The airplane mini session saga began last spring. One of our amazing clients made these really awesome cardboard planes and a knit aviator hat for us. Since then I’ve been dreaming of doing these airplane minis. Spring turned into summer, then fall..and well…the box planes became an obstacle in the storage area.
Until January when we began dreaming up our 4-month mini-series. The airplanes found themselves on our schedule for March. I ordered blue paper and Sarah fashioned some happy clouds. We were ready to go.
I missed our target date for these sessions because I hadn’t gotten a model in to try it all out. If I’m honest, I was just being lazy. Sarah suggested that I contact one of our clients who had recently been in for a newborn shoot. I dragged my feet..and then while I was on vacation she pushed me again and I finally reached out and set the date for today. I was in Puerto Rico at the time….with lots of fire and ambition. I texted Sarah that I’d like to have a second set, I envisioned paper airplanes hanging above the bed, but that was all I had. .2 seconds later, Sarah texted me this:
I lOVED this set. I needed this to happen. The trouble is that I was far far away from the studio and a Hobby Lobby. But I had a few days to make it happen and Sarah was willing to help.
This morning Sarah texted me an “oh crap, today is your model shoot” – I was like “yeah, I am unprepared for the bed set”. I got to the studio and set up the airplanes & clouds and then I took a crack at the bed set. I knew it didn’t have all the elements of Sarah’s glorious sketch, but I thought I had the bones.
I texted a picture of it to Sarah. She responded:
“meh”
Up next I met with a family of the sweetest sisters. Sometimes with siblings you have to coax them to be near each other, but these girls instantly (and happily 🙂 jumbled together when it was time to take photos. Dad was by far outnumbered by all his ladies, and he seemed perfectly content with that!
This next trio I also met while working with Erin the prior fall. This Mom and her two gorgeous daughters drive three hours–EACH WAY– to have Mercy Street Studio photograph them. I don’t know that there is much more of an honor than that!
We kept on trucking taking advantage of this gorgeous warm night. I was excited to meet up with my next family because I had photographed them the prior summer, and its always fun to see how big the kids have grown! I try to remember that *I* have not grown another year older. No, NOT ME. Just the children I’m seeing 🙂 These three little blonde cuties make my job fun and easy 🙂
On this night I had another family who drove from over an hour away upon recommendation from one of her friends whom we have photographed. These two kids were so much fun together! You know when you see two siblings who genuinely LIKE each other? Yeah…thats how these two are. You guys are doing it all right with these two kids, Mom and Dad! When Mom called a couple weeks after her session to ask us to make this family photo into a large canvas to hang on their wall I was so happy! Knowing our clients have photos that hang in their home and don’t just live on their hard drives thrills me to no end! Print your photos, friends!!!
Last, but certainly not least, I met up with a newly (less than 48 hours!) engaged couple. Erin has worked with Steven a number of times and when he proposed to Bethany, he called us to photograph them. They wanted to use a photograph of them as their way to ‘announce’ their amazing news to all their friends and family! These two were such an amazing way to end a whirlwind evening of photography. They have since gotten married, and I wish them a long and happy marriage!
Thank you too all these fantastic people for making a Sunday evening of mini sessions fun and easy. They are a whirlwind when we are doing them…15 minutes flies by so fast, but you can see we are able to get some beautiful photographs in short time. The countdown to summer and photo sessions on the beach is on!
Have you ever seen a prettier little face? She and I became fast friends and she had no trouble hamming it up for the camera.
We played in the sand and wandered around the waters edge for a bit. I let these two just be adorable together.
And just because I can’t help myself, and am enjoying looking at SUNNY photos on this gloomy day, I will share a couple more photos of this fun family.
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