Danielle and John’s Engagement Session

Written by Mel McLellan

Yesterday morning we had the priviledge of photographing for Danielle and John. Danielle and I became friends when we were 8 and 9 years old - we go waaay back! :) It's so exciting to see your friends find the love of their lives - it's an amazing evolution and I've loved watching it unfold for Danielle. We went down to the creek for this particular session and got really wet! It was so much fun - everyone should really start doing more of these! ;)

Congratulations to you both! We love you! :)

- Mel

The 5th Westhaven Resident Profile – Us!

Written by Mel McLellan

We were so excited when we got the news yesterday that Southern Land wants to feature us as their 5th resident profile for the new ad campaign! What fun! :) But do you know what the saddest part of it all was? When we heard we would be featured, the first thing we both thought was "That's awesome! What a great post for our blog!" Yes yes - let me beat you to the punch - we are pathetic. :) As you might imagine it's a very difficult thing to get good pictures of yourself as a photographer so we went out to Sean's grandparent's house this morning and I coached his grandfather through a few pictures. I must say, we make a pretty darn good team because these are not half bad!

Beautiful light can work wonders can't it? :)

- Mel

Suzanne and Family – Westhaven Part 4

Written by Mel McLellan

Yesterday we had the pleasure of spending the morning with Suzanne, Ben, and their two boys. Suzanne is a lawyer and stay at home mom and is the final resident in Westhaven's ad campaign. They are such a beautiful family and their boys are quite the entertainers. :) Here are a few possibilites for the ad...

As you know, Sean and I huge advocates of the face-swaps (i.e. taking the best face of every person from several images and putting them together in one image) but sometimes I think the single instance makes a really nice momento of life at the time. Especially when kids are little - when do they ever sit still at the same time?? The squirming and funny faces is just them and I love it. :)