Posts Tagged: outdoor fall family portraits
The Graybeal Family’s Fall Photos
Let’s be nimble.
Small businesses have been saying this for ages and when circumstances beyond your control (a global epidemic and crazy weather, for instance) shift your working life and schedule, you do a few backbends. The Graybeal family and Pixels had to do a few contortions recently, but the results were worth it. Fall family portraits with a view of Stone Mountain Park? Yes, please!
The last time we shot portraits of this family was the winter of 2017, but we’ve been photographing them for years.
Crystal, Adam and their boys – Colton and Landon – met up with us at Stone Mountain Park for their fall family portrait session. We were camping nearby and thought it would be a great place for the shoot. But despite our planning and pre-planning, we got there to find that the park was full to capacity.
NO problem (although, I’m a girl who loves a plan). We ended up driving to an overlook which turned out to be positively stunning. We let the kids play in the woods and ended up walking to where the overlook was actually a fabulous view of Stone Mountain Park itself.
Of course, it was wonderful seeing our friends, but I’m also happy about how these images turned out. I love the colors and textures of these photos, their clothing, the trees, the tall grass and the sunlight. God is good and we are so happy that we found the right day and the right time to reunite with this wonderful family.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
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Holland Family Fall Photos
This beautiful family just takes my breath away. I know I say this a lot, but it is a point of pride: so many of our ongoing clients have become true friends. The Holland family falls squarely into that category and even a pandemic and wacky schedules didn’t keep us from seeing them for portraits this year.
Mom Tram, Dad Kevin, son Colten, and daughters Ava and Sophia are a blended family so on top of the pandemic and teens and other sets of parents, their schedule is formidable.
For outdoor fall portraits this year, we had 24 hours notice to pull together the portrait session. Sophia, the eldest, was in Raleigh for part of quarantine, so once we had a plan, we went to their gorgeous property where they have built a cabin to shoot images in the stunning fall surroundings.
This place has loads of acreage, tractors (Finley loved being able to run around with Colten and making the girls giggle) and at 8:30 am, we had The. Best. Light. Morning light is a photographer’s dream, so it all came together.
Tram (rhymes with “mom” which makes perfect sense if you know her) has become a friend of mine and we share the same love of gardening (often trading from our personal bounties), share the same love of the outdoors, and she is fun and affectionate with kids, so having Finley present and ready to roam and run around was only a “plus” in her eyes.
There was a lot of laughing, with their dog Pearl stealing the show, and plenty of playing and giggling with Finley so the smiles in these shots aren’t faked.
We’ve photographed this crew at Christmas and each time (2016 and 2019), it has been at their home and is themed of course. Families who hire us for Christmas portraits don’t normally order prints for hanging since they are seasonal, but Tram ordered all of these photos and they are going to hang them in the cabin.
We love, LOVE the Hollands and cannot wait to return to this enchanted spot with them again soon.
FUN ASIDE: All photos below are Finley’s “behind the scenes” shots taken with his Sony Cybershot camera while with us on location at the Holland’s. He came to play and work… Love my boy.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States LicenseAll photos are ©2020 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.
The Waters Family Fall Photos
Reunited and it feels so good… although it was a rainy day and we had to zig and zag logistically. We LOVE this family. The Waters are Scott, Susan, Maddie and Emma and we go way back. Scott was the pastor who married Ryan and me, so our bond is pretty special.
As the Youth Pastor at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, Scott got to know Ryan and me when we volunteered with him to help with youth activities on Sundays and on retreats. After we moved to Wilkesboro, we stayed in touch, but the call from Susan to set up a shoot was awesome.
Long before Finley was born and we were active in the church, we remember these girls as infants and we have watched them grow up.
I specifically remember an instance when we were working with Scott and Emma was just a baby. Susan was pushing through those tough chapters of letting her cry it out at bedtime while sitting outside the door, crying herself. When Scott and the girls would come our way for Merlefest each year, he would stay and volunteer with us. We’ve cherished their friendship and their example as parents and people.
During this complicated time, they reached out for an outdoor family photo shoot at Appalachian State University, where Maddie is a student. Unfortunately, this was during the long and rainy days of early October. Their name may be Waters, but … it complicated things. Leave it to Ryan to find a great backup location near the Blue Ridge Parkway. I love that they had App State umbrellas that could be incorporated too.
The images are glorious. They are a beautiful family, made up of beautiful souls and I’m thrilled that we were able to make it happen.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States LicenseAll photos are ©2020 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.
Fall Portrait Sessions
We are in the midst of booking fall portrait sessions and with the mild weather and coolish temperatures, these sessions are some of our favorites. I thought for today, I would share a handful of our blogs that feature fall portraits and encourage you to book yours asap!
Find more of the Martinez family portrait blog here.
See more of the Anderson family fall portrait session.
See more of some of our favorite locations for fall portrait sessions.
Before the weather turns against us, let’s schedule your outdoor autumn portrait session. Contact us and we can make it happen!
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States LicenseAll photos are ©2020 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.
Fall Portrait Photography Sessions
We’ve made it to Labor Day during a global pandemic. Somehow, someway, here we are. I am grateful and I am ready for fall. We hope you all are taking care of yourselves as kids return to whatever version of school is on deck for them. Now: it’s time to talk about fall portraits of your family, your children and even the holidays.
We are booking outdoor photography sessions for September, October and onward right now, so if you’re eager to get your holiday card done and ready to print and mail, contact us.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States LicenseAll photos are ©2020 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.