Family Portraits
One afternoon a year, everybody in the same frame.
Greenbelt water in November, the mural wall on South Congress, the same front steps every December. Family sessions work when nobody is asked to hold a smile for long — so we keep moving, we let the kids be four years old, and we make sure the grandparents are in more than one photo.
Nobody holds a smile for long.
The frames people keep are almost never the ones where everyone was looking at the lens. We get that one early so it's done, then spend the rest of the hour letting the family be itself.
In the water, in November
Central Texas creeks stay warm enough to wade into most of the year. Shoes come off within about four minutes and the session gets much better from there.
My mother is in eleven of these. Last year's photographer got her in one, at the edge, blinking. That is the whole difference.
Everyone in one frame
Extended family sessions are a logistics problem before they are a photography problem. We plan the groupings in advance so nobody stands around for forty minutes.
The holiday one
The card shot. Same steps, same month, a year of difference in the children.
Let's make you the story.
Tell us what you need. A sentence is enough to start.
