Beach photo session

The family spent the weekend at the beach last week.  As frequent Quality Time Mom readers already know, our boys wake up between 6 and 6:30.  We actually look forward to our kids’ internal clocks announcing dawn when we want to have a beach photo session.  The morning light is absolutely amazing.  We took advantage of a recent Children’s Place clothing sale to outfit our boys in complementary white and blue shirts (so the photos would look “intentional” without being too matchy-matchy).  We often buy white shirts for our frequent beach photo shoots, and this time Elijah was the recipient of the mostly white polo shirt.  The early light reflects beautifully off white apparel and gives the wearer a clean glow. 

We packed Zach, Elijah and their cousin Madelyn up in the wagon and walked the ¼ mile to the beach.  Mom brought a beach pail to collect treasures for a future art project, her coffee and the kids’ water bottle and we were set! 

Mike got some amazing shots with the kids walking up and down stairs.  He took these shots running backwards in front of the kids as they stormed the beach.  Somehow, our little one took the lead and these shots turned out best, because when Elijah tailed the big kids, he got lost in the pictures.

Here they come! Mike is running backwards in front of the kids for this shot.

The little one looks even smaller in the back.  But I like the composition of this shot Mike took.

Rather than pay $100+ for a professional shoot, we took advantage of our early rising to start off our day in the most amazing way.  These pictures are going to go on display in our apartment so we can have a little bit of summer all year ‘round.

Some of my other favorite shots from our beach shoot

Mom was there prepping for a future craft project (collecting treasures), with a back-up camera, and with her coffee (hey - we got up and out at 6 am!)