Featuring: In Home Portraits with the Peterson Family

The Peterson's have been photographed many times over the last year by other photographers because their son was recently married.  Yet as intimidating as that was, I also knew that as art lovers, the Petersons would leave me a wide range of freedom to create much, much more than a traditional portrait.  We talked about the many possibilities of locations and because they are moving, they decided they wanted to record their life at the house they are leaving. I thought a lot about the direction to go in and decided that we should create portraits with a little bit of irreverence and a whole lot of fun.  I started looking at photographers like Slim Aarons and Larry Sultan for inspiration.  I liked the idea of creating a more documentary style portrait but without the grit.  Linda briefed her family with the "goal that we would "artsilly" record the life we imagined we lived here."  And then asked them to pack as if they were invited to a lounging party with no color off limits.  

Fun is a bit of an understatement.  And just in case I had doubts about how much fun everyone had, Linda posted this from her husband:  He says, "She's really fun. It was a great day! I would do it again and recommend Laura to everyone." Followed by, "put THAT on Instagram. I don't Instagram."

Indeed.