Child portraits can be anything you want them to be and taken at any age. They can take in nature or an urban setting. My goal is to let your kid's personality shine in their portrait session. One kid got to do exactly that for his 10th birthday photos. The plan was to meet at Modern Essex City and use all of the colorful murals and graffiti art as his backdrop. But we weren't able to meet on a day when the Essex was open, so we made do with the street art in the neighborhood

Earlier this year I photographed this energetic girl in a field with bluebonnets to mark her turning 20 months old. In July I photographed her again to celebrate her second birthday. The "terrible twos" does not describe this goofy child (at least not when she's in front of the camera). She is ready to explore and examine the world around her. She'll probably be giggling as she does, too. I met her family along the river at the Pearl early one weekday morning. By the time our