Angels - Austin Child Photographer

I know it's a little late to be sharing Halloween pictures with you, but I can't help myself.  This cuteness has to be documented for the future. 

For Halloween we had a house full of angels.  Adalyn decided that's what she wanted to be and mommy decided that was a GREAT (read: easy) idea and all the girls were going to be angels this year!

They were ADORABLE, if I do say so myself. :)

Darling Girl, Full of Spunk - Austin Child Photographer

As I mentioned in my previous post, I did a little photo shoot a while back with my good friend Jen of Oh Fiddlesticks!.  Her little girl tagged along with us and I took a couple shots of her as we went.  This was back in December, when I was up to my eyeballs in editing so I saved them to my computer and I hadn't gone back to look at them since.  I pulled them out yesterday and was pleasantly surprised at what I found. 

She is such a cutie and so spunky and fun as you can see in some of these photos. 

 I hope you enjoy them!

Sweet girl lost her first tooth the night before.



Happy Wednesday - Austin Child Photographer

It's been quiet on the blog - just thought I would say hi.  I have been busy, busy proofing all of the bluebonnet sessions from the last couple of weeks.  Here is a shot of the little guy I'm working on right now.  Can you believe this was him just a few months ago.  They grow so fast!!

Starting the year off right *Part 2* - Austin Portrait Photographer

In addition to the professional portraits that I took for my sweet friend, I also took some individual portraits of her and her sister. Even though it was FREEZING COLD, they were great models and we had a lot of fun. The difference in their portraits portrays the difference in their personalities pretty well, I think. The first one is my new favorite! She is fierce!! :)

Dorean Pope Photography - More Play Date Favorites - Leander Child Photographer

Now that I have finally finished editing all of the play date portraits I have done so far and online proofing is available for all of the moms, I wanted to take a minute to go back and share a few more of my favorites with you all from the past couple of weeks.

You'll notice that not all of these are traditional portraits and the kiddos aren't necessarily smiling in all of them. Part of the fun in photographing children, for me, is trying to capture their personality - to be able to capture a facial expression that is part of who they are at this stage in life, so that when you look back on it you can remember this phase. Another thing I try to do is capture facial features. Whenever I look at my baby girl, I am constantly reminded of how fast she is growing up and changing. For me, capturing her facial features up close will be a priceless memory for years to come.

Happy Wednesday!!

Dorean Pope Photography - Sweet Valentine! - Cedar Park Child Photographer

Last year when our baby was almost 4 months old, I decided to take some pictures of her to make into a card for her daddy as a present for Valentines Day. My brain was still scrambled and consumed with baby, so I didn't do much planning in advance to celebrate the day. This is one of the pictures I came up with - nothing too fancy, but it made an awfully cute card.

This year as the date approached, I decided it was time for more pictures and another card. This will be a good way for me to take pictures of her at the same time every year to really track her growth. (Not that I need an excuse to take pictures of her. Right now her folder on my computer has close to 5,000 files... I might have a problem!)

This was the end result this year. I am loving that her hair is long enough to put into little pig tails now! Sweet baby girl!

Happy Belated Valentines Day everyone! I hope you had a wonderful day.

Dorean Pope Photography - Sunny Day! - (Austin Child Photographer)

Yesterday was such a beautiful day. I couldn't help but grab my camera before heading out the back door to play. These shots were captured while Adalyn was wondering around the back yard enjoying her new found independance at being able to walk and collecting sticks. She seems to have an aversion to looking directly at me when I have the camera in front of my face. I have to trick her into it. She knows I'm up to something.

Dorean Pope Photography - Congrats! (Austin/Cedar Park Portrait & Engagement Photographer)

One of my baby sisters lives in Kansas City, Mo. This Christmas she came home for a visit and brought along her dashing boyfriend, so that we could all meet him. We had a fun visit and got to spend a lot of time together. I love the holidays and getting to see so much of my family! Shortly after her return to KC, we got the great news that she and her beau are now engaged!!! I just wanted to say congratulations to my little sis. I'm very happy for you!

Below is a portrait I snapped of the two of them in my back yard on Christmas day.

Christmas Cards ~ Austin Portrait Photographer

The weather here the last couple of days has been absolutely fabulous! Nothing like a taste of fall to get you thinking about the holidays. If you would like to get a head start on things, give me a call and we can schedule your Family Portrait Session now, that way the Christmas card photo is taken care of well before holiday craziness is upon us.

Relaxed Portraits

I thought I would share a couple of relaxed portraits I took of Tabi's kids as we were getting ready for the family portrait last weekend.

Beautiful kids!!

I LOVE black and white photos.

Have a great weekend!