Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Cooper Family

I'm pretty sure the middle of August until now has been one gigantic blur! Welcome to a family and senior portrait photographers busy season! I always know it's coming but yet somehow forget how crazy it can be! I took this weekend off of shoots to hang out with the family and try to do minimal editing. I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for catching up on editing, so I feel a little better about doing so...
I haven't had time to keep up on my social media the way I should. But I just had to take a few minutes and blog about this session.
You may or may not know that I also work for the Lewis and Clark Journal, a monthly publication that Christina Kamps and I put together every month.  Last month, I sat down with Katie Cooper to talk about her blog, Pitchforks and Pomegranates. I won't go into too much detail here as you can read the full article here: www.lewisandclarkjournal.com. But Katie grew up just South of Willow Creek on her family's Hereford Ranch. Today Katie works on her ranch as well as pursues her love of fresh, healthy and real food and also incorporates fashion and her fantastic sense of style.
 She asked if I would do her family's portraits: her mom and dad, herself and three sisters and their families! "It should only take about an hour" she said to me. The setting at her family's ranch was perfect so I headed out on a  Friday evening and told my husband, "It's an extended family, it'll probably be awhile".
As each family member emerged from the house, I noted that it was not just Katie with a great sense of style! It was almost exactly one hour later that I was packing up the car and heading home! It's not often that a family session takes less than an hour, let alone an extended.  Everyone was great, kids were well behaved and they made it really easy!

I am very happy with the outcome and I wanted to share. Please check out Katie's blog at
www.pitchforksandpomegranates.com