i pulled up to the little parking lot next to the old hotel downtown tonight for my photoshoot of two little girls i had yet to meet. i waited two minutes before the blue car pulled in next to me…i turned to look, and sitting in the backseat were two beauties who literally took my breath away.
i grabbed my cellphone and made a quick call to brett.
him: “did you get there okay?”
me: “holy mother of pete, brett. these girls? oh. my. gosh. they’re beautiful. this is gunna be fun. just had to call and tell you that.”
kelsey and addie…who melted my heart like butter. oh, and their grandparents did this all as a secret surprise for their mommy & daddy. sweet, sweet grandma & grandpa!
this one had me at ‘hello.’ ten minutes into the shoot, her sweet little voice was calling me, “kelle! kelle!” and then she’d show me something fabulous.
no matter how old they are, i gotta get those footie pics.
this next picture makes me laugh…this little thing had so much character and her grandparents would get her to pose and “show her muscles”…and i could move her like play-doh…she just did whatever we told her to do!
…and i could easily post twenty more.
people ask me all time if i miss teaching.
everything i miss about it, i get back from taking pictures of kids…that fulfillment of childhood, that capturing their little attention, that magic that you can only get by being with these precious souls. i still get to experience it. (but i still miss reading hard-cover books aloud…the ones that smell like the library and have thick pages that crinkle when you lick them and turn the page. yeah, i still miss that.)
…enjoying the taking-babies’-pictures-is-a-spiritual-experience-for-me things. ~k
the kid pix…oh, they always get to me.
Omgosh MELT MY HEART TOO! So cute! How fun for them their amazing relationship is just beginning! I can just picture Lainey with a little sister:) I picture her with a brother too but I already see her with them all the time and I know how cute that is:) So this picture set my imagination with her and a wittle sis!
You capture spirits, like a muse with a lens net to catch these little sea sprites. You can feel their energy and the imprint their fresh little feet leave on life’s shoreline. Great photos…they look like the same girl at two stages…what beauties! Well done!
beautiful work!!!!
those girls are absolutely adorable! oh my! are their eyes really that blue?! too cute! you did an amazing job!
those eyes!
and that little chin dimple.
ADORABLE.
on a day like today…after hearing yuck things about students’ family lives, already at 8:30. i needed to see some really loved kids. thanks.
i wish i could leave teaching and be as succesful as you at photography. your pictures are amazing.
HOLY COW! I’d see pictures like these girls in magazines and think to myself that it’d be really cool to know the person who took these pictures and got to spend time with these miracles.
Then I see these pictures and think I DO know that person.
And she’s my friend.
That’s really cool.
oh good grief, they are adorable!!! Your pictures are so beautiful, you have really captured their spirit.
WOW! Those deep blue eyes just took my breath away.
I love the one of their backs on the beach…awesome. Great job once again Kelle!
your pictures get better and better and better.
love these.