I loved this family shoot! We met at a park in Park Ridge that has a little nature preserve attached, and the fall colors were fabulous. I’ve worked with John Mark, Sheena and Esmée a couple of times before (see some of those images here) so I was of course very happy to hear from them again. This time rather than portraits of Esmée and their immediate family, John Mark and Sheena were interested in a larger family portrait.
Here is one of our first shots, and my favorite!

These are John Mark and his sister Melissa’s parents, and loving grandparents to all the kiddos.
We still did some individual shots of each of the kids…I’ll go oldest to youngest. Meet Simon:
Owen (had me at hello! Love those glasses…)
And Aidan! Even though Aidan said it was ‘too hard’ to smile (love it.) we still got some cute shots.And Esmée! Love her. She has the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen and looks right at the camera…a photographer’s dream!
It was my pleasure working with you all this weekend – I hope some of these shots will be Christmas Card worthy!