Tag Archives: Special Needs

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Ryan | Chicago Baby & Childrens Photographer

With all the work I’ve been doing for the Celebrate Differences 2011 calendar sessions, it was about time to actually take pictures of Ryan.  His mom is the one heading this whole thing up with the charity and was looking forward to getting pictures of Ryan and some family pictures.  The original idea was to get some pictures of Ryan playing basketball, but in all honesty, he mostly just wanted to kick the ball and run every which way.  I still managed to get some cute ones of him, though.

Then we went outside, and I was faced with a challenge.  Maybe “backed”‘ with a challenge is a better description.  Mr. Ryan here did NOT want me taking his picture while he played on his V-Tech.  Wherever I went, he just kept turning his back to me.  It was rather funny.  He wasn’t mad or anything, just making it clear who the boss was.  But as I’ve said before about kids, Bring It On!  All it took was the use of my iPhone.  That got him quickly smiling and showing me his drawings, and no more cold shoulder.

And can’t forget the entire gorgeous family!

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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Baking | Naperville – Chicago Childrens Photographer

I got to do some truly lifestyle pictures, sort of like what I would do in a Day in the Life session with Miss Fiona here.  Another model  for the Celebrate Differences calendar, she loves to bake, and I got to capture that.  Fiona is almost six and chatted it up with me like an old friend as she concocted her creation.  She has delayed mylenation, so baking and using her fine motor skills are great skills for her to practice.

Now the funny behind the scenes truth of this series is that the mom and I had agreed on baking as what we would photograph, but the truth is that she didn’t have enough oil to actually make the brownies.  We agreed these would be “just for show”, but Fiona was not in agreement. LOL

After baking, we also got some studio pictures.  Fiona was excited to put on her sparkly blue and green dress and was very interested in my set up, asking what everything was.  The blue backdrop went perfectly with her dress.

Thanks, Fiona, for being so fun!

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Outdoors | Chicago Childrens Photographer – Chicago Baby Photographer

I have been so busy with photographing the models for the Celebrating Differences calendar, and here is yet another – Sara.  And I have to say, she has THE BEST backyard in the whole world.  Four acres of wonderland – a pond, a creek, a zip line, an ATV, a tree house, a trampoline…  Serious childhood envy.:)  And Sara was thrilled to show off her playground to me.

And this one was my very favorite from the session.  Just beautiful.

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Miss Shy | Chicago Children’s Photographer | Chicago Special Needs Photographer

Little McKayla is the second model for the Celebrating Differences calendar.  With duplication of chromosome 16p11.2, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  Turns out, she was an adorable three year old with the most stylin’ glasses.  Isn’t she a cutie?  But she almost ruined my perfect streak with kids.  Thusfar, I’ve been able to tout  my great kid skills.  Usually, they really like me, but McKayla wasn’t so sure about me.  She would not step foot onto my fake floor, so I gave up on that, but she still didn’t trust me.  The first hour was spent either completely attached to either mommy or daddy or giving me the stink eye.    The only word I heard from her during this time was a very soft, “noooooo” whenever I asked her anything.  “You want candy?  Do you like your doll?”  Anything resulting in the same response.

So nothing was working.  Big brother and the cousins were unsuccessful in getting her to smile and relax.  Offers of Smarties resulted in only her holding them and nothing else.  What to do?!  Well, inspiration struck.  While she did not want to eat the candy, she thought it was a great idea to feed them to her brother.  Slowly, smiles emerged, and after every Smartie she fed her brother, she would look to me for a high five and more.

After that, McKayla was my friend.  The downpour had stopped, so we decided to head outside just for a couple minutes to try for some lifstyle pictures.  At this point I experienced a different problem.  Now she wouldn’t let go of my hand as we marched through the grass and to her swing.  It was a good problem to have.

Thank you, McKayla for being such a delight!

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