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Hayden Burns Photography has a new blog.

Check it out here……

http://haydenburns.blogspot.com/

A new fav for a sneak peak…….

DON’T FORGET TO ENTER THE CONTEST…….

 

This was the best dressed family I have had in a long time. Such pizazz and class. You may recognize the older daughter as my senior rep. Well the fam wanted some Christmas cards and I think we’ve got some options. Thanks so much D family for braving the cold and moving quick! You all are Rockstars!

 

 

And a fun Christmas card too…..(the J’s and E’s down there are their names! It looks funny here!)

 

And a more traditional option…..

 

My little man is 1

Happy Birthday little Jack Jack! I sure love the baby you have grown into! You are a true light in my life.

Here are a few from the cake smash.

 

 

 

And he was mad here cause he had cake all over him!

 

And his official one year portrait.

Sneak Peak for the B family

DON’T FORGET TO ENTER THE CHRISTMAS CONTEST!!

This was the sweetest, most down-to-earth family! I loved the fact that we did these all in her beautiful home right where the kids feel the most comfortable. It just seems like the perfect place. It helped that their home had large windows and tons of natural light. Not to mention, fabulous furniture and a 100 year old piano. So pretty!

So here are some of the boys……

 

 

And one of the two girls.

 

And one of the whole gorgeous family!

 

Thanks for letting me hang out with you all!

 

Christmas cheer

As the holidays get closer, I have started to order some beautiful Christmas cards for some clients. It’s been so exciting shooting all the families I have this year.

So in the spirit of Christmas, I am running a little contest. I am inviting you all to nominate someone special in your life for a free photography session with Hayden Burns Photography. It can be a family, your neighbor, the lady at church who always has you smiling, a newly engaged couple, the couple who just adopted a baby, whoever you think deserves something special this Christmas. All you need to do is email your story to haydenburnsphoto@gmail.com before December 15th. I will let you do the honors of telling the winner what they have won! The winner will receive a free session for January and a free spiral-bound brag book of all the images from the session.

Here’s to a happy and cheerful holiday season!

A little wedding action….

Oh so beautiful! Oh so yummy light! Oh so yummy couple! These two were super wonderful and the most laid back people I have met in my life. Mrs. J was amazing and was so calm the whole day! I just love her not so highstrungness. Can you teach me how you do it? Mr. K was fun and totally in love with Mrs. J! I am one that doesn’t enjoy weddings much unless I am attending them, but this wedding was beyond perfect! From the weather to the location, (This being Paradise Pavillion. They don’t call it paradise for nothing!) everything went smooth. I loved that I could shoot the whole wedding ceremony in all natural light! NO FLASHES PEOPLE! I am primarily a natural light photographer and I love it when I can use that at a wedding. It makes for such better more flattering photos. Well congrats Mr. and Mrs. B! Your wedding was such a pleasure!

 

A little leisure relax in the grass.

 

The Bling!!!!!!!!!!

 

And my fav! The dance!

Something quite different for me

Yes, I am primarily a family and child photographer but who doesn’t like to change things up every once and a while? Well a friend asked me to do some classy boudior shots of her for her hubby’s birthday. I have to say it was quite fun! Different lighting, different processing, fun angles and a chance to get in touch with my artistic side. Now this is a public family website, so no nudity here. But I thought I would share the beautiful Miss H!

 

 

My kind of family

Oh I so loved the W family. They are everything I hope my family is one day. Fun, honest, loving, free-spirited……We had so much fun! C and A (aka mom and dad) still got it going on after 23 years. You can tell they still adore each other and I LOVE that. The kids (although miss S isn’t much of a kid anymore) were so helpful and up for anything. They all helped me carry my equipment and were always coming up with their own ideas. Such nice people. Did I mention that I loved them? Thanks for the laughs and I hope you enjoy these! Again another reason to LOVE MY JOB!

 

The Kids wanted to do a fun one and this is what I got. I love the fact that mom and dad are completely oblivious to what is going on around them! LOL

 

Miss A-2009 Senior-North High School

I loved this girl! She was just the all American, sweet, beautiful, laid back, girl next door. Thank God she was laid back since I locked my keys in the car at the beginning of her session. LOL We still aren’t sure how it happened cause we were both on the outside of the car when it locked. It was bizarre. Anyway, it all worked out great cause it forced us to scour the immediate area for cool spots. And we found some jewels! Thanks for being such a trooper A! And I can thank Miss A’s mom for getting me into Photography. She was my high school photography teacher. That was back in the days of darkrooms and film. I still get a flutter of excitement when I smell developer!  

Jeesh she is growing up

Little K is not so little anymore. She is growing up so fast. I swear it was just yesterday that I brought her home from the hospital. I captured this image a week ago and I am totally in love with it. The umbrella behind her was short lived as it tore shortly after this little shoot. I suppose it was worth the $6.00 I paid for it just for this pic. She is my little shining star and brings sunshine to my days. I may just make this my blog header. It just makes me happy.  = )