This family made their session so easy.

I have rarely had children/teens so comfortable in front of the camera, especially when they've never even met me before. They were all absolute naturals and interacted with each other so happily. You could really see each of their personalities shine through when they were being photographed, and they made the session really FUN! I thoroughly enjoyed working with this awesome mom, her four kids, daughter's boyfriend, and even their pup.

This month's Share Six theme is {Collections}.

I toyed with the idea of posting about different collections of things we have in our house, how my husband collects autographs to place in his man cave, or how my daughter loves collecting rocks and will often pick up rocks from people's driveways or in parks because they're "special rocks." Or how I recently found a drawer in an end table with random bits of odds and ends that my daughter has deemed special things.

But I love the idea of having a collection of images that fit into a recurring theme. Often you will find these collections using hashtags on Instagram. A photographer notices they have been taking similar photos on a regular basis, and so they make it a theme. The first time I saw this was the incredible @lauries_little_ones and her #xander_bythewindow_ theme, where she photographed her son asleep in his crib next to a window. It's beautiful to watch him grow and his sweet sleeping patterns. She also has hashtags for #frontdoor_portrait and #backdoor_portrait. The fabulously talented Meg Loeks or @meg_nlo who has a series titled #chroniclesofjuni for her majestic St. Bernard named Juni, and also #ArchieFromAbove to share bird's eye view images of her son Archie.

And so when we bought this enormous bunny chair for my daughter's first birthday, I knew I had to make a hashtag series, or collection, from it. I noticed I was taking A LOT of photos with this chair, one because it was a novelty and the kids were interested in it, but also because the nursery gets the best light in the house (when there's not an air conditioning unit in the window....hurry Fall, so we can get this air conditioner out!). So I titled the series #BabyJo_andthebunnychair, although I haven't done anything recently with it because Baby Jo is incredibly active now and won't sit long in the bunny chair. But maybe with the new baby, that's where I'll do her weekly photos or something and make a new series from it.