JAMES HODGINS PHOTOGRAPHY

With a lot of our family portrait sessions we encourage the family to bring their pets along for the ride.  Pet’s are family too didn’t you know?  We love photographing the furry ones during our session, and trying to capture their personalty is half the battle.  Here a few images of some of the pets at our recent family sessions.

It’s always an honor to be the one to photograph the newest additions to our wedding clients families.  It wasn’t that long ago that we documented the wedding of Shannon & Chris and now little Aila has joined  the two of them for their next photography session.  This little one was such a cutie and even though she wasn’t feel that well, she did pose long enough for us to create some memorable images.  Shannon, Chris, thanks again for trusting us with your daughters portraits.

Well it’s raining today here in Vancouver (whats new) so Joce and I decided to check out the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park.  I watched over and over people trying to get that perfect photo of the jellyfish only to get frustrated as their flash ruined the image, or it was too dark, or why the jellyfish wouldn’t stay still, why the jellyfish was blurry, why the jellyfish are in water etc…

I managed to grab a few images myself with better results, but then again, I knew the answers to all their questions.

You don’t want to lick these frogs…or maybe you do.

Nuff Said.

I knew the moment I tripped the shutter that I captured a great moment between these sisters.  No prompting, no coaxing, just good o’l fashion sisterly love!  I love photographing kids outdoors.  Finding the right location with a subtle background and nice soft lighting with warm colors just brings the whole image together.

Like clockwork it’s been about six weeks after Krista & Jeff’s wedding and they now have everything in their hands, so it’s time I shared with the rest of you a little insight into Jeff & Krista’s Sudbury Wedding.

“James and Joce,

We’ve received our photo package…we absolutely love them all! We laughed, we cried, we ooohed and aaahed. We couldn’t have asked for more. Thank you very much. We’re very excited to share these with our friends and family.

Thanks again for the wonderful work you’ve done.”

Krista and Jeff

When the Kolar Family came in to view their images from their session earlier this week, we decided to photography Baby Mila on High Key White to show off her new hat. We could only get her hand out of her mouth for maybe a split second before she shoved it right back in there.  Well, why fight it?  If that is what she likes,then that is what we are going to capture.  Personally, I prefer the hand in mouth look myself.   (I’m more known for foot in mouth myself).

The Pappano’s were back with another kickbutt family portrait.  It’s been almost two years since their last one (Take a peak here), and this time they brought the Pinkerton’s and McNabb’s to throw into the mix.  Joce and I couldn’t believe how the Pappano girls have grown into beautiful young ladies in such a short time  and there was no shortage of smiles from each of them during the session.  As I said in my earlier posts, we LOVE photographing families!!! It’s so much fun, especially when the family are having a good time throughout the session.   We have  4 (FOUR) generations in this family and Jerry (Great Grandmother) has just as much energy as anyone else in this portrait.  We have sooooooooooooo many good images to post in the future, and of course I always will post one, but I thought I would post two, just to show you how we wrapped up the session.  Thanks again everyone, it’s families like yours that keeps reminding us why we love photography.

Most of you know that Joce and I LOVE photographing families, and our session tonight was no exception.  It started out with everyone on the doc and ended up with everyone in the water.  This session had “candid” written all over it and Tammy & Jason’s property on Long Lake was the perfect place to take advantage of multiple scenarios.  It’s been a few years since their last Family Portrait (Take a Peak Here) and since then they have added a new addition to the family………….little Olivia.  Joce and both commented on how much Joy this Angel has brought to this already happy family as it was evident throughout the entire session.  I can’t wait to show you some of the candid images we created for this family.  Tammy, Jason, Jake, Cale & Olivia, thank you so much for making this session seem like a day at the beach, because that was almost exactly what it turned out to be.

Here is the last shot from the first scenario. We changed it up from our original plan to make it more of a “story telling” image.  It worked.