"Building Blocks"
First Place Win at NVPS Geometry themed competition, December 18, 2018!
​I have to thank our Virginia Ice Theatre team for taking us to the 2018 Theatre on Ice Nationals Competition in Geneva, IL this year.  That trip gave me the opportunity to tour Chicago with great friends and to get this shot!  

Wait, that's not the title of the song I'm thinking of... well no matter!  Recently, I had the opportunity to photograph the N family and they have 10 & 13 year old boys!  Even though it was cold, they were great sports while we got some great images for them! Coat off and coats on! (These are not all of the images from the session but some of my favs!)  If it is cold out I try to keep my clients on the move in between shots to help keep them a bit warmer.  In the end, it's clear the boys just wanted to have fun!  :-)

What a great model M. has been for 4 years now!  She is really growing up! These images are of her smiling. On this last photo session her mom informed her that not every image has to look like a serious album cover!  (That comment made me laugh and think of my own same aged daughter who has adopted the serious look too!) If you check out my other posts or look around my website you'll see lots of great not smiling photos of M!  I love a serious photo actually and usually end posting them! For more information on the history of smiling in photos here is a short video "Ask Smithsonian: Why Don’t People Smile in Old Photographs?"  Here is the Link: (copy/paste)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/ask-smithsonian/ask-smithsonian-why-dont-people-smile-in-o/
Smiling or not...  I'm already looking forward to next year! ~ Julie