Hastings family portraits

Meet the Hastings family!  Every now and then, I still do some family portraits in between weddings and engagements.  It's a lot of fun, especially when you're already friends with the family, like this time!

A couple years ago, I did portraits for the Hastings right before Christmas...and since then everybody's grown up so much.  Natalie is nearly a teenager, Adam will be a senior in high school this fall, and Jordan just finished his second year of college.  And the dog, Tyson, has grown quite a bit since last time, in both size and maturity!  ;)  Adam and Natalie have also been my piano students for the last few years.  They're both very talented and it's a lot of fun seeing them grow into accomplished musicians.  Adam recently soloed with his high school band, playing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" -- it was awesome!

We had a great photo session at the park first thing in the morning.  I love shooting in morning light -- everything's so fresh.  Tyson was very well-behaved, and he and Jordan took it upon themselves to keep us entertained...

 

Well, so Tyson is almost always well-behaved.  ;)  He's just a bit big for someone Natalie's size!

Check out this cute couple!

Jordan

 

Natalie

 

Adam's pretty good at this.

 

 

The guys...being Very Serious.  Or at least trying.

 

The girls.  :)

And Tyson, with his favorite jogging partner!

Till next time, friends!  All the best!  :)

- Kelsey

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Kelsey Schweickert  |  San Francisco Bay Area wedding photographer
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Her Royal Highness

Meet Mesika, an adorable and rather privileged furry friend of mine who lives in Oregon.  ;)  She is a Golden Retriever/poodle cross, and quite the bundle of fun and smarts.  I'm not kidding, this dog is way too cute for her own good!  Check out these photos and see if you agree!

Mesika owns two humans, Janet Schultz and her daughter Emily.  (A third human also lives with Mesika, Betsy, but I don't believe she is owned by Mesika in quite the way the other humans are.)  My sister Heidi also lives in Oregon, where she works as a nurse.  So my camera and I visited this interesting crew the week before last, and after a discussion with Mesika, I have been graciously allowed privileges to post some photos of Her Royal Doggie-ness here.  ;)

Playing catch with Emily. (In which pastime Dog gets Human to throw Ball as long as Dog wants to. Humans are very trainable, you know.)

Pleeease?  Can you throw it for me now?

Goofy little dog. :) She's actually incredibly fast.

Awww.

Emily, by the way, has an art studio that will be featured in an upcoming blog...I did some photo collecting there.  :)

- Kelsey Schweickert

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And more favorites of Kira!

Here's the final batch of my favorite images from Kira's portrait session.  :)  It was hard to choose...she's such a photogenic little princess.

And of course, Friskia is rather photogenic too.  ;)

Dreaming among the flowers...

I have a weakness for these little violets.  :)

Love that happy smile!

I posted this photo earlier, in color...but the sepia seems to have a special magic of its own.

The End.  Ta-daaaaa!  :D

Oh, and one with her Mona Lisa smile...

If you want to see more, I'll be uploading the entire batch of finals to this gallery tonight.

Next post: the birthday present I did for my mom this week!  I'm very excited to share it with you!!  :D

- Kelsey Schweickert


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Kira

Last Saturday Kira and I had a lovely girly portrait session!  :)  The roses are in full bloom at the park where we went, and so are a gazillion other flowers. Spring is just bursting forth from every corner of that garden.  Pretty roses and a pretty little girl...what more could a photographer want?

All she needs is some wings. :) Doesn't she look like a little flower fairy?

I love the yellow and purple here.

With her dog, Friskia (I'm not quite sure of the spelling...).  He's a very sweet and friendly German Spitz.

Sometimes she has quite the Mona Lisa smile. Rather enigmatic for a nine-year-old, I think!  I'll have to post some of those tomorrow.

- Kelsey Schweickert


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