My Boys’ Birthday Portraits
I started the tradition of creating birthday portraits for my kids last year. Yesterday and today was my oldest and my youngest sons’ birthdays, so we went out for a session today while my daughter was at a birthday party “just for girls”.
I thought the light was perfect for our session - cloudy, yet bright. That was fine during A.’s session, but as soon as we started B.’s session (10 minutes later), the sun came out.
As soon as we were done, however, it started snowing. I was wishing it had started during the session; I thought that would’ve been fun!
However, by the time we got home it was snowing hard - huge, heavy, wet snowflakes! Less than an hour later, it had stopped and the sun was shining again. 
B. has such a hard time looking at the camera. It’s as though it’s the sun shining right in his eyes! We had to play a few games to get any with him looking at me *and* having his eyes open enough to look normal. 
Oh, and he found a $1 bill right when we got to our location. It was like a birthday present from God/Universe/Whateveryoucallyoursource!
Happy Birthday, my babies. 
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Great photos Barb!! Your youngest boy looks just like you…and what a nice tradition!
Happy birthday boys! Gorgeous light, beautiful kids, super nice photos! Hope you invest that $1 wisely, B.
Great pictures..I love the choice of background…tall grasses, cattails… handsome boys…just beautiful! I see that B is making good use of his winter hat! Happy birthday grandbabies!
Thanks, everybody! The boys are glowing at your comments (so am I).
I really like the 2nd one of A.-great big eyes! The 3rd one of B. is great with the cattails over his shoulder. Thanks for sharing their birthday special time with us!
Thanks, Kim, that’s my fave of A. from this session, too.
I’ve been wanting to shoot at this location forever, and I drive by it all the time, so I finally went today since I had my own family session. It didn’t turn out like I wanted, but as I left I saw an even better location (so it looks) and want to go over there to do more cattails.
Does anybody know when the cattails will be green *and* have the flowers/puffs/brown parts?
Barb,
I really like your photos! You are making the world more beautiful. This is art.
Warmly,
Ravitte.
Barb, beautiful pictures of the boys. I love the contrasting colors. More works of art that we’ve come to expect from you.
Thanks so much, Ravitte and Jule!
Beautiful boys and beautiful photos!
wonderful photos…. these pictures are so beautiful.
happy birthday boy.
Great photos, your kids are really very lovely. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Such handsome boys. I love the cattails!
Your boys have such lovely eyes! A’s are so soft while B’s are so stunningly bright.
I love the first photo.You captured it at the perfect moment. Who could resist that adorable smile?
These photos of your boys are awesome! So candid and fresh. Looks like they had fun, too.
I especially loved the first photo. He made me smile.