Beach Portraits in the school holidays:
School holidays is a fantastic time to catch up with your family and spend some time together. For me school holidays is an extremely busy time. Kids and parents are often on holiday together and many families take the opportunity to get some family portraits done. For sister Kim and Samantha, this was an ideal time to catch up with each other and have there precious daughters spend some time together. Samantha was on a break from Melbourne and arranged with her sister to get some prints for their parent Christmas gift – we have such thoughtful clients. We decided on a session at the iconic Cottesloe beach, a favourite for Beach portraits
The afternoon session was planned with the light in mind. This is a crucial part of being a photographer and choosing to shoot on location portraits without a full entourage of lighting assistants. The best way to prepare for a Beach portraits session is to get the timing right. Because there is no shade and only the clouds (not that there is any in Perth) provide some relief from the burning sun.
The light this day was proving to be mixed bag. This can be the case often when photographing family portraits and not just beach portraits, parks or bushland can all be effected too. Well on this occasion, the light was changing by the minute and with beach almost to ourselves we began a beautiful little session with these lovely young ladies. The girls really enjoyed the idea of beach portraits and being able to play in the sand and run along the waters edge. Mother and daughter engaged in some fun and games, cousins held hands walking along the waters edge, watching as the sun set for the day. It truly was a magic day. The wind picked up and it looked as if a storm was about to hit and so we decided to end what was a truly memorable beach portraits session.
I hope you enjoy the preview of the images as ordered by one of the sisters. Plenty of wonderful moments captured in a series of natural images.
Beach Portraits at Cottesloe Beach
 
