You hear me say over and over that very few portraits are more important than your five year portrait.  This is truly the heirloom portrait.  The last portrait of your son or daughter before they loose those little girl or little boy characteristics.  Once they loose their teeth, it is amazing how fast they change.  The portrait I am featuring today - many of you have seen in my front window the last week or so.  This portrait was shot on location at his home.  I think it is beautiful!  I can imagine him showing this portrait to his grandchildren one day and sharing all the wonderful stories about his childhood and the “home place” where he grew up.  I have had the pleasure of photographing this handsome young man since he was still in his mom’s belly.  Fortunately, they have lots of great places for many more portraits as their family continues to grow!  Of course, while we were at his home - I simply could not pas up this opportunity to add his twin siblings in for a fun/artsy image.

???????? ????? ???????? Yeah, I know…IT’S HOT!  But I wanted to remind you of some of the good parts of living in the coastal empire!  Forsyth Park, Magnolias and the BEACH!  Speaking of Beach…isn’t time for you to schedule your families’ beach portrait session???

          I think so!  But of course I would, right?  We are so blessed to have a beautiful beach so close by.  We are also blessed to have a WORLD FAMOUS park with one of the most iconic fountains in the world.

We will be posting some more “summer fun” portrait events soon, but in the meantime call us and schedule something for your family.

Isn’t something as special as your family worth preserving forever???

And don’t worry…                                                                                                                                          

We have a studio we keep very COOL if you don’t want to brave the elements and the “warm” outdoor weather.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

  Most of our clients commission me to create oil portraits as the heirloom portrait of their children.  Many of you have fallen in love with the look and feel of my watercolors and have chosen them as the medium of choice for your heirloom.  Heirloom portraits are created between three and five - before your children lose their teeth.  Once they lose there teeth it is amazing how fast they begin to grow up - losing forever the beautiful features of childhood.  Documenting important physical characteristics like their fingers, toes, jaw structure and facial features with as much detail as possible - so this important moment in time will be frozen forever.  The watercolor featured in today’s blog is the second one we have created for this family.  They chose to commission me at age three for their daughters.  The first one you see here we completed a few weeks ago.  Both of the girls were photographed at a very sentimental home that has been in their family for generations.  The gardens on this property are incredible and peak each spring.  After I knew I had “the portrait”  - we had fun shooting casual portraits of both girls.  This venue allowed for many wonderful opportunities.  We are creating albums of the day for the grandmothers and the parents.  What an incredible keepsake these girls will have to remember a special day with their parents and grand’s.  Mom and Dad really understand and appreciate the investment in fine portraits.  As their families portrait artist we have documented and created some unbelievable portraits and the oldest is just turning six this week. 

Mom and dad are already brainstorming about their next session which will take place in the girls AMAZING playhouse.  It is truly one of the most incredible - two story play houses I have ever seen.  I can’t wait!  Not to give to much away about this special family - but dad worked at Harrods’ in London after college as one of the buyers for the royal family.  I am in hopes that he will soon email us some pictures and stories from that experience.  I am also including big sisters watercolor that we created two years ago. We narrowed down to quite a few images for their album from the day.  It was VERY hard to select a few for you to see here - these are some I thought would give you a feel of how incredible this day was.

This place is simply a little slice of heaven!  Grand dad worked most of his life building this amazing escape before he went to heaven a short while ago.  I have been honored to photograph this family for generations.  In fact, grandmother has commissioned me to create portraits of each grandchild at four.  This was the last one (we think) and it was special because it will be the last.  Fortunately, big brother was there also - so we had the opportunity to play a little after we finished the formal portrait.  Many of our clients prefer the classic look of formal portraits - but they want to do some more casual fun images that capture personalities as well.  This is exactly what I did with this family.