Beautiful Day Photography’s Weblog

This isn’t just ANY Family portrait…it’s my older sister’s family portrait.  Christy, or “Kiki” and Matt have three kids, Havana, Javier and little Alejandro.  I ended up going home to Virginia for 2 days and snuck in this photo shoot.  My boyfriend Robert and I were up in Farmington, CT, shooting a wedding and did not realize that our flight home was routed through Washington Dulles Airport.  Not only was my other sister who lives in London laying over at the SAME terminal at the same time, but my DAD was still there and had just dropped her off.  On a whim, Robert and I decided to miss our connection, change it for two days later, find my Dad and jump in the car to go surprise my older sister and her family that had NO idea we were in town….It was a HUGE success…and , OH, by the way, Robert had NEVER MET my dad before, so talk about NOT being prepared AT ALL!  Everyone of course loved Robert though.  So I came just in time to take her Christmas Card Photo…It’s amazing that EVERY time I come to visit I get suckered into it somehow, but I have to admit I SAW the ghetto photo she was going to use instead and I just could NOT let her send out such a hideous photo.  I guess I have become a bit of a photo snob:) So  five minutes and 100 shots later we narrowed it down to 3 usable ones where everyone looked good at the same time…YEP, NO photoshopping heads from different photos this time!