Good question!  Glad you asked!  So much can be done with a great photo.  Of course you know this…I mean, Pintrest would have half its pins if not for great photos!!  There are some really extraordinary things that can be done though… the creation of art with a photo of your child, family, self…. I find it a bit inspiring!  This is kind of a cross-over to my other passion which is digital scrapbooking.  I started with digital scrapbooking in 2007 after my 3rd child was born and any illusion of being able to put all the necessary and lovely scrapbooking supplies out on a table for more than 10 uninterrupted minutes was dashed!  The answer?  Go digital!  I could work on a layout for small snippets of time and just hit save!!  It was quite revolutionary for me and if you haven't explored this realm much there is some serious art out there and some amazingly gifted people creating these pages.  It's inspiring and a great outlet for all those lovely photos!!

I definitely know how hard it is to carve out time for a family portrait session!!  Our last one was in 2012 and I'm pretty sure if you saw my kids today you wouldn't recognize them from those images… they've changed and grown so much!  Yikes!  But if we are honest, these image are nothing short of treasures in the fleeting years we have together being family.  I know it's on my short list this year.  Take new family photos!!  {preferably not with the timer feature on my phone}  :)

Here is a canvas I made for the sweetest family ever this summer.  We took the images in a great nature area with lots of options for backgrounds and then they picked their favorites and here is the final result: