Summer is upon us. Bring on the road trips, the late nights, and the family gathering together.
And what a perfect time while your family is gathering to book an extended family session! What exactly is an extended family session? This is any group of family that is multi and cross generational gathering together to create images to remember the love in their family and how it has grown over the years. It often looks like Grandparents with their adult children and those children's children, but can be any groupings of families that you've created. Why might you want to book an extended family session? That is what we're going to chat about today.
Family is gathering for a special event or needs a reason to gather.
When I look at my family's calendar, there really is not a lot of blank space. Between work, baseball, Scouts, church, trying to have a social life and the multitude of events that school aged children come with, we don't have a lot of free time. And that's just my family. When you add in my parents, in-laws, and brother's families calendars, it can be really easy to miss each other. It was even worse when we lived a two plane ride visit away. When an family needs a chance to connect or when an out of town member of the family is in town, it can be a perfect opportunity to gather together to remember the moment in time of your family.
You want to preserve your family history. That starts now.
We are all part of such an incredible story. We each play an unrepeatable role in that story. Each member of your family is so unique and matters so very deeply. Your story will continue on through time and having photos to remember this moment of that story is so important. It will offer a window into the past for your future family to know where they come from and where they are going.
Professional images means less stress for your family gathering.
We all have the ability to take photos with our smartphones. You can have a million snapshots of your extended family, but do you have quality images by a photographer that knows how to light, pose and expose your family for the most flattering images? These can take the stress out of remembering the small details during a family gathering. You don't have to worry about someone running in the photo from a self timer anymore. You don't have to worry about the family dynamics of someone "being in charge" of the photo session. I will direct everything and there's no family dynamics at play of who is running the show!
Booking your extended family photo session is an amazing way to celebrate your family story.
Is your family gathering this summer? Let's get you on my calendar to help preserve that story and create quality images of the people who make your family uniquely amazing.