Terhune Family Portrait in Uniontown

June 7, 2013

This session just makes me smile so much. This family won a session from me and we have been trying to plan this out for quite a while. Finally the weather and schedules all cooperated so we were able to finally get this session in the books! The Terhune family is one that I’ve known of for a long time but have never had the pleasure of meeting. They are good friends of my friend and sometimes-minion Nicole and I was super excited to get to play with them last week. The kiddos however, were not all quite as excited to sit and smile for the camera so instead of a more formal style of family session of posed portraits it ended up being more of a lifestyle session of them playing in the backyard, loving on their outdoor cats and being wrangled into a pose every once in a while. It was still perfect! Their personalities all came shining through in the pictures and to me, that’s the most important part of portraits.

I love cats and I loved that these kiddos wanted nothing more than to snuggle and love on their two outdoor kitties. This picture is exactly one I wished I had from my childhood – one of me and my cat!

child and her cat

This may be one of my favorites from the day. I love that while posed, there’s still so much awesome going on with the girls holding their cats.

family portrait in ohio with cats

The kitties finally were put down (one was actually rubbing around me when I took this image, aww) and we got a quick family portrait before the youngest decided that he was D-O-N-E smiling for the camera.

I always try to get pictures of the parents because kiddos often have posed pictures together from school, your phones and so forth but rarely do you have updated portraits of just the two of you.