Another Sweet Christening

Lots of pictures of Alex’s Christening below, and if you didn’t get a chance to see the sweet slide show yet, please email the family for the link.

Above, his eyes are beautiful!

I love the lights and the colors in the Sanctuary.

Capturing moments like this one is what I love about lifestyle photography.

This one was taken from back in the pews. As I’ve mentioned before in this blog, when I shoot religious services, I never use flash, and I try to be as invisible as possible. I only take as many pictures as I need, and I never use rapid fire shutter release in a place like this. To me, the most important thing is for the worshippers to experience the moment and not be distracted by a photographer. That said, if the family wants me to capture moments during the service, I will do my best to keep my shots as real as possible without being a distraction.

Not using flash allows me to take advantage of the natural light too! Beautiful.

After the service is over, though, my focus shifts to capturing all the other people capturing posed group shots.

I sneak in a few of my own too.

After the service, I found some nice window light for a quick portrait of mom with her sweet baby.

Love this one.

At the reception at the Saltwater Grille I obviously had a lot of window light to work with!

In this one, I isolated the designated baby-rocker. I love the simple white background, which is really the bay outside the window completely blown out.

You can see the bay in this one, and the snow on the deck. What a gorgeous sunset.

This is a nice portrait of the grandparents by that big window. (More “mug for me” shots in the slideshow.)

This little girl and I became fast friends.

I couldn’t help following her around. She reminds me of my niece, Hope, when she was that age.

Isn’t she adorable?

He’s only two months old in these pictures. Time for a nap.

And a lot of looking around to check out all the people checking him out.

I love this shot of the baby snuggled in dad’s arms.

This one is nice too. May God Bless you, sweet child.

We’ll be seeing a lot more of this family over the next year, so if you’re in their circle of family and friends, be sure to bookmark the blog!