‘Tis the season for taking pictures! {houston texas portrait photographer}

Hi fun friends! It’s that time of year again! During the holidays we’re surrounded by so many great photographic opportunities: beautiful decorations, excited children, distant family, and (in some lucky places) even snow! To celebrate the season and help make the scramble for christmas photos more fun, my good friend Kay (of Kay Harmon Photography) and I decided to create a little contest. You’re all invited to participate in the fun, and there’s even a prize at the end!

The rules are simple: find, capture, and post as many of the Christmas Scenes listed as possible! Phone uploads, point and shoot photos, fancy professional images – all are welcome. Post the photos on your own facebook wall (with a tag for The Homespun Life so I can see, too!) or post them on The Homespun Life‘s page. Whoever gets the most photos at the end of the month will win a small prize! (No more than 3 photos per day, please.) You may notice that there is one photo for every day of the month, plus some alternates. That way, if you want to post one photo a day but don’t like some of the ones on the list, you have some choices! Feel free to follow the order listed or jump around. I’m a rebel so I’ll be picking from all over the list.

Can’t wait to see what you come up with! I’ll only be posting mine on Facebook, not here on the blog, so be sure to stop by and check it out! And remember – whoever has posted the most photos at the end of the month will win a prize. So get to work!

(And yes, I know “Scavenger” is misspelled on the list. Don’t judge.)

Woodlands Waterway Family Shoot {houston texas portrait photographer}

Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph this fun family down at the Woodlands Waterway. I’d never shot there before, so it was a fun adventure exploring all the various scenes. The family wanted a bit of a mix of urban and nature, and this turned out to be a great place to find both of those things.

The boys definitely loved exploring the tunnels and fountains – they had exactly as much fun energy as you’d expect a 4 year old and a 2 year old to have! As a result, I got a lot of this:

And a lot of this:

Which have had me laughing out loud throughout the entire editing process thus far.

But they were really incredibly sweet boys. It was easy to tell that they truly loved each other as well as being so very loved themselves. They also both had gorgeous eyes and adorable smiles, and as a result I also got a few like this: