It’s not every day I get to hold an actual-honest-to-goodness EMMY Award. In fact, I’ve never held one before today. Every Wednesday, my friend, Kim Wade, (1/2 of the fabulous Silverbox Photographers duo. If you or someone you like even a little bit is getting married, you really must have them photograph your wedding. I insist) and I process and edit images together at Sven’s Kafe. (Oh dear, Sven’s doesn’t have a website??!! If you’re downtown and looking for simply the yummiest food - breakfast, lunch, treat - you must come over to Orr St. and give Sven’s a try) Okay, I’m obviously very distractible this evening! Anyway, every Wednesday morning and often into the afternoon, you can find Kim and I huddled together at a table with our computers going, sharing power cords and photoshop techniques. We even call it - get this, we’re so clever - ‘Sven’sday’.

Today, Kim was meeting her friend and my aquaintence, Beth Pike, for lunch. Before Beth arrived, Kim told me that she had recently won an EMMY Award (yes, a real EMMY) for her documentary about the 200 year history of newspapers in Missouri. Immediately I asked her to have Beth bring it along. Kim called, Beth obliged and within a few hours there I was holding an EMMY. It was shiny and heavy and just oozed cool. Beth was amazingly patient with my multiple announcements of — ‘hey, she just won an EMMY’ and happily came up to my studio after having lunch with Kim so I could photograph her with the statuette. I could not be happier for Beth. Congratulations! You and EMMY look fabulous together! (Read a little bit more about Beth here.)

Every fall I look forward to chasing the O’brien family around someplace lovely. It’s fun to see how the girls grow and change every year. This year, Archer is sporting a jack-o-lantern smile just in time for Halloween.

The weather has been so up and down this early fall, it’s hard to know what you might get from one weekend to the next. As you will see, these guys were ready for cool fall…. what we got was hot summer! It was nearly 90 degrees outside as I drove to Stephen’s Lake Park last Sunday evening. The best part about that? We got to play in the fountain after the shoot! I just love girls in dresses splashing through the sprayground!

And in the course of our adventure, we got some great family photos and even a few of mom and dad.

And then there are the days that maybe don’t go so great. (If you’re confused by this sentence, you’ll need to read my last post) Sometimes babies (and young children) can be unpredictable.  We do our best to schedule sessions at the child’s very best time of day… and then they go and change their schedule on us!  I have found that 3 months might be the hardest age to predict.  One very cool thing about being a fairly small operation is, if something goes awry I am always happy to try again until we get it right!  I think it’s only happened a handful of times that I have been unsatisfied enough with a session that we schedule a do-over.

It just happens that Forrest’s 3 month shoot was one of those times. Truly my only directive (I just finished watching WALL.E with my kids) was to get a shot of him smiling. “He’s such a smiley guy” mom kept telling me over the phone.

Well mom, I think we got it! I hope you’ll agree it was worth the wait!

Can’t get enough of those rolls.

Sometimes everything just works out. A session will just fall together in a way that I couldn’t have planned. I still surprise myself by how much FUN we can have in the studio. I don’t think any of us was expecting to have such a great time… I don’t know why we expected it to be such a chore, but all of us keep saying what an amazingly FUN time we had - so it makes me wonder what exactly were we expecting? I’ve had the pleasure of photographing the Muno boys a few times before; but always out on their farm. Their parents own and operate Goatsbeard Farm. If you haven’t had the pleasure of eating their amazing goat’s milk cheeses you are missing out. (They can ship cheese to those of you who are outside of the mid-missouri area) Anyway, I digress. (easy to do when I’m thinking about their cheese!)

The boys and mom came over last Friday afternoon. Peter (eight) had been told he could go to the comic book store around the corner when we were finished. Perhaps that’s why everything went so well! This is a great example of my short studio session and how effective it can be. I had a hard time narrowing it down to a few choices, but here they are:

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