Meet the Sielemans - another beautiful family compliments of Dr. Valone.  Jen is positively glowing while expecting her second child.  Luke (Mr. Sieleman) is very laid back with a great sense of humor and Payton is about as nice a boy as they come at 5 years old.  How do we get so lucky?

 We’re proud to again be sponsoring the Clive Festival Portrait Contest and excited to be unveiling the first of three new categories for this year’s contest.  BQ is our category for Boys ages 2-10.  Stay tuned for other new categories and full contest details on our website at www.photojeania.com/clivefest.  In the mean time, we hope you like the cover boys who helped us create this cool new theme for the contest.

Meet Heidi Boyd - wife, mother, nutrition professional and now model.   Heidi came into our lives as a referral from Dr. Ross Valone and we are very grateful.  We enjoyed bringing out how glamorous and glowing she looked for someone so late into her pregnancy.  We were also fortunate to get the rest of the family Mike (husband) and Ross (son) into the act for some special relationship portraits.

Heidi gave birth to an adorable six pound girl, Maisie (sounds like mazy), just a few days after our session.  Maisie, only three days old, laid comfortably on my lap during our preview session with Heidi and Mike this morning and made the cutest little faces while she slept.  Makes you wonder what they are thinking about at that age.  We look forward to our newborn portrait session next week and capturing Maise’s first year of life in fine art portraits.  Stay tuned for part II - Maisie’s first portrait session.

Kendra’s first senior portrait session in our studio was so spectacular, it deserved a sequal.  So we went to her home to see what she’s like in her own environment and discovered she’s just as wild and crazy at home as she is in the studio.  She is full of her own inspiration (e.g. “You know what? I think my bike matches my prom dress!”).  She still likes to tease us by saving her best poses for when she knows we’re not ready with the camera.  And she is just as eager to try our own crazy ideas like creating a little lounge in the middle of the street to hang out in her prom dress.  We’ll never get tired of photographing Kendra.  She makes our job a lot of fun.

Stopping traffic.

Kendra doing her best Laverne (or shirley).

Kendra’s family room provided an interesting Coca Cola setting and lighting.

When we decided to add sports image composites to our Senior Portrait product line, one of the first athletes I thought of as a subject was John Peters.  John was the Waukee Warriors Football Team’s starting quarterback last year as a Junior.  Having watched him from the sidelines for a number of games last year, I knew he played with intensity and if he brought his game face to the studio we would create some winning sports portraits.  Here is just some of what we came up in the studio. 

John is a great athlete and a super person and we wish him the best of success in football and other endevours his senior year.

This is the first of a six part series profiling the Price family of West Des Moines.  Kim is expecting her fourth child in May and is taking part in our “Baby’s First Year” program.  Our “Baby’s First Year” clients participate in a five portrait sessions over the course of approximately a year including a maternity session followed by a newborn session and children-family sessions at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of the baby’s first year.  At the end of the program, our clients receive a beautiful album of images created throughout the year.

Kim wanted her children to be the focus of her maternity photography session so we approached it as more of a family affair.  While we couldn’t help ourselves from capturing Kim’s natural beauty and the glamorous side of maternity, we also focused on the children’s relationships with mom, their innocence and the expectation of things to come.  Finger painting mom’s belly, was a super fun way to wrap up the session and a wonderful opportunity to capture the joy of a family at play.  Great idea Kim.  We couldn’t ask for a more beautiful family and more genuine expressions of love and innocence.