In the meantime…  This is a session that I LOVED from late fall.  I had so much fun with this loving family – their love for each other just oozed from them, so naturally.  I just adored them and there was hugs all around at the end of the session.

I am starting with my favorite images – mom got in for just a few frames and they make me smile so much.  Every mom should have a cuddle session photo like this.  There are too many time we are NOT in the picture… right moms???  It makes my heart smile.  Really, I mean, don’t you just want to go and hug them all?

The weather was so strange.  There was this odd misty fog that literally rolled in.  We WATCHED it roll in.  It was so bizarre.  Different light than I have ever shot in, but I was kind of into it!

Such pretty girls!  I love that her Hello Kitty ring is on here.

This is what I mean about the different light.  Do you see the fog behind them?  It looks like a fake backdrop, right?  Nope, right here in Rye, NY…

Thanks for visiting!

I can’t thank you enough for your support of Cristina Coco Photography.  This year brought me three times the clients as last year, a new employee (thank God for Kelly!), and a connection to this craft that I only dreamed of.

Enjoy the video.  I think you’ll like it.  I know I could watch your kids’ beautiful faces all day.

(p.s. – if you would like to see it bigger, go directly to the youtube page – YOUTUBE LINK TO VIDEO – it drives me crazy that it is so small on here.)

Much, much love and a wishes for a fantastic 2012.

Cristina

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDYyUwa-xno

I don’t have many sessions planned for the next month, just newborns and a baby or two so I can spend some quality time with my family after working like crazy for three months.  I miss them!

I do however want to show you what I’ve been doing so you’ll be seeing some beautiful fall images even though it’s going to be cold and dreary outside.  I hope it will warm you up a bit and get you through the next few months of chilliness!

I loved this family.  Mom rocked the outfits from Zara kids, one of my FAVORITE places to send people to shop for their session.

This is one of my favorite sibling shots of 2011…  what you see is what you get – after a little over an hour with them I feel like this shows each of their personalities to a “T”.

For example, this guy could not NOT smile if you paid him a million dollars.  Sweet as could be, this one.

Mr. Handsome.  His mom is in T-R-O-U-B-L-E with all the girls that are going to be stopping by when he’s 16…

Cute as a button and very inquisitive little man…  this one cracked me up.  I think I told him there was someone in my camera lens and asked if he could him in there.

This lady LOOOOVED the camera.  It loves her right back.

and the light.  oooooh, the light.

Thank you so much for playing with me!

Just taking a second to show you what I’m working on today…  editing this beautiful family session.  They drove an hour to come see me, thank you so much!  I love this image of them.  Those slice of life images where it’s like no one is watching.  This whole session was sun kissed and I love it…

Everyone got a little mommy and dadddy time…

And we had a ton of fun with some of the toys I brought to play with…

Your gallery will be up super soon Jen!  Thanks for a fun time – so much more to see!

“Nope,” I said, “1004.”

Love the clothing their mom picked, their red hair…  I seem to be on a freckle streak, which is ALWAYS a good thing.  This session can show what a difference a cute outfit can make on a session.  The girls felt pretty, it was fun to photograph.  I usually don’t love when everyone matches, but this really worked here!

This is just heaven to me.  Loved this location.  It’s a private club or you would all be seeing more of it!

yes, FOUR girls!  {jealous}  Couldn’t you just squeeze her?  The faux mohawk!!

All the girls and mom…  heaven.

Thank you so much Sue, I had a blast.  I could have posted a million images!!  Can’t wait for you to see the rest.

I love that she remembers me now and thinks I’m kind of fun.  (The feeling is mutual, by the way)  I love that she’s a tough cookie and lets me in just enough to see her soft side.  I love that she’ll sit still just long enough to get a lollipop.  Which is exactly what we told her when I took this shot…

Before the lollipop suggestion we had quite a pout, but that is just the sort of thing that happens when you are three.  You all know that I like a little pout now and then.

After the lollipop there is always a fantastic sugar rush!

Stephanie gets an album from me every year.  I just love it when she tells me how they look at it together all the time and how special they are to their family.  I am secretly hoping that this is the album cover because it’s kind of perfect in my eyes…

and this will be a such a cute spread, don’t you think?

Thank you Stephanie and Mike.  Again!

These kids were so good, so sweet, so cute!

