This summer our adorable nephew turned one! Yay! We got to take some casual one-year-old photos for him while visiting his family. We were with them over a weekend so we had the chance to take some photos of Charlotte too.

Look at that cute little face! She actually kept her hair in a ponytail for once, which was nice.

Just this last week we finally bit the bullet and bought Lightroom, a photo editing software program I have been DYING to get. I got a book on it too, so hopefully I can get to be an expert and really improve our photos!

Here are a few more shots of Charlotte from that weekend:

I just love the thoughtful little face she gets. She's so interested in everything and is always absorbing what's going on around her. I love to capture the subtle little faces and expressions that children make! (And grown-ups too!)

We rented a lens we'd never used before for the weekend we took these, which is always a fun new learning experience. (Sometimes a frustrating new learning experience too, but so worth it!) I really love some great soft bokeh (that's the blurriness in the background behind the subject) so I'm always looking for the lens that is going to make my subject look great, of course, but will also get me that great background blur.

On another exciting note, our holiday season calendar is filling up fast! We already have a few photo shoots lined up, and honestly, just thinking about it makes me GIDDY! We really do love doing photography and are very passionate about it. Dallas and I have many conversations about our desire to improve and really just be amazing at what we do. We talk about equipment we want (and make exorbitant wish lists) and we dissect photographs together to work out how to achieve similar results. We really just get so excited to take photos and I cannot wait for the shoots we have coming up! I hope we book even more sessions!