I am here with some fun tips to capture those big grins that feel and look REAL. Not the ‘say cheese’ grins. (Knowing this difference means everything in discerning great photography to just so-so…) Let me break down 5 things to say to your kids instead of that dreaded command. Because telling them to say cheese is OUT. Got it?

This past year I was part of a project that is entirely unique and special to this world. My niece Olivia’s father, Christopher Gray, had a death wish to become a skeleton. He died unexpectedly a month after expressing this wish, and Olivia and her brother honored his request and made him into a skeleton.

These photographs are everything I love about family in-home sessions. It has it all. Love, color, movement and connection.

It all begins with an idea.