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january maternity session | downtown princeton

kim — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:45:51 +0000

We truly lucked out on the weather on Saturday in downtown Princeton for this maternity session. It’s a far cry from last January when the ground was covered with multiple inches of snow and we couldn’t take off our coats!

Christine + Dan are expecting their first child and it’s a surprise! Christine is absolutely glowing, and you wouldn’t even guess that she had a cold! I am looking forward to meeting their little bambino/bambina in April

Simply beautiful!

the schmidt brothers | oklahoma family photographer

kim — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:45:07 +0000

It is slowly becoming an annual tradition to get photos of the three brothers together at Christmas. Though I only shared one last year, I thought it fitting to include a few more this year. We did a bit of hiking on one of their grandmother’s properties to reach the abandoned blue car. Scarastically speaking, it worked very well for a photo of these three preps! Poor Anthony, he is the oldest and shortest of the bunch.

Trying to get serious.

As serious as they can get, seconds later!

the nephews | oklahoma family photographer

kim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:45:55 +0000

Finally getting around to showing photos of my session with Randon, Rylan, and my brother Mark. We loaded up the car and headed to Kid Space (a park that I actually helped build in high school). The sun was shining and the weather was in the high 60s – perfect day to capture these ornery, spunky boys.

I love little boys in skinny jeans!

This photo cracks me up because Rylan is expressive all the time, Randon truly wasn’t hurting him at all. Just looks like it!

the brown family | oklahoma family photographer

kim — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:00:50 +0000

I did a little work while in Oklahoma for one of my bridesmaids and good friend Allison and her family. This year her older brother and sister-in-law welcomed Maggie to the family and what better way to honor that than a holiday family portrait!! The weather was warm, though a tad windy (but when is it not windy in Oklahoma?!?!?!), and everyone was dressed to perfection! I loved the brown and red accents. I didn’t know what they were actually wearing and I came dressed in my new red peacoat, I could have fit right into the family!!

Henry is 3.5 years old and was awesome at having his photo taken! At least nothing a bribery of a mini M&M or two couldn’t change!

Maggie really is the perfect addition to their already adorable family!

Uncle Andrew and Aunt Allison are stellar and shower their niece and nephew with so much love! This photo makes me chuckle because Maggie thinks we are all crazy and Henry thinks we are funny!

iphone christmas

kim — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:49:28 +0000

Happy 2012!!! I hope each and every one of you had a wonderful holiday! Anthony + I are fortunate enough to get close to two weeks away during Christmas and we take full advantage every year (though a photographer friend of mine spent two weeks in the French Polynesian with her husbands family – that would have be glorious!!!). We loaded up the suitcases, drove our tails to Philly to hop on a plane, got off in Oklahoma City to rush to the annual family sing-along! You know the Mitch Miller Christmas album? Yep, that’s the one we sing along with, we even have the old-style song sheet, album, and sleigh bells. It’s the perfect holiday tradition started back when my dad was a youngster.

We got to celebrate Randon’s 5th birthday on the 18th. As luck would have it, I was charging my camera batteries before we left for the bowling alley, I grabbed my camera and it was dead by the time I got it out. Luckily the iPhone 4S saved the day and I was still able to capture the moment! And of course we only had a #4 from Randon’s birthday last year. It didn’t matter one bit to him (though it may give him a complex later on in life!), he blew it out and little Rylan thought it was his turn. He has to wait another few weeks (January 14th) before it’s all about him!!

We spent Christmas morning with my family and got to share in the excitement with the boys. Randon started per-kindergarten this year and is really into coloring and art. My parents got him the famous IKEA art easel. Can you tell what his favorite color is? I think they are going to need to invest in more blue paint, chalk and markers. He won’t have anything to do with any other color.

We have been very fortunate the past three years to see the OKC Thunder play during the holidays! This year we really lucked out!!! We went Christmas day, opening night!! The atmosphere was electric, we were half court 7 rows up, really the perfect seats to see Kevin Durant throw down on the Orlando Magic. THUNDER UP!

I will get a post up very soon with the rest of the photos I took, including a family session with a good friend of mine!

last holiday session | west windsor family photographer

kim — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:43:42 +0000

As I sit here finally listening to Christmas music this holiday season and finishing packing up this awesome family’s order, I remembered I hadn’t had a chance to blog it yet! Janel and Nate are neighbors of ours (we even have an Oklahoma connection) and they haven’t had a family photo taken since their oldest was a toddler. It was beyond time! I went over to help Janel put together their outfits – and they had everything in their closets already!! Love when that happens. The perfect amount color and complimentary colors without everyone matching!

We were blessed with a gorgeous fall-like Saturday morning right after Thanksgiving. And look at those two kiddos – they held that position for longer than I have seen two siblings hug! This was the perfect session and family to end the crazy busy holiday season!

