This is my friend Holly. She needed pictures for her mom's Christmas present and luckily asked me to do them! It was a gorgeous day, and we had a ton of fun.... only 
because the only way to get her to laugh like i wanted was to hold my left hand up and make sock puppet like motions at her saying "holly... oh hollyyy" it was awesome, and produced some awesome pics! I love this Orange one because the leaves match so perfectly with her hair. I feel like these pictures capture the true spirit in Holly, since she is always laughing and having a ton of fun with everyone! She is a young kid at heart and that's what I wanted to bring out in these pictures for her mom. Of course I had to take some dramatic lighting shots for my portfolio, this was my favorite of those type shots. I just love the weird shadows the trees creates on her face. Very cool. Thanks to Holly for being so cooperative with me that day, poor thing I made her walk miles and talked at her with a sock puppet hand... bless her.
Next is my handsome handsome man.... yeah he needed some head shots for the professional play he was just in last weekend. and might I just say he sis AMAZINGLY ;) I already knew he had an amazing singing voice, but can act too? my goodness did I hit the jackpot or what? haha. He's a good sport for putting up with me and my craziness, but I do put up with his too I might say... calling a smoothie a milkshake... honestly. He is basically made of awesome I would say... like two days ago I woke up to two roses in my dirty laundry hamper.... yep, made of awesome ladies and gentle men. I also received a rose of my car that week and the rest of a dozen the following day.... man I love him. 
Next would be my crazy sister. yeah her 
boyfriend was supposed to be in the shoot, but we have yet yo get the man to participate.... maybe one day? Who knows, but she wanted some cool pictures anyways so I shot the best "cool" pictures I could... eh... not the best but some were pretty cool in my opinion... but she's crazy and i love her. We call her "the freak"... i'm not sure why, but for some reason my dad started it when he was so sick a few years back.. he had stage 4 cancer and is now in remission... it was a miricale from God himself. Crazy awesome stuff right there, but anywho somehow in the mist of all of that craziness she got the nick name "the freak".... weird, I know, but thus is my family. 
Now this ladies and gentlemen is my brand new 4 week old baby cousin! His name is Mason James and he's basically already made of awesome. He's the best baby anyone could ever ask to take pictures of. He's so calm and cooperative, it's amazing! He had the biggest poop of his young life right before this picture was taken.... i have documentation pictures but ill spare you of them, you can thank me later. 
As you can see... best baby ever. He let us wrap him up in tool, naked, and never even screamed once, never even got upset.... amazing, just amazing. There will be many more pictures of him come... I can almost promise that! He is our families miracle this year, we never thought he'd come, but now he's here and spreading the awesome all around. 
These two beautiful girls are from my childhood... The oldest is my sister "the freaks" best friend. We call her Nude (long story but her last name is New...) her little sister is now "little Nude" They are so fun! 
They asked me to do a fun photoshoot with them for their mom's christmas present because there apartment kitchen caught on fire and burned some stuff. :( But its a good thing pictures always cheer up the spirit!! But these two girls are close to my heart and I love spending time with them! It was a fun day taking pictures with them!There were two or three other shoots I have done this fall so far but I have run out of time.. :( I must go varnish a painting! Two more photo shoots tomorrow... wish me luck!! catcha on the flip side folks!
all photos copyright Photography by JessWal
