My adorable nephew, Kaden, turned five this year. (I featured his Batman birthday party back in January.) While he is a wonderful child and skilled at many things, he does not have the interest or the patience to cooperate with me and my attempts at documenting his growth in portrait sessions. But I try anyway…
He is everything a wild little boy should be – he runs and plays, gets dirty and gets hurt (two trips to the emergency room so far, but who’s counting) – and we wanted his photo session to reflect who he is right now as a five year old kid. So we took him to the little fishing pond in the hosta hillside at Hidden Lake Gardens and let him be himself.
We took a drive along the narrow roads that lead through the garden and stopped in a field so Kaden could get out and run around. I managed to snap this one quickly before he darted away!
He found a forest of young trees, so he had to try them out.
They passed his test! According to Kaden, these trees are very fun to climb!
And here he is at the end of the session… exhausted, adorable and ready for ice cream.
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