Today is Maren’s 8th Birthday. Maren is my daughter Kate’s best friend. Forever. Two weeks ago, we took both of our families out to Irvine Regional Park in Orange, CA to ride the ponies and the train and to get a few shots of Maren for her upcoming birthday and baptism day and a few shots of the other kids as well. But the main focus (besides having a blast with our kids) was getting some nice portraits of Maren for her baptism day. For all of you portrait photographers out there – I don’t recommend bringing all of your kids along on shoots – especially when they are best friends with the subjects you are trying to capture. They will a) want to be in all the pictures with their friends {Kate}, b) want to drag their friends off to other more worthwhile adventures, such as digging in the mud {Audrey}, or c) will be found running through the background of more than half of your shots {Jared}. In spite of these disadvantages, I was very happy with the shots we were able to get – mostly thanks to the gorgeous background that is Irvine Regional Park and the beautiful light there in the afternoon. Early spring is definitely my favorite time to shoot in Southern California. Everything is so lush and green and beautiful. I know these are mostly slightly different variations of very similar shots, but the location was so lovely, and the subject even lovelier that I had to show at least a few…. and a couple of the bff (Kate) jumping into some shots as well, since there were more than a few of those to choose from….
More later from our grand adventures at Irvine Regional Park!
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