I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but I have to share a couple images from this session. Part of my job is setting others at ease, so that I can better capture their personalities on film. Being rather shy by nature I sometimes find this intimidating, but Trisha and her family were great sports and laughed at my silly (ok, lame!) jokes and goofing around. Thanks so much for making my job fun! I hope you’re as pleased with your portraits as I am.

I love the way mum just radiates contentment while all the kids are interacting around her in this one:

And this next shot is one of my favourite “outtake” family portraits. It shows the personalities and relationships so much better than a standard ‘everyone face the camera and smile’ shot (although we got some of those as well!)