Jordan, Ricky, & Lucy | Operation: Love Reunited

Meet Jordan…and Ricky…and Lucy!! 🙂 I love sessions with furry friends!! I do not have any animals myself so it’s fun to ‘borrow’ them when I can and have fun at a park. Here we are at Ft. Meigs last week when it was nearly 102 outside!!! This was a record breaking hot day! My assistant Brittney was thinking the session might be canceled because of the heat but I knew better. Jordan is a Marine and she has dealt with MUCH hotter than this before and in full uniform. I also thought it was interesting that she said because of the heat Ricky and Lucy would be ‘smiling’ for the session too!! 🙂 hahahahaha. No worries… we had plenty of water for them both. They loved running around the park. Aside from Jordan being a Marine her fiance is also in the Marines and currently deployed overseas. As a gift to him through Operation: Love Reunited, I am proud to be a volunteering photographer. A album of our session will be designed, printed, and shipped to him. FREE. Yes. Not much is really free anymore but this is to all families and girlfriends going through a deployment. There are three types of session of which you are entitled to two a year. A pre-deployment session is with your hero before he leaves. An Already Gone session, which is what we did today…and most important…. HOMECOMING session!!! This is not a portrait session but normally at an airport or base and is a very photojournalistic session capturing all the tears and emotion that come with being separated for so long.

Lucy is snow white and Ricky is the brown/black. Lucy was allowed to be unleashed as she is the ‘behaved’ one. 🙂 She ran back and forth to me throughout the session and I captured this cute portrait!