This is part 2 in a series of what it means to be 5. 5 is playing on a team for the first time…first uniform, first time learning all of the rules, first time having teammates, first time having a coach…so many life lessons being taught in a simple way.  The photos make it look […]

It was a hot, humid, and muggy May morning…a rare day of warmth and a rare day at home without any immediate plans for the day.    Last month, for Cole’s birthday, I bought him his 5 year old photo shoot outfit. Cole absolutely loves to dress up and look fancy. He wanted to add […]

I would love to capture the purity that is 5, the believing that you are the fastest, strongest, best person in the world – the one that can defeat all the bad guys and spend the day exploring and learning about the world. The happiness that comes from swinging and digging and drawing. We could learn […]

A few months ago, this blog had a problem with the server and lost all of the photos associated with it. Eventually, i would like to repost all of the photos, but it may take awhile. This is the first compilation in which I will add multiple photos from the past photo shoots over the […]

Last week, I had the pleasure of photographing 6 cousins, ranging in ages 1 to 8, and their families – 14 people in all.  We went to an empty field filled with wild yellow flowers…and off they went! We had a lot of fun, took some photos posed or as posed as we could be […]

These brothers, one going into pre-k and the other 2nd grade, showed up smiling…they were dressed up and ready to put on their best model poses. Cuties like these two make my job easy!  They are both so photogenic and full of happy smiles. It was my pleasure to take them out on the streets […]

A few weeks before Christmas, I received a call from a friend.  She had an idea for her husband’s Christmas gift and was hoping I could help her out. Her husband is a big sports fan and her idea was to put each of his three girls in a different Chicago sports team shirt and […]