09 Apr Lifestyle Family Portraits in the Forest

My brother and his family live up in Bellingham, Washington in what I would call a rain forest.  That might not be technically right, but that’s what it looks like to me.

For this photo shoot, me, my mom, my brother and my niece and nephew simply walked across the street from my brother’s house and into this wonderland.

I think every photographer out there knows that taking photos of your own family is crazy hard to do.  I’m no exception.  For my photo shoots with them I do what I can to get posed photos and then I end up following them around to get whatever I can manage.

Somehow they end up being the best kind of lifestyle images where everyone is being themselves and doing their thing.  No matter what the process is to get them, I’m super happy for the memories.