Melissa and Family
September 6, 2009
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Melissa first contacted me before I left for New Zealand about a family portrait session. When I returned, we started planning for the shoot. I LOVED her style right when we started talking, and was super excited about the shoot. Her idea was to do a shoot with her family with a sort of a theme, if you will, of 'after the party.'

We headed over to downtown West Chicago on Sunday morning to create this sort of a grungy feel to their photos. Melissa did a fabulous job choosing clothes for everyone to wear! We did have a little difficulty getting all of the children to get into the shoot, but we managed to capture a few winning shots. After the family shots were taken, Melissa changed clothes really quickly to take photos by herself.

Thanks so much for contacting me, Melissa - it was such a fun shoot!!!


~amy