They sure thought I was funny – or maybe it was just Isaac loved to laugh/scream!

Love a daddy’s girl!

the k family | west windsor family photographer

kim — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:30:30 +0000

I love the opportunity to spend a quiet Sunday morning with a family at their home! JD and Ryan had me smitten the minute I walked in the door, with trucks and cars in hand. We went out in search of a deer (no luck finding it again!), picked up many sticks, had a few races and then headed back in to read a few stories. Handsome little guys they are!

the b family | princeton family photographer

kim — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:38:00 +0000

Carrie is a southern girl with the cutest accent, sweetest personality, and incredibly perfect family. I love someone who isn’t afraid to ask for help and when it came to their outfits she wanted some advice. We picked out the little guy’s sweater and built from there, adding the punch of magenta to spice it up. After several reschedules, everything lined up perfectly last weekend for a trip to Princeton University’s campus. One thing we did not take into consideration when we met around 4 is the hordes of people coming back from the last football game of the season. I can’t tell you if they won or lost, but I can say we say an abundance of orange (which is not a color I like being a University of Oklahoma alum!!!). Luckily we found some great spaces that not too many people were and let the kiddos run around.

Money!!!! Everyone is looking and super adorable to boot!

Long red hair – yes please!

Can’t not get a photo of these two lovebirds!!

holiday family session | princeton family photographer

kim — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:31:18 +0000

Happy November ya’ll!! Starting the month off right with this adorable family! Luckily we moved the session to Friday afternoon as the snow hit us last Saturday. All the freak storms we’ve had this year is making for quite an eventful 2011. I think I’m ready for 2012 to not be so wild!!

Fun, gorgeous family!

This one took some time to warm up to me (the one on the right that is!) and I love that although he doesn’t have a huge smile on his face, you can tell in his eyes that it’s about to happen! By the end of the session, he wouldn’t stop giggling!

colin | central jersey senior high school photographer

kim — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:45:47 +0000

Colin will be going off to college next fall, and to celebrate the last year at home, mom wanted to highlight and honor this special time as a high school senior. It’s fitting that I’m writing this blog post in the city that may be pulling Colin to spend some of the best years of his life, Boston, Massachusetts. A lover of incredible architecture and writing, we were able to focus on both aspects meeting on Princeton University’s campus. The fedora alone makes me smile, but when he brought out his journal and feather pen, forget it!

If you are a high school senior in the Princeton area, would like photos taken, please contact me immediately. I only have a few openings left for the year!

toddler mania | princeton child photographer

kim — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:30:26 +0000

What a refreshing warm-up this weekend after the cooler weather at the start of the week – anyone else take full advantage? Shooting outdoors in the fall has become my all-time favorite! Couple that with a smiley, happy-go-lucky toddler and you get perfection!

For those wondering, I did not touch Tyler’s eyes at all! They really are that blue, and mom played it up with the sweater combo too!

I promise to come back and share a few more photos from this session – it was one of my favs!

j family one year later | princeton family photographer

kim — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:41:58 +0000

It was a cool, overcast morning and the planets seemed to not be in alignment but after a quick car ride from one location to another, a stop to get hot chocolate in Starbucks, we finally got smiles, laughs, and a few kisses too from everyone!

Do you remember this cute red head from last year? My how big he and his sister have gotten!

hannah is one | princeton child photographer

kim — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:45:22 +0000

I can’t believe this little one is already one! You may remember her from 6 months ago, one year ago, and before she was born. She is a walking fool, loves both her mommy and daddy something-fierce, and has such a serious and contemplative temperament! Can’t you just hear her giggling in that second photo?

oklahoma trip in review

kim — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:05:56 +0000

Happy Labor Day!!!

If you are on facebook, you may have already seen this slideshow, but I wanted to come share it on here too.

Can you tell how much I love and adore these boys? I can never get enough of them!!

julia + john | princeton child photographer

kim — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:51:05 +0000

It’s been two years since I first met Julia on the campus of Princeton University. She now has a little brother John and another sibling on the way. It’s amazing how grown up she looks at 4 years old (especially when I compare her to my nephew Randon who is a bit older than she is!).

I love that in the first photo John is holding a piece of brick and the second he has acorns in front of him. All boy!! (a handsome one at that!)

“Hey Julia give John a hug!” She lifts him off the ground and gets close to the neck-grab!

Things haven’t changed much for Julia in regards to wearing twirly skirts and spinning in circles! There is nothing better than that carefree abandonment children have!

hurricane irene | west windsor photographer

kim — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:46:31 +0000

Thankfully Irene did not damage our place minus water in the basement. All of our Christmas decor is currently in our living room drying out because the wind blew water in through a window/vent in the basement. Luckily the only thing we’ve lost is boxes. I know many others cannot say the same, including our neighbors that lost valuable items in their storage bin.

