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This family, near and dear to my heart, is no stranger to this blog. I have had the honor of photographing babies #2 and #3 as newborns with several wonderful family sessions woven throughout. This time, we wanted to do something different. Something more lifestyle. How are they when they’re just hanging out together? What do they do as a family? It was such a fun afternoon, although I will admit that bouncing around on the trampoline made me the teensiest bit woosey ;-). This kind of love and connection cannot be forced. These kids could not be happier. Their mama could not be a better example of what a mommy/wife should be. Their dad could not be funnier.

Their holiday card proved to be quite a challenge for me, though. There were so many images we wanted to feature, but short of sending out a poster-sized card, we had to come up with some way to tell the story of their session. So, we ended up with this tri-fold:

austin_holiday_card_templates.jpg I LOVED how it turned out. In fact, I decided to turn the JOY, HOPE, LOVE lines into a 12×12 storyboard AND it was used as the title page of their album:

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[Don’t forget, voting ends TONIGHT at midnight central for Pinkle Toes Photography’s 2010 Pic of the Year]

  • I may be a little biased here because these are my God babies, but I LOVE THEM! 🙂

  • Farrar Lindner

    One of my favorite families in the word. A wonderful mother, an adoring husband and father, three smart and utterly sweet children……. If we all strove to be like the Carters, this world would be a better place. You capture them so well, Michele!