09/01/2026
The Payne family came to me with one of those ideas I wish every family would bring: “Can we do the nice family photos at our lake house… and then get on the boat and photograph the whole fam wake surfing?” YES. 😂
We started at their Smith Lake house with the whole family dressed up, grabbed the portraits for the wall, parents, siblings, the dog, all of it. Then everybody changed, we got on the boat, and the second half of the session basically turned into documenting an actual summer evening with them.
That is probably my favorite way to photograph a family. Get the clean portrait you know you want, then make room for the things that actually feel like your life. The boat. The wake. The kids taking turns behind it. Everybody piled together between runs. Those photos are going to mean something completely different years from now because they do not just show what everyone looked like — they show what this season felt like.
If your family has a lake house, farm, backyard, pool, boat, or just a place you genuinely spend time together, we can build your photos around THAT. You do not have to invent an occasion or make your family act like somebody else's.
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