First holy communion portraits

It was such an honor to get to create some portraits of this amazing young man to commemorate the special occasion of his first holy communion. He makes the world a better place.











I also loved getting to work in the beautiful church his family attends!

First Holy Communion portraits - {Albuquerque children photographer}

This session was really special and inspiring to me. I love doing first holy communion portraits - I love the beauty and importance of the occasion and I love working with children that age.  I met this handsome boy at his church and he was very patient with me while I made him kneel, hold his eyes open in bright light, and hold a heavy Bible for a long time. 








I especially like going with families to their churches at these sorts of occasions, so I was really glad that it worked out.




After he survived my ideas at the church, we went to the Botanic Gardens - it is SO beautiful there right now!  We went to all my favorite photography locations there and I love what we got.




I also love to get moms and their sons together!  I love these.




The flowers were so beautiful.  The whole time I was thinking that I really need to bring my daughters for some fun girls pictures next.








This was one of my very favorites from the session.

First Communion Portraits

I met this beautiful girl just a short time before her First Communion, and it was such a pleasure to work with her on these gorgeous portraits! She is sweet & bubbly and so much fun. As a photographer it doesn't any better than a beautiful girl in a beautiful gown, especially when she has a great personality to boot!

They were also so kind about me having 2 of my kids along - which is never my preference, though they did behave nicely. The funniest mom-moment was that my 2 year old (who mostly rode happily in the stroller) wore her "hop-hop slippers" and I forgot to bring real shoes along. Oops. She is a character and has also been wearing her moon boots a lot (warm weather notwithstanding) so it's not that big a stretch to wear bunny slippers out & about.

Anyway my thanks to this great subject and her very nice mother too - it was a really fun session!