Dorean Pope Photography - Korin & Corey - Austin Engagement Photographer

You may remember these two from around Christmas time. I posted some pictures that I took of them in the back yard at that time. Well, they were back in town this weekend for their WEDDING!! My little sister got married. I can't believe it.

On Thursday night we got together and took some engagement portraits for them. These are a few of my favorites. I'm sure I'll be sharing some of the wedding pictures soon.

Dorean Pope Photography - Spunky & Fun! - Cedar Park Child Photographer

Happy Friday everyone!! This sneak peek is from a session I did on Wednesday. These kids were spunky and we had a lot of fun! What a great spring break - it has been crazy busy!! I hope you all have enjoyed your week as much as I've enjoyed mine. So glad last week's dreary weather was out of the way before spring break started.

Naming Baby Girl Pope

As some of you may know, we are expecting an addition to our family in a couple of months. Baby girl will be here before we know it and this time around, we (ME) are having trouble picking a name. I just haven't felt the "wow" factor with any of the names we are considering. I'm waiting for some sort of divine inspiration and an "ahah!" moment. So... in the mean time, tell me what you think of the names we currently have on the list. There is a poll over on the right hand side of the blog. AND, if you feel like sharing, please feel free to add some of your favorite baby girl names in the comments section of this post.

Dorean Pope Photography - my new favorite - Austin Child Photographer

Unfortunately, due to the yucky weather this week I had to cancel/reschedule several play dates. Since I have nothing new to show you, I thought I would share a few more of my favorites from last weeks session. This first one is my current favorite of all time. I don't know exactly what it is about it that I like so much, but there is just something special there. What do you think?

Dorean Pope Photography - Play Date Fun - Austin Child Photographer

Yesterday morning I got to join a group of moms for a play date at the Arboretum. While the kids played on the cows, we got to run around and take some fun portraits. The weather was perfect. I love living in Austin!!!

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.