Jake & Family - Raleigh Family Photography

Jake goes to school with my daughter. After I did a Valentine's day photo project for the class his grandmother called. She was very excited about capturing some photos of the whole family and the boys being boys. When she booked the session she warned me that the boys might not cooperate, but if one was smiling and one was crying in the photo, that'd be okay. She didn't want any of the posey, fake, cheesy smile shots. I told her I was all for the natural, fun, playful poses and reassured her not to worry because no one would be crying.
The boys were 5 and 9, I thought the session would be a piece of cake. Normally I am working with newborns or chasing around toddlers, boys that could actually be told what to do, boys that could sit still, that'd be easy.
Well the session was a lot harder than I thought it would be. In the boys defense we had the session at 6pm (not a great time for kids, no matter the age), the session fell on the hottest day of this Spring(everyone was sweating), and the Arboretum where we were shooting, was jammed pack with prom goers getting their photos taken, so the session was much longer than it should have been.
Luckily no one cried as I promised, but there were a few pout face shots here and there, a couple brotherly fights, and we had to twist some arms once and awhile : )
But through it all some great photos of the family were captured. There are plenty of sweet ones of the two boys, some heartbreaking singles, (these boys have amazing eyes/smiles), and plenty of silly shots of them just as they were that night, boys being boys, rough-housing, jumping, running, being crazy.
Why would you want to capture anything else?