Family Pictures

So, with the trip home in December naturally a family pictures session was arranged.

I put in some research hours to find a photographer with a few specific things I was looking for:

1) I needed the high resolution images digitally 

I can mess with a less than perfect image's colors, crop, treatment (basically anything that you could want) after the fact, but I didn't want just 30 or 40 images, and I certainly didn't want my family or myself to have to pay through the nose to have pictures printed through the photographer.

2) Yeah, price is always a factor

Yes, you want to compensate someone for their time and talents, but come on, some photographers cost sooo much.

3) I was looking for a "look" that I liked 

lets face it.  Some photographers can take pictures that may be technically good (lighting, etc), but that are still, well, boring.

Almost every other factor was not a deal breaker, but here are some perks that we enjoyed from the photographer we used, Ashley McFarlane (she's totally nice, by the way, and her blog is here).

- some photographers would ding you by how many people you have, not her

She dealt with our huge family for the time we booked, no added cost.

-She went the extra mile.

Seriously, it was like face falling off freezing and she was out working her camera with no gloves. Amazing.

Anyways, I've been using the images on different posts for a bit, most notably in the one where I printed pictures for my living room, but I'll show a small sampling of my favorites here.