October 29, 2008
· Filed under Anna Lynch McClary Photography, Family, Portraits · Tagged Anna Lynch McClary Photography, Cherry Creek State Park, Colorado Fall Colors, Colorado Photography, Denver Photography, Family, Twin Girls
Nancy and I had been working on getting a date set since I did pictures of her nephew Ethan back in April and we finally had the perfect Octber day. We had been worried about the weather, but when I pulled up a couple hours early (I always like to scout out where I’m shooting) to Cherry Creek State Park it was beautiful! I’m talking no wind, 70 degrees, perfect cloud cover, and on top of that the changing Colorado trees. Really, does it get better than that?
We ended up kicking off the family shoot about an hour earlier than we had planned, and boy did that end up being a good thing! I had all of these great locations scouted out and we had hit a couple of them when out of nowhere the wind kicked up like crazy and it started spitting on us. This wind wasn’t a nice breeze that we could work with, so we had to call the shoot. Of course we got some great shots first, but how couldn’t you with three beautiful girls and a mom and dad that weren’t too bad either! We’ll just have to save the lake and beach shots for next time.
See what I mean about the perfect day and colors?
It cracked me up how different all three of the girls’ personalities were. Their jumping shot shows it perfectly!
However, I think that this one just shows it a little bit better. Funny how their individuality comes through without even seeing their faces.
By this time it had started to cool down and we knew that our time was limited.
So, instead of running to the next spot, why not skip?!
I’m quite positive that they were probably fighting to keep their eyes open between the wind and rain at this point, but they held strong and you couldn’t even tell!
Thanks again Steve, Nancy, and girls, I had a great time and thanks for putting up with my lame jokes! 
Tomorrow pictures of a new 4 year old!
-alm
May 11, 2008
· Filed under Family, Kids, Personal, Portraits · Tagged 3 months, 6 months, Anna Lynch McClary Personal, Anna Lynch McClary Photography, Colorado, Denver, Family, Kids, Ovid, Sterling
When Easter rolled around my mom surprised me on one of those days that I just needed a good surprise. She had packed up Mitch and my Easter baskets just like usual and had shipped them out to us and had thrown in some fuzzy chicks to decorate our place with. That was one of my most recent “good” mom moments that really made me appreciate her and everything she’s done for me over the years. Yes, there were definitely “bad” mom moments, but coincidentally they were mostly when I was 13-20, so I’ll say those don’t count in honor of Mother’s Day. Thanks for everything Mom!
I spent all of today trying to catch up on orders and processing some new sessions. I, of course didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, but I did get a good chunk of everything done. Some of those things included editing three new sessions. Two are for moms celebrating their first Mother’s Day and one for two more new moms and a new grandma, so it’s only fitting that I put up three images today to give each of them sneak peeks. I’m also throwing in one of my favorite images of my mom.
The “L” here is backwards thanks to my fabulous “assistant” 
This shot is (obviously) from my wedding. It’s one of my favorites of my mom because she is laughing and so genuinely happy. All of our wedding pictures were by the fabulous Andy and Angie Wood of A&A Photography who I can’t recommend enough!
Happy Mother’s Day!
-alm
March 24, 2008
· Filed under Class of 2008, Family, Seniors · Tagged Class of 2008, Colorado, Cousins, Family, Julesburg, Ovid, Sedgwick, Sedgwick County, Senior
Since we finally had a cleared schedule with Brady and Lance, we decided to take advantage of it and get some shots of the cousins together.
I have a lot of fun photographing out in the country and in rural Colorado. It keeps your mind turning for different spots. I’ve also had to really look at ordinary spots and wonder what I could do with them. Yes, I’m a geek, that’s fun to me!
