the smi family

My very last beach shoot of the season, and wow- what a way to end it! I really love photographing this family (and have many times now) and they are so gorgeous. Even the dog. But that’s not really why the shoot was so memorable. We had a squall. A real true full on 30mph winds, sideways rain, blowing sand, can’t see 2ft infront of you storm from hell. I totally wish I was able to take pictures of all of us looking like drowned rats running, screaming in the sideways rain but I needed my camera to be working for more shoots after this one. The rain was so totally horizontal that my back was soaked (like ring it out dripping soaked) and my front was perfectly dry. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Just as we were wrapping up in the dunes, it started to rain. Just regular rain. So we hightailed it to the cars to wait it out. Mr.C wanted a picture of him in the rain. So I took one (if you look closely you can see lots of raindrops all over the photo below)Then when it stopped, we ran down to the ocean for our last pictures. We could see the rain coming in- we just didn’t know what kind of rain it was at the time… And then it hit the fan.

Thanks for a great session (although rainy and quite the adventure in weather!) and I love that your session was my last beach one of the year.