My nephew has arrived!!!

NAPERVILLE NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER

This has to be my favorite blog post since posting about my own littles...meet my NEPHEW ...the one and only Declan Dean!! This baby boy looks SO much like my brother Dan when he was tiny...and also an uncanny resemblance to his namesake, our Popo (my grandpa on my mother's side).

More photos to come of this sweet boy!!

Sara and Joe

Naperville Wedding Photography

Sara gets the bride of the year century award. Planning a beautiful wedding is an undertaking, no matter how you attack it.  But planning a beautiful wedding that you then DIY... I mean really.  I could not have been more impressed when I arrived to this occasion!  Sara is an artist, and her style and creativity was evident in every detail.  She married her long time sweetheart, Joe...surrounded by family and friends and most importantly...their two stunning little girls.  A few images from their day...

Happy 1st Birthday!

Naperville Portrait Photographer

"Spotty showers" may be my new favorite weather prediction for portraits! Okay...Okay...I kid...rain of any kind on the forecast for a day I have an outdoor portrait session is cause for panic.  That said...if I HAVE to have rain...I will from hereon out wish for "spotty showers."

In the midst of this sweet little girl's 1st birthday session...the sky just opened up. We had about a minute of light showers to gather ourselves up...and right about the time we all made it to shelter in our vehicles...it just began outright pouring. Like crazy hard rain!

And then about 5 minutes later...it stopped as fast as it began.  And as we emerged from our cars...what did we see in the distance but a beau-ti-ful rainbow!!!  

It was such a gorgeous site!  But didn't hold a candle to the beauty in this tiny human.  With the rain delay and all...this was a longer session than I typically get out of babies this age --- and she endured the whole thing with a huge smile and no shortage of adorable personality! Sweet Caroline indeed.

One big happy family

Naperville Portrait Photographer

A few shots from a family session in Naperville.  The rain tried to ruin our fun but thankfully we had beautiful canopy of trees to keep us nice and dry!

Getting the whole family together can be so tough....aligning schedules alone is a challenge let alone getting everyone coordinated in such a nice (but not too matchy-matchy) fashion...hats off to Megan for getting this organized!

My camera settings weren't ready for an action shot so these images are blurry (which kind of works in this case)...anyone who knows me knows how much I love to dance...so kiddos busting a move = one of my favorite things!

Holy Hiatus!!

Chicago Portrait Photographer

Okay okay...hiatus is an understatement.  What would a hiatus times like 1000 be?  I'm pretty sure my New Year's 'virtual' resolution was to be better with posting. Yikes.

Baby Vela's arrival has thrown a wrench into my ability to juggle a full time career and my photography business...and the blog is taking the brunt it!

I think part of the problem with the blog is that I have this desire to be smart and funny and quick and witty in the few sentences that accompany the photos I post.  The blogs that  I enjoy reading (well...enjoy-ed reading...unfortunately not doing much of that these days) are all just that.  And I really enjoyed writing at one point in my life. Still do...really...I just don't ever do it. So I think that's the problem.  What I aspire to requires time...and the ability to concentrate with no distractions...aaaaaand well there's not a whole lot of opportunities for the latter or the former so I just clam up and don't blog at all. NOT OKAY! You can't have a 'blog' and only blog every 3 months. Just not cool.

I digress...so as a means of trying to bring everyone up to speed...a quick 'catch up' of all the Fall portrait goodness...Part I.

Will post some more fall fun very soon...time to put the babe to bed!

Fall Fun

NAPERVILLE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER

A few shots from my session with the Sujewicz family...they have 3 gorgeous, vivacious boys who were tough to keep up with!  We lucked out and got a beautiful fall day! Just ♥ this time of year!