My favorite style of portraiture is the sort that happens naturally.
I have photographed this beautiful family twice before, and I love that they "get" why and how I do what I do.
We don't pose, really. We hang out and I photograph them. I ask them where they spend time and how they normally sit and what they like to do. And they do that. And I shoot it. Simple.
I believe with all of my heart that it's not the big things in life that we will wish we could remember. Rather, it's the littlest things that we try to recollect. Nuances and expressions can so easily be forgotten, if we aren't careful. As we get used to life with a newborn in the house, those first few days and weeks of their lives soon become a blur in our memory.
Daily routines and couch-snuggling and sippy-cup refilling and hugging your husband goodbye for work... while some may see these activities as mundane, I view them as beautiful. I see the meaning, the significance, and the importance in those small things, and I purpose in my heart to always photograph reminders of them.