Pennsylvania Wedding & Portrait Photographer - Joe Maher's Blog

An Afternoon at Sweet Peas Flowers

Such a cool place and such sweet and beautiful kids!

Repeat

I just love it when clients call me year after year to record their children!  It does two things for me.  First of all I get to reconnect with past clients/subjects but more importantly it allows me to become apart of their family!  The kids start to remember me from the past year or past sessions and they become a small part of my history as well!  What a fantastic job I have!

Slowing it down

"Senior season" has been a blast thus far!  The fast pace and high energy of the kids is a great environment to work in.  But from time to time I need to slow it down a bit and regroup which normally includes a total change of gears.  I was lucky enough to get a call from a long time friend to photograph her brother with her kids.  At the end of the shoot toddler "M" was walking back to see her mommy and I got a chance to take a few images of her alone.  I called "M's" name and she allowed me to take a few more images of her.  VERY happy I was allowed that extra time. The light was perfect and I had these shots in mind. "M"s expressions just scream vintage!

 

 

 

This was the finished look I had in my head when "M" walked towards me.

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It is sometimes difficult to look at the photographs you take.  Not that they are bad photographs or that the subject is less than desirable but that the photographs age the actual photographer. You see, this boy is my nephew, brother to the 6 year old I photographed last week.  The two of them have aged me many years when I look at the final photographs from these sessions.  I may hang it up if I am still around to shoot their wedding(s).  (Lord help me)  :) 

Dance (?) photographs

From time to time I photograph my niece Maddison and my nephew Riley.  This day was Maddison's turn as my sister wanted to have a few "dance" pictures of her 2009 season.  Sooooooo, we went to the local park and took some shots.  I am not exactly sure these are "dance" photos or anything remotely close to "dance" photos.  Seems the session went in a totally different direction.  Maddison is 6 and I am not totally sold on the fact that these look like a 6 year old that is a week away from graduating from kindergarten.  My apologies go out to my sister but the images are rockin'!

This first shot if of her green dance outfit. (hard to actually see it) But the expression is perfect I think!

My mother was a dancer when she was young. When I looked at this image I was certain it was one of my mother's pictures when she was young.  Very strange feeling to "see" your mother when you are working on images for your niece/sister. The outfit was a cute red one. Again, not a shot that "shows" the outfit but certainly exhibits strong family traits.

Not sure Maddison looks 7 here.

This shot was one that showed her age the best.  I like this one!