I had the most ADORABLE Christmas shoot with Owens family way back in November at Moraine Farm. Emily (Owens mom) asked me to hold off on posting until her Christmas cards were mailed out so it wouldn’t ruin the surprise. Last Saturday I received mine in the mail and it was the cutest card I have seen. Of course it helped that Owen was a very happy little man and was dressed in festive holiday sweaters, and had the best hat ever! And big brother Fenway sported a reindeer suit that fit perfectly with for the cards reindeer sled theme. I brought along an old fashioned bob sled as a prop which Owen got to practicing his sitting up skills on. Put all of these things together and you get best holiday shoot!

Emily, Jon, Owen and Fenway – thanks so much for choosing me to photograph your family’s Christmas picture. It was so great to meet Owen and hang out with the little guy. He is such a happy, happy baby and that made it so easy to capture these photos for you. I hope you enjoy them for years to come and I’m glad you were able to use so many of them on your Christmas card. Thank you so much again for the little something extra. I truly do appreciate it. Happy New Year to your family! Hope to photograph Owen and Fenway in 2012 xx Erinn

Sorry about the delay in posts. Christmas is right around the corner and shopping has been calling my name! More posts will be coming after the holidays…I didn’t want to ruin people’s x-mas gifts so I have been holding off until Santa makes his deliveries on Sunday.

Here is a belated post on the DeBenedictis Family. It was Sue’s birthday recently and for her present she wanted her family to have an updated picture taken. She contacted me a few months prior and set it up for the weekend after Thanksgiving. Her son would be home from NJ so it would work out perfectly to meet up at Dane St. Beach. Originally the photos were supposed to be at Endicott Park in Danvers (I have yet to shoot there so if anyone ever wants to do a shoot there – let me know!) but her daughter Julia was watching an adorable little baby who lived close by so this spot was chosen so she could walk over to meet us. I was glad to shoot at Dane St. though, their outfits worked perfectly with the scenery and you get a little bit of park and a little bit of the ocean all in one

Sue – thank you to you and your family for choosing me to take your family portrait. It was so good to see you and meet your kids and husband Al. I hope you were happy with your birthday present I love the prints you ordered, especially the one of you and your hubby. One of my favorites I have taken of a couple! I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. xx – Erinn

Addison Marie made her debut into this world right on schedule; born on her due date of Nov. 5th around 2 in the afternoon. Her mama Emily has been a good friend of mine for over 5yrs and I couldn’t be more happy to see her become a mother.

Emily and I met years ago at a company located in Beverly. We became very fast friends over prank calling people within the office and then blasting NKOBT “I’ll be loving you forever” to them over the phone, to putting our hair in side ponytails and dancing in our chairs to 80′s music. Needless to say we probably didn’t get a lot of work done but we had a ton of fun while there! I was lucky enough to have a great co-worker to laugh with and even more so to get a very close friend out of it too. I think to this day we still wish we worked side by side with one another

Through the years we’ve remained close; I was in her wedding to the love of her life Anthony, had a special dinner date with the two of them to find out they were expecting, and got to be the 2nd “auntie” up at the hospital to see Miss Addison Marie two hours after she was born. My gift to Emily and Anthony at her baby shower was a newborn portrait session once the little one arrived. A week after she got home I headed to her home to spend some time with the new family and get Addison’s first glamor shots. She didn’t care to sleep that much and quickly showed me she who ruled the house. That’s perfectly fine Addison – that’s what princesses are supposed to do

Emily and Anthony – I can’t even begin to say how happy I am for the two of you to finally have this little love in your lives. I know you waited patiently for her and I’m glad she arrived perfect and healthy and most of all into the most loving home that you will provide her. Congrats to the both of you! I can’t wait to come out again and snuggle with her. xoxo Auntie Erinn

The Saturday after Thanksgiving I went out to Billerica to meet up with Casey. Her parents are friends with mine and over dinner one night they mentioned that Casey wanted to have senior portraits done and hadn’t found a photographer yet. That night her parents went home and showed Casey my website and I got a call right away asking when I could come out and shoot. I told Casey we could do your typical senior portraits – backdrop, sitting down, smiling a big cheese, and of course the ever awesome and classic  hand under the chin pose (we opted not to do that) and then for some other more funky pictures, to find an old building, train tracks, or empty field somewhere.

When I showed up at her house we did the standard senior pics to get them out of the way and then I asked her if she found a spot to do the other shots. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I was to hear about the place she had picked out!!! She said it was an old abandoned warehouse where they used to fix trains for the B&M Railroad all the way back in the early 1900′s. I immediately said get your stuff we are going there and off we went. We arrived at Iron Horse Park about 20mins away from her house. There are some businesses that still operate within the industrial park so we casually drove through the lot and headed to the massive brick building at the far end. We may have overlooked the No Trespassing signs and went through a straggly bush to climb into a poorly boarded up door. Upon entering, you were greeted with the always pleasant smell of must. I climbed over some tires and scattered wood and was completely awe struck over the size of the building, the condition it was left in, and all the machinery/records/equipment just left behind. It honestly looked like all the former employees were sucked up into space never to be found again, because everything was just quickly and hastily left behind.

Casey and I went up stairs littered with paper, climbed onto ripped down metal fences, sat on sad office chairs, and made our way outside to old train tracks leading into over-grown brush – of course all done for the perfect shot! It was sooooo great to do such a fun, funky, gritty senior portrait shoot in such an awesome location.

Casey – thank you so much for having me come take your senior portraits and introducing me to your very cool hang out spot Iron Horse Park. So glad I got to hang out with you and explore; all while getting some kick-ass senior pics, if I must say so myself. You were great to shoot and I can’t wait to take another trip back out there in the Spring! Will def let you know so you can join me for some exploring

the lighting was amazing when we were there!

First I have to say that I love including pets in shoots…after all they are part of the family, right?! I met Momo and Emma a year ago when my mom had an angel reading done by the wonderful Francine Clausen (francinesangels.com). If you don’t know what an angel reading is then I urge you to visit her website and immediately book an appointment with this woman. She reconnects you with loved ones that have passed and reads your cards that map out the next year of your life. I cannot begin to tell you how insightful she is, comforting, sweet and she embodies such a warm energy that you feel right at home when talking with her.

My dad got my mom another angel reading with Francine this past Nov. (you can only visit once a year) and when Francine emailed me to confirm her appointment she asked if I would like to take some photos of her grandson and pups. Of course I said yes!!! I met up with Francine, Mikey and the dogs on a Saturday…a bit windy but the sun was out. We headed down to a little beach in Gloucester called Half Moon. Emma and Momo were soooo excited to be at the beach that they just wanted to run around in the sand for a bit. We let them burn off some energy while Mikey picked out some spots for picture taking.

Francine – thank you for choosing me to take your Christmas cards. I’m sure you encounter hundreds of people in your line of work and I am honored and thankful that it was me who got to be the lucky photographer. It was very nice to meet Mikey and Momo and Emma are just so darn cute. Can’t wait to see you for my reading in March! xx – Erinn