I’m up in Osoyoos right now, lounging on the couch inside because I got a little too much sun this morning. It’s a scorcher today – about 32 degrees! It is also quite windy, which is tricky – the wind keeps you cool enough to ignore the fact that your skin is turning the colour of a dorito. (Until you raise a lazy arm to remove your brownish orangish tinted sunglasses in order to check on the status of your tan and realize that you never put them on. Yikes.) So anyways, here I am, dorito-like and slightly sweaty, but still giddily happy to be here relaxing the heck out of myself. What better time for a blog post?
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The May family is pretty great. And pretty huge! Lucky for me, both sides of my family are big and Adam’s family is too, so I don’t get that “Wow-there-are-way-too-many-people-around-I-feel-like-running-and-hiding-in-a-corner” feeling that some people say they get at large family gatherings. On the contrary; I love it! I think there is nothing better than a table full of burgers and potato salad shared with a big family and half a dozen little ones chasing eachother around your ankles. Mmmmmm potato salad. :D
The get together took place on the family farm (Dairy farmers just like my grandpa!), so they had set out a large stack of haybales on a wagon as well as two tractors for the pictures. It looked great, and we made full use of them. The shot below is one of my favourites on the tractor:
The whole family:
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The May family is pretty great. And pretty huge! Lucky for me, both sides of my family are big and Adam’s family is too, so I don’t get that “Wow-there-are-way-too-many-people-around-I-feel-like-running-and-hiding-in-a-corner” feeling that some people say they get at large family gatherings. On the contrary; I love it! I think there is nothing better than a table full of burgers and potato salad shared with a big family and half a dozen little ones chasing eachother around your ankles. Mmmmmm potato salad. :D
We did a few shots of the whole family ( all forty seven of them!), and then broke down into smaller groups, which of course is much easier. With large groups you just have to take a whole bunch and hope that there aren’t too many chronic blinkers in the crowd. Smaller groups make it much easier to pick a great background and keep an eye on expressions. :)
Here are some of my favourites:
These two claimed they weren’t any good at pictures… turns out they are naturals. :)
The get together took place on the family farm (Dairy farmers just like my grandpa!), so they had set out a large stack of haybales on a wagon as well as two tractors for the pictures. It looked great, and we made full use of them. The shot below is one of my favourites on the tractor:
The whole family:
A big thank you to the whole family for a really fun shoot, and especially to Lauren who invited me out.
I hope you all enjoy them!
-R
by Rebecca | Photographer
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