Eating ice cream, fiercely

How you ask, can you eat ice cream fiercely? Keep looking and see.

I had the pleasure of photographing these wonderful children at Fort Edmonton Park a few weeks ago. Their mom won a coupon for photography at an Edmonton Twin and Triplet Club event.

Jonathon, Zackary, Nicholas and Kiera are awesome children. I had such a good day with them.

Getting four children together for a family portrait is tough!! Especially when two of those four are two-year olds! (I've decided that two year olds specialise in back-of-the-head shots.) But, here they all are.

In the interest of full disclosure, we did resort to bribery for this shot - "just a couple more pictures and you can have ice cream!"

Here we are a little earlier in the day. If you haven't been to Fort Edmonton Park and you have kid, for heaven's sake - go! It is a great way to burn A LOT of hours. I got some neat shots on the steam train, as the conductor was sharing his hat around.Once we arrived at the fort, we tried for a few family shots. I have "nicer" ones than this, but I love this shot of Jonathon and Zackary play-fighting. Its classic brother stuff.

A more gentle one of the brothers.
This is one of my favourite shots of the day. Jonathon is the oldest of the siblings, and what an amazing kid. He's smart and serious and thoughtful, and in looks (and in temperament) gave me a glimpse of what Gabe will look like when he's a bit older. Here's Nicholas. He's two. Lovely. Busy. Lots of shots of the back of his head :).
And his twin sister Kiera. She is adorable, and I can see a serious independent streak in her. I love her hair in this picture. Ice cream brought a short bit of quiet time, and a few more group shots.

Jonathon kept asking why I wanted him to take his shoes off. I told him, that, as a boy, his feet would only be cute for a couple more years, and his mom wanted to take advantage of this time.

And, finally, my fierce ice cream eater. SEE, I told you! I played with the post processing on this one, making it a little darker and more moody than I usually do. I was really happy with how it turned out.

Zackary and I got along great. We both hate children's music!

Thanks for the great day guys!