It’s tradition, right? After all the partying is said and done, it’s time to pull out those notebooks, get off by yourself, and proceed to write down your dreams, goals, and resolutions for the coming year. While this list can vary from person to person…girls, I think you can relate with me here!
1. Cut the caffeine
2. Skip the sweets, exercise more!
3. Spend less, save more
Happy 2011!
Styling: Lydia & Polish & Pout
Hair/makeup: Polish & Pout
Model: Ashleigh Burton
Photography: Lydia
Some mornings it’s hard enough to dress yourself. And when it comes to dressing your family for portraits, well, that’s what nightmares are made of. Stylist, Reachel Bagley, jumped in to help on her blog by posting tips and tricks. Definitely check out her series “How to Dress for a Family Photo”:
The goal of family portraits is to capture a slice of life at that point in time for your family. To do this, what you wear should accurately reflect you and your family. Does your daily life consist of fancy, matching outfits? If so, let’s do it! But if not, let’s make sure it’s the real you we’re capturing.
Think complementary instead of matching. Pick two or three colors that go well together then use these colors to mix and match outfits for each person. Layers look great in pictures and can help to spread the colors throughout the clan. And don’t forget to add the finishing touches to your outfits! Accessories like necklaces, hats, and scarves polish off and often complete the look.
Above all, express your personality and family lifestyle! You want your children to look back at these pictures someday and say “yep, that was us back in the day!” and maybe even the nostalgic “my, how fashion has changed!” ;-)
Need a little inspiration? Scroll on!
By PixieShtick
You don’t need boys to pull off the look of the wild west!
By brink007
Sugar, spice, and everything nice
By brink007
Except for a few accessories in the second look, all these pieces below can be found at Old Navy!
When the boys have you on the run, pick simple yet put together
Classic with a fresh twist
Riding horses, music, theology, reading, art…Jessamy’s interests are diverse and many. Ever since she was a little girl, Jessamy has been smart beyond her years and able to converse with anyone! As she gets ready to graduate from high school, she’s applying to an honor program at Biola which teaches the classics classically! Did I mention smart??
With a car full of clothes and props, Jessamy was a perfect client! We had so much fun driving around town and in the country to the best spots to show off her style and personality. Jess, thanks so much for being so creative and vivacious. You are the type of person that’s an utter joy to photograph!
Her family friend, Janet, was so kind to allow us to come to her house to use her grand piano…
…and beautiful horses, Jess and Ben!
Laughter makes it an instant favorite!
Nevada City has some gorgeous colors going on, but this was one of the prettiest trees I’ve seen!
Booktown Books & Tomes is really one of the best used book stores I’ve visited. It has so many little nooks and crannies filled to the brim with pages and pages of stories and information. I may just have to go back again soon!
Pretty much her entire session makes the favorite list!
And what better to go with books than a Summer Thyme’s latte?
“28? 29?…she’s not even near 30!…oh wait, I did guess 29…”
Because my mom is the youngest child in her family with a 15 year age gap between she and her oldest sibling, there is a definite age gap between me and my cousins. They’re all “growed up” and married with children and seriously, some of the best people I know!
I love my cousins. The only sad thing about living in California is that I am half the country away from the nearest ones. So when two years are past and we meet again, a highlight is having the second cousins guess my age. As you can tell, they were a bit off, but that just made it all the more fun! Between the wiener roast, hike to the falls, sleepover, bbqs, hair cuts, big hugs, atv rides, and pictures, I think we made the most of our short time together!
Tears spilled down my face as I viewed my friends’ last family pictures. With the passing of their mom, each picture with her took on new meaning. This is why I believe in family portraits.
As for the Blounts, I’m guessing their last official family portrait was over 10 years ago. With a couple of births and a marriage, this session was long overdue!
My goal is to capture them having fun. It’s all about bringing back memories not only of that session, but also of real life. Think I got it?
