This past fall my daughter and I spent a warm October afternoon at the pumpkin farm. I snapped some photos for a mini session. She had to touch every pumpkin! She walked around in awe for over an hour. Such a wonderful time and happy to have found some time to catch up and share these.
It has been a pleasure photographing the Schimenti family over the years. We gathered at Como Lake Park for their family holiday session this year. Found some new spots to shoot at this time and it’s making me excited to go back to this park and use these great spots again. My favorites from this session are they ones where they are just walking or having fun!
As adults we don’t really get a lot of reasons to have a professional portrait taken. As children, we are photographed a lot, at least once a year at school plus family portraits and kid portraits and a lot by gushing parents and family. But as adults, it’s not so frequent. I love when people come to me for portraits just for the fun of it! Frank decided he wanted some more recent photos of himself, something more causal than his business head shot, something relaxed and easy going. We went to Gallagher Pier along Buffalo’s waterfront. It was the perfect location with a bit of nature mixed in with the industrial and modern lines of the pier, pavilions, and nearby grain elevators.
Halloween is my favorite holiday and honestly I think Halloween portraits should be just as much of a thing as holiday portraits. If you spend all this time planning your costume, might as well capture it and capture it well. Who wants to worry about getting good pictures when they’re out having a spooky time? Samm spent a year working on this Maleficent costume which she wore to Buffalo’s Witches Ball. This photo is one of the detail shots we did to really show off the costume and the fabric’s beautiful texture.