My daughter loves to go to what she calls “the Big Park” and I don’t blame her. There’s a climbing wall, swings, two different sets of slides with all sorts of playful contraptions, a plastic “rock” wall, see-saws, a few doohickies I’ve never seen before, and a good ol’ fashioned tire swing. Lilia naturally enjoys the swings more than anything else and though I’ve worked hard teaching her to swing the past couple of years, she’s still getting the hang of it and that means I get a solid arm workout pushing her until she’s tired.

One of the reasons I went after the 85mm lens for my camera is that I’d heard it was pretty good for up close sideline sports photography. That meant it would probably do well in a “push the daughter as hard as I can and then drop into the dirt to fire off a dozen shots before she slows down” type situation, too.

These pictures aren’t just me photographing my favorite subject; they’re me showing you what I’ll do to get the shot (which is, by the way, nearly anything). A portrait session with your son, daughter, kids, entire family, and so on doesn’t have to be a serious affair in front of a cheesy backdrop or the entire family in the same shirt and pants sprawled out on their lawn. No, it can be so much more. It can be a trip to your favorite park where you and the kids play for hours and I document all of it, giving you family portraits that capture you in your natural setting doing what you enjoy doing most as a family. In the end, those are the moments you’ll remember much more than any family portrait session and those are the moments I like to capture.

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