:54 am
When I first walked up to Jennifer and Vitali’s home, their daughter was looking for me. Of course, I had my hands full of photography equipment, so I missed the ADORABLE shot. However, on my way out, I was ready, just in case she watched me leave. And watch she did!
At first, the little girl was a bit freaked out by my camera.
But she got used to me after a while.
I love when grandma comes to help! She can stand behind me and help get the child to look in my direction and smile. Plus, I love to get shots of the child interacting with the grandparents. (Most of the time, the grandparents don’t really want to be in the pictures though. Why is that? This is beautiful!)
Adorable!
Most of the nice shots were not at all posed or planned. Take this one for example. “She wants to lay on the floor. Everybody lay on the floor!” When you’re shooting a 2-year-old, you have to go with the flow! I LOVE this shot!
That’s a GREAT sweater! (Doesn’t she look more like a cool 7-year-old than a 2-year-old? It’s the way she’s standing in those flare jeans. Love it!)
I love the light and colors in this one.
TOO cute!
Check out this great shot of Jennifer! Beautiful!
Oooh, I love this one too!
Again, no planning or posing. Just playing on the floor and hopefully everybody looking at the camera all at the same time!
But THIS one is my favorite! The little girl came over to lay on the floor with me and I showed her how to look through the camera to find her mom and papa and push the button. So, I didn’t take this beautiful picture. A 2-year-old did! (And she gave me a hug on the way out! I made a friend! Yay!)
She loves to swing.
Or rather, I think she loves to FLY!
Click here for the slide show!
posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 10:51 am
The slide show from Sid’s birthday party is here.
Sid is 96 today.
Here’s me — doing what I Iove!
Thanks, Sid, for always encouraging me!
We love you!
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I know I’ve said it a hundred times, but I LOVE family lifestyle photo sessions!
This family was so much fun to work with!
(And gorgeous too!)
The little boy was not timid even for a minute.
And the little girl: stunning!
Beth and Rich, you have a beautiful family.
I love this picture because the kids are looking at their parents, and not my camera. The look is so natural and there’s so much love in their eyes.
Sometimes I have a hard time coaching people to find a balance between the all-out “mug-for-the-camera” smile and the toothless “Mona Lisa smile.”
But ask the kids to tickle mom and dad, and voila! The natural look we love so much!
Fall is a GREAT time for a photo shoot!
Makes the kids shine, as the song says.
See the slide show! So fun!
This is SO sweet! (The kids were kissing Rich goodbye; he had to go to the dentist. Yuck!)
After her dad left, she didn’t want to take pictures anymore.
So I asked her to show me some of her gymnastics moves. Wow! She’s so good!
(And after that, I gave her my camera and let her snap a few. I think she really enjoyed that!)
And she wasn’t so conscious of my camera either. I got some really beautiful shots!
There he is! At the computer! Gotcha!
But he also loves to read a good book with mom…
… and jump back and forth across the cement creek.
(Looks like a fun place to live!)
Adorable!
Thanks, Beth and Rich. I had a great time!
Hope you did too!
posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 2:14 pm
It’s going to rain today, all day, two inches they say. So yesterday, I went out and took a lot of leaf pictures, which I’ll be posting over at my tree blog as soon as I get around to it. I’m loving my new lens!
posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 2:35 am
On the see saw after school. (I love this shot!)
Explorer users:
Fonts humongous?
I’ll keep it short.
I messed up.
Working on a fix.
Sorry!
For the rest of you, the problem only affects Explorer users. Everything looks fine on Firefox and Safari and I have no idea why. But, I’m working on a fix, which hopefully will include transporting all my blog posts to a new WordPress blog hosted on my JWS site instead of through blogger. I’ll keep you posted! If you have any ideas on how to fix my type size for IE users, please let me know! It’s going to take me a while to get WordPress going. Thanks!
posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 7:32 am
Christine and Bill’s children must be used to having their pictures taken because they are both naturals in front of a camera. I love her look on this one, and the background color is COOL!
Told you he knows how to look at a camera.
The fact that I managed to capture Bill smiling seems to be a topic of great discussion among his extended family.
No problem getting Christine to smile though. No wonder, since she has such a beautiful one!
It was fun coaching her to give me a Mona Lisa smile because she kept breaking up laughing. It worked though!
Watching over his family.
And a sweet hug off in the distance.
He’s really into Star Wars. (This is not unlike both of my sons, so I know this picture will be special to him!)
She’s so CUTE! 
Such a perfect big brother/little sister shot. (I know because I grew up with three older brothers!)
I love how the playground shines like ice in the background.
So handsome.
Eyes are SO interesting.
I love father/daughter shots.
The kids seemed to enjoy our “silly session” moment. So cute.
Is she adorable or is she ADORABLE?
She’s into cheerleading.
Mom is her spotter.
After every handstand, a big hug. Sweet!
Everybody seems to love my fall sessions where the family throws the leaves up. Unfortunately, it rained the day before this shoot, so the ground was soaked and the leaves were wet. But alas, some leaf throwing was tried anyway. Christine took it rather well, don’t you think? (Good thing this happened at the END of our shoot!)
Thanks, Christine and Bill! Give the kids a hug from me!
