A couple months ago local Kathy reached out to us about an upcoming Family Portrait Session for her immediate family! She and her husband Steve had planned to rent a place up near at Lake Michigan in Southwest Michigan so that they and their adults kids’ families could have a nice few day vacation! Their son John and his family (Elizabeth and their 2 kids) even came in from their home in Montana for the Southwest Michigan/ Lake Michigan family vacation! Kathy & Steve & their daughter Sarah (& her husband Bob and their 2 kids) live locally here in South Bend & Mishawaka, so the drive up to the coast of Lake Michigan for us and them was only a quick 40 minutes!
After enjoying a beautiful weekend in the Southwest of Lake Michigan, we met the Stegmaier family on Monday evening a couple hours before sunset at a beach with gorgeous rolling dunes that we love to capture families & Senior portraits at! They have a beach close to their beach house rental a few minutes away, but it wasn’t easily accessible, so they were excited to hear that we knew of a road/ parking lot that literally touches a few gorgeous spots out on the beach that don’t have to be trekked to. We met everyone there in person, learned the 4 grandkids’ names, and immediately started in on their full family portraits at a few spots!
The kids were excited to find out that ice cream was a possibility (as there was an ice cream food truck in the parking lot and a couple other ice cream spots right nearby the beach), so we may or may not have used this as leverage/ bribery for them having to smile for Portraits for an hour. The children did a great job with especially since it was an hour long session. We managed to get a good variety of images with the individual families before the temptation of ice cream became too strong and the little ones needed their frozen rewards.
Thanks so much Stegmaier family for having us be a part of your vacation time up at Lake Michigan in Southwest, Michigan! We hope that your final days of vacation yesterday and today were so fun and that you got in some quality family time throughout the past handful of days! We can’t wait to show you the more complete full gallery next week and in the meantime hope you all have safe travels home! (It was great meeting all of you and we had a blast with you and the kids!)
_____ Unrelated: This coming weekend we will be capturing another Family Portrait Session at Notre Dame, capturing an event, and capturing a wedding down in Indianapolis! Next week’s Weekly Wednesday Teasers will be of that Canal 337 Indianapolis wedding on the river (complete with gondola) and the following Wednesday will be of the Notre Dame Family Portrait Session! Stay tuned for many exciting portrait Sessions as we head out to California literally 3 times within a month! We’ll be all over the place (quite literally), so check back next Weekly Wednesday to stay updated on the latest client photography!