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A few more from the engagement session...

I have been narrowing and narrowing and there are still too many that I like from this session.
Here are a few more.


This one was in Lee's Summit behind some building.



Matching tattoos.



Her ring is really cool.  I haven't seen one quite like this one before.



This one was down by Crown Center.  They were so awesome and outgoing.



Just as sweet as can be aren't they? 
Geez I have so many more I want to share, but as usual it is after midnight and I need to get up with the kids in the morning so I am going to stop now.

You two were too much fun and I am really really having a hard time narrowing these down.  You may have to help me.

Super Fun Engagement Session!

Oh my gosh!  There are so many fun portraits from this session!!!
This is going to be a really hard one for me to narrow down.
Here is a sweet "normal" portrait from pretty early in the session.
This was taken in the downtown area of Lee's Summit.


These next three I want to put in a storyboard but I am too tired right
now and I feel like I am going cross-eyed.
I think you can get the idea from these previews though.
These were also taken in Lee's Summit.






This is just the beginning.  There are definately going to be more that need to be shared!


Prom Night - Blue Springs South High School

Saturday was prom night for Blue Springs South High School seniors and juniors.
My awesome son and his crazy friends wore their kilts and looked great. 
We did take a few pictures with more traditional attire for the parents and grandparents. 
Here are a few from the evening.  If you search facebook I am sure you will find plenty of fun snapshots of this crowd at the actual dance.  And probably a few that I just don't really think I can post here.
Do you remember Braveheart?  Well, we all got to see what they were really wearing under those kilts.

Gotta love kilts and  Converse.

Here they are getting ready to leave in the Hummer limo.

Inside the limo.



They are not really smoking.  Just holding the cigars for effect.  I guess we have gangsters in kilts?

Weeeeee!



More traditional attire.  It looks good doesn't it.

Awwwww, how sweet.





Georgous Miss A and my boy Mr C looking like a perfume ad.

Here is the second one Miss A!

This is actually the second post with your sneak peek pics. 
I only showed one in the last post because I was determined to get one up before midnight since I said I would have it done today!
So here is another one just for fun.  I will let you know when the rest are done.
There are a lot of really great ones and a few with some odd guy picking his nose.  Maybe I'll post those soon too ;o)

Miss A



told ya I'd get a couple up tonight.  I have one more coming but it has to resize and tonight is almost over.


Little Mr. O

Here is a peek at a little cutie I got to photograph recently. 
 
You may recognize mom and dad from an earlier post of maternity portraits.

Meet Mr. D

Here is a sneak peek from a fun senior session this week. 
This kid was so easy going and his family was fun too.  
I have a ton of images to sort through from this session. 
It's going to be hard to narrow down.  I will say that I am glad we got the glasses without the transitions lenses so we could see his lovely eyes!.
 
Logging back on to add just one more.  Please pardon the crooked watermark.  It's about 1am and my balance is pretty much gone. 

More from the Tax Day Tea Party 2009

My son finally came home with his pictures from the Tea Party at Liberty Memorial.
Most of them were pretty washed out but here is a good one of the kids showing that they didn't need signs to express their feelings.
Miss "A"  looks a little too happy about having empty pockets but she's always happy
.

Tax Day Tea Party

I took the younger kids to the Tax Day Tea Party in Lee's Summit today.  We have been talking about the Constitution lately and this was a great opportunity to discuss the first amendment and make it real to them.

The photo is just a camera phone shot but it was pretty fun anyhow.  Check out the little guy's expression.  Someone gave the kids a sign as we were walking in and he really took to it.



My oldest son went to the Tea Party in Kansas City which was a much larger event than this one that we went to.  I am looking forward to hearing about the experience and hopefully seeing some photos.  If I didn't have these kiddos with me I think I would have attended that one as well but I just didn't want to ruin the experience for these guys by dragging them all over town for hours and wearing them out. 

Well, I know it isn't portraiture but I just had to share.  My focus has shifted very strongly to being with these guys as much as possible which may limit the hours I work.  Probably won't limit the hours I use a camera though ;o)

'09 Senior N

I was blessed once again with a great portrait subject. 
Check out those eyes! 
I had a ton of favorites from this session.  But who wouldn't?  Some favorite locations didn't work out like I had hoped due to the mid day sun.  There were a few that were worthy of five stars except for the annoying sun spots.  Once we were out of the sun though this young man couldn't take a bad portrait.  (well, maybe a few silly ones but not bad-see the second one).  I hope you like your pics.