This was such a fun project with my daughter.

Here’s a little behind the scenes.

The day before the snow fell, we went for a walk in the woods.

We gathered our head piece materials & made sure the stump I knew of was still there = location!

We trimmed, we snipped, and were excited about all of the beautiful goodies we found in our field

(not shown – six golf balls and a dog toy!)

The we took some floral wire and tape, and made a ‘halo’ form to fit her head.  We used several layers so that we could ‘weave’ our nature items into it.

We also used a hot glue gun as needed.

It snowed that night, and the next day we headed out to the back field for photos.  It was c- o- l- d outside, but she didn’t care.

I am lucky she still likes to do these things with me

Growing up fast, wearing my warmest wool coat.

It’s a vintage Raleigh made wool coat circa 1960’s, give to me by my mother-in-law and VERY loved!

Did photograph her in the coat, but it distracts from the headpiece and the vision of this image.

Big sis was my assistant – most of the time holding the reflector, and a little bit of flash…

Here she is getting warmed up lol! (she’s not blind thank goodness)

Ten years old … wearing MY blouse, knit tights & boots!

I posted more images in previous blog post HERE.

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Up next I will continue to ‘catch up’ blogging with more winter sessions!

Have a great day.

~Kathy

Portrait Photographer Raleigh NC

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 I have been wanting & needing to do something creative.  Outside of ‘the box’.

It’s fun & helps me grow personally & as a photographer.

Snow days happen maybe once a year here in Raleigh.  When I heard to forecast for daytime snow, I knew this was it! The base for this creative project.

A  dreamy & soft fantasy type snowfall portrait.

Well, the forecast changed and we didn’t get our daytime snowfall, so I tweaked the idea I had a bit and couldn’t be happier.

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Here are the images that resulted from our home made nature headpiece & my youngest girl modeling.

Post-processed slightly different than my normal style.  I like it, to me it fits the mood of the project.

I really like the look of b & w film

Did I mention it was in the 20’s outside?  My girl is such a trooper.

And a Goofball!

See you soon with some behind the scenes & how we made the headpiece!

~Kathy

Portrait Photographer Raleigh NC