A Family Session at Paine’s Creek Beach
To be free to be you…
When Jamie first reached out to me for a family session at Paine’s Creek Beach, she said something that made perfect sense to me: “I didn’t love trying to get everyone to look at once. Feels impossible at this age.”
Her boys are 6 and 3, and their family is constantly moving, exploring and trying to make each other laugh.
So we didn’t spend our evening trying to make everyone sit still and look at the camera.
We played. We explored. We got sandy and wet. The boys ran around the creek, and I got right in there with them.
And somewhere in all of that, we found the quieter moments, too.
The ones where the boys were completely absorbed in what they were doing and Mom and Dad could simply watch them.
Which, as it turns out, was exactly what Jamie wanted.
” They’re unreal. I cannot thank you enough. ”
Jamie Scoccimarro | Family Session | Brewster, MA
This was Jamie’s second year bringing her family to the “magic” of Paine’s Creek Beach, a place she loves because the boys can run and explore while Mom and Dad watch from shore.
Although this year, apparently, the photographer was joining them in the creek 🤣
Her boys decided that my accent meant I might be related to Bluey, which I think is probably one of the better compliments I’ve received.
Jamie told me afterward that one of her favorite things was that I encouraged them to have quiet moments, to let the boys play with their surroundings while I photographed the family simply observing them.
And I loved that, too.
Because family photography doesn’t always need to be about getting everyone to look at the camera at the same time. Sometimes the best thing we can do is stop asking them to perform.
Let them be three.
Let them be six.
Let them tell poop jokes and run through the creek and make each other laugh.
Let Mom and Dad just be Mom and Dad.
Jamie said, “It’s not easy to find us all relaxed at once. On the Cape we truly were!”
And I think that might be my favorite thing about this session
Not just that they were at Paine’s Creek on a beautiful Cape Cod evening, but that for a little while, they were simply this family, being themselves together.
