You'd love to have a family portrait session that fully captures who you are, how you connect, and how much affection surfaces when all the members of your family are present within the camera frame.

We're happy to capture your family in our studio, complete with gorgeous light and minimal distractions, or in your comfy-cozy home full of familiar toys and routines. No matter where our session takes place, we'll delight in your delight. And we'll encourage you to pay attention to one another instead of the camera, because there's no 'add happy' button in Photoshop.

We don't care whether you're barefoot or wearing fuzzy slippers, and we won't be sending over a twenty-page list of suggestions about what to wear. (We can make you look beautiful in sweat pants if you love each other.) We just want to capture your family. Your habits, your quirks, and your love. Die-hard beach goers? World travelers? Animal lovers? Trekkies? We wanna see it. And when you view the images we've created together for the first time, we want the depth of love you feel for your family to grab you by the collar and bring tears to your eyes.

The video below provides a peek at how portrait sessions unfold. If you have questions or would like to schedule a portrait session, click on the 'Contact' link above or call 215-206-3689. Oh -- and thanks for stopping by, lovely!

-- Kristen & Haunani, Essential Imagery owners

P.S. That's Kristen up in the header -- Haunani is camera-shy.

DARWIN 1, KRISTEN 0.

If I hadn’t been born in the twentieth century, I would have been wolf-meat by now. Seriously — I’m the blind animal that gets left behind when the rest of the herd runs from the predator — because I can’t see more than six inches in front of me without glasses.

This is normally not a problem — I have contacts, and glasses as backup. Only sometimes, the new glasses & contacts are on their way, leaving me without backup, and some beauty product that weighs approximately two ounces falls on my glasses in a feat of physics that snaps my glasses in half, rendering me, for all intents and purposes, BLIND.

I called Matt from work, begged him to come home and help me, and this is the result:

Yah. But you know what, lemons? Now I can cover my glasses in black and gold electrical tape, and people will think I am an *even better* Steelers fan. Oh yah, I’m makin’ lemonade!

(Also, when Matt steals my iPhone, I should pose, instead of continuing to beg him to put the phone down…)