And in black and white...

Found an acorn!

 

 So thoughtful...

Not sure what captured her attention, but I love her sweet smile.

Favorite spot...

I naturally had to visit my favorite spot for portraits...It's secluded and usually shaded and I love the texture of the rock.  H is looking mighty grown up these days!

Tree huggers...

The girls enjoy walking and tree hugging...and we even had a nice picnic!

Two peas in a pod...

We visited the Arboretum together a few weeks ago.  It was a beautiful day and the cherry blossoms were at their peak bloom, which meant it was ridiculously crowded.  No wide angle shots.  And when I'm with the littles, there is no time to shoot flowers.  In the bottom pic, they are people watching.  I find it humorous that their bodies are mirroring each other.  Two peas in a pod.  

If all else fails...

Give them a prop.  I'm so over posed pictures with the littles.  It's TOO DARN HARD to get them to look at me.  Their eyes flit to me for a millisecond and then they are looking in another direction.  I swear, they think they are looking when they are not.  If they weren't so communicative on every other level, I would wonder if they had autism.  Ha ha.  Eye contact, what's that?  They had fun with my little pinwheels though, which were spinning like mad in the wind.  So, for a while anyway, I am going to try to concentrate on candids and connections instead of eye contact. 

And once again...

Turns out the secret trick works with daddies too!

New trick....

As disappointed as I was in the technical side of things, I was happy to learn a new trick that seemed to work well for shooting littles.  I asked Jenny to tell Hannah a secret and got these sweet expressions.  Definitely gonna try that again!  I think these two shots were my favorites!