Christmas sessions

I have had a few session lately with clients looking for Christmas card shots. Here are a few of my favorites from my recent sessions.

The family with the mother and her son and daughter were taking these shots to send to her husband who is overseas serving our great country. I hope he enjoys the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.

The ones of the kids in the holiday pajamas are my children. I have no problem getting other children to cooperate for sessions but for some reason my children are harder to handle. :) I love the results but they make me work for the results. :)

Newborns newborns newborns

I have had four newborn sessions in the last month. It has been a lot of fun. They were all sweet and cute as can be. They ranged in size from 4 pounds to almost 10. These are some of my favorite shots from these sessions.

Think Pink Photography

I recently had the opportunity to go to a Faces of Courage camp here in the Tampa Bay area and I did 31 mini-sessions for breast cancer survivors. It was a wonderful camp full of wonderful women. I met so many fantastic women and heard so many amazing stories of their battles w/ cancer. Here a few shots from that day. Please check out www.thinkpinkphotograpy.org to find out more about this wonderful charity organization.

Newborn

I recently had the pleasure of photographing one of the cutest newborns. She was so sweet and tiny. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the shoot. I will add more as I edit more too.

I recently had a maternity session in my hometown. It was a lot of fun. She has two sweet daughters and was expecting her first son, who is now here. I had taken her sister's maternity portraits a few months ago. We were planning on an indoor/outdoor session but mother nature had other plans. So we were limited to indoor only. I love outdoor natural light photography but what can you do? Here are a few from my session.

Fire Station

My husband is a firefighter. He recently got assigned to a new station so we had to make a trip to the new one to check it out. My son has his own bunker gear right down to the boots. The kids had a blast climbing on the trucks and playing firefighter with daddy. My children have grown up in fire stations. They are their second home.

Sunflowers

I love love love sunflowers. Anyone who has been to my house knows this. My entire kitchen is full of sunflowers. I even had sunflowers in my wedding bouquet. Well there is a farm south of us that usually grows strawberries and in the off season they plant sunflowers to keep the soil ready for the strawberries. I had the opportunity to go there this summer. My plan was to take pictures of my kids and my friend's kids but the sun was too high and they were not digging it. They were complaining that it was hot and there were bugs (which there were tons of bugs!)

Here are some of the pictures I got of the sunflowers that did not complain and actually stood still long enough for me to focus. :)

Girls at University of Tampa

My college roommate and her husband have two girls, ages 3 and 1. I have taken their pictures four times in the last year. I recently took their pictures at the University of Tampa and we had a great time. They are so easy to photograph. They are both very happy and love having fun which is the way I like to capture children.

Pixie the Puppy

My friend got a new mini dachshund. She has an older one named Lyla who is a sweetie. I photographed Lyla as a puppy so I was very excited to photograph Pixie the new addition to the family. Lyla is the red one and Pixie is the spotted one. They were a lot of fun to photograph.

Beach Wedding

I recently shot a "beach" wedding in St. Pete. It was going to be a beautiful backdrop but mother nature had another idea. A horrible thunder storm with high winds came through about an hour before the ceremony was to start. The bride and groom, who have been together 19 years, were ok with it being moved to indoors.

They are a sweet couple. I had a lot of fun photographing their wedding. Here are a few shots from the day.

Maternity

I love doing maternity shoots. It is such a great time in your life that should be captured for you to remember. I love being able to capture this time in a family's life. Here are some recent portraits from a maternity shoot I did.

Good Morning!

So usually first thing in the morning my little ones climb into bed w/ me or come and find me if I am already awake. Not this morning. I could hear my son talking but was not sure what he was doing. I found him in his sister's room reading to her. Warmed my heart to see the two of them doing something so sweet together. I of course went and got my camera to sneak this picture. :)

Flower Field

Every spring these beautiful purple wild flowers grow all over the central to northern part of Florida. I took my youngest to one of the fields to take some pictures of her. Here are a few shoots that I got.

Newborn Shoot

I recently had a newborn shoot. She was a sweetheart and was so cooperative. Once we got her to sleep she stayed that way and allowed me to pose her many different ways. I love doing newborn photoshoots.

New to bloggin

I am new to blogging but thought I would give it a try. I am a mother and a photograher. I own Toddlerazzi Photography in the Tampa Bay area. I love being a mom and a photographer. I use to teach preschool before I had kids so it helps me when photographing young children.
The kids just got out of school this week. We have a busy summer planned w/ summer camps, small vacations and trips to see grandparents. I know the kids are looking forward to their week long stay in South Florida.