portraits of Toby, Gina + Aoife : iowa city, ia family photographer

Last year I got to photograph this sweet little family for the first time..and it was a total dream session.

So obviously I was excited when Gina e-mailed me wanting to do photos again!

I just love Gina and Toby..super awesome people, and is little Aoife (ee-fuh) a doll or what?!

We had a lovely day to shoot these on, and I was super thrilled that I got to use the 35 mm for some of them.

A little back story on these first images --

I had a totally different location picked out for their shoot, and then a few days before the session
I found this killer garage door!

I asked the sweet old lady living at the house if she minded if I used it as a background for a photo shoot,

and although she thought I was nuts and had a fever (#photogfever) she agreed, after some convincing. ;)

Knowing what outfits they would be wearing, I texted Gina and asked if she minded switching their location,
as I had just found this new awesome one?!

She said she trusted my judgment and we went for it...and I just love how these turned out.

Can't even handle her with those shoes.. Gina, you are so beautiful. Poor Aoife was starting to have a meltdown by this point, but honestly these 'binky moment' photos at the end are my favorite...

love,

~H. Elise

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