people always have 100 reason not to have family pictures taken. they are too fat. they don’t have anything to wear. its to hard to fit into a schedule, and on and on.
but photographers? we have the worst excuses! so many of us do not have great family pictures. its easy to say ‘i can just do it myself’ but trying to put the camera on the tripod and run, doesn’t really equate to a real family session.

my husband is deploying to iraq in the fall and we had never had real family pictures taken.
i knew deb schwedhelm lived in kansas, but being the airhead that i am, i had NO idea how close she was. and now she is moving!
i had to get a session booked ASAP. i wanted to make jim a small book of all 4×6’s for deployment (much like we do as OpLove photographers.) because he always commented on what a great idea it was and how he would like to have something like that.

i can’t say enough amazing things about our experience, and about deb. she worked around my husbands crazy schedule, my crazy wedding session schedule, and booked us on fathers day. she was so nice through out the whole thing.
she did an amazing job picking the location and taking so much time with us to get the perfect light and the perfect portraits.
here are a few of my favorites (yes, she finished this already! can you say rock star?!). she was even nervous about my reaction to them. seriously? she is such a real person, i think i love her.
i am so happy we got this done. i can’t believe we waited so long to do this.