Now that it’s November, I can exhale.

Any photographer can tell you about how autumn is the most insane time of the year. Everyone wants family portraits while we have great mild weather and nature’s own beautiful, colorful backdrop when all the leaves ripen, it’s a busy wedding month, we come up on the deadline to get albums submitted to be printed before Christmas, and that’s not to mention all the editing involved.

October is my favorite month, for the aforementioned mild weather and colorful leaves, but I feel like I didn’t even see it this year, except through my clients’ photographs. And that is really a beautiful thing in and of itself, honestly – to witness the changes week by week and notice how subtly, and sometimes suddenly, nature can change. When you’re photographing every weekend, it’s easy to keep track of in your mind, to look backward and tick off the weather and the stages of the month at each wedding and portrait session I was lucky enough to be a part of. And when you look at it that way, I may have taken more notice of October while being fully engaged in the whirlwind of weddings and portraits than if I hadn’t had a thing at all to do. And that realization just reinforces the love I have for my career.

Because of the whirlwind though, I am WAY behind on blogs. I promise to get some catching-up done this week and I’m going to start right now, with some photos that I snuck in of my boys last month. I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite places in the St. Louis area is Laumeier Sculpture Park, so that’s where we went for these shots. We still need family photos done, but getting pictures of them is a good start! Kadin (my older one) is turning into a little model. Max is still the one I have to chase around and coax – but turned it out that if I allowed him to pose himself, he fully cooperated, so I pretty much just said, “Go over there and sit however you want.” Score!

So here are my munchkins, and stay tuned this week for four engagement sessions and a family session!