We live very close to the D+R Canal, which saying it exceeded it’s banks is an understatement. Here is a before + after from the same bridge, same 35mm lens from yesterday. I’m planning to go back out there in an hour or so to photograph what it looks like 24 hours after.

That’s the golf course! (in relation to the photo above it’s to camera right).

A usually non-existent waterfall coming from the golf course into the canal over the walk/run/bike bath.

randon + rylan | the loves of my life

kim — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:30:01 +0000

Perfection with a capital P! Two for two on photos of the boys with Aunt Kim. Now if only they would have both sat in the same photo with me! Christmas maybe…

Randon was being a bugger (after spending the day at pre-K, he came home exhausted!) and this is what happens – tickle attack!

Boy has he changed since this time last August! He now goes to “big kid” school and is loving it (though every day he wanted to come home and nap, even with “quiet”/nap time at school!). I’m proud of what he has accomplished since my parents received custody of both boys last March!

love.love.love. them both!

the schmidt family | downtown oklahoma city

kim — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:45:35 +0000

A beautiful Tuesday morning session on the canal in Bricktown OKC with my father-in-law’s brother Mike and his family.

Even though both Cynthia and Phillip claim to hate one another, they did show some sibling love!

lake time | oklahoma getaway

kim — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:45:26 +0000

Man oh man I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last post! Get ready though because there are lots of posts coming! I’ve been quite busy, taking lots of photos, editing them and all, but just haven’t had a moment to blog! I am currently in Oklahoma for the week (solo this time), enjoying every minute loving on the nephews, spending time with family, and laying out by the pool. It’s a tough life, I know!

This past Saturday we went to Lake Eufaula (it’s been over 10 years since my last visit there and a first for the boys!) as our family friends have a cabin, boat and jet-skis. The weather was absolutely perfect, it never reached 100!! Which is saying something since every day in July saw 100+ degree temps in Oklahoma!

I am absolutely in love with this first photo – Randon and I actually have never had a non-iPhone photo taken of the two of us in his 4.5 years of life. That was way too long but I’m glad that we got a winner on our first try!

Before he got sick and slept on my chest for an hour or so.

(color is a bit wonky on these next two, but they capture the moment nonetheless!)

Check back soon for photos from Randon’s first day of Pre-Kindergarten, the boys playing golf, and a family session in OKC!

bonnie + nathan | princeton wedding photographer

kim — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:33 +0000

Quick sneak peek for Bonnie + Nathan from their July 16th, 2011 wedding day! Before the ceremony, the entire wedding party went over to Princeton University’s campus as documented below!

A little bit of fun after the ceremony! (I decided to do a little funkier b+w post-processing, gives the feel of film!)

the garden

kim — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:30:53 +0000

Our garden has grown a ridiculous amount since my last post back at the end of May. Not only do we have this plot in the community garden, I have a tomatillo plant on our patio (these are the green “tomatoes” to make salsa verde!), 2 zucchini plants growing in our neighbors front flower bed, and a trash can full of potatoes! Anthony makes fun of me on the trash can potatoes but all the reading I’ve done says our potato yield will be higher by doing this.

Starting out with our annual patio garden

That is our plot looking on sideways

Our funky yellow squash that still tasted delicious!

Tomatoes are growing!

The one Paris Market carrot I pulled up to see how they were looking (and that’s pretty much full size, they are small and squaty!)

Everything I harvested that day.

she is finally here | hopewell newborn photographer

kim — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:08:17 +0000

This sweet little gal came into the world in a dramatic way, at home without much warning in the early hours. Big sister C is very much in love with her sister, doting on her, giving her lots of kisses, and being overall an incredible big sister! Little C was a champ during our session, giving off some great expressions and not doing too much damage to my blankets! Congratulations Heather, Steve, and C on your newest arrival!

someone is moving | princeton family photography

kim — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:30:00 +0000

A quick sneak peek of this adorable family that is moving to a new home. Chinyere wanted some photos to put on a postcard with their new address and I was totally game! Loved the color choices, the heels, the family, everything!

field of wild flowers | princeton photographer

kim — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:30:12 +0000

It’s been wild around these parts with construction going on left and right (a post about that will come shortly!). The guys from I&R Construction crew bought grass seed with wildflowers in it to replace some of the ground they’ve pulled up and it was absolutely beautiful out there. Last week I came home from Zumba, a hot, sweaty mess, scarfed down a quick salad, grabbed my camera to get these. I was losing light fast (it was already 7:20), thankfully my camera handles the high ISO and I went to town with my macro. When I came back, Anthony was confused as to why I was gone for so long, but sometimes nature really does call. As of yesterday (which really means it probably happened Friday), the seminary did some mowing/weed whacking and it’s all gone!!

The beauty is fascinating and mesmerizing. Enjoy!

I played around a bit with split toning on this one and I’m a little obsessed with it!