I could die over the oldest’s freckles, and the twins – well they were a ton of fun and so much personality!

Just a glimpse of my favorites from last night – I know I am skipping clients!  Clients – I have put a ton on Facebook, just hit the “F” facebook button on the bottom of this post if you are looking.  You are welcome to tag yourself!  Also, if you would like your images blogged, (I know some of you just can’t wait until that gallery!) just shoot me an email and I’ll get them up for you!  These were just on my computer this morning and I wanted to share!

First shot of the day, literally.  One of my favorites too!

Her big sister…

and her freckles…

How adorable is he?  Wanted to scoop him up and take him home.

I love when clients bring something of their child’s that is special!  This doll goes EVERYWHERE with her.  I love that it’s part of her image and something she’ll have forever.

Mom wanted a group shot where they were doing their own thing and not looking at the camera.  Done!

Thanks for a nice afternoon Kristen!

Yes, it’s here – the fall portrait season has begun!  I’m sure fall has seeped into your life too – the crazy sports schedules and the school buses driving by and clogging traffic in town.  The nutty rain has started and it’s darker earlier.  It’s cooler at night and my AC hasn’t been kicking on quite as much.  Today my little guy showed me some leaves had changed color.  I told him, “SHHHH!  I don’t want fall to hear us, it might come soon and I love summer!”  He laughed and told me I was silly. “Fall will ALWAYS come, Mommy.”  Smart little man.

So with the Fall comes the Holiday portraits, and my schedule is looking full.  I’m currently booked about six weeks out, so this is not the year to procrastinate folks!  Pick up the phone, send me an email, text, smoke signals…  however you get in touch, please, if you are thinking about doing it – get on my calender as soon as you can.  I’m not saying this to be pushy (I swear!), it’s because every year I turn people away and I feel just awful.  People call me a week before Thanksgiving for holiday card pictures and I feel like a big old jerk for not being able to help them.  I’m just giving you a little nudge is all.  A little nudge to start planning!

Ok, so my update is over.  Back to the fun stuff.  An image.  ‘Cause a blog post is just so boring without one.

My God, I love this girl’s freckles.  Do you remember the book “Freckle Juice”?  When I was little I wanted them SO badly.   I will always think they are beautiful…  the way they dance across the nose and the hairline.  Just magical.  She was pretty special too.  I love that she is looking to the side, playing with her hair in a shy sort of way, and in thought.  I can’t remember exactly what I asked her, but so happy that she was thinking of something that made her smile.

I needed a little pick me up so I decided to post these image I did for myself of my own son.  I don’t put my own stuff on here often.  I get nervous.  Which is silly right?

Sometimes, I need to do a little something for my own inner artist, something to just make me happy, tell a story, get me to think outside the box.  I need to dream and put it out there.

I found these wishing lanterns – you light them and let them go into the water as you release your wishes and dreams into the universe.  I loved them. The symbolism of this got to me.  An idea was born.

I wanted to tell a story of a boy and his dreams and letting them go out into the water.  We all have so many dreams as kids!  If we only dreamed as big now as we did then we’d be pretty unstoppable.  This lovely little model is my own little guy.  It cost me one Optimus Prime Transformer Talking Mask.

I told him to make a wish, let his dreams go…

He was pretty excited.

and then a little nervous…

and then excited again.  (and distracted by this really cool crate.  He’s three and a half, after all…)

He’s dreaming big.  Bigger than the moon he tells me. To the stars and back.

Letting a second batch off….

But he didn’t want to let them go…

Sometimes dreaming is a little scary.

Yet peaceful too.

This family is that sort.  Cape Codders through and through.  They live on the Cape year round and they are kind and sweet every time I see them.  I met them through my best friend and it’s been so nice getting to know them through the years we’ve been staying on the Cape.

The wind was not our friend this day.  It was crazy.  We didn’t see it coming because it was so calm by my house, then we drove the 1/2 mile to the beach and BAM!  Crazy, crazy wind! Hair EVERYWHERE.

I don’t care, though.  Hair everywhere or not.  I love this image.

This seemed like a good idea at the time – maybe too high of a jump for my heart…  it stopped a bit when he landed.

Their daughter is at that age…  I love that these are seconds apart and you can see two completely different sides to her!

I have the pretty posed family shot, but this so much more their real life to me.

Much love, C