Easy Family Portraits in Longmont, Colorado
I (pretty) recently met up with another one of my favorite mom and sons to take family portraits in Longmont.
This is one of my repeat clients who I enjoy catching up with every year. Of course, I enjoy seeing her sons grow. In the beginning, they were cute little toddlers/young boys…then they had a super goofy stage…for the last two years they have answered all of my questions politely, giggled, and been super great at listening.
And since I have two young boys, I like to see what I have to look forward to. Yes, I know all kids are different, but I think these universal traits usually happen…with boys…with brothers pretty close in age.
As her boys have grown older, we have plotted out different locations for their yearly photo shoot. We’ve done parks with old equipment, Wonderland Lake, other hiking spots…and, as they’ve grown, we have added more urban areas into the mix, like Pearl Street in Boulder. This year we checked out old industrial/farm spots near Downtown Longmont. Yes, that’s right, for their family portraits in Longmont, we checked out parking lots, closed businesses, an old sugar beet mill, and some sort of other tin farm-looking building near the railroad tracks.
Keep scrolling for the latest batch of family portraits in Longmont!
All images © Susannah Allen 2018
As a family portrait photographer, does it get any better than a bright orange Volkswagen van and two well-behaved boys who will sit near it? (Okay, maybe if we had the keys to the VW bus to photograph the boys and mom hanging out in it!)
All images © Susannah Allen 2018
More fun family portraits in Longmont…with a brightly-colored vehicle. These were taken in the parking lot of Cheese Importers.
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In that same vicinity, we stumbled on some old shipping containers that had a bit of graffiti on them. I thought they made a fun background. They weren’t too busy so as to totally detract from the faces of the family.
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This cool textured wood wall is the exterior of a business that looks like it has closed down. I love, love this wall. Can I always have it as a backdrop please?!
And then a nearby rock-ish wall…
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After that we headed towards what I think is an abandoned sugar beet factory (and not the big one that is totally off-limits in town, and that I would seriously never ever hold a photo session there). We got a few fun photos there, but it felt a little too sketchy for my comfort…
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And then it was to another old-looking building. I have no idea what it was built for or what it hosts now, but I loved the photos ops! We goofed off here for a while…
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Another side of the old buildings…it was fun to hang out here and listen to the boys talk about how amazing they’re mama is, to be silly brothers together, and to let me play with film.
It was fun to walk between a variety of backdrops (and then drive to another close location)…this sort of exploration photo session makes it easier to relax/pose and creates so many options. I also like how we lingered in the final spot. By this time, the family appeared very natural, and I got to walk around taking photos of the boys just sitting and chatting. I always love natural, un-posed photos.
These are the images I took during last year’s photo session at Thompson Park.
And, yes, several of these images were taken with film…can you guess which ones?!
