Category: Family Portraits
Leah and Ezra are one of the cutest children around! We met on a beautiful Thursday morning in Shouldice Gardens in Richmond Hill for a fun time of play and family portraits. To break the ice, we began with the grandparents and then let them run around and play. Part of my personal style as a photographer is to allow the children to interact with their surroundings and thus capture them as they are. I don’t capture poses, I capture moments, moments that reveal a child’s unique personality. This, to me, is the most rewarding part of my job!
I loved Ezra’s expression as he sees a garden truck pass by…priceless!!
I love how Leah and Ezra’s grandparents are just in-love with their grandchildren!
While walking around the gardens, I found the steps below. I though it would be awesome to get Ezra and Leah there for some lovely shots. In order to persuade them (while playing “circles” around the stairs), we gave them some candy! The end result you can view for yourself! Pure delight!
Leah’s mom wanted a portrait of Leah reading, but Leah wasn’t too cooperative. So in order to get her in that moment, I put myself in front of her at a distance and began interacting with Ezra while pointing my lens at her. After a couple of shots, mission accomplished! I particularly love the one below!
Towards the end of the session, we thought it would be nice to capture them interacting with each other. Ezra and Leah looove playing together! This was self evident as they played with their Legos.
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As a photographer, I get to see and experience life through my lenses. If you think about it, it is somewhat of a confined point of view even when the other eye is open. But something magical or even mystical occurs when I capture moments such as the one below of my beloved God-son. The joy found in his expression as my brother-in-law pours snow over him is priceless! We often don’t appreciate these moments because they occur in the blink of an eye and when we do see them, they fall back into our memory banks sometimes to be forever stored. But in a mystical sort of way, his expression is captured forever and our minds and hearts can now be reminded that because of these moments, life is beautiful and should always be Cherished. There is nothing sweeter than the smile and the joy of a child, and as a photographer, there is no greater blessing than to capture those moments.
Last weekend I had the pleasure of photographing this mother-son duo..actually, it’s more like mother and sons as Melina is soon to give birth to her second son! You may recognize David as I also photographed him as he turned one! As a photographer, there is no greater pleasure than to grow with clients. To see how much David has grown in just one year is really amazing. You can see David’s one year photos here.
I photographed Melina in Miami Beach right by the South Pier. The day was stunning!
Melina wanted to photograph David playing with his favorite toy. He loved riding under the sun.
After riding for a while, David decided to refresh himself under the water with his older brother.
Here is David’s brother acting like a human water fountain:
Thank you Melina and David for the great time!
Last week, along with Diana came Emily. Emily’s parents wanted to see if their daughter would allow me to photograph her as she is very shy. Well, she was doing great posing for Diana’s mother point-and-shoot, but when she saw my big camera, she ran away! Well, I was up for the challenge! Knowing that she may feel more comfortable with Diana at first, I asked her to sit by the rail tracks with Diana for a few shots.
Sooner than she could say “cheese” she realized she was all alone in front of my camera and the shyness went away! From this point forward she wanted to imitate Diana in every way possible and would even give her some tips on posing!!! She was so cute to photograph! Enjoy the images below.
Photographing children is not about how they can or cannot pose. I often see parents become initially frustrated because they want their child to “pose” for the shot in a specific way. My answer to them is always the same: “Let them be…Let them get used to the environment and the camera.” I believe that the best way to photograph children is by simply letting them be themselves without the force of a “pose” that may cause agitation and even some tears. In the photos below, I did not, in any way, tell Emily how to pose. I merely placed her in the different places and she did the rest! Yes, sometimes a little help here an there is necessary, but children will express who they are without much effort if you are patient enough.
The shots above where really the “warm-up shots.” After these, Emily took charge of the whole thing! It was sooo much fun!
Well, Emily was stupendous! She did such a fabulous job during her first photo shoot! I would like to thank her parents for allowing her to come along and I hope we can do it again soon!