Alex the Photo Blog

“Just a small town girl… livin’ in a lonely world,” she started off.  From those few epic lyrics, I knew Kate Tucker was destined to be rock’s one great hope.   She will [eventually] be what the world of rock music needs to save itself from the pop divas (yes Adam Levine, I’m talking about you) currently ruling the airwaves.  With rock radio stations dying at an alarming rate and rock record sales in sharp decline, Kate Tucker will save it all.  Though she barely has enough hair to tease and hairspray, she has some very healthy vocal cords and a desire to ROCK (note below, her hands are both making the Sign of the Horns).  It’s just too bad she’s still roughly 17.9 years away from being able to go on tour without her parents… just don’t stop believin’.

… and now for the rest of Kate Tucker’s Christmas/newborn family photos.  :)

The Giles family is one of my favorite repeat customers for yearly family portraits.  With a new edition earlier this year (Emily), Kathy wanted to make sure to get some good holiday card photos.  We headed out to McDaniel Farm Park in Gwinnett to snap some with the falling leaves.  We had a fun time, but I will say it was a bit colder than expected.  So cold, that the girls were very unhappy to be wearing such cute outfits.  Kathy always dresses her girls so well, but we all learned that if you want smiling faces, you need kids that don’t feel like icicles, no matter how cute!

Stephen was so excited to see this out behind the original farm house.   I think the humor was lost on the girls.  :)

Continuing with my blog catch up are the Harrelsons.  These photos were taken just outside of Peachtree City, GA at the home of Ciska, Wes, Addie, and baby Jacob.

Skinned knees and cute boots.  The life of Addie Harrelson.

It’s funny with baby photos because when you shoot on location you’ll never know where the best place to pose them is going to end up.  In this case it was in a pumpkin basket that had candy corn and candles in it.  This is just a little teaser from the Avalina Duncan photo session last week.  More to come plus details on the hand made blanket she pooped on.

Still slowly catching up.  With my wedding in 3 weeks, it’s been tough to find time to blog.   Here is the Madden Family from our shoot back in July at the Roswell Mill.  It’s always fun talking with new parents to see how it’s going because you can often get very different experiences…  The Maddens are lucky in that they have been blessed with a very happy baby and have been loving every minute of parenthood.

A few Saturdays ago, I had the pleasure of taking photos of one of the more serious babies I know.  The truth is that she’s a very happy and fun child, but when a camera comes around she’s all business.  My take on it is that when you photograph young ones, you take them out of their element- whether that be changing clothes, mom and dad yelling from a distance to get your attention, or it could be travelling to a place they’ve never been.  What I found with Isabella was that as soon as we stepped onto Agnes Scott’s campus in Decatur, she was just too curious about her surroundings to think about smiling.  She wanted to play with the grass or put things in her mouth to take it all in.  Once she got comfortable we got some smiles and a good bit of laughter as well.  You’ll see a mix of both here.

Last Sunday I had the pleasure of taking pictures of Amanda and Brad Sullivan’s family.  Well, I guess when you get married and have a kid, your parents and sister turn into “extended family?”  Funny how that works.  These photos were taken on a Sunday afternoon at their home in Brookhaven.  Elana is Amanda’s 19 month old daughter.  She was quite the funny photo subject in that whenever she was having her picture taken she would squirm and fidget and walk away.  Apparently however, I wasn’t the problem because she’d immediately walk up to me and smile.  No idea why she only did that when out of the frame, but it was the case.  Nora, Amanda’s neice (9 month old), really had no idea what was going on, but she was a happy baby that enjoyed the taste of leaves in the front yard (see second to last photo).  Fiber is good for digestion, I guess?

And I just had to put this one in the mix…