Von Doersten Family

I LOVE the girl's toes!!!

This is the third year that I have photographed Kristen and Peter's family. I have to be truthful, when I first starting taking family portraits I thought of them as being VERY difficult. It was hard for me to wrap my mind around making something beautiful that was relatively ordinary. Finally after about a year of struggling I realized that there is a lot of beauty in the ordinary. Those ordinary moments embody who we are and what our relationships are with each other.

I now LOVE capturing the playfulness...
and the scowls....
and those sweet moments that reflect all aspects of the people we love.




Even the fear and terror have a place in the sessions.....



Now I LOVE capturing all aspects of family portrait sessions. I also LOVE watching families evolve and being able to be a part of it for just a little bit.