Michelle Enebo Photography

Best of Volume 2

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Best in Show

What a long strange trip it's been.  I'm actually not a Grateful Dead fan but that sums up my year for me.  I switched to digital in January and completely changed up my business.  I have learned a ton and turned more than a few hairs gray in the process.  I am going to take a break over the next 10 days and figure out which way is up.

But I won't leave you without any fun tidbits.  I found this neat program to make slide shows for my blog so we'll see how it works. I've pulled all of my favorite pictures of the year and I'll show them to you in three slide shows over the next week or so.  Stay tuned!  You just might see somebody you know!

(Please do me a favor and click on the 'full frame' button.  They you can experience the pictures in all their glory!)

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Phew!

I made it. I wasn't sure I was going to, but I made it to the end of my schedule.  Shelly wanted to bring her three boys (well, her hubby and her two sons) in mid December because little Asher turned one on the 12th and she wanted to take his first year pictures as close to that date as possible. 

Amid all of the promise and surprise of the season I was honestly surprised to get such great cooperation from the boys.  Grayson (big brother) was excited and enthusiastic about having his picture taken and that attitude was picked up by Asher too. 

Even though it was only 32 degrees outside (and threatening to snow) we took a few pictures outside without coats.  Such troopers!

Here are my favorites...

Checked the list

Okay, I checked the naughty and nice list and you must be doing something right because I'm sharing these fun pictures of Julian.  I posted his girlfriend, Maeve's, pictures yesterday and now it is his turn. 

Here are my favorites...

Marvelous Maeve

Last week I got to take pictures of a new little friend.  Her nanny, Alissa brought her in as a super secret surprise for her parents for the holidays.  We found that the best way to make her smile was to get her buddy Julian up close and personal.  A sure fire winner!

I even took a few pictures of Julian too but you will have to wait until tomorrow to see those.  (And only if you've been good little kids all year long!)

Here are my favorites...

Simon Says

Achoo!  Actually, Simon didn't say it, his parents and I did.  Apparently Simon thinks adults with head colds are hilarious.  Since I aim to please I sneezed my head off for him.

Simon also liked Elmo so while Mike sat close enough to Simon for his comfort Meghan made Elmo a dancing on my shoulder.   I could sing that theme song in my sleep!

Here are my favorites...

Say Frommage!

For you non french speaking types that means cheese!  We didn't ask two year old Sigrid to say that word but she could have if we'd made the request.  That girlie has the most amazing vocabulary.  Her mom said that by the time she was 13 months old she stopped keeping track of her new words because she was already up to 200 and she was learning at least 10 new words a day.  You can just tell she is going to be a little chatterbox!

Sigrid came wearing the most adorable pink Paddington coat.  I just knew that I was going to have to save some time at the end of our photo session to make sure I could take pictures of it.  The color was to die for.  For that very reason, the black and white picture you will see in this post is the one above!

Here are my favorites...

Thank heaven for little girls

(I'd insert a Maurice Chevalier soundtrack here but I couldn't find one to link.)  Not only would I like to thank heaven for little girl but for parents that are incredibly relaxed and trusting.  (Helps that they are good friends of mine.)

Mandy and Don were perfectly happy to let me play with their new baby girl and baby Katie was such a good subject.  She slept the entire time.  She let me fold her this way or squish her that way with nary a peep.  Of course, the price of admission for this whole thing was a photo studio with a thermostat at 95 degrees.   It's not good when the photographer is tempted to lose as much clothing as her subject!  That's a whole different kind of pictures!

We needed to get some fun pictures of big brother Andy too since he had his second birthday in October.  He was not interested in holding the new interloper in his household but he did offer up a sweet kiss on the head.  Right before he gave her a hug that we thought might inflict permanent damage. 

Congratulations you guys!  Here are my favorites...

Similarly motivated

When I think of something that needs to be done, or make a decision I need to make it happen right away.  I jump in immediately partly because I'm excited to make or do the fun thing I've just thought of.  The other part is that I am so busy, if I don't get my mission done immediately it probably won't get done.  A perfect example is the redesign of my website.  I decided on a Sunday that I need to have an updated website and by Wednesday I had it up and running.  (The only reason it took that long is because the website template people didn't respond very quickly to my purchase!)

So where am I going with this?  Can you see the beautiful sweaters J.D. and Caitlin are wearing?  Their Mom, Angelica, decided the night before our photoshoot that she had to make new outfits.  Can you believe how amazing they are?  I can because Angelica dresses her kids in amazing handmade outfits every year! (I'm sure she made he own sweater too.)

Here are my favorites...

Fancy pants

Shantih and Alexis came for pictures this weekend and they wore the best pajama pants ever.  They have a good friend (you can see her website here) who makes pajamas in all sorts of pants in fun prints and she even makes mother/daughter matching pants.  Wouldn't that be fun?  If Mrs. Santa wasn't already bringing American Girl jammies I'd have put in a special request!

I love taking pictures of Sara, Mohnie and their girls.  They are always ready for fun and they prefer the non-posed, fun type pictures.  I hope they like these family pictures as much as I do!

Here are my favorites...  (BTW - the last few shots are really for Shantih.  We made a deal that I would take a few pictures of her wearing her beautiful tiara and then she would take it off for the jammies.  Isn't she fabulous?)