<span class="drop_cap">O</span>h. My. Goodness. Can I just say, I am incredibly jealous of this family's photos. You hear that, Ginger? It's not fair! I absolutely adore all of them for different reasons, including all of them from <a href="http://shannonhuntphotography.com/2010/04/waiting-out-the-weather-salado-tx-family-and-child-photographer/" target="_blank">Part One that we did indoors</a>. And even better news for them? These aren't even all of them! They have even more to choose from in their gallery.

Let me take a few minutes to talk about my sessions, something I'm sure I'll probably say again on this site because they're just things I feel strongly about. I want to say it here as well because they're all visible in this one shoot.

<span class="drop_cap">1</span> <strong><em>Creativity.</em></strong> Before each of my sessions, I set aside time to brainstorm <em>just </em>for that session. I think and think and think, and I come up with new things for each family. One thing that really sets me apart from a lot of family photographers -- even a lot of on-location photographers trying to do what I do -- is that I hate using the same location twice. So far, I have yet to do that. I also don't have a lot of go-to poses I run all of my clients through. I think about your family individually and come up with new ideas just for you. I don't just claim to be a creative photographer. I <em>am </em>one. I don't want any of my clients' photos to look just like another clients' photos. 

<span class="drop_cap">2</span> <em><strong>Spontaneity.</strong></em> While I spend a lot of time planning for my sessions and show up with ideas in mind, I don't let that stop me from catching other moments or improvising when external forces aren't going perfectly, like <a href="http://shannonhuntphotography.com/2010/04/waiting-out-the-weather-salado-tx-family-and-child-photographer/">the weather for the first half of this session</a>. Whether it's a <a href="http://shannonhuntphotography.com/2010/03/merging-temple-tx-family-photographer/">ladybug crawling on someone's clothes</a> or kids stopping to check out a dragonfly (below), I don't want to miss it. It's all a part of your family's story, and my goal is to capture a story during our sessions. This is exactly why albums and books are such ideal products for my clients, so they can flip through and see their story, all the details, all the memories we have together from our session.

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<img src="http://shannonhuntphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/temple_tx_photographer_family2.jpg" alt="temple_tx_photographer_family2" height="2444" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1096" />

<img src="http://shannonhuntphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/temple_tx_photographer_family3.jpg" alt="temple_tx_photographer_family3" width="850" height="1950" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1097" />

<img src="http://shannonhuntphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/temple_tx_photographer_family4.jpg" alt="temple_tx_photographer_family4" width="850" height="1741" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1098" />